Spoken Word Saturday (14+)

People Speak Up, Park Street, Llanelli.
Free

Ages 14+

14 June, 2-5pm Open Space Slot

Spoken Word Saturday is a safe space to share your voices and stories. Whether it's family or local history anecdotes, personal lived experiences, or you've conjured up a story, poem or song that you'd like to test your creative writing skills out with others, you can share your words and voices in our 5-minute open slots.

Expect an afternoon of hearing local voices compared by local storytellers, Ceri J Phillips and Davit Pitt. You never know, you might discover an interesting local tale or two or something interesting about our community.

If you would like to have a 5-minute Open Space slot, these must be booked in advance to guarantee you a slot. Please contact:

info@peoplespeakup.co.uk
01554 292393

Later in the year...

13 September, 2-5pm with Christina Thatcher

13 December, 2-5pm - Danny Sioned

Join hosts Ceri John Phillips & David Pitt for an afternoon of sharing stories, poetry, creative writing – all through the Spoken Word!

Special guests and a safe space for our community to share in our ‘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.

info@peoplespeakup.co.uk
01554 292393

13 September, 2-5pm with Christina Thatcher

We are pleased to have poet and author Christina Thatcher at Spoken Word Saturday.

Christina grew up between a farm and a ranch house in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She won a Marshall Scholarship to undertake two MAs in the UK, after which she completed a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at Cardiff University, where she is now a lecturer. Her poetry and short stories have been widely published in literary magazines, including Ambit, Butcher’s Dog, Magma, Poetry Wales, The North, The

Poetry Review and more. She has two previous poetry collections with Parthian Books: More than you were (2017) and How to Carry Fire (2020). Christina has toured internationally, reading her work in the UK, USA, Canada, Costa Rica, Switzerland, and Romania. christinathatcher.com / @writetoempower.

Christina will be sharing words and poems and reflecting on her recent work Breaking a Mare which is an investigation of silence, goodness and girlhood. It invites readers into the barn, the sawdust mill, the rodeo arena. These poems expose the hard work women do on farms, the loss of rural landscapes and the role death can play in these spaces. They ask what it means to be good in the face of physical, emotional and ecological threat. Ultimately, these poems want to know what breaks us and what makes us stronger.

13 December, 2-5pm - Danny Sioned

This December, singer and songwriter Danny Sioned will be joining us for Wintery Spoken Word Saturday. She is originally from the Preseli Mountains and expect to hear a mix of original and traditional folk songs in Welsh and English.