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| PAST EVENTS 2008 Mon May 19th 2008: Festival Special with John Hegley & Friends Komedia Brighton May 7th 2008 Hammer & Tongue Open Poetry Slam with Guest artist Jem Rolls London "the godfather of scottish performance poetry" (Scotland on Sunday) Founder of Big Word Weekly in Islington and Edinburgh He has had 25 five star reviews "genius" (Montreal Gazette) "absolute master... sharp, hilarious" (Vancouver Sun) Bethnal Green Working Men's Club (nr tube Bethnal Green) E2 6NB Tuesday May the 6th Oxford's Slam Final, at The Vaults The winner from thsi seasons will battle it out to see who will be crowned the Slam Champion 2008 With Special Guest: Jem Rolls Hosted by Steve Larkin and Sophia Blackwell 8pm-11pm at The Vaults Radcliffe Square (off High Street) Oxford Chloe Pems and John Berkavich UK Slam + Open Poetry Slam Tues 1st of April 2008 8-11pm Open Poetry Slam with Guest Artists John Berkavich - UK Slam Champion + Cloe Poems - Gay Socialist Transvestite Poet @ The Vaults, Radcliffe Square Oxford Doors Open 7.30pm £5/£4 concession Wed 2nd of April 2008 Launch of Re:versing The Damage – Notes From The Climate Journey Wednesday 2nd April, 8.00 pm Festival Room 1, Christ Church £7.50 Join us for a creative journey through climate change. This event will showcase Oxfordshire writers responding to the highs and lows of the climate journey, making you laugh, possibly even cry, but engage in a refreshing and new way with climate change and our responses to it. Brought to you by Oxfordshire ClimateXchange and Hammer and Tongue Open Poetry Slam with Guest Artists John Berkavich - UK Slam Champion + Cloe Poems - Gay Socialist Transvestite Poet
Transatlantic Slam NY - UK A poetry slam hosted simultaneously on both sides of the Atlantic, connected and projected via an internet link. Taylor Mali leads a team of New York slam champions live from Manhattan screened instantaneously in the UK where a team of UK slam champions attempt to show the world who has the greatest poetic performers. @ Science Oxford, Oxford 8th March 2008 8pm – 11pm GMT and @ The Dactyl Foundation SoHo 10013 New York 64 Grand Street Saturday 8th March 3-6pm Open Poetry Slam with Guest Artist Polar Bear ‘The yarn-spinning Brummie’ – The Times ‘You must go and listen to this man’s work’ – John Hillcock XFM
2007 Fri Nov 2nd John Hegley and The Popticians with Inflatable Buddha and Steve Larkin at The Oxford Academy 0844 477 2000 Fri 26th Oct Black History Month Special with Queen Sheba, Frank Isahak and a host of local talent @ East Oxford Community Centre, Princes Street, Oxford 8-11pm £5/£4 Thu 25th Oct Open Poetry Slam with guest artists Queen Sheba and TUGGSTAR @ Komedia, Gardener St, Brighton doors 7:30 show 8-11pm £5/£4 Oct 15th, 8-11pm Protect The Human Slam @ The Port Mahon, Oxford with special guests Peter Wyton and Adam Horovitz and The Open Poetry Slam (sign up at the door from 7:30). Hosted by Sophia Blackwell £6/£4 proceeds go to Amnesty International. Oct 2nd, 8-11pm The OxJam Poetry Slam @ The Vaults, Oxford. with special guests Steve Larkin and Sian Robins-Grace and The 1st Open Poetry Slam of the season (sign up at the door from 7:30). Music from DJ Mystic. Hosted by Sophia Blackwell. £8/£5 proceeds to Oxfam. August 7th Oxford Hammer & Tongue Summer Cabaret with Lucy English, Barnabaus, Jean Bramley, Ed Pope, hosted by Sophia Blackwell. £12 with dinner (served from 6:30) show 8 - 10:30 at The Vaults and Gardens, Radcliffe Sqaue, Oxford 01865 200 550 September 4th Oxford Vaults Tales From A Paralalia Universe David C Johnson and Peter Hunter with Special Guest Adriel Luis from the USA Part road movie, part adventure, mostly poetry £12/£10 conc. ticket with meal (served from 6:30) show 8-11pm September 6th Brighton Komedia Tales From A Paralalia Universe David C Johnson and Peter Hunter with Special Guest Adriel Luis from the USA Part road movie, part adventure, mostly poetry + open poetry slam £5/£4 (doors 7:30) show 8-11pm August 2nd Brighton Komedia Thick Richard Sam Berkson and the open poetry slam hosted by Beardy Man (UK Beatbox champion) 8-11pm (sign up from 7) £5/£4 01273 647100 July 3rd Oxford Hammer & Tongue Summer Cabaret with The Bold and Spiky Poetry Show, Spiderwoods, Chantelle Pike, Nick Waghorn hosted by Sophia Blackwell. The Vaults and Gardens 6:30 to 11. Call 01865 200 550 or email events@hammerandtongue.co.uk to reserve tickets. July 5th Brighton Hammer & Tongue Open Poetry Slam with Guest Artists: The Bold and Spiky Poetry Show and David J Komedia |
 The Hammer & Tongue 2006/7 Slam Final  John Hegley  Denny Chivers  Buddy Wakefield - Tue 4th Dec  Peter Wyton  Queen Sheba Fri 26th Oct  Rachel Pantechnicon - Tue 20th Nov  Steve Larkin - Hammer & Tongue host + poet Previous Hammer & Tongue Annual champions: 2006/7: Danny Chivers 2005/6: A.F. Harold 2004/5: A.F. Harold 2003/4: Peter Wyton |
Jun 5th
Oxford Hammer & Tongue Summer Cabaret with Luke Wright, RC
Weslowski, Rhyme and Reason, The Naked Mystic and Susanna Starling The
