Tag: spoken word
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Digital Eves
We’re a bit worried about AI. We’re a bit excited by AI. We’re a bit intrigued by AI. We’re a bit addicted to AI?
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Writing Resistance
It’s been a turbulent time for so many communities this summer as rioting spread from the Southport tragedy, and Teesside was targeted as an early flashpoint. After checking in with individuals in our TWP family who we knew to be particularly vulnerable, we were left with that frantic feeling inside – what can we do?…
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Crowdsourced Creativity #2
Back in June we held a special in-person edition of TWOOMPH! (the open mic with OOMPH!) at Hartlepool Hub, as part of Crossing the Tees book festival. We always have shenanigans of some kind at TWOOMPH!s, and this time we rather cheekily nicked a poem format from the brilliant King Ink (James Whitman & Helen…
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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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Scum!! The voices of Thriving Women
International Women’s Day is here again, and with that comes the myriad voices of women across the world, shouting out their experiences, their opinions, and their visions for a more equitable future. We’re so proud to showcase the work of the Thriving Women collective again today, with a brand-new collective poem and film-poem called ‘Scum’.…
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Behind the scenes at a bookshop residency…
Stockton was buzzing, or maybe growling, about Home Secretary James Cleverley MP, and his very public comment about Stockton being a sh*thole.
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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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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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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…
Tees Women Poets 