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SUMMARY:ACOUSTIC NIGHT
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URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/acoustic-night-45/
LOCATION:Assembly Bar + Kitchen\, Bennett Road\, Leeds\, LS6 3HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Acoustic,Events,Open Mic
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SUMMARY:ACOUSTIC NIGHT
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/acoustic-night-44/
LOCATION:Assembly Bar + Kitchen\, Bennett Road\, Leeds\, LS6 3HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Acoustic,Events,Open Mic
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DTSTAMP:20260423T165916
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SUMMARY:SOUNDBITES - Monthly Poetry Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:SOUNDBITES – Monthly Poetry Open Mic  \nLive in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen! \nReadings by a different local published poet each month and this month we’re delighted to welcome Doug and Maria Sandle  \nA PAIR OF SANDLES – POETRY AND SONG  \nDoug has been published  in several publications\, including Poetry and Audience\, Poetry and Covid\, The New European\, The Ekphrastic Review\, The Psychologist\, Manx Reflections\, Orbis\, and most recently The  High Wolds Poetry Collection 2023 and 2024.   \n Singer song writer Maria has set some of Doug’s\, her own and other poems to music. She has performed\, for example\, at High Wolds Poetry Festival 2023\,  Heart Music Night\, Headingly Market\, Leeds Railway Station\, Meanwood Valley\, Meanwood Waitrose\, and Leeds Book Club. Several of her poetry songs can be found online at Band Camp.   \n OPEN MIC \nWe supply the mic – you supply the poetry \nPut your name down for a 4 minute slot (first come\, first served) or just come along and listen. \nOpen mic name listing from 6.30pm \nEvent begins with guest poet at 7.00pm \nEveryone welcome. Free (donation appreciated)
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/soundbites-monthly-poetry-open-mic-17/
LOCATION:Assembly Bar + Kitchen\, Bennett Road\, Leeds\, LS6 3HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Open Mic,Poetry
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SUMMARY:SOUNDBITES - Monthly Poetry Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:SOUNDBITES – Monthly Poetry Open Mic  \nLive in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen! \nReadings by a different local published poet each month and this month we delighted to welcome JANE SHARP \nJane Sharp is a poet from Barnsley. She’s been published in The Dalesman\, Dream Catcher\, Voices for Change\, and the online zines Fig Tree\, 60 Odd Poets and The Starbeck Orion\, has had work in various anthologies and broadcast on BBC Radio. She won the Nine Lives Slam in Sheffield and has headlined at several poetry events. \nHer publications include two novels: Tears from the Sun – a Cretan Journey and Higgs Bottom\, and three collections of poetry: A Poet in Glenridding\, A Poet in Barnsley (Amazon.co.uk) and Cretan Whispers published by Sherwood Handcraft. \nJane also enjoys learning to play the cello. \nOPEN MIC \nWe supply the mic – you supply the poetry \nOn the night put your name down for a 4 minute slot (first come\, first served) or just come along and listen. \nOpen mic name listing from 6.30pm \nEvent begins with guest poet at 7.00pm \nEveryone welcome. Free (donation appreciated)
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/soundbites-monthly-poetry-open-mic-16/
CATEGORIES:Events,Open Mic,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250414T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250414T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T165916
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SUMMARY:SOUNDBITES - Monthly Poetry Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:SOUNDBITES – Monthly Poetry Open Mic  \nLive in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen! \nImportant update \n\nUnfortunately our guest poet TIM BROOKES is unable to be with us – we hope to see him later in the year.\n\n\n\nMany thanks to ANTONY DUNN for agreeing to appear\n\nAntony Dunn is winner of the Newdigate Prize and an Eric Gregory award. He has published\nfour collections of poems\, Pilots and Navigators (Oxford University Press)\, Flying Fish\n(Carcanet Oxford Poets)\, Bugs (Carcanet Oxford Poets) and Take This One To Bed (Valley\nPress). \nAntony is a regular tutor for The Poetry School and the Arvon Foundation. He has worked on\na number of translation projects with poets from Holland\, Hungary\, China and Israel. \nHe has been Poet in Residence at the University of York\, Ilkley Literature Festival and the\nPeople Powered Press. Until 2018 he was Artistic Director of the Bridlington Poetry festival. \nOPEN MIC \nWe supply the mic – you supply the poetry \nPut your name down for a 4 minute slot (first come\, first served) or just come along and listen. \nOpen mic name listing from 6.30pm \nEvent begins with guest poet at 7.00pm \nEveryone welcome. Free (donation appreciated)
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/soundbites-monthly-poetry-open-mic-15/
CATEGORIES:Events,Open Mic,poetry
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SUMMARY:Acoustic Night
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/acoustic-night-33/
