Dead Good Poets – Dates Events Feb / Mar 2010

Sunday 21st February – NEW! – Dead Good Poets Society Writing Group

Luckily with some help we have managed to find a room, so we won’t need to meet in Costa Coffee. The meeting will be at 2pm on Sunday 21st, as planned, but will be held in the room above News From Nowhere, the bookshop on Bold Street. If you are not sure where that is, you turn left as you come out of Liverpool Central Station Bold Street exit and head uphill. The bookshop is on your right a little way up. Ring the bell on the door next to the shop when you arrive. If you are not sure, you can call me on 07974605789.

Just to recap the purpose is to write together from shared starting points and ideas, then talk a bit about what we have done and get some feedback. It is not a formal workshop in which anyone will be teaching or running a lesson, just a supportive environment, so don’t worry that you have to produce a masterpiece!

Look forward to seeing you if you are interested, Colin Salmon.

Wednesday 3rd March @ 8pm – Dead Good Poets Society Open Floor. 3rd Room, Everyman Bistro, Hope Street, Liverpool. 24 slotsof 5 minutes for poets to perform their own work. New poets and new audience members always welcome. An inspiring, funny, moving mix of poetry guaranteed. £2 /£1 pay on the door. Come early to book a performance slot with our compere, Colin Watts.

Sunday 21st March

Lemn Sissay : Why I Don’t Hate White People
Invitation to a live recording for BBC Radio 4 at Contact Theatre on Sunday 21st March at 6.30pm. This is a one-off version of Lemn’s stage show with specially created new material for an invited audience. For one night only.
He didn’t know a black person until he was eighteen. It wasn’t his fault. They just thought it was better that way. He spent most of his adult life searching for his family who were black like him. It’s a story explored in his previous award-winning play Something Dark.
In Why I Don’t Hate White People Lemn continues the journey, not for family this time but for something more evasive – race. This is a whirlwind tour of race as seen from one man’s unique and intensely personal perspective as he seeks a truth, trying to find if there is something he is missing in the quagmire of race relations.
Exploring this contentious area with humour and originality, Lemn depicts some unexpected race-related situations, from an anti-slavery workshop where he chains up his students and leaves them in the classroom, to the launch of a new Richard Pryor Centre for Equality, which implodes at the opening ceremony. The result of Lemn’s journey into race is his discovery of the many reasons why he doesn’t, in fact, hate white people.
For tickets please call 0161 244 4255 and leave a contact name, telephone number and details of how many seats you would like. This event may be over-subscribed so book early.