Category: Spoken word
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Taking Flight
Thursday 22nd May, 10am to 12noon This week the Riverside Writers Creative Writing Group will feature a workshop from Seamus Kelly, titled “Taking Flight”. The initial ideas came from time spent in the last week or so watching fledgling starlings taking flight – sometimes there is lots of tentative flapping of wings, sometimes running back…
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Stepping up to the microphone
15th May, Riverside Library With the upcoming “Folk Like Us” event on 31st May this week we will have the chance to learn and practice techniques reading with a microphone and amplifier, and get some useful tips for performing your poetry. The session will be run by Eileen Earnshaw and Seamus Kelly and will be…
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Happiness
Workshop 8th May – 10am to 12noon Don’t’ worry – be happy! This week Eileen Earnshaw brings us a workshop titled “Happiness”. As we head further into Spring the sun has been shining, the chicks are fledging and I’ve watched the first ducklings on the canal. So why not put on your smile, grab a…
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Rochdale Town Hall
Thursday 17th April 2025 This week the Riverside Writers will be concentrating on Rochdale Town Hall. At the end of May we will be holding an event in this celebrated architectural gem which has recently been brought back to its former magnificence. In preparation for the event we will bring along our Town Hall, Rochdale…
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Pancake Day Poetry Café
Tuesday 4th March 2025, 6pm to 8pm Poetry Café is an entertaining and thought provoking evening with a range of great poetry friendly. This welcoming open mic event was launched last year by Liz White and Seamus Kelly and is hosted by Café on the Corner in Littleborough. The event is free but we’d ask…
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Poetry Café starts a busy writing week
Three creative writing events take place next week. On Tuesday 4th February the open mic Poetry Café returns for the first time since Christmas. We are hosted by the excellent Coffee on the Corner in Littleborough where you’ll be welcome, and strongly encouraged, to try some of the excellent brews and delicious cakes. The free…
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Creating Christmas Chills
12th December 10am to 12noon Among the various traditions around Christmas, and indeed Winter, is one of ghost stories. For our final workshop of 2024 we will look at the genre and create some Winter Chillers of our own. With just a couple of weeks until Christmas this is an ideal chance to write something…
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Special Celebration Open Mic Event 13 October 2024
Vicolo del Vino, Rochdale, 7pm Our founding member and superb poet, Eileen Earnshaw, will be celebrating her 80th birthday next month. Eileen has been involved with running a long-standing monthly open mic night in Rochdale at various locations. As from Sunday 13th October these events will have a new venue at Vicolo del Vino in…
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Poetry Café – new Monthly open-mic – Littleborough
18:00 – 20:00 – Coffee on the Corner -3rd September 2024 Members and followers of Riverside Writers will be interested to know that this Tuesday sees a brand new monthly poetry open mic event in Littleborough. This will be the first of a monthly event to be held on the first Tuesday of each month.…