CATEGORIES:Acoustic,Events,Music,Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250310T190000
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SUMMARY:SOUNDBITES - Monthly Poetry Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:SOUNDBITES – Monthly Poetry Open Mic  \nLive in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen! \nReadings by a different local published poet each month\, and this month we’re delighted to welcome ROB MILES \nRob Miles is from Devon\, and he has lived in Leeds. He is Fellow in Film Studies at the University of Leeds. His poetry has appeared widely in magazines and multiple anthologies\, and he has won various competitions including the Philip Larkin Prize\, judged by Don Paterson\, the Resurgence International Ecopoetry Prize\, judged by Imtiaz Dharker and Jo Shapcott\, and the Poets & Players Prize\, judged by Sinéad Morrissey. \nHis collection\, Dimmet\, is published 2024 by Broken Sleep Books. Of Dimmet\, Katharine Towers notes: ‘These are poems of great precision and delicacy’; Lucy Newlyn describes it as ‘[t]he best collection of contemporary poetry I have read in a long while’\, and John Glenday writes: ‘When it’s done as well as this\, there’s nowhere on earth poetry can’t go.’ \nOPEN MIC \nWe supply the mic – you supply the poetry \nPut your name down for a 4 minute slot (first come\, first served) or just come along and listen. \nOpen mic name listing from 6.30pm \nEvent begins with guest poet at 7.00pm \nEveryone welcome. Free (donation appreciated)
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/soundbites-monthly-poetry-open-mic-14/
LOCATION:Assembly Bar + Kitchen\, Bennett Road\, Leeds\, LS6 3HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Open Mic,poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250214T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250214T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T165916
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SUMMARY:Acoustic Night
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/acoustic-night-16/
LOCATION:Assembly Bar + Kitchen\, Bennett Road\, Leeds\, LS6 3HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Acoustic,Events,Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250210T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250210T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T165916
CREATED:20241114T162910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250113T141300Z
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SUMMARY:SOUNDBITES - Monthly Poetry Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:SOUNDBITES – Monthly Poetry Open Mic  \nLive in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen! \nReadings by a different local published poet each month and this month were delighted to welcome SUSAN E DARLINGTON. Susan is a Leeds-based poet. Her work regularly explores the female experience through nature-based symbolism and stories of transformation and has been published in Northern Gravy\, Pennine Platform\, Dreich\, Dream Catcher\, Anti-Heroin Chic\, Hedgehog Press and Ethel Zine among others. \nShe has three books available: ‘Never Wear White’ (Alien Buddha Press 2022)\, ‘Traumatic\nHeart’ (Selcouth Station 2021) and ‘Under the Devil’s Moon’ (Penniless Press Publications\n2015). \nFollow her at @S_sanDarlington \nOPEN MIC \nWe supply the mic – you supply the poetry \nPut your name down for a 5 minute slot (first come\, first served) or just come along and listen. \nOpen mic name listing from 6.30pm \nEvent begins with guest poet at 7.00pm \nEveryone welcome. Free (donation appreciated)
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/soundbites-monthly-poetry-open-mic-13/
LOCATION:Assembly Bar + Kitchen\, Bennett Road\, Leeds\, LS6 3HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Open Mic,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250113T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250113T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T165916
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SUMMARY:SOUNDBITES - Monthly Poetry Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:SOUNDBITES – Monthly Poetry Open Mic  \nLive in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen! \nReadings by a different local published poet each month. \nThis month we’re delighted to welcome TONNIE RICHMOND: \nTonnie only started writing poetry after retiring and moving to Leeds in 2013. Her first collection\, Rear-view Mirror was the first to be launched by Yaffle’s here at Heart in November 2023. She is currently working on a full collection which\nshe hopes will come out in 2025. She has had poems in various anthologies\, Black Nore\, Fragmented Voices\, Dreamcatcher\, Dawntreader\, Lit Shark\, The Storms and International Times. She won both First and Second Prize in a Queens English Society competition in May 2023. She has spent her summers over the past decade and a half assisting on the archaeological dig at The Ness of Brodgar on Orkney andmany of her poems express her love of those magical islands. \nOPEN MIC \nWe supply the mic – you supply the poetry \nPut your name down for a 5 minute slot (first come\, first served) or just come along and listen. \nOpen mic name listing from 6.30pm \nEvent begins with guest poet at 7.00pm \nEveryone welcome. Free (donation appreciated)
