Spoken Word Saturday

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October Spoken Word Saturday

This month we have the pleasure of welcoming Maggie Hampton as our guest for Spoken Word Saturday! Maggie has been writing ever since she can remember, mainly stories and poems as a child. Then essays and poems, diaries and poems, articles and more poems.

Her writing served her well in her work as a performer in deaf children’s theatre and as a director and equality trainer in Disability Arts. In 2008 her first book Living Where the Nights Jive, a collection of interviews with disabled women artists in Wales, was published by Parthian Books.

She is currently getting together a collection of writing about her experience of being profoundly deaf, having a cochlear implant and becoming a Cyborg.

The event will have speech to text on a large TV, some work will be BLS interpreted on Screen and we ask from the floor speak up spots to bring a paper copy of their work or email it to us! So reading work is an option.

Spoken Word Saturday is held at the Ffwrnes Fach, Arts Health and Wellbeing Hub, Park Street, Llanelli and online from anywhere via Zoom!

Entry is free, and refreshments are provided (donations for these are warmly welcomed!). We will also have our usual ‘Speak Up Spots’ for you to read or perform your own work, if you’d like to reserve one of these please let us know. We ask you to please keep your pieces to a maximum of 5 minutes, or preferably shorter so that we can have as many people sharing as possible.
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