Blah!! Blah!! Blah!! - Fundraiser Event - Poetry and prose for the people!
Saturday 23rd November 2024 05:00 PM to 07:00 PM
Withington Public Hall Institute, 3 Burton Road, Withington M20 3ED
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Writers For Café Blah invite you to a #SaveCaféBlah Fundraiser. This reading brings together writers serving up wonderful words to contribute to the #SaveCaféBlah campaign.
Reading are: purveyor of fine flash fiction David Gaffney, Professor of Poetry at the Centre for New Writing John McAuliffe, Tom Jenks of The Other Room avant-garde reading series, Jazmine Linklater of No Matter, Peter Barlow’s Cigarette organisers Joey Francis and Tim Allen, Speakeasy host Steve Smythe, Anna Percy of Beatification, creative writing lecturer Alicia Rouverol, Manchester Critics Collective member Lydia Unsworth, Lenni Sanders of The Writing Squad, Broken Sleep Books poet Nóra Blascsók, Confingo contributor Nathan Bailey, and Manchester poets Steven Waling and Pam Galloway. Hosted by Verbose OG Sarah-Clare Conlon. Upstairs at WPHI.
A vital part of Manchester’s creative community, the folks at Café Blah regularly put on bands and DJs and sound artists and films and spoken word and art shows and all sorts of fabulous necessary cultural activity – scant days before their locks were unjustly changed, Blah co-hosted the third Party For The People and a literary quiz for the first-ever Withington Book Festival. Let’s make sure they can host many more!
* Tickets are £10pp. Eventbrite will add a fee to each ticket price.
** All proceeds go to the Save Café Blah fund. Big thanks to the artists for giving up their time and super big thanks to the Withington Public Hall Institute peeps for their support in the effort to raise funds for Café Blah, letting us have the venue for free.
*** Please note, if you'd like to contribute to the Save Café Blah fund, but can't make this event (or you'd like to contribute more than £10pp), you can donate direct to Blah's Just Giving crowdfunder.
