!! TEMPORARY VENUE - Priory Visitor Centre !!
** You DON'T need a ticket to attend or read. **
Recommended arrival time: 7.30PM or a bit earlier. Gig starts 8PM.
Fire & Dust is a monthly poetry open mic event. All welcome - page poets, performance poets, slammers, rappers, spoken word artists, and anyone happy to listen to some poetry. Bring poems, bring friends, or just bring yourself along for a listen!
Open mic slots available. For a guaranteed slot: register for a ticket. Alternatively, request to sign up on the night. Slots are limited to 3 minutes (a few extended slots may be available on request.)
OPEN MIC SYSTEM: A few open mic tickets are available to reserve on Eventbrite; the other slots are for sign-up on the night. Priority given to poets who didn't get to read last month. If you read last month and want to read again, your name will go into the tub for random draw to fill empty slots. Most poets WILL get to read, but sometimes the list is just too busy to fit everyone in!
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HEADLINE POET: CATHI RAE
Cathi Rae is an award winning poet, spoken word artist and creative writing tutor. Much to her own surprise she has an MA and PhD in creative writing and poetry. She has headlined throughout the UK at poetry nights, literary events and festivals and is delighted to be making a return visit to Fire&Dust. She has been described as a 'spoken word icon' by Joelle Taylor and as writing poetry that is 'beautiful and necessary' by Lydia Towsey.
Her work focuses on telling stories of other people's lives and giving a voice to the voiceless and marginalised. She will be reading from her forthcoming collection - 'Poems of other people's lives' - and talking about how we can use poetry as biography. There will probably a couple of poems about dogs too.
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There will be a jar for donations on the night. Alternatively, you can donate online to help Fire & Dust gigs keep going:
https://ko-fi.com/fireanddustpoetry
Also check out other Arts events in Coventry, Literary Art events in Coventry, Festivals in Coventry.
