Category: News
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Kent Life Short Story Competition
Calling all Medway writers – let’s show the rest of Kent what we’ve got! Kent Life magazine is running a short story competition, judged by recent Live’n’Local speaker, Truda Thurai.
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Cloaked Tales – Joseph Coelho
Awarded the CLPE 2015 Children’s Poetry Award for his first book Werewolf Club Rules, Joseph Coelho has been busy producing his latest performances ‘Cloaked Tales’.
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The Travelling Talesman – The Season of Revenge
If you’ve enjoyed Rochester Lit Fest this year, you may be interested to hear that in lieu of October’s regular open mic night, Seasonally Effected will be presenting an evening of storytelling with The Travelling Talesman who will be telling tales of The Season of Revenge at the Dot Cafe.
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Medway’s Cultural Contributors – ‘The value of open mic nights’
A not-to-be missed panel discussion on the value of local open mic events. Led by Roy Smith of Seasonally Effected and featuring Barry and Sam Fentiman-Hall from Roundabout Nights, and Lisa Vigour of Inspirational Nights. Update: A podcast of the discussion is available at Seasonally Effected.
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Introducing: The Safe and Sound Project
The background to our playwriting workshop is all too relevant to what’s happening all over the world, with the suffering of refugees bringing it home to us every day.
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WANTED! For Live’n’Local #RLF2015
With just three weeks to go, the final phase of this year’s festival is kicking in. Roughly translated, that means WE NEED YOU! Whether you’re feeling generous or want a chance to perform, WE WANT YOU!
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Pop up performers wanted – Cafe Crawl
Our popular Cafe Crawl makes a comeback this year, taking place on Saturday, October 10 in three of Rochester’s top eateries.
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Get Creative – Get Writing!
We’re hosting 4 themed writing workshops during our 2015 festival, Live’n’Local, as part of the BBC’s Get Creative campaign – a year-long celebration of British arts, culture and creativity.
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Trafficked – creative writing workshops
A free workshop exploring issues around human trafficking in the UK. The session will be led by Sam Fentiman-Hall (Wordsmithery and ME4Writers)
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Welcoming TT Litho to the team
We’re absolutely delighted to unveil a brand new sponsor. TT Litho Printers Ltd, the family run Rochester based print firm, has agreed to supply publicity materials for the RLF, a massively important saving for us.
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