Category: News
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Pride is for always
We’re nearly at the end of Pride Month, but our commitment doesn’t end. Our latest podcast is a taste of episodes to come in Redcar, and in it we platform a lot of queer voices and explore lots of gender identify issues with the young people of the Blooming Youth collective. Growing Up A Girl……
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Boot Camp is Back!
We’re fizzing with excitement to let you know that APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN for Spoken Word Boot Camp 2024! Read more about the SWBC here. Such a positive, powerful experience. I have gone from ‘reading’ my poems to ‘performing’ them, finally! Up to 12 women poets aged 18 + will be chosen to form a…
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Pottery Poetry
Up on the top floor of MIMA, there is a shiny white room full of display archive cabinets, where a gorgeous collection of contemporary ceramics sit quietly behind glass. Delicate, paper-thin bowls and substantial stoneware vases, crazy spouts and glazed sculptures – and a flat screen spinning images of the wonderful vessels you can see,…
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Rebellious joy!
Caroline Walling, the Curious Ink-Smith, is about to be the very first TWP poet-in-residence at DRAKE the Bookshop, so we thought we’d ask her what’s it’s all about and how people can get involved… What does a bookshop poet-in-residence do? I wasn’t entirely sure at first, but I had a LOT of ideas about things…
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The Quest for Queen Jellyfish
Over the Bank Holiday weekend, a crack squad of ten TWP performers had a blast playing Queen Jellyfish and her Rhyming Riddlers for Redcar’s brand-new family arts festival, Between the Tides. Here’s one account, from Patience Ezinwoke… “I will for long relish the pleasure of taking part in the first ever “Between the Tides Festival”…
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The ships have gone, but the memories remain…
Time to take a glace back to our amazing time at Tall Ships 2023 in Hartlepool at the start of July with these photos of our performance posses in action!
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Poetry-powered stories from the Tees
We are delighted to announce the two artists who have been selected to be our first ever TWP poets-in-residence at MIMA, Audrey Cook and Sara Dennis. They will be resident from July to October at MIMA — People Powered: Stories from the River Tees, a new exhibition in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery which…
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Getting in character(s) for Tall Ships
In just over a week from now, the docks and marinas of Hartlepool will be a forest of masts and rigging, as the magnificent Tall Ships race comes to Teesside – and we’ll be there, performing poetry in the personae of historic Hartlepool women! Sarah Crutwell is your host Fish Annie, who is joined on…
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Spoken Word Boot Camp – kick-start your courage!
This summer, the sisterhood are sharing our expertise and passion via our first ever Spoken Word Boot Camp – six Saturday afternoon masterclasses at Middlesbrough Town Hall designed to take poets from the very beginnings of writing for performance, all the way through to a special family-and-friends showcase in August.
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People-Powered Poetry!
This summer and autumn, we will send two poets to be in residence at MIMA, responding to their ‘People Powered’ exhibition.
Tees Women Poets 