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"The Esteemed Kat Lyons and Miles Chambers share their varied perspectives on Bristol through select readings from their commissions as City Poet. Feeding into Lyrafest 2023’s theme, ‘Bristol City of Words’, local poets will then take the floor to let their voice be heard."
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A event on Friday 28th April. The event starts at 19:30.
Price: £5 / £3
Time: 19:30 - 21:00
Join current Bristol City Poet Kat Lyons (2022-2024) and former Bristol City Poet Miles Chambers (2016-2018), together with writers and creatives from communities all around Bristol, for this special showcase celebrating our 2023 festival theme, City of Words.
The event will feature Angie Belcher (part of the Totterdown Rising commissions), poets from Bristol Stanza (who have created the Walking Words Bristol poetry app), Rowena Knight (part of the Queering the City LGBTQ+ commissions), as well as our first ever Bristol Young City Poets, Altoma Elwasila and Nara Pring.
Hear poems written about Bristol, spanning an incredible range of perspectives, styles and themes. Miles and Kat will share some of the poems they were commissioned to write as City Poet, and poets from around the city will share newly written work from recent outreach workshops and activities. Audience members are invited to explore the Lyra Poetry Exhibition in the Bristol Beacon Glass Room and to write their very own Bristol poems to stick on the public poetry wall.
Presented in partnership with Bristol Ideas and part of Bristol 650.
KAT LYONS:
Kat Lyons (they/them) is a Queer Bristol-based writer, performer, workshop facilitator and creative producer, whose work is grounded in everyday politics and a love of storytelling. Kat is the official Bristol City Poet (2022-2024) and is currently touring Dry Season, a spoken word theatre show exploring gender, age and menopause. Their debut poetry collection, Love Beneath the Nails, is available now from Verve Poetry Press. Kat performs throughout the UK and was nominated for the 2022 Jerwood Poetry in Performance Award. They are passionate about using stories to re/connect people to themselves, each other and their environment.
MILES CHAMBERS:
Miles Chambers is a leading and popular poetic cultural commentator. He is an international performance poet, slam champion and playwright, and was Bristol’s first City Poet. He’s been involved in poetry and performance on TV and radio, in corporate video, and for city councils, schools and community organisations. A broadcaster who has recently written and presented for the BBC series Civilizations, Miles has also been commissioned by Radio 4 and has featured in several of their programmes, including Only Artist, Poetry Please and Poets in a Balloon. His poetry can be seen all over Bristol, from a video performance at M-Shed to an exhibition at We the Curious, and is immortalised in metal grating on the walls of the Bristol Old Vic.
Part of Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival 2023.
Entry requirements:
Time: 19:30 - 21:00
Join current Bristol City Poet Kat Lyons (2022-2024) and former Bristol City Poet Miles Chambers (2016-2018), together with writers and creatives from communities all around Bristol, for this special showcase celebrating our 2023 festival theme, City of Words.
The event will feature Angie Belcher (part of the Totterdown Rising commissions), poets from Bristol Stanza (who have created the Walking Words Bristol poetry app), Rowena Knight (part of the Queering the City LGBTQ+ commissions), as well as our first ever Bristol Young City Poets, Altoma Elwasila and Nara Pring.
Hear poems written about Bristol, spanning an incredible range of perspectives, styles and themes. Miles and Kat will share some of the poems they were commissioned to write as City Poet, and poets from around the city will share newly written work from recent outreach workshops and activities. Audience members are invited to explore the Lyra Poetry Exhibition in the Bristol Beacon Glass Room and to write their very own Bristol poems to stick on the public poetry wall.
Presented in partnership with Bristol Ideas and part of Bristol 650.
KAT LYONS:
Kat Lyons (they/them) is a Queer Bristol-based writer, performer, workshop facilitator and creative producer, whose work is grounded in everyday politics and a love of storytelling. Kat is the official Bristol City Poet (2022-2024) and is currently touring Dry Season, a spoken word theatre show exploring gender, age and menopause. Their debut poetry collection, Love Beneath the Nails, is available now from Verve Poetry Press. Kat performs throughout the UK and was nominated for the 2022 Jerwood Poetry in Performance Award. They are passionate about using stories to re/connect people to themselves, each other and their environment.
MILES CHAMBERS:
Miles Chambers is a leading and popular poetic cultural commentator. He is an international performance poet, slam champion and playwright, and was Bristol’s first City Poet. He’s been involved in poetry and performance on TV and radio, in corporate video, and for city councils, schools and community organisations. A broadcaster who has recently written and presented for the BBC series Civilizations, Miles has also been commissioned by Radio 4 and has featured in several of their programmes, including Only Artist, Poetry Please and Poets in a Balloon. His poetry can be seen all over Bristol, from a video performance at M-Shed to an exhibition at We the Curious, and is immortalised in metal grating on the walls of the Bristol Old Vic.
Part of Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival 2023.
Entry requirements:
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