Fire & Dust at PVC: RYAN DRE SINCLAIR! (NO ticket required)

!! VENUE !! Please note: The LTB is now closed. Fire&Dust will temporarily be hosted in Coventry's Priory Visitor Centre.

** You DON'T need a ticket to attend or be in the open mic.

Poets - please ONLY register for a ticket if you need a guaranteed open mic slot and can definitely attend. Please DON'T register for a ticket if you had one last month. There will also be open mic slots available on the night. **

Fire & Dust is a monthly poetry open mic event in Coventry city centre, hosted by local poets Ann Atkins and Raef Boylan. All welcome - 'page' poets, spoken word artists, slammers, MCs, story-tellers and anyone happy to listen to some wordsmith performances. Doors open for people to come in, grab seats and get settled around 7.15pm. The gig will start at 8PM.

Open mic slots are 3 minutes per poet. Find Raef (with clipboard) to sign up!

Travelling in from afar? Got accessibility concerns? Any queries? Please contact the hosts: raef @ hcemagazine DOT com

Bring friends, bring poems, or just come along for a listen! Take precautions to stay safe and keep others around you safe - respect people's preference to keep their distance, and please don't attend if you suspect you might have Covid (or anything else contagious). Cheers.

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HEADLINER: RYAN DRE SINCLAIR

Ryan Sinclair is a spoken word poet, self-published author and playwright from Birmingham. He has worked with organisations such as We Don't Settle, the Arts Council, Apples&Snakes and BBC Words First. Ryan has performed in national and international locations, including Birmingham Town Hall, Boxpark Wembley, Da Poetry Lounge , Apache Café and with Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games festival. He is also a producer and the founder of Empower Poetry CIC.

IG: @ryan_dre_sinclair

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NEW OPEN MIC SYSTEM:

Some open mic tickets are available to reserve here on Eventbrite; the rest are for sign-up on the night. Priority will be given to poets who didn't get to read last month. If you read last month and want to read again, your name will go on the reserve list for random draw to fill empty slots. Most poets who want to read WILL get to, but sometimes the list is too busy to fit everyone in!

Please don't register for a ticket if you had one last month. Please do not take the ticket that is called ! STOP. NOT A TICKET, STOPS 'Sold Out' ALERT! - cheers.

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The Priory Centre is in Coventry city centre. It's located in Priory Place, behind Nando's/The Flying Standard Wetherspoon (Trinity Street), just a short distance from where The LTB was, and 2 minute's walk from Pool Meadow bus station. Info about nearby car parks and street parking can be found on this website.

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Free entry. There will be a jar for donations on the night. Alternatively, you can donate online via Ko-fi to help Fire & Dust gigs keep going. For additional info, check out the F&D linktree page.

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