Welcome to Apples & Snakes, England's leading organisation for performance poetry.
Apples & Snakes focuses on working with emerging artists, producing new work and putting poets in education. We work extensively with schools, prisons and libraries
Apples & Snakes focuses on working with emerging artists, producing new work and putting poets in education. We work extensively with schools, prisons and libraries
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- Apples & Snakes presents...Fresh
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28 October at 19:00 - VIVA VOCE
Nuffield Theatre, University Road, ...
23 October at 19:30 - Apples & Snakes In Soho featur...
Soho Theatre
21 October at 20:00 - Apples & Snakes at Shunt
Shunt, 20 Stainer street, London, S...
07 October at 20:00 - ARTICULATE
ARC
23 September at 19:45 - Apples & Snakes In Soho
Soho Theatre, London, W1D 3NE
23 September at 20:00 - OPen Mic
Freeword, Guardian & Observer archi...
18 September at 18:30 - FORKED
B-Bar, Barbican Theatre
17 September at 20:00 - The Big Chill
Eastnor Castle
08 August at 12:00 - Open Mic
Whitechapel Art gallery
25 June at 19:30
Apples & Snakes
Patrick Neate is one of the jewels in London’s literary crown. Not only has he successfully crossed club-culture with spoken word to create West London’s popular Book Slam events, he’s also
produced a brace of successful novels with a global perspective and a poet’s twang. His latest book, Jerusalem, has just been publi...shed by Fig Tree/Penguin. Don’t miss this special live set from the only man with a Whitbread Prize and street credibility.
Also appearing tonight is Kate Tempest, one of the new breed of poets snapping at Patrick’s heels. Five years of hard graft have seen her building on her hip-hop roots to become one of the most recognised and admired figures on the circuit, not to mention a must-see at most of the UK’s major festivals. Come along and see why.
And if that’s not enough, we also present Joshua Idehen, another larger-than-life, impossible-to-ignore poet who was last seen wowing the weekend hordes at this year’s Big Chill; and Helen Mort, a writer of incredible gravitas and lyricality, who’ll be previewing part of A Pint for the Ghost, a new show that delves into the murky mythology of her Yorkshire roots.
With Mat Lloyd (the finest MC in Hemel Hempstead) on bigging-up duty, this should be a night to remember.
ANOTHER SHOW FROM APPLES & SNAKES: THE RIGHT WORDS IN THE RIGHT ORDER, IN THE RIGHT PLACES, ALL THE TIME
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produced a brace of successful novels with a global perspective and a poet’s twang. His latest book, Jerusalem, has just been publi...shed by Fig Tree/Penguin. Don’t miss this special live set from the only man with a Whitbread Prize and street credibility.
Also appearing tonight is Kate Tempest, one of the new breed of poets snapping at Patrick’s heels. Five years of hard graft have seen her building on her hip-hop roots to become one of the most recognised and admired figures on the circuit, not to mention a must-see at most of the UK’s major festivals. Come along and see why.
And if that’s not enough, we also present Joshua Idehen, another larger-than-life, impossible-to-ignore poet who was last seen wowing the weekend hordes at this year’s Big Chill; and Helen Mort, a writer of incredible gravitas and lyricality, who’ll be previewing part of A Pint for the Ghost, a new show that delves into the murky mythology of her Yorkshire roots.
With Mat Lloyd (the finest MC in Hemel Hempstead) on bigging-up duty, this should be a night to remember.
ANOTHER SHOW FROM APPLES & SNAKES: THE RIGHT WORDS IN THE RIGHT ORDER, IN THE RIGHT PLACES, ALL THE TIME
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Time:Wednesday, 21 October 2009 20:00
Location:Soho Theatre
Apples & Snakes
This Friday 16th October Apples & Snakes, The Albany and The Midi Music Company present Rising From The Dust. Fusing grime, spoken word, music and film. Charting the connection between grime and spoken word, there will also be the launch of a new film Grit Story: Still Rising From The Dust. With live performances from ...Soweto Kinch, Ghetts, Jean Binta Breeze, Rinse,Concise One and Conrad The Scoundrel. Hosted by Charlie Dark. For more details click on the link below.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=16
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=16
An exhilarating fusion of grime, spoken word, music & film.