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/soundbites-monthly-poetry-open-mic-12/
LOCATION:Assembly Bar + Kitchen\, Bennett Road\, Leeds\, LS6 3HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Open Mic,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241209T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241209T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T165916
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SUMMARY:SOUNDBITES - Monthly Poetry Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:SOUNDBITES – Monthly Poetry Open Mic  \nLive in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen! \nReadings by a different local published poet each month and this month were delighted to welcome Mark and Gill Connors  – Mark and Gill will be reading from their debut joint collection ‘The Where We Were’\, out now through Yaffle Press.  \nMark Connors is a widely published poet from Leeds. His debut\, ‘Life is a Long Song’ was published by OWF Press in 2015. ‘Nothing is Meant to be Broken’ was published by Stairwell Books in 2017. ‘Optics’ was published by Yaffle Press in 2019. ‘After’ was published by Yaffle Press in 2021. His novels\, Stickleback (2016)\, and Tom Tit and the Maniacs (2018)\, were published by Armley Press. He is currently working on his third novel\, and a hybrid book of memoir\, travel writing\, short fiction and poetry. He is a managing editor and co-founder ofYaffle Press and Yaffle’s Nest. \nGill Connors is from North Yorkshire where she lives and works. Her pamphlet ‘Uninvited Guests’ was published by Indigo dreams in 2017\, and her two collections\, ‘Tadaima’ and ‘A\nSmall Goodbye at Dawn’ were published by Yaffle in 2019 and 2022. Gill is working on a\nthird collection which will be the result of her PhD\, on the subject of the links between\nSixteenth Century and Twenty-First Century women. She is a managing editor of Yaffle and\nYaffle’s Nest. \nOPEN MIC \nWe supply the mic – you supply the poetry \nPut your name down for a 5 minute slot (first come\, first served) or just come along and listen. \nOpen mic name listing from 6.30pm \nEvent begins with guest poet at 7.00pm \nEveryone welcome. Free (donation appreciated)
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/soundbites-monthly-poetry-open-mic-11/
LOCATION:Assembly Bar + Kitchen\, Bennett Road\, Leeds\, LS6 3HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Open Mic,Poetry
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SUMMARY:SOUNDBITES - Monthly Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:SOUNDBITES – Monthly Poetry Open Mic  \nLive in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen! \nReadings by a different local published poet each month \nOPEN MIC \nWe supply the mic – you supply the poetry \nPut your name down for a 5 minute slot (first come\, first served) or just come along and listen. \nOpen mic name listing from 6.30pm \nEvent begins with guest poet at 7.00pm \nEveryone welcome. Free (donation appreciated)
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/soundbites-monthly-open-mic/
LOCATION:Assembly Bar + Kitchen\, Bennett Road\, Leeds\, LS6 3HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Open Mic,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241111T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241111T210000
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SUMMARY:SOUNDBITES - Monthly Poetry Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:SOUNDBITES – Monthly Poetry Open Mic  \nLive in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen! \nReadings by a different local published poet each month. This month we’re delighted to welcome LIZ McPHERSON \nLiz’s poetry has been widely published in both print and online poetry journals and anthologies\, including Prole\, The High Window\, The Lake\, and Black Nore Review\, among others. She was runner-up in the 2021 Poetry Society Stanza Competition and has been shortlisted for the 2024 Leeds Poetry Prize. A familiar face at open mic events across West\nYorkshire\, she recently headlined at Gobby in the Lobby in Wakefield and will be at the Purple Room\, Ilkley\, on 19th October with the Fabulous Mustard Brothers. \nLiz’s work explores the unanticipated aspects of life with her unique combination of humour\nand sensitivity. ‘Unexpected Items’ will be published by Yaffle in October 2024. \nOPEN MIC \nWe supply the mic – you supply the poetry \nPut your name down for a 5 minute slot (first come\, first served) or just come along and listen. \nOpen mic name listing from 6.30pm \nEvent begins with guest poet at 7.00pm \nEveryone welcome. Free (donation appreciated)
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/soundbites-monthly-poetry-open-mic-10/
LOCATION:Assembly Bar + Kitchen\, Bennett Road\, Leeds\, LS6 3HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Open Mic,Poetry
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241014T210000
