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Poetry workshop
Pop-up poet in residence
Francesca Beard
Friday 20 September, 12:30pm – 3pm
Free
Write a slam poem, participate in a five minute creative writing workshop, collaborate in a spoken word conga, take part in an improvised story-telling mash-up or request your own personalised poem about the exhibition from spoken word artist Francesca Beard, who will be on hand as a pop-up Poet-in-Residence.
Francesca Beard [www.francescabeard.com] performs poetry and runs workshops nationally and all over the world with the British Council. She’s been called ‘spine-tingling’ (Independent) and ‘The Queen of British performance poetry’. (London Metro) She is currently working on Storyverse, an interactive story-telling platform, with B3 Media, supported by Arts Council England.
Photo: Amit Lennon