Category: Events
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Guisborough Folklore – A Tale Of Lost Gold
We’re delighted to share another poem from our Creative Writing Walks
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Storylines – poetry on the rails
As the North East steams ahead to the bicentenary of the Stockton & Darlington Railway in 2025, local artists have begun gathering stories on why the railway matters, as part of the new Storylines project. Among the commissioned artists are two Tees Women Poets – Lizzie Lovejoy and Carmen Marcus. Their journeys will follow the…
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Open-to-all writing walks inspire an Ode to Skelton
Our community creative writing walks in Redcar-Cleveland got off to a brilliant start last weekend with a theme of ‘People and Place’. Walkers were encouraged to sniff out facts about local legends in Skelton, Guisborough, and Ormesby Hall, and turn them into a ‘clerihew’ – a four-line mini-poem that tells (or makes up!) a biography.…
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Tees Women are Thriving this International Women’s Day
The Thriving Women collective recently returned to Thrive Teesside to write for International Women’s Day on this year’s theme of embracing equity. Julie Easley, Thrive Group Leader says, “that’s all very lovely but it is an idealistic dream if you are a woman on the intersection of feminism – not all women are equal. In…
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Thank you Arts Council England!
Tees Women Poets has been successful in getting funding from Arts Council England for next 3 years, to support a programme of activity for women in Teesside
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Truth to Power
As we prepare to continue our partnership with the women of Thrive Teesside charity, writing workshop leader Julie Easley reflects on what we’ve achieved so far… At the time of writing, it is almost a year since I began delivering a series of poetry workshops for Thrive Teesside on behalf of the Tees Women Poets.…
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Poetry Playspaces
Thanks to the generous folk at ARC Stockton, we are ‘in residence’ on four upcoming Saturdays when we will be opening up Poetry Playspaces for any women in Teesside who are looking for fun and friendly ways to kickstart their poetry. Drop in on any of three sessions happening on each Playspace Saturday and move…
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