Apples and Snakes and Renaissance One present
Creative Salon

The Creative Salon gives poets the chance to meet fellow practitioners and people from the industry behind the art. The salon will offer networking, conversation, performance and skills sharing within a convivial environment.

Providing support, opportunities and mentoring to promising talent and emerging writers are all areas of importance for the literature sector, so do come along to the Salon!

Every event features ideas, tips, skill swaps, sharing of short tasters of performance and works-in-progress, short presentations by movers and shakers from the spoken word world and the wider arts sector.

This edition of the Creative Salon features Dean Atta, Deanna Rodger, Angel Dahouk and more to be announced! And do stick around at Rich Mix after for London Liming - more info below.

When: Thursday 9 February, 4pm
Where: Rich Mix Café, 35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA
Tickets: FREE
Info: www.renaissanceone.co.uk / www.richmix.org.uk
Booking: www.eventbrite.co.uk

Apples and Snakes and Sherger Productions present
Elvis's Big Love Poetry Night

Something's stirring down in SW18: a pre-Valentine treat for all you poets, lovers and, well, poetry-lovers.

Girding up his lines for his next Saturday Live appearance on Radio 4, tartan heart-throb Elvis McGonagall will be  delivering his greatest hits and ensuring poetical fair play. Joining him are the award winning Ardella Jones and feisty newcomer Mia Jerome (whom you may have caught on Woman's Hour recently).

And if you fancy razzle-dazzling the audience with a little romantic verse of your  own, either self-penned or just your all-time favourite, then arrive  early to sign up for an open-mic slot. All in all, it's an evening  to warm the verbals of your heart. Aaaahhh...

When: Friday 10 February, 7.30pm
Where: Earl Spencer, 260 - 262 Merton Road, London SW18 5JL
Tickets: £5 / £4 concessions
Info: russell@applesandsnakes.org
Booking: tickets on door

Apples and Snakes presents
Spin

Join Apples and Snakes' word wizards in this exciting and interactive show, as they cook up new ways to play with words and show just what you can do with them. Each show includes top-class rappers, poets and storytellers bringing their own distinctive style to the mix - they'll have your kids fired up by poetry.



"The children and I absolutely loved the show. It brought poetry alive and kicked it into the 21st Century!"
Slavka Jovanovic, Children's Theatre Programmer.

When: Saturday 18 February, 11am & 2pm
Where: Half Moon Young People's Theatre, 43 White Horse Road, London E1 0ND
Tickets: £6
Booking: www.halfmoon.org.uk
Info: 0207 709 8900 / www.halfmoon.org.uk

Apples and Snakes presents
Jawdance

You can’t ignore the jaw,
come and explore the jaw -
don’t want to hear no can’ts or won’ts or shan’ts.
Talk your way through the door -
it’s what your jawbone’s for:
Jawdance Jawdance Jawdance – JAAAWDAAANCE!

Yes - poetry; a stage; a microphone; you. Put it all together and you’ve got Jawdance, the spoken-word show that’s hipper than a thousand Shoreditch hipsters wearing hipsters. And let’s not neglect to mention the special guests, the poetry films, the competitions and the genial host. As much brilliance, in fact, as two and a half hours can possibly contain.

And, since this is poetry, we’ll end with a metaphor: the early bird gets the worm. (Worm = open-mic slot; early bird = poet, arriving before the show starts.) I think we understand each other.

When: Wednesday 22 February, 7.30pm
Where: Rich Mix, 35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road, London, E1 6LA
Tickets: FREE
Info: www.richmix.org.uk / 020 7613 7498
Open mic: russell@applesandsnakes.org
Poetry films: nina@applesandsnakes.org

Check out the JAWDANCE facebook page - here you will find photos, footage and films from the shows.
Tweet @applesandsnakes #Jawdance.

Rich Mix and Apples and Snakes present
StoryCraft

StoryCraft is led by a different storyteller or poet every month. The sessions are aimed at mums, dads and carers with children aged 2 to 5, and encourage families to enjoy stories together in an active and fun way. Using puppets and percussion instruments, stories are animated and involve actions, singing and discussion. All sessions feature a hands-on craft activity.

This month's session is led by storyteller/poet Surya Turner.

When: Monday 27 February, 1.30 - 2.30pm
Where: Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA
Tickets: £2 per child
Info: www.richmix.org.uk
Booking: 020 7613 7498 / boxoffice@richmix.org.uk

Simon Mole, in association with Apples and Snakes and the Albany, presents
Indiana Jones and the Extra Chair

Join our hero Mike for his toughest adventure yet, meeting his mum’s new boyfriend!

