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yep – Leeds Poetry Festival is returning for a second year and so is LIVEwire! this time around, our line-up features Louise Fazackerley, Carla Mellor and Taiwo Ogunyinka. tickets are available here for £7 plus booking fee.
The 16th of our Insta sessions features Louise Fazackerley. Louise is a poet from the exotic Northern streets of Orwell’s Wigan. In performance, she explores the synergy between poetry and movement. Her socially conscious writing makes the ugly beautiful and the mundane fantastical.
Continue reading “Insta sessions #16: Louise Fazackerley on 15 Sep”The penultimate LIVEwire Leeds event in this series, which took place at Hyde Park Book Club on Wednesday 5 February. Headline slots from Louise Fazackerley and Matt Abbott plus open mic, as captured by Idle Work Factory.
Our final Leeds event in this series takes place on Wednesday 1 April, and tickets will be on sale soon!
We’re pulling no punches with our first event of the roaring ’20s, as we return to Hyde Park Book Club for the third of our Leeds residency dates. Our special guests for this one are Louise Fazackerley and Evrah Rose, plus we’ll have open mic hosted by Matt Abbott.
Continue reading “LIVEwire Leeds No.3 | Louise Fazackerley & Co. on 5 Feb”Friday night saw the first of our new #LIVEwire events, with an incredible line-up at Manchester’s The Edge Theatre & Arts Centre. A packed room were treated to sets from Luke Wright, Louise Fazackerley and Kirsty Taylor, hosted by Toria Garbutt.
The images below were taken by Derren Lee Poole, and you can also view the gallery over on our Facebook page here. The next of these events is at Leeds’ Hyde Park Book Club on 2 October, starring Salena Godden and Nafeesa Hamid! Tickets are available here.
Firstly, if you haven’t read the blog about our new series of ‘LIVEwire’ events, check it out here. This is our biggest series of events yet and we’re absolutely buzzing that they’re finally out there in the world.
The first of our regional events is a real statement of intent, with internationally renowned poet and playwright Luke Wright supported by Louise Fazackerley and Kirsty Taylor.
Continue reading “LIVEwire Manchester | Luke Wright & Co. on 20 Sep”
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