Hello and happy new year forecasters
New year and a new line up for the Shipping forecast at it's new venue the Riverside pub, 1 mowbray street, oooh.
It's exciting times ahead as we continue to deliver the best in spoken word across the country and locally in the only nautical themed comedy cabaret night in the UK right here in landlocked Sheffield.
This year looks to be the best yet for the forecast as we have programmed a real bobby dazzler of a line up over the next 6 months with the likes of Byron Vincent, Luke Wright, Ross Sutherland and many more plus the usual blend of games, features, message in a bottle with Sting, Liam Gallager's book review, celebrity poetry corner and George the shark and of course the naff raffle. Open mic slots are also available email for a slot.
Starting with
February the 20th
Byron Vincent
One of BBC poetry season’s New Talent Choices, Byron Vincent is a regular at the nation’s most prestigious literary and music festivals. He has performed several times on television and national radio, including Channel 4’s Random Acts, Radio 4’s Bespoken Word and BBC 3’s The Verb. He was poet in residence for the South West of England for Apples and Snake’s ground breaking poetry project My Place or Yours. His first collection Barking Doggerel was released May 2010 by Nasty Little Press. He was co-founder, compere, producer and programmer for one of The UK’s most highly regarded Spoken Word nights at The Bristol Old Vic. Byron has worked as a writer and performer on several theatre projects including The RSC’s Midsummer Night’s dreaming. He is also co-creator of bespoke story telling project Made Up, which in its first year won commissions from both MAYK’s Mayfest in Bristol and Escalator East in Norwich. He is currently devizing his debut solo theatre show Talk About Something You like.
"He's a geeeeenius" John Cooper Clarke
"The most precocious talent on show" The Times
www.byronvincent.com
Plus Genevieve Carver
Genevieve Carver is a locally renowned poet based in Sheffield, and has performed at festivals and events from the Edinburgh Fringe to the Off the Shelf Festival of Words. She writes about the realities of the everyday in a rhymical, lively and thoughtful way, sometimes playing her own piano compositions aong with her work. Genevieve’s poems have appeared in Now Then magazine and a recent anthology of Sheffield Poets, and she was recently longlisted for the Poetry Society National Competition and shortlisted for the York Literature Festival Poetry Competition.
plus open mic
tickets £5
7.45pm
New year and a new line up for the Shipping forecast at it's new venue the Riverside pub, 1 mowbray street, oooh.
It's exciting times ahead as we continue to deliver the best in spoken word across the country and locally in the only nautical themed comedy cabaret night in the UK right here in landlocked Sheffield.
This year looks to be the best yet for the forecast as we have programmed a real bobby dazzler of a line up over the next 6 months with the likes of Byron Vincent, Luke Wright, Ross Sutherland and many more plus the usual blend of games, features, message in a bottle with Sting, Liam Gallager's book review, celebrity poetry corner and George the shark and of course the naff raffle. Open mic slots are also available email for a slot.
Starting with
February the 20th
Byron Vincent
One of BBC poetry season’s New Talent Choices, Byron Vincent is a regular at the nation’s most prestigious literary and music festivals. He has performed several times on television and national radio, including Channel 4’s Random Acts, Radio 4’s Bespoken Word and BBC 3’s The Verb. He was poet in residence for the South West of England for Apples and Snake’s ground breaking poetry project My Place or Yours. His first collection Barking Doggerel was released May 2010 by Nasty Little Press. He was co-founder, compere, producer and programmer for one of The UK’s most highly regarded Spoken Word nights at The Bristol Old Vic. Byron has worked as a writer and performer on several theatre projects including The RSC’s Midsummer Night’s dreaming. He is also co-creator of bespoke story telling project Made Up, which in its first year won commissions from both MAYK’s Mayfest in Bristol and Escalator East in Norwich. He is currently devizing his debut solo theatre show Talk About Something You like.
"He's a geeeeenius" John Cooper Clarke
"The most precocious talent on show" The Times
www.byronvincent.com
Plus Genevieve Carver
Genevieve Carver is a locally renowned poet based in Sheffield, and has performed at festivals and events from the Edinburgh Fringe to the Off the Shelf Festival of Words. She writes about the realities of the everyday in a rhymical, lively and thoughtful way, sometimes playing her own piano compositions aong with her work. Genevieve’s poems have appeared in Now Then magazine and a recent anthology of Sheffield Poets, and she was recently longlisted for the Poetry Society National Competition and shortlisted for the York Literature Festival Poetry Competition.
plus open mic
tickets £5
7.45pm