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15 April 2021
7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
All ages welcome
Free
www.facebook.com/WordCentral
Flapjack Press
Open mic poetry and spoken word hosted by Tony Curry. With special guest Louise Fazackerley. Presented by Flapjack Press & Manchester Libraries.
Live stream at www.facebook.com/WordCentral. You can book your open mic slot from Noon on Thursday 8th April via mail@flapjackpress.co.uk.
NB Open mic slots are 3 minutes maximum. Performance slots are allocated on a ‘first come first served’ basis from the stated booking day. If they are already filled you will be offered a space on the reserve list.
Presenting poet and luminary, Louise Fazackerley, spoken word support for punk legend Dr. John Cooper Clarke. With work rooted in word-witchery and the working class, Louise explores the synergy between poetry and movement in a way that makes the ugly beautiful and the mundane fantastical. Winner of BBC Radio 3 New Voices, European Slam Finalist, Literature Champion for Moston and Harpurhey, Louise is excited to share her new genre-distorting, darkly humorous, dystopian book, ‘The Lolitas’.
https://flapjackpress.co.uk/pages/word-central
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