Wednesday, 06/02/2008 at Arena Theatre - Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1SE

Things That Can’t Be Said is an ensemble of stories where performance poetry meets theatre.

Shabina Aslam, a leading director of spoken word, theatre and radio drama, has worked with five eclectic spoken word artists from the West Midlands to create an exciting high-octane production about things that can’t be said.

Artists: Michèle Barzey, Marcia Calame, Cherri Gillings, Vincent Gould and Shaun Welch perform a collection of stories using music, movement and sound, creating a visual tapestry of love, life and relationships.

Introduced by guest poet Emma Purshouse.

Things That Can’t Be Said is co-produced by r:evolve and Apples & Snakes.
Venue website: www2.wlv.ac.uk/arena
Bookings: 01902 321 321

Thursday January 17th 2007 - Women Who Write
Monthly women's writing workshop lead by Emma Purshouse.
Venue: Bilston Community Centre, Prouds Lane, Bilston
Time: 7.00 - 9.00pm
Cost: Free - All women writers are welcome
Contact: emmaasif@hotmail.com

Cinnamon Cafe
Bridgnorth
Tuesday 4th December 2007, 8pm

Performance Café, an evening of prose, poetry, music and comedy. Admission £3/£2

Emma Purshouse and Jane Seabourne will be amongst the acts appearing.

The Professor Vyle Show
Poetry with Punch
A one hour
one woman show
written and performed by
Emma Purshouse


Wednesday 24th October 2007

Upstairs at The City Bar
King Street
Wolverhampton

starts 7.30 pm


FREE Admission - but in true Punch and Judy style
a bottler will be collecting after the performance!

Bluebeard's Wives: Poetry Book Launch
Bilston Craft Gallery
Mount Pleasant
Bilston

Thursday 18th October 2007
7.00pm - 9.00pm
Free Event - all welcome

The poems in the 'Bluebeard's Wives' collection emerged after Julie Boden, poet in residence at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, invited women writers for a tour of the building followed by a performance of Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle. Drawing on theatre and music, these poems offer another look at the familiar myth. They have been edited by Julie Boden and Zoe Brigley. The book is published by Heaventree Press.

Tonight's event will feature readings by Julie Boden and Zoe Brigley. Jane Seabourne and Emma Purshouse, who are both members of Wolverhampton's Women Who Write group, have work in the collection and will also be reading.

Voices Off @ Cheltenham Festival

Death and Taxes
The Beehive 8-9pm/£5
Marcus Moore unveils loop-holes in the rules governing death and suggests ways of ignoring the problem of money.

Warning this event contains choice language and some cigarettes, no risk assessment or feedback forms, a few poems, one mild reference to the pudenda...oh and a straightforward rhyme for banker. Faint hearted members of the audinece are entitled to faint, as long as they don't expect any sympathy.

UK All Stars Poetry Slam!
6th October 2007 @ Cheltenham Town Hall

Glam-slam poetry rocks the Cheltenham Festival tonight as fifteen plucky bards aim to revolutionise the spoken word world in Europe's premier performance poetry competition. Whose nerve, verve and verse will change your tune to become the ultimate Poet Idol?

Hosts with the most, Sara-Jane Arbury and Marcus Moore, keep it all tickety-boo as random judges rate the writing, measure the performance and assess your applause to find the wordster with the winning formula.

Bookings 01242 227979 www.cheltenhamfestivals.com