Hammer & Tongue Poetry Slam
Hammer & Tongue Poetry Slam
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Join us for an evening of exhilarating spoken word with Brighton's longest-running poetry slam at our new venue The Tusk Club @ The Walrus on the first Tuesday of every month. Featuring performances from Amelia 'Ace' Armande, SCRUFFMOUTH & Jenny Foulds, and hosted by Leanne Shorley (@leanneshorley).
Doors open at 7pm and the show starts at 8pm.
HOW TO SLAM: 'Performer Tickets' for the following month are released at midday the day after the slam. These are limited and are now SOLD OUT for 5th March. If you'd like to come along as an audience member and be on the slam reserve list, please let us know at the door on the night.
SLAM POETS: Prepare an original poem of 3 minutes or less (no music, no props). Any style, any theme, anything you want! It doesn't have to be memorised and you're more than welcome to read from paper/your phone.
Feel free to email hammerandtonguebrighton@gmail.com with any questions. @hammerandtonguebrighton
Please be aware the performance space is in a basement which is only accessible via a flight of stairs. There is space to store wheelchairs / a mobility scooter on the ground floor. Assistance dogs are welcome.
Amelia Ace Armande (they/them) is magic, sparky, and secretly three goblins standing on each other's shoulders in a long coat. They are a poet, performer and storyteller, exploring queer experience from the deeply personal to the ancient and mythological. Their poetry has been published in Trans_Muted and Smeuse Poetry. @theydyamelia
SCRUFFMOUTH is the stage, pen, and business name for Kevan Anthony Cameron: poet, performer, producer, publisher, and proprietor of BLACK DOT ROOTS AND CULTURE COLLECTIVE. Kevan is the director of Hogan's Alley Poetry Festival and co-editor of THE GREAT BLACK NORTH: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry (2013, Frontenac House Poetry). He is a fellow of the Fulbright Youth Ambassadors program as an educator (2014, Canada/US) and an alumnus of the Callaloo Journal Poetry Workshop (2017, University of Oxford). SCRUFFMOUTH is a poetry slam veteran from North America where he was Vancouver Poetry Slam grand champion in 2008. @scruffmouthscribe
Jenny Foulds (she/her) is a queer performance poet, writer and theatre maker from Scotland. She is the owner of ADHD and Dyslexia. Jenny was the 2021 Scottish Poetry Slam Champion and was runner up in the World Slam Championships in 2021. She is host and curator of the Brighton based Spoken Word night Rebel Soapbox and has had feature and headline gigs at various Poetry nights across the UK including Hammer & Tongue, Loud Poets, Tongue Fu and Stanza Poetry festival. Her debut solo show, Life Learnings of a Nonsensical Human had runs at Brighton and Edinburgh Fringe in 2023 and she is planning a UK tour in 2024. As an actress she was a series regular in Two Thousand Acres of Sky (BBC) and appeared in various TV and film roles including Rebus, Mandancin’, Taggart and The Debt Collector. She founded the street art blog Happy Graffiti, which later became a book published by Octopus Books (a Hachette imprint) in 2013. @jennywithwords
Venue
The Walrus, 10 Ship St, BN1 1AD Brighton
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Hammer & Tongue Poetry Slam
From GBP 6.00