A event on Wednesday 28th January. The event starts at 19:00.
Something Borrowed, Something Blue is a Bristol-based poetry event series launching in January.
This isn’t an open mic or a circle-jerk. We want to establish a monthly meeting place to read poetry, and discuss writing practice and performance. Each week we will aim to broadly discuss two questions: how and why do we write?
The event will offer:
- a dedicated space for attendees to read and perform their poetry, and/or other poetic work they find stimulating
- an ongoing commitment to developing writing practice by engaging with others’ work
- loosely structured discussions about why we all write, why we perform, and writing’s political potential.
Something Borrowed, Something Blue is intentionally amateur and DIY: we don’t claim seniority over others’ work and practice. We wish to act as facilitators and lead a series of discussions about writing and performance practice, hoping to set up a collective with shared approaches to poetic practice.
Session One: ‘Writing the Inside Out’ will follow a loose structure of both readings and discussion. Participants are encouraged to perform both their ‘borrowed’ texts, i.e. poetry/prose from an existing writer, as well as a text of their own/something they are currently working on.
Following this, we will consider these texts as a group and discuss the session’s theme: how do you arrive at yourself through writing?
Funds raised from tickets will be donated to local grassroots organisations, beginning with @dandeliondiy for our first session.
Please contact us via our email in bio if you have a cause you'd like us to consider fundraising for in future sessions :)
Logistics bits:
Where: BASE Bristol, 14 Robertson Rd, Easton, Bristol BS5 6JZ
When: Wednesday 28th January, 19:00 - 21:30
Who: no more than 12 fellow writers
Access: There is a small flight of steps to get to our booked room at BASE, and to get to the toilets. If this doesn't work for you and you'd like to come to future sessions, please get in touch and we'll do everything we can!
Contact: [email protected]
Entry requirements: 18+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
This isn’t an open mic or a circle-jerk. We want to establish a monthly meeting place to read poetry, and discuss writing practice and performance. Each week we will aim to broadly discuss two questions: how and why do we write?
The event will offer:
- a dedicated space for attendees to read and perform their poetry, and/or other poetic work they find stimulating
- an ongoing commitment to developing writing practice by engaging with others’ work
- loosely structured discussions about why we all write, why we perform, and writing’s political potential.
Something Borrowed, Something Blue is intentionally amateur and DIY: we don’t claim seniority over others’ work and practice. We wish to act as facilitators and lead a series of discussions about writing and performance practice, hoping to set up a collective with shared approaches to poetic practice.
Session One: ‘Writing the Inside Out’ will follow a loose structure of both readings and discussion. Participants are encouraged to perform both their ‘borrowed’ texts, i.e. poetry/prose from an existing writer, as well as a text of their own/something they are currently working on.
Following this, we will consider these texts as a group and discuss the session’s theme: how do you arrive at yourself through writing?
Funds raised from tickets will be donated to local grassroots organisations, beginning with @dandeliondiy for our first session.
Please contact us via our email in bio if you have a cause you'd like us to consider fundraising for in future sessions :)
Logistics bits:
Where: BASE Bristol, 14 Robertson Rd, Easton, Bristol BS5 6JZ
When: Wednesday 28th January, 19:00 - 21:30
Who: no more than 12 fellow writers
Access: There is a small flight of steps to get to our booked room at BASE, and to get to the toilets. If this doesn't work for you and you'd like to come to future sessions, please get in touch and we'll do everything we can!
Contact: [email protected]
Entry requirements: 18+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
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