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🌈 Winchester Poetry Day 2024📌 The ARC, Winchester
🗓️ Sat 5th Oct 2024
The programme for Winchester Poetry Day 2024 is live and tickets are on sale now. Almost all of this programme is free to attend, but booking is strongly advised.
Join us for a day of poetry readings, workshops and activities in the centre of Winchester. Featuring the live awards ceremony for Winchester Poetry Prize 2024, the Hampshire Young Poets competition celebration, and much more.
🏠Things We Call Home: workshop with Susmita Bhattacharya
10:30 - 12:00 | for adults of all abilities | £6
Write a poem inspired by the objects that mean home to you. Bring an object or a photo to start you on this poetic exploration.
🧒🏾Hampshire Young Poets’ competition 2024
10:30 - 11:30 | invitation only
Join Hampshire Poet and competition judge, Damian Kelly-Basher, as we celebrate those who entered the Hampshire Young Poets competition.
👁️Skill Up Your Poetry With Synaesthesia with Akila Richards
11:00 - 13:00 | for all ages and abilities | FREE - just drop in!
Join Akila to taste words and hear colours - a fun experimentation to create a new poem that may surprise you with all your senses.
🎤Home: readings from Write A Note
12:30 - 14:00 | FREE - booking advised
Write a Note’s spoken word artists showcase their work on the theme ‘Home’. Guest poets: Adriana Lord & Akila Richards, plus Unity101fm competition winner
🎶Exploring Mindfulness Through Sound with Adriana Lord
14:30 - 16:30 | for all ages and abilities | FREE - just drop in!
Adriana explores sound and mindfulness in artistic practice.
🏆Winchester Poetry Prize Ceremony 2024
15:00 - 16:30 | BSL | online + in person | FREE - booking advised
Join competition judge Clare Shaw to hear from the longlisted poets as we count down to reveal the winners, at this exciting live event to launch the 2024 anthology and new Kathryn Bevis Prize.
Explore the full programme and book tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/winchester-poetry-festival-14420120167
Winchester Poetry Day 2024 is supported by Hampshire Cultural Trust, University Of Winchester, PG Wells, Writing Our Legacy CIC, The Writing School Online and Paris Smith.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Arc, Winchester, United Kingdom
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