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Sunday 4th November 3.30 pm The MAC,Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham Parkside Room £3/£1 children/£7 family - mac box office number 0121 440 3838 boxoffice@mac-birmingham.org.uk www.mac-birmingham.org.uk Access generally very good, click on website or e-mail enquiries@mac-birmingham.org.uk mac reading group now full - place your bookmark down for new group in autumn |
Tindal Street Press Thursday 8th November at 7pm, Bloxwich Library, Elmore Row
Surviving Sting by Paul
McDonald
"Very funny, very crude, and very Walsall” “The most comical
thing I’ve read in a long time”
Surviving Sting -- a comic gem of a novel by Walsall writer Paul McDonald -- charts 7 days of madness on a dog-rough estate in ‘the ugliest town in the country’, summer 1979. Come and hear this new author read and discuss his laugh-out-loud, defiantly regional novel.
Paul McDonald from & discuss Surviving Sting
All are very welcome.
Thursday 8th November 7.30 pm The MAC,Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham
Function Room £4/£3 -
mac box office number 0121 440 3838 Access generally very good, click on website or e-mail enquiries@mac-birmingham.org.uk mac reading group now full - place your bookmark down for new group in autumn |
The Words 2001 Series 8pm 9th November Bromsgrove
"The Archers - from roots to radio"
Vanessa Whitburn takes you behind the scenes to find out how the world's longest-runing radio drama is produced.
8pm The Conference Room, L G Harris & Co Ltd, Stoke Prior, Bromsgrove. Tickets £6, student tickets £3.50, from The Ticket Secretary, Words, 1 Warwick Hall Gardens, Bromsgrove B60 2AU, telephone 01527 876306
Sunday 11th November 8pm A People's Cabaret Hare & Hounds, Kings Heath High St:-
| REBEL VOICES, featuring Susan Lewis and
Janet Stecher, immerse their audience in a program of songs, humour and theatre woven
together with wit and intricate harmonies. Whether focusing on women or working people's
lives, their repertoire of 100 gems of the last 100 years illuminates real stories of real
people: Rosy the Riveter - revisited, South African miners striking in solidarity with US
workers, grade school kids organizing their school. The audience leaves cheering,
reaffirmed and energized. REBEL VOICES will give a voice and harmony workshop at Kings Heath Community Centre from 2.30 to 5pm as well as a performance at the Hare and Hounds in the evening. See below NEW!! AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS WITH REBEL VOICES AND TASHBAIN 11 November: Voice and harmony workshop with REBEL VOICES Workshop tickets are available in advance for £5 (£3 unwaged). Please send your cheque made out to the Traditional Arts Foundation c/o Pam Bishop, 35 Waterloo Road, Birmingham B14 7SD |
A People's Cabaret continues its season of traditional music, song and dance, storytelling, theatre and political comedy - every second Sunday of each month: Music starts 8pm. Last time some folk arrived too late to get a seat - so come along early! Entrance £5 (£3 unwaged)
www.cabaret.free-online.co.uk e-mail: pam@cabaret.free-online.co.uk
Showcasing
word-based artists from the region. Next Date Wednesday 14th November 8.00pm Free IC3 WORDS The TERM IC3 is used to describe a John Doe of African Caribbean origin. Khadijah George will explore this issue in a Penguin published book. Let yourself be heard, with the Spoken Word. A regular lively and entertaining night with shared work and experiences. Hosted by local performance poet, Dr Roi Kwabena Box Office Opening
Times: 9.30 - 5.00 Monday - Friday |
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Thursday 15th November, 7.15 p.m. National Grid Room Warwick Arts Centre
This is a special lecture. Title and text to be released Warwick Arts Centre for details of free lecture series click here |
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Poetry Events
– Solihull Libraries & Arts
Wendy Cope
Date: Thursday 15th
November2001, 7.30pm
Venue: The Studio, Solihull Arts Complex
Tickets: £5 (£4) from Box office, 0121 704 6962
Wendy Cope, one of our funniest and most eloquent poets will be appearing at Solihull Arts Complex on Thursday November 15th. Her collections include Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis and Serious Concerns. Her latest collection If I don’t know was published in June this year.
