Tag: Middlesbrough
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Messages from a Bottle
Poets Eithne Longstaff and Ann Cuthbert have collaborated on a renga, a call-and-response form that engages two or more poets in a collaborative journey of imagery and associations threaded together in couplets and haiku. ‘Messages’ was made over a number of weeks, by email, to reflect the Bottle of Notes associations of messages sent and…
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Messages from the Bottle
We’re delighted to announce our two MIMA poets-in-residence for 2025 will be Ann Cuthbert and Eithne Longstaff, with a collaboration inspired by the Bottle of Notes sculpture. MIMA are hosting a whole exhibition of work by the Bottle’s creators. The Secret Lives of Bottle of Notes: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen considers the role…
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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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The trees are speaking
Winter arrived in magical style for us, when seven of our poets were commissioned to write and record poems in the voices of certain trees in Stewart Park, Middlesbrough. Those trees were then brought to life with huge illuminated eyeballs, and our voices were broadcast to the hundreds of people walking past – all part…
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These little tributaries of ideas…
We are nearing the end of our first poets’ residency at MIMA, which will culminate in Audrey Cook and Sara Dennis performing new work written in response to the art and audiences of the People-Powered exhibition at MIMA’s Art Social #13 this Thursday 26th November, from 5pm-7pm. As our poets prepare to share their work…
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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 