WRITE WANDSWORTH! Page to Stage (Performance Poetry)

Spread the Word and Wandsworth Library and Heritage Service present:

Interested in writing and performing your own poetry? A full day course led by professional poet and performer, Malika Booker*.


The Workshop
The course will explore performance. How do poets bring the poem alive? How can poets deal with their nerves, lack of confidence and insecurities? What is the aim of their performance? How do they want to leave the audience feeling?

This one day course will enable the participants to examine the various tools needed to create good communication of their own poetry to an audience. They will set performance goals and targets, look at strategies to overcome handicaps as well as practise scripting and performing their poems.

Over the course of the day we will explore 'what lies at the heart of poets sharing their poems'. We will do this through games, discussions, practise and practical role play. Participants will also leave with a series of practical performance goals that they will be able to use after the course in order to develop/ or further develop their practice.

Requirements
Participants are asked to dress in comfortable clothes, and to bring several of their poems to the sessions. They must make sure that there is two copies of each poem that they bring on the day. They are also asked to bring paper/ notebook and pens as they will need to write and take notes.

Saturday 27th February
10:30am - 4:30pm

Southfields Library
300 Wimbledon Park Road
London
SW19 6NL
Nearest Tube: Southfields

£22/ £15 (concessions)



*Malika Booker is a British writer of Guyanese and Grenadian parentage. Her poems are widely published in anthologies and journals including Bittersweet: Contemporary Black Women’s Poetry, IC3, The Penguin Anthology of New Black Writing and the India International Journal 2005. She has represented British writing internationally, and has also written for the stage and radio. Her one-woman show 'Unplanned', toured nationwide throughout 2007 and her collection 'Breadfruit' was published in 2008.