Tag: Tees Women Poets
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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.
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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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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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#BreakTheBias
We’re delighted to share an article with you by Ann Cuthbert, a key member of the TWP who sits on our board of trustees, leads writing walks on our behalf in her native Darlington, and is a regular on our performance troupe. Ann wrote this essay in March 2022, and delivered it as part of…
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