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---NEXT TWO EVENTS---
Friday 1st August
Write Angle Members and Guests have been invited to perform @ Nineveh, 11 The Palant, Havant
There will be OPEN MIC for anyone who wants to perform their own work.
Tues 19th August
Write Angle evening @ the Square Brewery
Elaine Crinnion presents Wordipops - junior poets, ages 5 - 14 with open mic.
Our evenings are always unpredictable but one thing's for sure. There's a lot of high quality stuff being performed. People are now starting to come in from London, Basingstoke, Winchester, Southsea, and no one wants to leave at the end. The energy is high and we seem to be becoming a networking base for professional performers.
Entry to Write Angle costs just £3 and there will be OPEN MIC for anyone who wants to perform their own work. Also Jezz on guitar, & many professional performers who may just stop by to see our guest and who then perform – such as. SpeechPainter, Audi Maserati, Stella Mandella, Gareth Toms and Mike Knee.
---FUTURE EVENTS---
Sunday 24 August
Write Angle will be performing in the Square, Petersfield - to a crowd of thousands!
There is a slot available for a Guest Performer
Tues 16th September
Write Angle evening @ the Square Brewery
Guests: Project
Adorno - poetry with musical backing (electronic,
mainly). Sometimes it even lapses into song.
Tues 21st October
Write Angle evening @ the Square Brewery
The Disparate Housewives return,
plus new Guest performer: Johnny Jet.
Tues 18th November
Write Angle evening @ the Square Brewery
Guest Performer: Shawn Kelly.
Tues 16th December
2008
Write Angle evening @ the Square Brewery
'Very Special Surprise Guest'
Tues 20th January
2009
Write Angle Evening @ the Square Brewery
Guest Performer: Johnny Fluffypunk.
Tues 17th February
2009
Write Angle Evening @ the Square Brewery
Guest Performer: Mike Knee.
Tues 17th March 2009
Write Angle Evening @ the Square Brewery
Guest Performer: Liz Bentley.
Tues 21st April 2009
Write Angle Evening @ the Square Brewery
Guest Performer: The Speech Painter.
Tues 19th May 2009
Write Angle Evening @ the Square Brewery
Guest Performer: A. F. Harrold.
---PAST EVENTS---
Tues 15th July
Write Angle evening Upstairs @ the Square Brewery
Guest Performer: Hannah Tristram, 22, is an 'exotic', stunning and versatile singer and dancer. She sings in many languages, such as Croation and Macedonian, plays a mean accordian and will be belly dancing in costume. It's hard not to be entranced by her beauty and the magic of her performance and, before long, everyone is joining in. A promising young talent, she holds the audience in her palm. She has Write Angle's vote as 'London's upcoming star'.
Tues 17th June
Write Angle evening @ the Square Brewery
Guest Performer: AF HARROLD, 'The Giant Redhead' , described by Brian Patten as an 'English eccentric with a subversive humour that is quite brilliant'... - also known as A Machine-Gun Wordsmith. He was at Write Angle before heading for Glastonbury to be the festival's Official Poet in Residence. AF has written 'The Man Who Spent Years In The Bath' (second collection of comic miscellania), 'Postcards From the Hedghog' and 'Logic and The Heart'. You can see his website; www.myspace.com/afharrold, for more information.
20th May
Write Angle evening @ the Square Brewery
Our Guest Performer was the 'one of a kind' imaginative and 'highly original' Rachel Pantechnicon, who returned by 'special demand', as well as our regular open mic and music.
22nd April 2008
Write Angle evening @ the Square Brewery
Our Guest Performance was 'The Disparate Housewives' starring Stella Mandella and Jacqueline Saphra. Having been around London and in the Edinburgh Festival - it's been described as both 'risque' and 'powerful'. A 'don't miss' evening! As ever, we never know who will pop in to perform on our Open Mic.
4th April 2008
Write Angle Performance @ Petersfield Festival Hall
Write Angle was proud to have been short-listed for the 'Life in Petersfield Business and Community Awards, in the category of 'Entertainment'. The winner of each of 15 different categories were announced on 4th April. During the ceremony, Write Angle performed with "Speech Painter" Geoff Allnutt, Stella Mandella, Leah Cohen, Brian Harris, Jezz, Maggie Rhodes, David Roberts and Jake Claret as our Compere.
25th March 2008
Write-Angle Performance @ The Square Brewery
Our guest for Write-Angle's Performance Eve was 'The Speech Painter'. Along with him, we also had Phil Jeays, fantastic singer and guitarist, Audi Maserati, Gareth Toms, Brian Harris with original song and guitar as well as Jezz on guitar.
26th February 2008
Write-Angle Performance @ The Square Brewery
Our guest was Rachel Pantechnicon.
