This is an extract from April’s London Snakebasket, to view the full version, click here.
Ah, spring: season of mists and mellow fruitfull… – no, hang on, that’s autumn. Nevertheless, spring is an equally fine season, and just as worthy of poetic celebration.
For us, April really kicks in after Easter. It’ll be something to take your mind off all the money you’ve spent on purple foil and cubic centimetres of air. We present another Creative Salon on Thursday 12th, when we invite you, the public, to have a chinwag about the spoken word scene.
Jawdance is back on Wednesday 25th. And please remember: the open mic list opens at 6.30pm and fills up very quickly indeed. We do our best to accommodate everyone, but obviously there’s a limit and we can’t go on forever: some of us need our beauty sleep! Inbetweentimes – if that’s a word – we’re very lucky to have the mighty Patience Agbabi fronting a masterclass for us. And, for the weans, Rosie Harris will be pulling more bandicoots from her bag in A Roo In My Suitcase.
That’s all for now. But it’s going to be one heck of a year, with our Shake The Dust project between now and the Olympics, and a whole host of 30th birthday hootenannies in the autumn. Brace yourselves!
Russell
Programme Coordinator for London
This is an extract from April’s London Snakebasket, to view the full version, click here.
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