Tag: women
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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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Open-to-all writing walks inspire an Ode to Skelton
Our community creative writing walks in Redcar-Cleveland got off to a brilliant start last weekend with a theme of ‘People and Place’. Walkers were encouraged to sniff out facts about local legends in Skelton, Guisborough, and Ormesby Hall, and turn them into a ‘clerihew’ – a four-line mini-poem that tells (or makes up!) a biography.…
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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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Poetry Every Day
A week has passed since the festivities of National Poetry Day, when social media feeds and schoolrooms and libraries across the country become feverish with verse! We’d like to showcase some words posted for NPD by our sister Patience Ezinwoke, reflecting on the place of poetry in her life…
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Truth to Power
As we prepare to continue our partnership with the women of Thrive Teesside charity, writing workshop leader Julie Easley reflects on what we’ve achieved so far… At the time of writing, it is almost a year since I began delivering a series of poetry workshops for Thrive Teesside on behalf of the Tees Women Poets.…
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Poetry Playspaces
Thanks to the generous folk at ARC Stockton, we are ‘in residence’ on four upcoming Saturdays when we will be opening up Poetry Playspaces for any women in Teesside who are looking for fun and friendly ways to kickstart their poetry. Drop in on any of three sessions happening on each Playspace Saturday and move…
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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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