The first of the SLAMbassador workshops begin next week
VENUE: NewVIc - Newham Sixth Form College
LOCATION: Prince Regent Lane, London, E13 8SG
DATE: Thursday 9 July
TIME: 9.30am – 12.45pm
Learn how to make your poems slam and perform on Saturday at the Mayor’s Newham Show. Poetry Society staff will be on hand to film you perfoming your slam poem and to help you to enter it into the SLAMbassadors UK championship.
Places are extremely limited so click here to book now!
Watch this space for more workshops throughout the summer in Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool and Salford!
If you are aged between 13-19 and would like to enter 2009's SLAMbassadors UK
"Listening to last year’s respect poets reinforced my belief in the power of the word. These poems were more powerful than any political speech, they were more honest than any lecture, they spoke of history, they spoke of now, they spoke of the future…"
Benjamin Zephaniah, Poet
Enter SLAMbassadors UK via BBC Blast! (click below):
GENERAL SLAM INFO
With funding from:
Aldgate and Allhallows &
Barking Exhibition Foundation
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Awards for All
Contact:
Joelle Taylor
020 7420 9893
email