Lyric Lounge Corby – Saturday 3rd September
The Core, Corby Cube, Parkland Gateway George Street, Corby, NN17 1QG

The Lyric Lounge arrives in Corby on 3rd September 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.

Programme

Day events are FREE
11am – Writing workshops with Joel Stickley and Ben Mellor. Joel Stickley is the Our Corby writer in residence and author of hit blog How To Write Badly Well, and Ben Mellor is a founder member of the spoken word hip hop theatre collective Pen-ultimate.
1pm – Lyrical Lunchtime with Open Mic and Free Lunch. Book an appraisal over lunch with Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, Lyric Lounge patron and internationally acclaimed poet and performer.
3pm – Lyric Lounge Showcases with local young writers, artists and performers.
5pm – Lyrical Teatime with Open Mic
7.15pm – The Lyric Lounge Vs. Word Furnace
Free to all young people and writers who have taken part during the day. Join Word Furnace host and compere Joel Stickley and hear the best new work from local writers, in a special Lyric Lounge Word Furnace with headline acts Ben Mellor and Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze.

Tickets are just £6 (conc. £4) available from Box Office 01604 624811

Lyric Lounge Northamptonshire is part of ‘Igniting Ambition,’ the East Midlands’ contribution to the Cultural Olympiad. The Lyric Lounge is a Writing East Midlands project. It has been artistically developed by Lydia Towsey. It is supported by MLA Renaissance, Arts Council England, Igniting Ambition and Legacy Trust UK with further support from Northamptonshire County Council, the Royal and Derngate Theatre and The Core at Corby Cube.