Relating to your relations isn’t always easy, and it’s often on those rare occasions when everyone sits down to eat together that things really kick off. Simon Mole’s groundbreaking show is back, and this time he’s brought along acclaimed site-specific theatre director, Peader Kirk, and a troop of London’s finest young and emerging poets to pepper the occasion with memories, rhymes nad recipes collected during a month long residency in The Albany café.

Come and enjoy dinner and drinks at the least dreaded family gathering of the year….

Follow the show on Twitter: @theextrachair @si_mole

When: Wednesday 29 February - Friday 2 March, 7.15pm
Where: The Albany, Douglas Way, Deptford, London SE8 4AG
Tickets: £7 / £5.50 concessions (includes food)
Info: www.thealbany.org.uk / www.extrachair.wordpress.com
Booking: www.thealbany.org.uk / 020 8692 4446

inc. magazine submissions
inc. poetry and illustration magazine is now taking submissions for issue 5. Past issues have featured Polarbear, Dan Cockrill, Ben Mellor and more. We also put on fantastic Time Out recommended launch parties for all contributors to perform at! The visual concept of the issue is top secret, but for poets… the theme is: 'Place'. The MAXIMUM length is 15 lines.
Submissions: inc.zine@gmail.com
Info: inc.zine@gmail.com
Deadline: Wednesday 29 February

Paper Cinema
Live Animation for adults. Raging storms and supernatural forces prevail over one man’s almighty quest to get home. Homer’s cornerstone of literature is vividly told with beautiful illustration and masterful puppetry. A silent film is created before your eyes, set to a captivating live score. "Spellbinding" Time Out
When: Thursday 2 - Saturday 25 February, 7.30pm
Where:  BAC, Lavender Hill London SW11 5TN
Info: www.bac.org.uk

London Liming: Come Rhyme With Me special
Tilt's London Liming presents a Come Rhyme With Me special. Spoken word, music, food and carnival under one roof. Featuring: Inua Ellams, FLOetic Lara, Jasmine Cooray, Dean Atta (co-host), Deanna Rodger (co-host), Melanie Abrahams (co-host); with special guests James Massiah and Dougie Hastings.
When: Thursday 9 February
Where: Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA
Info:  www.ontilt.org / www.richmix.org.uk

Express Excess
Owen O’Neill is a magnetic performer. “He has skill, & patience and precision of thought and movement.  Everything that would make him not only an excellent actor but a dandy serial killer. Let us give thanks that he has chosen the stage instead” The New York Broadway Times. Musa Okwonga “Raw, authentic…brutally honest & beautifully optimistic…At the forefront of a generation of new spoken word artists” - Channel4.com’s 4Talent. Ant Smith Buckle in, baby; life aint always pretty. Someone has to strip away the platitudes and tell it like it is & right now life isn’t for sitting on the fence. Julie Andrews: vibrant off-upbeat accounts of innocent & far from innocent goings covering childhood to wildhood. Hosted by Paul Lyalls "Always charismatic" - London Evening Standard
When: Wednesday 15 February, 8.30pm
Where: The Enterprise, 2 Haverstock Hill, Camden, London NW3 2BL
Info: Express Excess on Facebook

The Cosmos, The Cosmetics
Nick Field's powerful, resonant and intimate story tells of the struggle to find a place to belong as the 20th Century, from the monochrome of Goth clubs to the day-glo of New Age raves. Woven with tales of an eccentric rural youth, lush poetic meditations on the nature of decorated and altered skin and delicious humour, this odyssey of discovery is spoken word theatre at its most thrilling.
When: Thursday 16 - Saturday 18 February, 7.45pm
Where: Ovalhouse Upstairs, 52 - 54 Kennington Oval, London SE11 5SW
Info: www.ovalhouse.com

Page Match
A word wrestling grudge match between the best Poetry Collectives in the UK. Expect warriors with words, battle gear, bone crunching poetry, style battle, head ripping, arm locking and knock out prose. Featuring: 18 x Word Wrestling Warriors / 7 x Best Poetry Collectives in UK / BANG SAID THE GUN v RUBIX v DIRTY HANDS v ROUNDHOUSE POETRY COLLECTIVE v WORD OF MOUTH v CHILL PILL v APPLES AND SNAKES
When: Saturday 25 February, 7.30pm
Where: Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8EH
Info: www.roundhouse.org.uk