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SUMMARY:SOUNDBITES - Monthly Poetry Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:SOUNDBITES – Monthly Poetry Open Mic  \nLive in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen! \nReadings by a different local published poet each month. This month we’re delighted to welcome KATHLEEN STRAFFORD \nKathleen is a graduate of Leeds Trinity College\, holding an MA in creative writing.\nShe has been widely published in webzines and anthologies. She is the chief editor of\nRuncible Spoon Webzine and publishing press. Her first collection of poetry ‘Her Own\nLanguage’ was published in 2017 by Dempsey and Windle\, followed by ‘Wilderness of Skin’\nin 2019 with Yaffle Press\, and ‘Life Under Glass’\, published by Runcible Spoon in 2023.\nHer latest collection\, ‘Girl in the Woods’ was published by Yaffle Press in 2024. \nOPEN MIC \nWe supply the mic – you supply the poetry \nPut your name down for a 5 minute slot (first come\, first served) or just come along and listen. \nOpen mic name listing from 6.30pm \nEvent begins with guest poet at 7.00pm \nEveryone welcome. Free (donation appreciated)
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/soundbites-monthly-poetry-open-mic-9/
LOCATION:Assembly Bar + Kitchen\, Bennett Road\, Leeds\, LS6 3HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Open Mic,Poetry
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240909T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T165916
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SUMMARY:SOUNDBITES - Monthly Poetry Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:SOUNDBITES – Monthly Poetry Open Mic  \nLive in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen! \nReadings by a different local published poet each month and this month were delighted to welcome ‘on video’ LINDA MARSHALL\, poet and former co-editor of Aireings poetry magazine\, she has four collections of poetry to her name\, including Cloud Cuckoo Café\, published by Yaffle Press\, and contains poems that will make people wake up and smell the coffee! Her latest collection\, Headingley Hullabaloo\, was published just last year. \nShe enjoys taking part in various zoom poetry workshops and is a member of Heartlines writers and Lucht Focail\, the Leeds Irish group of poets. Her style is often surreal with a twist humour. \nOPEN MIC \nWe supply the mic – you supply the poetry \nPut your name down for a 5 minute slot (first come\, first served) or just come along and listen. \nOpen mic name listing from 6.30pm \nEvent begins with guest poet at 7.00pm \nEveryone welcome. Free (donation appreciated).
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/soundbites-monthly-poetry-open-mic-8/
LOCATION:Assembly Bar + Kitchen\, Bennett Road\, Leeds\, LS6 3HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Open Mic,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240812T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240812T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T165916
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SUMMARY:SOUNDBITES - Monthly Poetry Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:SOUNDBITES – Monthly Poetry Open Mic  \nLive in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen! \nReadings by a different local published poet each month and this month we’re delighted to welcome HANNAH STONE \nHannah Stone is the author of a number of solo authored and collaborative poetry books\, most recently The Invisible Worm (Indigo Dreams Publishing\, 2023) which commemorates friendship and asks how we navigate end of life in face of terminal diagnosis. Among other\nactivities within the poetry community of Leeds\, she convenes the poets/composers forum for the Leeds Lieder festival\, and is the editor of Dream Catcher literary journal. \nOPEN MIC \nWe supply the mic – you supply the poetry \nPut your name down for a 5 minute slot (first come\, first served) or just come along and listen. \nOpen mic name listing from 6.30pm \nEvent begins with guest poet at 7.00pm \nEveryone welcome. Free (donation appreciated).
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/soundbites-monthly-poetry-open-mic-7/
LOCATION:Assembly Bar + Kitchen\, Bennett Road\, Leeds\, LS6 3HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Open Mic,poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240708T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240708T210000
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SUMMARY:SOUNDBITES - Monthly Poetry Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:SOUNDBITES – Monthly Poetry Open Mic Event \nLive in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen! \nReadings by a different local published poet each month and this month we’re delighted to welcome JAMES NASH. \nJames is a writer and poet. A long-term resident of Leeds and\nBridlington\, his third collection of poems\, Coma Songs was published in 2003 and reprinted in 2006 \nSince 2012 his poetry has been published by Valley Press\, beginning with selected poems ‘A Bit of An Ice Breaker’ and his first collection of sonnets\, ‘Some Things Matter’. ‘Cinema Stories’ celebrating the history of cinema in Leeds and written with fellow poet Matthew Hedley Stoppard came out in 2015. \n‘A Bench for Billie Holiday’\, was published in 2018\, followed by his latest collection of sonnets ‘Heart Stones’ in 2021. His new collection ‘Notes of Your Music’ will be published by Valley Press in October 2024. \nOPEN MIC \nWe supply the mic – you supply the poetry \nPut your name down for a 5 minute slot (first come\, first served) or just come along and listen. \nOpen mic name listing from 6.30pm \nEvent begins with guest poet at 7.00pm \nEveryone welcome. Free (donation appreciated).
