Lyric Lounge Alford

Saturday 22 October 

Alford Manor House, West Street, Alford, LN13 9HT

The Lyric Lounge arrives in Alford on 22nd October when the Lounge will be open all day for lyrical festivities.

Work on your writing skills with workshops from top class poets and performers. Get up on the Open Mic – first timers welcome. Be wowed by performances of local young writers alongside established artists. Enjoy a free lunch while you listen to poetic rhymes during Lyrical Lunchtimes.

Programme

Day events are FREE

12noon -1pm – Explore and write your own material with the man himself, Dizraeli. Mash up words, rhythms, sounds in this opening session of the day.

1.15pm - Aisle 16 – Created in 2000, playing Glastonbury by 2002, Poetry Boyband by 2007!  Today Aisle 16 stalwart John Osborne offers razor sharp wit, mixed up with lightning lyrics for a Lincolnshire first!

2pm - Dizraeli and the Small(er) Gods – BBC Poetry Slam Winner Dizraeli and his supernaturally talented band, The Small(er) Gods, make hiphop and folk shanties collide in ways you wouldn’t think possible. Expect haunted harmonies and raw words underscored by steel guitars and viola.

3pm - Writing Workshop – Joel Stickley Lincolnshire Poet Laureate offers up his now much loved take on all things poetical in this unique workshop opportunity.

4.15pm – Lyrical Teatime This is your time to try out that new poem or piece in this open mic session hosted by Joel Stickley.

5.15pm - Dizraeli and the Small(er) Gods return for what promises to be a fitting close to the afternoon festivities. Dare to leave before the end!

7.15pm – The IGNITE SPOKEN WORD GROUP has been meeting up for the past 8 weeks to create a set of performance pieces especially for tonight.  Come support your local talent!

8.15pm – Renaissance One presents Grace Nichols and John Agard  From Guyana to the shores of England, Grace and John have provided the world with an honest and poetical insight into the beauty and struggles of their beloved country. Grace’s first poetry collection, ‘I is a Long-Memoried Woman’, was published in 1983 and won the Commonwealth

Poetry Prize. John is a playwright, poet, short-story and children’s writer. ‘The Young Inferno’ (2008), a poetic reworking of Dante’s Infern for young people, won the 2009 CLPE Poetry Award. Grace and John have over the past four decades produced a body of work to be in awe of. Tonight is going to be a very special night! BOOK EARLY FOR THIS ONE!

Tickets £3 are available from Riverhead Theatre – 10.00am – 1.00pm. Call 01507 600350.  Tickets also available on the door.