Category: News
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Medway Monday
You’ll know of course, that this weekend was a pretty big one for a whole host of Medway’s creatives. We’re busy collating feedback and photos from our contribution to the feel good shenanigans but here, as a taster for you, are a few snapshots from the Guerilla Poetry and the…
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Potlatch Collective Poem #22
The stone wheel spun with a sound of thunder The demon arose from that place of hell My demons adding their furious cries I raced out into the daylight, but I couldn’t escape. High fences blocked me, bringing me up short This robbery is turning out more difficult than I…
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The Writers’ Workshop Festival of Writing
The UK’s largest literary editorial company will hold its fourth annual celebration of writing and publishing at York University on 13th – 15th September. One of the most popular events of the literary year, it unites aspiring authors with top agents, publishers, book doctors and best-selling authors for a weekend…
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LitFest Garden Party to cap a BIG Weekend for Medway
The weekend of Friday, July 12th to Sunday July, 14th will see Rochester and the wider Medway come alive for what’s being termed Medway’s Big Weekend. Having made a fantastic debut at Eastgate House Gardens last year, we’re holding our Summer Garden Party on Sunday 14th July, at the Good…
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Medway Monday: Rochester Dickens Festival
You can view a whole gallery of Dickens Festival photos over at Going on in Medway. Got some photos to share from the weekend? Add a link to your blog here 🙂
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Turn Your Experiences Into A Novel
Originally posted on The View Outside: I came across a brilliant idea in The Daily Writer a few days ago. There’s the old saying isn’t there, write what you know. Yeah, ok, that’s boring and I don’t know much anyway. Well, actually…I’ve discovered I do! What about the 45 years…
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Art Display at Strood Library
The Rochester and West Kent Art Society is exhibiting at Strood Library from Monday, June 3rd to Saturday, June 29th. A number of local artists will be displaying their work, which incorporates a variety of topics and mediums. The exhibition is open from 10am to 3pm daily and you can…
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Medway Monday: Potlatch Collective Poem #16
Tear and its mother … black into middle eye Painful though it may be It carried on through the sky Opened by what wasn’t Zeppelins visited, their generous gifts And showered the people below with them That they were totally soaked The rain kept pouring She thought … this will…
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Dates for your Diary: Writers’ Rendezvous & Garden Party
With news that Eastgate House Gardens are off limit for July, due to their renovation work, we’re pleased to announce that the Garden Party will this year be held at The Good Intent pub, John Street, Rochester, on Sunday, July 14th. As the Garden Party is a part of this…
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Call out for an MA in Doing: Collaborative Research Group
Originally posted on Jaye Nolan: CRATE are pleased to announce a call out for applicants for a Collaborative Research Group, an alternative education programme conceived of as an MA in Doing. Collaborative Research Group will bring together a group of 6 regional arts practitioners (artists, curators, organisers, writers, researchers…
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The Creative Process: Words and Music
When composers and writers collaborate, what comes first – the words or music? To help understand this, UCF will host a conversation between Mariam Al-Roubi, singer, songwriter and librettist for the opera Mirabai, and its composer, Barry Seaman, on Monday, June 17th at 2.30pm. How does a creative work, such…
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