Tag: Redcar
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Memory-gathering by Emily Downes
New recruit and Spoken Word Boot Camp graduate Emily Downes reflects on creating pop-up poetry with the TWP team at two special events this year… In summer 2025, Hartlepool Borough Council offered Tees Women Poets the use of the beach huts in Seaton Carew for creative activities, and I was lucky enough to be involved.…
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Why so many witches?
Wordy witches is a theme we come back to often, in a light-hearted way. Is it because as poets we can’t resist the alliteration? Maybe our feminist souls are drawn to the power of crones and the history of women’s oppression? Or perhaps as performers we’ve never quite grown out of dressing up? Whatever it…
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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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