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Championing & celebrating working class, marginalised & activist creatives since 2019!♡Performances from headline act Janine Booth @janine.booth1 & feature act Armor Craw @armor_craw
♡Open Mic all artistes welcome. Sign up from 7pm on the night for a 5 minute slot
♡Doors open 7pm for a 7.45pm start.
♡Pay what you can/feel. Suggested donation £3-£5 CASH ONLY!
♡Founded & hosted by Jesse Eden Freeman @jessense.rebelpoet
Head Act Janine Booth:
"Janine Booth is a Marxist motormouth who tours the UK and beyond, ranting, rhyming and revolting. Her work features in many anthologies, journals and her own books, the latest being Amplify".
Feature Act Armor Craw"
"Armor Craw is a Scottish poet who has been residing in Nottingham, the city of rebels for the last quarter of a century. Her poems and stories weave between nostalgia and grief for a life left behind in the pursuit of changing the narrative of girl born into a life of low expectations. Having a precocious adversity to being told where she belonged, at 17 she left home with her best friend on an overnight bus to London in 1989, quickly emersing herself into the heady world of clubbing and creativity.
Then in her early twenties a trip to the States where she would get her first Photography job taking polaroid portraits nightly at a popular tourist dinner show, she found her calling, that led her back to Scotland to do a Degree in Photography and Film. Graduating in 1998 she then worked at The DeMarco Art Foundation, Co curating St Mary's for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Then in 1999 to Glasgow to work as an editor for Feast and The Clubers Guide magazine.
In 2000 she moved to Nottingham and started a family. Working as a booker and agent for Just the Tonic Comedy Club. In 2001 she had her work printed alongside an essay by Paul Willeman, in PIX3, published by the BFI. She would return to Edinburgh yearly to co curate the The Cafe Royal for The Fringe Festival until 2005.
In 2008 she completed her Masters in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University. She then began lecturing in Photography and Fine Art whilst working on a new body of work. In 2016 she founded Bras Not Bombs, a not-for-profit collecting and sending underwear and sanitary products for women and girls in refugee camps. She ran Bras Not Bombs International Womens Day Festival until 2020.
During the pandemic she returned to her art. Writing short stories, plays and poems along with photo stories and portraits. She is currently working on her first book and enjoying being part of the Nottingham creative community".
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Robin Hood 540 Mansfield Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom
