Allographic Workshop: “Page Space” led by Caron Freeborn
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Allographic has three forms of live event – “Other Voices”, open mic with featured guests every 4th Sunday of the month; “Allographic presents…”, a loose series of events with bigger names from the spoken word scene, and a burgeoning set of workshops for aspirant poets, storytellers, and other writers and performers.
Attendees of the workshop should consider putting their new-found skills into practice at our free evening event. Find out more here.
“Page Space” – Ways to use white space in your poetry led by Caron Freeborn (free entry, donations taken)
Page poets need to work with white space but performance poets can benefit from the space too. We will look at what white space can do to and for a poem
Number of Spaces: 10
Suitable for: adults, wheelchair users, people with hearing difficulties, intermediate writers, experienced writers, intermediate performers, experienced performers
Materials: pen, paper/ notebook, a previously written piece of their own
Entry is free but you will have an opportunity to pay what you think the workshop was worth afterwards. All the money goes to the workshop leader.
Find out more about Allographic at: http://www.allographic.co.uk/
Link to the Facebook event: here
Caron Freeborn is Caron Freeborn is autistic, heavily tattooed and an unlikely Christian. Although once a novelist, poetry became her autistic special interest. Her poems have been published in journals both with and without the photographs of regular collaborator Steve Armitage, and her first full collection came out 2015.
Follow on Twitter: @CaronFreeborn
Organiser Allographic
Organiser of Allographic Workshop: “Page Space” led by Caron Freeborn
Allographic aims to specialise in producing written and recorded publications of poetry, short stories, artwork, photography and music (sometimes all at once...). We plan for our publications to be available to buy online, at our live events, and in the shops, in a variety of media.
We also aim to provide services for writers and performers of poetry, music, and storytelling. Watch this space!
Allographic has three forms of live event - “Other Voices”, open mic with featured guests every last Sunday of the month; “Allographic presents...”, a loose series of events with bigger names from the spoken word scene, and a burgeoning set of workshops for aspirant poets, storytellers, and other writers and performers.
And it's devised, set up, and run by Fay Roberts - a classically-trained singer from Cardiff who has been getting on stages since the early 80s. Ze was finally bitten by the performance poetry bug in Spring 2006 after a favour to a friend turned into a place in the final of a poetry slam.
Ze co-managed and co-hosted Poetry Kapow! with the fabulous Danni Antagonist from 2007-2012 in Milton Keynes, and frequently performs across the Midlands, South East England, and East Anglia. Ze is currently a professional layabout, still sings pretty much everywhere and, since summer 2009, is based in Cambridge, where ze hosts the Cambridge chapter of Hammer & Tongue, and her own poetry label: Allographic.
Fay has performed poetry in pubs, clubs, theatres, tents, shopping centres and stately gardens, in Open Mic, showcases, features, support, collaboration, competition and costume. Sometimes ze bangs a drum, and sometimes ze performs in silence, while the words flutter in front of zir...
Find out more at http://www.fayroberts.co.uk