Magic Cafe Jun 7th Brighton Hammer & Tongue Open Poetry Slam with Guest Artists RC Weslowski and Luke Wright Komedia 01273 647100 May 27th - Hammer & Tongue in collaboration with the BBC present BBC National Slam: South East Qualifier. Slam winners from across the region compete in a national competition. Hosted by Steve Larkin and Sam Berkson special guest Henry Bowers 4 Continents Slam Champion. @ The Udder BELLY part of the Brighton Festival 27th May 1-4pm £8/£6 Box office 01273 709709 www.brightonfestivalfringe.org.uk/listings May 17th Oxford OCM in collaboration with Hammer & Tongue present Slounge with Mark Gwynne Jones The Jam Factory Slounge is the Brain Child of OCM (Oxford Contemporary Music) who have collaborated with Hammer & Tongue, OVADA and the Jam Factory to bring you events that give you the chance to get right up close to see and hear some of the freshest and most engaging music, film, poetry, live and visual art from a host of top talents from Oxford, the UK and abroad. There's the cnace to get behind the artists' work as they reveal their secrets and take your questions! All this in the relaxed setting of the Jam Factory cafe and gallery. The night will run like this: 5:30pm Meet the artists, listen to the DJ, eat wonderful foodstuff. 7pm See the acts Thur May 17th sees Music: Cathode:: Poetry: Mark Gwynne Jones:: Live Art: Brian Catling :: + DJ Cathode's rhythm-driven glitched-up melodic electronica for thr feet and heart will have you thinking as much as you dance, and dancing as much as you think. 'Mark Gwynne Jones is to poetry what The League of Gentlemen is to television.' Independent Working with film and music he's a powerful act capable of transforming the mundane into magical landscapes. Brian Catling is a poet, sculptor, performance artist and professor of fine art at the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art. He's made installations and performed across the world from Greenland to Australia. May 1st Oxford Hammer and Tongue Slam Final The climax to the Oxford slam season. The qualifiers from the 2006/2007 open poetry slams battle it out to take the title of Hammer & Tongue anual champion. Danny Chivers, Sian Robins-Grace, Matt Lloyd, Alison Brumfit, Peter Wyton, Tina Sederholm, Lucian Dunlop, Wendy Huntly and George Roberts With mystery special guests. The Old Fire Station, George Street, Oxford May 7th Brighton Hammer & Tongue Open Poetry Slam with Guest Artists Salena 'Saliva' Godden and Yap Komedia 01273 647100 Salena 'Saliva' Godden Poet, performer, singer. Ninja Tunes Coldcut & Alabama 3 guest vocalist, as featured on BBC Radio 3 and 4. Watch videos of her in action at www.myspace.com/saltpeter Yap 1000 miles an hour anarcho hero Hammer & Tongue Open Poetry Slam With Guest Artists: Salena 'Saliva' GoddenPoet, performer, singer. Ninja Tunes Coldcut & Alabama 3 guest vocalist, as featured on BBC Radio 3 and 4. with John Fluffy Punk and Sophia Blackwell. Open Poetry Slam sign up at the door from 7:30 Show 8-11 £4/£3 24th April at Inn On The Green 3-5 Thorpe Close, London, W10 5XL 0208 962 5757 nearest tube Ladbrooke Grove Buses 7, 15, 23, 52, 70, 295 __________________________ The Poetry Vandals Newcastle's hardest poetry tribe: Scott Tyrell - multiple slam winner and award-winning comedian Kate Fox - like a Northern Pam Ayres on drugs Jeff Price - Vandals founder, highly political and provocative Brighton - Komedia Mon 2nd April 8-11pm Gardener Street tickets@komedia.co.uk 01273 647100 £5/£4 Open poetry slam with guest artists The Poetry Vandals Oxford - Zodiac (Moody's) Tue 3rd April 8-11pm 190 Cowley Rd 01865 420042 £5/£4 sign up to slam @ 7:30 (slammers £2) ______________________________ London - The Cochrane Theatre Fri 24th Nov Southampton Row, London 020 7269 1606 Cambridge - The Mumford Theatre Sat 25th Nov Mumford Theatre, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge, CB1 1PT, 0845 196 2320 Leicester - Firebug Sun 26th Nov Firebug, 1 Millstone Lane, Leicester, LE1 5JN 01865 200550 Leeds - Brudenell Social Club Mon 27th Nov 33 Queens Rd, Leeds, LS6 1NY, 0113 275 2411 Bolton - Pheonix Tue 28th Nov The Phoenix, Bolton, Lancashire BL1 2BG www.writeoutloud.net Nottingham - Canal House Wed 29th Nov 48-52, Canal St, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire NG1 7EH, Tel: 0115 955 5060 Newcastle - The Cluny Thu 30th Nov 36 Lime St, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ 0191 2331113 Glasgow - The Halt Bar Sat 2nd Dec 160 Woodlands Road, Glasgow, G3 6LF, 0141 352 9996 Edinburgh - Bongo Club Sun 3rd Dec 37 Holyrood Rd, Edinburgh, Midlothian EH8 8BA, 0131 558 7604 Brighton - Komedia Mon 4th Dec 44-46, Old Steine, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 1NH, 01273 320399 Oxford - Zodiac Tue 5th Dec 190 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 01865 420042 Reading - South Street Arts Centre Wed 6th Dec 21 South St, Reading 0118 901 5234 Bristol - The Polish Club Thu 7th Dec 50 St. Pauls Rd, Clifton, Bristol, 07771900583 |
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