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/soundbites-monthly-poetry-open-mic-6/
CATEGORIES:Events,Open Mic,poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240610T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240610T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T165916
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SUMMARY:SOUNDBITES - Monthly Poetry Open Mic Event
DESCRIPTION:SOUNDBITES – Monthly Poetry Open Mic Event \nLive in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen! \nReadings by a different local published poet each month. This month we’re delighted to welcome BILL FITZSIMONS. \nBill is a Dublin born poet and has lived in England for the past 67 years. He began writing poetry in his late 50s and has had poems published in various poetry magazines\, including Dream Catcher\, Algebra of Owls\, Dawn Treader and Electrifying Women. His pamphlet WRITTEN ON THE SKIN was published in 2016 by Otley Word Press. He has also been published by Yaffle Press in their anthology Whirlagust 2. and appeared onlocal radio. \nHis collection ‘PLAYING WITH FIRE’ was published in 2024. \nOPEN MIC \nWe supply the mic – you supply the poetry \nPut your name down for a 5 minute slot (first come\, first served) or just come along and listen. \nOpen mic name listing from 6.30pm \nEvent begins with guest poet at 7.00pm \nEveryone welcome. Free (donation appreciated).
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/soundbites-monthly-poetry-open-mic-event-14/
LOCATION:Assembly Bar + Kitchen\, Bennett Road\, Leeds\, LS6 3HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Open Mic,Poetry
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240513T210000
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SUMMARY:SOUNDBITES - Monthly Poetry Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:SOUNDBITES – Monthly Poetry Open Mic Event \nLive in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen! \nReadings by a different local published poet each month and this month we’re delighted to welcome PETER SPAFFORD. \nPeter is a writer\, songwriter and broadcaster. He’s written for radio\, theatre\, musical theatre and opera. \nHis poetry collections so far are QUICK (Valley Press) and FRISK\n(Yaffle). He’s working on a third at the moment. \nPETER is also Director of Words at Chapel FM Arts Centre where he curates the annual WRITING ON AIR festival and presents the weekly podcast LOVE THE WORDS. \nOPEN MIC \nWe supply the mic – you supply the poetry \nPut your name down for a 5 minute slot (first come\, first served) or just come along and listen. \nOpen mic name listing from 6.30pm \nEvent begins with guest poet at 7.00pm \nEveryone welcome. Free (donation appreciated).
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/soundbites-monthly-poetry-open-mic-5/
LOCATION:Assembly Bar + Kitchen\, Bennett Road\, Leeds\, LS6 3HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Open Mic,poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240408T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240408T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T165916
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SUMMARY:SOUNDBITES: Monthly Poetry Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:SOUNDBITES – Monthly Poetry Open Mic Event\n\n\nOpen mic listing from 6.30pm Event begins with guest poet at 7.00pm \n\n\n\n\nLive in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen! \nReadings by a different local published poet each month were delighted to welcome performance poet and author\, AMANDA CRUNDALL. \nAmanda began to write again in January 2022 after her friends urged her to write down how she was feeling as a therapeutic outlet; so she did. She has rediscovered her creative self\, amongst being a busy mummy and working life. Amanda works as a full time heart failure nurse specialist and is a single mother to two amazing children. Surprising many of her friends how she finds the time amongst such a busy life remains her best kept secret.  \nHer poetry was featured in The Scroll Magazine during October 2022\, and in 2023\, Amanda performed her poetry at The Festival of Love\, D31 Art Gallery\, Doncaster and Scunthorpe Pride on behalf of the Speak Out Scunny. She co hosted and performed for the spoken word stage at the No Limits Festival 2023 held at Normanby Hall\, Scunthorpe. \nMore recently\, Amanda has taken to the radio waves and has featured both pre-recorded and ‘’live on air’’ for Phoenix Community Radio\, Goole. \nYou can find Amanda performing at her local spoken word events at Speak Out Scunny\, The Confessional\, Away with Words. Her debut performance was at Yada Yada Noise in February 2022. She now proudly co-hosts ‘‘Rabbiting On’‘ spoken word group held at ‘The Rabbit Hole’ Independent bookshop\, Brigg with partner in poetry Amy Garratt. \n“Powerful poems\, some meant to be performed\, some to be read. Plain written\, uninhibited observations of the challenges of everyday life and the toll they take on our mental well being. A must read for the empath and the emotionally aware” Geoff Probert\, Performance Poet \n“Amanda takes the mic and whoosh!!! There she goes! A firecracker! A powerhouse of enthusiasm\, putting her all into her poetry\, with her burning commitment to deliver a stellar performance. She never fails to disappoint! Sarah Drury\,” Performance Poet \n‘Heart on her sleeve’ is her debut publication. \nFacebook page \nOPEN MIC \nWe supply the mic – you supply the poetry \nPut your name down for a 5 minute slot (first come\, first served) or just come along and listen. \nOpen mic name listing from 6.30pm \nEvent begins with guest poet at 7.00pm \nEveryone welcome. Free (donation appreciated).