Special Guest: The Magical Welsh Wizard of
Storytelling Michael (£3.00/ £1.50 concessions) Tipton
Library, Owen House, 17 Unity Place, Tipton, DY4 8QL tel: 0121 557 1796
for details & ticket reservations Transport available
from Wednesbury Library: Walsall Street site: Please ring 0121-556 0351 to book seats. |
Wednesday 21st November 7.30 pm The MAC,Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham Storytelling Café: Phillippa Tipper Parkside
Room £4/£3 - mac box office number 0121 440 3838 Access generally very good, click on website or e-mail enquiries@mac-birmingham.org.uk mac reading group now full - place your bookmark down for new group in autumn |
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Wednesday 22nd November, 7.15 p.m. Conference Room Warwick Arts Centre
The talented and prolific William Boyd is one of the finest and most popular novelists of his generation. His books, most of them set in exotic locales where Europeans struggle with the exigencies of foreignness, include The New Confessions, An Ice-cream War, On the Yankee Station, Armadillo and Brazzaville Beach. Warwick Arts Centre for details of free lecture series click here |
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Wednesday 28th November, 7.15 p.m. Conference Room Warwick Arts Centre
While Writers at Warwick is now recognised as a significant new literature series in the country, the Warwick Writing Programme itself has been called by The Independent ‘one of the most imaginative experiments in higher education’. Its three-year honours degree in creative writing is probably one of the ( if not the) most popular arts courses in Europe, attracting highly talented students from across the globe. And this coming year sees the launch of a new international MA in Writing, as well as more projects in local schools; in Coventry town centre as part of the Phoenix Initiative; and workshops across the Midlands. What is it about the Warwick Writing Programme that attracts thirty candidates for every one place on its writing degree? What are the students like, and are they really the great writers and readers of the future? Join us to celebrate five years of writing and writers at Warwick. The event will be led by David Morley, the director of the programme, and will include performances by students and members of the Midlands writing community, the launch of a new magazine, and a surprise reading by a mystery guest writer. There will also be a chance for discussion and questions about Midlands writing and publishing. Celebrations will continue afterwards in the Arts Centre upper bar. Warwick Arts Centre for details of free lecture series click here |
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Sunday 9th December 8pm A People's Cabaret Hare & Hounds, Kings Heath High St:-
| TASHBAIN'S TOWER OF BAGEL TASHBAIN perform Klezmer music and traditional Jewish folk tales. The Tower of Bagel tells of a father’s search across Europe for his son, and uses many traditional Jewish themes. Its music is Klezmer and Irish folk. There will be a Klezmer music workshop at Kings Heath Community Centre from 2.30 to 5pm as well as a performance at the Midlands Arts Centre in the evening. This event is being run jointly with the Storytelling Cafe. NEW!! AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS WITH REBEL VOICES AND TASHBAIN 11 November: Voice and harmony workshop with REBEL VOICES Workshop tickets are available in advance for £5 (£3 unwaged). Please send your cheque made out to the Traditional Arts Foundation c/o Pam Bishop, 35 Waterloo Road, Birmingham B14 7SD |
A People's Cabaret continues its season of traditional music, song and dance, storytelling, theatre and political comedy - every second Sunday of each month: Music starts 8pm. Last time some folk arrived too late to get a seat - so come along early! Entrance £5 (£3 unwaged)
www.cabaret.free-online.co.uk e-mail: pam@cabaret.free-online.co.uk
Showcasing
word-based artists from the region. Next Date Wednesday 12th December 8.00pm Free Spoken Word Special With the festive season very much in mind. Be part of our Spoken Word Special. The night will have some very special guest headlining. Let yourself be heard, with the Spoken Word. A regular lively and entertaining night with shared work and experiences. Hosted by local performance poet, Dr Roi Kwabena Box Office Opening
Times: 9.30 - 5.00 Monday - Friday |
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