Friday February 19th
Spotlight Performance Workshop
2.30 – 4.30pm at The Storey Creative Industries Centre,
Meeting House Lane, Lancaster LA1 1TH
Faciitator: Sarah Hymas
Fee: £5
Develop confidence and skills to give engaging performances of your work.
This workshop will look at the importance of warming up, voice work and the power of movement and stillness.
It’ll be two hours of interaction, a little bit of physical exertion, interspersed with play, shouting and listening.
Please bring a piece of work, preferably memorised, comfortable clothes and an open mind to the afternoon.
Sarah Hymas has been writing for performance and performing her poetry and fiction for seven years,
in collaboration with other writers, musicians and solo. She is also a puppeteer, and aspires to entertain all
her audiences, whatever their age.
More info about her can be found at
http://sarahhymas.blogspot.com/
To Book EMAIL: spotlightclub@btinternet.com
Earlier this year it was announced that the Lancaster poet and writing teacher Elizabeth Burns won the first Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlets for her collection, The Shortest Days.
The £5,000 prize was set up to highlight how effective pamphlets – defined in this case as a booklet of up to 36 pages – can be in introducing new poetry to readers. The Shortest days may only be 12 pages long, but was praised by the judges for it’s use of “a limited, light palette, which creates special, lyrical effects, particularly with her use of snow, and the colour white… this is gradually layered across the book, and all the judges felt that the play of light over the whole book was really very moving. It combines skill and direct engagement with the reader.”
“The Shortest Days” is published by Galdragon Press. The initial print run has already sold out, and the pamphlet is currently listed as being out of print, but luckily the Poetry Bookcase has copies still available. Act quick to get your copy.
All our lovely flax publications in one place… click on any of the publications to browse it in full.
Taking its name from the very lovely Grade II listed bookcase which stands in the Litfest office, the Litfest Poetry bookcase is now open to the public.
We’ve been working hard behind the scenes for some time now to get to this point, and we’re very excited about it, so do please come by, browse lots of poetry books you’d normally never find on the high street bookshelves, buy a volume (or two – one to keep, one to give!) and let us know what you think.
We feel it’s a rare treat to have somewhere to browse and buy small press poetry books, and the stock will continue to grow, so do come back regularly and check what’s new.
We’ll be sending out news from the Poetry Bookcase occasionally, so if you’re not already signed up to the Litfest mailing list you can do so from our homepage.
Bookcase Opening Times: Tuesday – Friday 11.30 am – 5.00 pm.
We can also order books in so if there’s something you’d really like, do please ask or email shopkeeper@litfest.org
Spotlight
www.spotlightlancaster.co.uk
Friday September 18th
at The Storey Auditorium,
Meeting House Lane. Lancaster.
Doors will be open from 8.15pm
Admission £4 / £2 (conc.)
Mr Wyrd & Mark Charlesworth – Poetry & music
Gemma Arnold – Poetry
Julie Simmons – Poetry
Little Hero – Music
Mikey Kenney – Music
Compere: John Freeman
email: spotlightclub@btinternet.com
Lancaster Spotlight is funded by Arts Council England and supported by Lancashire County Council and
Lancaster City Council.
Spotlight works in association with litfest.
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