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/soundbites-monthly-poetry-open-mic-2/
LOCATION:Assembly Bar + Kitchen\, Bennett Road\, Leeds\, LS6 3HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Open Mic,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240311T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240311T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T165917
CREATED:20240103T155043Z
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UID:32151-1710183600-1710190800@heartcentre.org.uk
SUMMARY:SOUNDBITES - Monthly Poetry Open Mic Event
DESCRIPTION:SOUNDBITES – Monthly Poetry Open Mic Event \nLive in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen! \nReadings by a different local published poet each month and this month were delighted to welcome JOHNNY MONROE. \nJohnny is a poet\, novelist\, essayist\, satirist\, polemicist\, international playboy and housewife. \nHe’s published eight volumes of poetry\, none of which have garnered him any awards\, though he did win a Blue Peter badge in 1978. \nHe cites post-war poets like Larkin\, Betjeman\, Hughes and Plath as his biggest influences\, and his work has appeared in publications as varied as the Big Issue and Whizzer and Chips. \nOPEN MIC \nWe supply the mic – you supply the poetry \nPut your name down for a 5 minute slot (first come\, first served) or just come along and listen. \nOpen mic name listing from 6.30pm \nEvent begins with guest poet at 7.00pm \nEveryone welcome. Free (donation appreciated).
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/soundbites-monthly-poetry-open-mic-event-13/
LOCATION:Assembly Bar + Kitchen\, Bennett Road\, Leeds\, LS6 3HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Open Mic,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240212T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240212T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T165917
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SUMMARY:SOUNDBITES - Monthly Poetry Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:SOUNDBITES – Monthly Poetry Open Mic Event \nLive in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen! \nReadings by a different local published poet each month. This month we’re delighted to welcome CLARE WIGZELL \nClare is a Leeds poet who writes about places and nature. As a Quaker\, she is\ninterested in silence and inner meaning. She writes in response to artists such as Hepworth and JMW Turner. \nShe is published in numerous anthologies\, and has chapbooks published with Leeds Trinity Wordspace and Leeds City Council. \n  \nOPEN MIC \nWe supply the mic – you supply the poetry \nPut your name down for a 5 minute slot (first come\, first served) or just come along and listen. \nOpen mic name listing from 6.30pm \nEvent begins with guest poet at 7.00pm \nEveryone welcome. Free (donation appreciated).
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/32147/
LOCATION:Assembly Bar + Kitchen\, Bennett Road\, Leeds\, LS6 3HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Open Mic,poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240108T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240108T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T165917
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UID:32112-1704740400-1704747600@heartcentre.org.uk
SUMMARY:SOUNDBITES - Monthly Open Mic Event
DESCRIPTION:SOUNDBITES – Monthly Poetry Open Mic Event \nLive in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen! \nReadings by a different local published poet each month.  This month we’re delighted to welcome JOHN HARBOUR DEVLIN. \nJohn is a spoken word performer from Leeds. His debut poetry audiobook\, Banging On About Stardust\, is available for free listening at all the usual streaming services.\nJohn also has a musical alter-ego\, Blaze Hamlet\, whose debut mini-album is out now. \nWe supply the mic – you supply the poetry \nPut your name down for a 5 minute slot (first come\, first served) or just come along and listen. \nOpen mic name listing from 6.30pm \nEvent begins with guest poet at 7.00pm \nEveryone welcome. Free (donation appreciated).