29th January 2008
Write-Angle Performance @ The Square Brewery
Write-Angle greeted 2008 with a new regular slot - upstairs @ the square brewery on Tuesday evenings - and an extended repertoire!
11th December 2007
Write-Angle-Poetry Performance @ The Square Brewery
Our 6th Performance eve (11th December 2007), the Write-Angle found itself hosting a buffet of entertainment more extensive than its original 'Poetry, Only' evening. For one thing, we had an actual buffet. -prepared by The Square Brewery.
Brian Harris, our 'music man' was off on a gig although he set up his audio equipment for us to use. Although on the morning of the 11th, we still had no music, by the start of the evening, there were three guitarists and singers, Darren from London, Peter, from a houseboat in Chichester, and Jezz, from The Square Brewery - All three had their own styles and complimented the evening with real 'panache'.
Jezz lent some 'fun heckling' adding to the informality. There were two mini-pantos. 'Cinderella' by Leah Cohen, an avid Cindy fan, and 'Snow White and the 7 horny dwarfs' by 'first time writer' Jayne Hardy. The audience participated by reading the parts, much to the amusement of all.
Roy Woodard did his stories amusing us all with the rantings of his electrician, and of course, there was poetry. Special guest Gareth Toms performed to the hilt with some really good stuff. Other poets came forth. Maggie Rhodes, Liz Davies, David Roberts and some new people from the audience.
The greatest 'sound' is that of people who've been coming over and over, finally saying 'I'm gonna read mine next time!' so yes, we don't take poetry out of the venue.
15th November 2007
Write-Angle-Poetry Performance @ The Square Brewery
Guests included Brian Harris with original lyrics and music, as well as new comedienne and performance artist, Stella Mandella, and also Roy Woodard and Audi Maserati.
11th October 2007
Write-Angle-Poetry Performance @ The Square Brewery
Special guests were Audi Maserati and Gareth Toms, and Brian Harris (of the Village Music Shop) playing the guitar and singing his original songs.
3rd October 2007
Deadline for Petersfield Post Short Story Competition
Petersfield Post and One Tree Bookshop sponsored a short story contest. Leah Cohen won 2nd prize saying she would have come in first but it was 'harder to come in second'. David Burstall came in 3rd place and ended up joining our writing workshop as he was probably 'talked into it' by Leah who he'd met during the award presentation at One Tree.
13th September 2007
Write-Angle-Poetry Performance @ The Square Brewery
The first PWW's 'Open Mic Poetry Evening' with its own name, Write-Angle, was held in the beautiful bright cheerful room upstairs (high ceiling, wooden floor, fireplace,) at the Square Brewery. It was a 'full house' and turned out to be 'high energy' and fun poetry session. Jake of the PWW, made an excellent host, especially with his home made 'cue' book of 'stop', 'louder', 'breathe', '2 min', etc, held in front of each poet. Loud applause followed each poem.
There were several poets from the audience including published poet, Elizabeth Davies, Maggie Rhodes and Dennis Robinson. Maggie's poems were hilarious, while Elizabeth handled her subject with skill, insight and honesty. Dennis, professional performer of poetry for 40 years, sworn to give it up, surprised everyone by standing up and performing. Brilliant! A complete silence hit the room when he performed. All eyes and ears were glued. Dennis and Maggie joined our workshop.
27th August 2007
Petersfield Bank Holiday festivities
We contributed to the Petersfield Bank Holiday festivities on 27 August.
5th July 2007 2007
Write-Angle Poetry Performance @ Djangos
In the beginning, The Petersfield Writers Workshop chose to exclude poetry from its agenda. Previous experience proved it a difficult medium, as it is highly personal and needed to be handled in a different sort of group.
However, some time later , Leah came across Djangos, a small jazz bistro in Petersfield, and was introduced to Briony, one half of the husband and wife team that own the place. Taking an instant liking to the venue, Leah gave it some thought and finally suggested that we might have a poetry evening there. All eyes lit up. The 'Yes!' was followed by what is now 'history'.
On 5th July 07, history was made at Djangos. It was a Full House. And many people phoned in - very disappointed that they were unable to get in that evening. There were 14 poets. All as different as their ages, their personalities, backgrounds, and their poetry. It was a very high-energy evening.
The poets were inspired and read at 'top peak'. The poetry was rated 'high quality'. At the end of the evening, there were screams of 'you have to go on! You have to have more readings!' What more could anyone want.
Like 'My Fair Lady', the Petersfield Writers Workshop had produced a gem! The irony of course being, since no poetry was meant to be in the Petersfield Writers Workshop, what was the group now doing, rearing its head straight into the mouth of the World of Poetry?
That was the beginning of this whole new venture - the birth of Write Angle
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