Something Borrowed, Something Blue — Session Six: The Other

Something Borrowed, Something Blue is a poetry event series.

This isn’t an open mic or a circle-jerk; it's a monthly meeting place to read poetry, and discuss writing practice and performance. Each session we'll broadly discuss two questions: how and why do we write?

We'll 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 (the "something blue").

Following this, we will consider these texts as a group and discuss the session’s theme.

In the wake of Halloween, a different time zone, a different season, and ahead of a new year, we're after an evening of Otherness this month. You're invited to bring work that concerns strangeness, unbelonging, and difference. The writing might consider what it's like to face the Other, or to be Othered. We'll discuss what follows from confrontations with all that's uncanny, half-understood, excluded; what's shut out, and what's invited in.

Funds raised from tickets will be donated to @dandeliondiy. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Please just get in touch if you have any questions at all :)

Logistics bits:

Where: Watershed cafe/bar: 1 Canons Road, Harbourside, Bristol BS1 5TX. We'll have a table booked upstairs, so head straight up! (the front desk team won't have exact details about table reservations, if you can't find us just ask at the bar).
When: Wednesday 18th November, 18:00 - 20:30
Getting there: Watershed is right on the Harbourside walkway in the centre, and it's fully accessible.
Who: no more than 8 fellow writers (and then 2 organisers)
Contact: [email protected] or @smthnborrowed on instagram (we check DMs!)