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/soundbites-monthly-open-mic-event/
LOCATION:Assembly Bar + Kitchen\, Bennett Road\, Leeds\, LS6 3HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Open Mic,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231211T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231211T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T165917
CREATED:20230310T171846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T221845Z
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SUMMARY:SOUNDBITES - Monthly Open Mic Poetry Event
DESCRIPTION:SOUNDBITES – Monthly Poetry Open Mic Event \nLive in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen! \nReadings by a different local published poet each month. This month we welcome CHRISTOPHER R. MOORE. \nChristopher is a socialist writer based in Leeds. His work has appeared in Cringe\, Litro\, The Independent\, and elsewhere. He has won the Canterbury Christchurch International Poetry Prize and the Leeds Poetry Festival Award. He teaches at Arden University and is bad at chess. \nWe supply the mic – you supply the poetry \nPut your name down for a 5 minute slot (first come\, first served) or just come along and listen. \nOpen mic name listing from 6.30pm \nEvent begins with guest poet at 7.00pm \nEveryone welcome. Free (donation appreciated).
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/soundbites-monthly-open-mic-poetry-event/
LOCATION:Assembly Bar + Kitchen\, Bennett Road\, Leeds\, LS6 3HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Open Mic,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231113T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231113T210000
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SUMMARY:SOUNDBITES - Monthly Poetry Open Mic Event
DESCRIPTION:SOUNDBITES – Monthly Poetry Open Mic Event \nLive in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen! \nReadings by a different local published poet each month and this month we’re delighted to welcome LAURA STRICKLAND. \nLaura Strickland is a poet\, MA student and carer based in North Yorkshire. Her work has appeared in The North\, Northern Gravy\, Dreamcatcher\, Ink\, Sweat and Tears\, The Frogmore Papers and Strix. Laura is working on her first pamphlet. \n  \n  \nWe supply the mic – you supply the poetry \nPut your name down for a 5 minute slot (first come\, first served) or just come along and listen. \nOpen mic name listing from 6.30pm \nEvent begins with guest poet at 7.00pm \nEveryone welcome. Free (donation appreciated).
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/soundbites-monthly-poetry-open-mic-event-12/
LOCATION:Assembly Bar + Kitchen\, Bennett Road\, Leeds\, LS6 3HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Open Mic,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231009T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231009T210000
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SUMMARY:SOUNDBITES - Monthly Poetry Open Mic Event
DESCRIPTION:SOUNDBITES – Monthly Poetry Open Mic Event \nLive in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen! \nReadings by a different local published poet each month and this month we’re delighted to welcome S’PHONGO who’s a spoken word artist\, storyteller and author who comes from Zimbabwe\,\ncurrently living in Sierra Leone. \nHe published his first book ‘TRIALS’\, a collection of 21 poems\, in May 2022. He has been the lucky poet in six poetry slams from six different countries and has performed in Italy\, France\, Ivory Coast\, Zambia and Belgium\, as well as Zimbabwe and Sierra Leone. \nIn May this year\, he was a keynote poet at UNESCO RILAs Spring School. \nPOETRY OPEN MIC \nWe supply the mic – you supply the poetry \nPut your name down for a 5 minute slot (first come\, first served) or just come along and listen. \nOpen mic name listing from 6.30pm \nEvent begins with guest poet at 7.00pm \nEveryone welcome. Free (donation appreciated).
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/soundbites-monthly-poetry-open-mic-event-11/
LOCATION:Assembly Bar + Kitchen\, Bennett Road\, Leeds\, LS6 3HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Open Mic,poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230911T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230911T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T165917
CREATED:20230310T170838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230801T212533Z
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SUMMARY:SOUNDBITES - Monthly Poetry Open Mic Event
DESCRIPTION:SOUNDBITES – Monthly Poetry Open Mic Event \nLive in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen! \nReadings by a different local published poet each month. This month we’re delighted to welcome LINDA MARSHALL – Linda’s appearance will be on video. \nLinda Marshall\, poet and former co-editor of Aireings poetry magazine\, has three collections\nof poetry to her name. Her latest\, Cloud Cuckoo Café\, is published by Yaffle Press\, and\ncontains poems that will make people wake up and smell the coffee! \nLinda is currently working on a poetry book focused on Headingley to be launched later this year. She enjoys taking part in various zoom poetry workshops and is a member of Heartlines writers and Lucht Focail\, the Leeds Irish group of poets. \nHer style is often surreal with a twist humour. \nWe supply the mic – you supply the poetry \nPut your name down for a 5 minute slot (first come\, first served) or just come along and listen. \nOpen mic name listing from 6.30pm \nEvent begins with guest poet at 7.00pm \nEveryone welcome. Free (donation appreciated).
