Voicebox: Last Stanza Standing – Spoken Word Poetry Slam

This January Voicebox will host it’s first… ever… Last Stanza Standing slam!

We have some amazing prizes and gig opportunities including 1st place with two full days in a professional studio and a guest spot at our popular Voicebox nights and two runners up prizes.

January 11th, 6:30pm £7 in advance of £10 on the door. Watch 12 poets spill rhythm and rhyme and battle it out for the Last Stanza Standing!

Enter for your chance to slam HERE

Buy tickets to see this fabulous event HERE

Lucid

I am a beatboxer… after trying my luck with many instruments I decided to focus on the instrument we all have – the voice. With the only limitation of this instrument being the mind, I began playing with the idea nearly a decade ago and I’m now composing my own rhythms and patterns using nothing but my mouth in order to replicate the structure and sound of a song.

Our three judges

Sophie Mckeand

Freelance poet and educator from Y Gogledd Cymru whose work explores how engaging with The Arts builds stronger communities. She won the Out Spoken Innovation in Poetry Award in 2015 and was longlisted for the Poetry Society‘s National Poetry Competition in 2014. Her second poetry pamphlet Hanes was launched November 2015. Performances include Wenlock Poetry Festival, Green Man, Wilderness, Dinefwr and the Gelynion/Enemies Project (curated by Poetry Wales), as well as being writer/producer on various projects for National Theatre Wales TEAM.

Sophie regularly facilitates workshops for organisations such as Literature Wales, Arts Council Wales, Oriel Wrecsam, Age Cymru and Barnardos with a focus on working with marginalised groups in society.
www.sophiemckeand.com

Ciarán Hodgers

a multi-award winning poet and mentor. Irish born, based in the North West of the UK, he recently was exhibited in the international arts festival NEW NOW in Amsterdam and won the Pangaea International Poetry Slam. When not doing poet things he’s a producer and project manager for Manchester Metropolitan University Cheshire, as a Community Engagement Trainee. His spoken word CD and pamphlet, The Hours, is available from his websiteciaranhodgers.weebly.com.

Aled Lewis Evans

Awdur, tiwtor ,darlledwr a phregethwr. Writer, tutor, broadcaster and preacher

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