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/soundbites-monthly-poetry-open-mic-event-10/
LOCATION:Assembly Bar + Kitchen\, Bennett Road\, Leeds\, LS6 3HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Open Mic,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230814T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230814T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T165917
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SUMMARY:SOUNDBITES - Monthly Poetry Open Mic Event
DESCRIPTION:SOUNDBITES – Monthly Poetry Open Mic Event \nLive in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen! \nReadings by a different local published poet each month and this month we’re delighted to welcome JAMIE H SCRUTTON \nJamie is a Yorkshire based artist\, specialising in performance poetry and animation. He has showcased his work at various events around the UK\, including ‘Exploding Cinema’ and ‘Kino Open Mic Film Night’\, both based in London. \nHe has headlined events such as ‘Stanza Extravaganza’ and ‘Big Poetry’\, both based in Torquay. He won the Audience Choice Award for his animation ‘The Day My Gran Rode a Rollercoaster’ at the Winter Gardens Film Festival in Blackpool\, 2017. He released his debut book titled ‘The devil Makes Work for Creative Hands’\, which touches upon his processes as an artist and his personal debilitating episodes through mental health. The book is available through Waterstones. He will be releasing his forthcoming animation ‘The Mirage’ this summer. \nOpen Mic \nWe supply the mic – you supply the poetry \nPut your name down for a 5 minute slot (first come\, first served) or just come along and listen. \nOpen mic name listing from 6.30pm \nEvent begins with guest poet at 7.00pm \nEveryone welcome. Free (donation appreciated).
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/soundbites-monthly-poetry-open-mic-event-9/
LOCATION:Assembly Bar + Kitchen\, Bennett Road\, Leeds\, LS6 3HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Open Mic,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230724T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230724T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T165917
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230620T100142Z
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SUMMARY:SOUNDBITES - Monthly Poetry Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:SOUNDBITES – Monthly Poetry Open Mic Event \nLive in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen! \nReadings by a different local published poet each month and this month it’s EILEEN NEIL \nEileen is a Leeds based poet and artist. Her work has been published by Women Mountain\nWords\, Dream Catcher\, Dawntreader and the Senhouse Museum\, amongst others. She is\ninspired by the beauty of the natural world\, mythology\, and the human journey – including\nher own.\nShe has recently published her first collection of poetry\, Invisible Pulses (2023). \nOPEN MIC \nWe supply the mic – you supply the poetry \nPut your name down for a 5 minute slot (first come\, first served) or just come along and listen. \nOpen mic name listing from 6.30pm \nEvent begins with guest poet at 7.00pm \nEveryone welcome. Free (donation appreciated).
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/soundbites-monthly-poetry-open-mic-4/
LOCATION:Assembly Bar + Kitchen\, Bennett Road\, Leeds\, LS6 3HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Open Mic,poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230612T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230612T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T165917
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SUMMARY:SOUNDBITES - Monthly Poetry Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:SOUNDBITES – Monthly Poetry Open Mic Event \nLive in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen! \nReadings by a different local published poet each month and this month it’s CHRIS SINGLETON \nChris is a queer and neurodiverse poet\, play write and Artistic Director of Brave Words (www.bravewords.co.uk). \nHe is currently touring his debut show How To Be a Better Human (“a refreshing message in a likeable\, low-key spoken word show” – Lyn Gardner\, The Stage) off the back of a successful Edinburgh Fringe run with Summerhall (**** – The Wee Review\, Ed Fringe Review). \nIn 2021 Chris’ debut poetry collection The Kidnapping of Self-Kindness was published by Indigo dreams. He was shortlisted for Best Spoken Word Performer and Best Spoken Word\nShow at the Saboteur Awards 2022 for the Birds of Paradise Exceptional Theatre Award and has most recently been shortlisted for the Lancaster Playwriting Prize. \nHis writing has been described as “candid\, unafraid\, harrowing\, startling and compassionate in all the best ways” (Dawn Bauling\, Indigo Dreams). \nChris writes about growing up in a working class Yorkshire town with a strong sense of place and an unerring sense of hope. His poetry covers all the good stuff – grief\, sex\,\nneurodiversity\, underage drinking and poking dead things on the beach. He’d like to be compared to Guy Garvey or Jarvis Cocker\, but he’s probably more of an anxious poetry ewok. \nWe supply the mic – you supply the poetry \nPut your name down for a 5 minute slot (first come\, first served) or just come along and listen. \nOpen mic name listing from 6.30pm \nEvent begins with guest poet at 7.00pm \nEveryone welcome. Free (donation appreciated).
URL:https://heartcentre.org.uk/event/soundbites-monthly-poetry-open-mic-3/
LOCATION:Assembly Bar + Kitchen\, Bennett Road\, Leeds\, LS6 3HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Open Mic,poetry
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