Location:The Albany | Douglas Way | Deptford | London | SE8 4A6
Time:Friday, 16 October 2009 19:30
Apples & Snakes
BEYOND WORDS: New Poetry From South Africa Live On Tour
Five incredible South African poets tour the UK together for the first time. Brought together by South African Poet Laureate and renowned exile campaigner Keorapetse Kgositsile, the show premieres specially commissioned new work. This is a blistering introduction t...o the new South Africa and to the power of live poetry in performance.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Beyond-Wor
Five incredible South African poets tour the UK together for the first time. Brought together by South African Poet Laureate and renowned exile campaigner Keorapetse Kgositsile, the show premieres specially commissioned new work. This is a blistering introduction t...o the new South Africa and to the power of live poetry in performance.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Beyond-Wor
Apples & Snakes
Announcing the Apples & Snakes South East launch weekend. Woo-Hoo!
This weekend should offer something for everyone performance poetry-wise, from showcase performances by nationally (and internationally) known poets to how-to workshops for budding stars of the poetical stage AND an open mic for you to show off at. And all at ridiculously low prices (don’t ask me how we do it, we just do!)
Apples & Snakes launch weekend at Nuffield Theatre
Location:Nuffield Theatre, University Road, Southampton, SO17 1TR
Time:Friday, 23 October 2009 19:30
Apples & Snakes
Shunt together with Apples & Snakes invite some extraordinary poets for week long residencies to celebrate anyone listening. Poets experiment with audience and space, interrupting conversations and challenging people to engage with spoken word in exciting new ways. Featuring:
Helen Mort
Molly Naylor
Joe Hakim
Byron Vincent...
Joshua Idehen
Kayo Chingonyi
Joe Coelho
Mama Tokus
Hannah Walker
For more information contact shunt on 0207 378 7776 / www.shunt.co.uk
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Helen Mort
Molly Naylor
Joe Hakim
Byron Vincent...
Joshua Idehen
Kayo Chingonyi
Joe Coelho
Mama Tokus
Hannah Walker
For more information contact shunt on 0207 378 7776 / www.shunt.co.uk
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Time:Wednesday, 07 October 2009 20:00
Location:Shunt, 20 Stainer street, London, SE1 9RL
Apples & Snakes
Four poets - four new pieces - for your delectation
What does it take to be a spoken-word artist? Is it about the writing? The stage presence? The knack of stringing a story together? Actually it's about all of these things and more, as tonight's line-up will be amply demonstrating.
As part of our ongoing mission to nurt...ure new writing, we've been putting four poets through their paces with top director Mike Kirchner. Their metaphors are now sharper-than-sharp, they've got more presence than Santa Claus (ouch) and their narrative skills are all revved-up and ready to go.
And those poets are:
Cutglass vamp of the Oxford-London poetry axis Sophia Blackwell
Unfazeable and level-headed weigher-up of words Kayo Chingonyi
Radiant Anglo-Spanish star of a thousand poetry slams Keith Jarrett
Keeping-it-real (and how) Somali storyteller Warsan Shire
They'll each be pulling the wraps off their work-in-progress. Join us for this exclusive unveiling.
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What does it take to be a spoken-word artist? Is it about the writing? The stage presence? The knack of stringing a story together? Actually it's about all of these things and more, as tonight's line-up will be amply demonstrating.
As part of our ongoing mission to nurt...ure new writing, we've been putting four poets through their paces with top director Mike Kirchner. Their metaphors are now sharper-than-sharp, they've got more presence than Santa Claus (ouch) and their narrative skills are all revved-up and ready to go.
And those poets are:
Cutglass vamp of the Oxford-London poetry axis Sophia Blackwell
Unfazeable and level-headed weigher-up of words Kayo Chingonyi
Radiant Anglo-Spanish star of a thousand poetry slams Keith Jarrett
Keeping-it-real (and how) Somali storyteller Warsan Shire
They'll each be pulling the wraps off their work-in-progress. Join us for this exclusive unveiling.
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Four poets peel off the wraps
Time:Wednesday, 23 September 2009 20:00
Location:Soho Theatre, London, W1D 3NE
Apples & Snakes Featuring the mighty Jean Binta Breeze, this promises to be an open mic night to remember. A roomful of poets, performers and people who just want to hear poetry. Arrive early and claim your all important slot in the spotlight!
Apples & Snakes
We're delighted to return to the BIG CHILL for our second year, with more
poets and a whole day of loveliness in the WORDS IN MOTION tent on Saturday
8 August.
We start at 12 and run through to 1am with our late night storytelling.
Come along and say hello.
Jean Binta Breeze, Lemn Sissay and Brian Patten headline.
We've not ...forgotten the pips & snakelets...we're also doing three kids
events, Saturday 4 - 5pm, Sunday 12 - 1 and 2.30 - 3.30 - over in the kids
tent.
BIG CHILL is a very relaxed family festival, and with the hot summer
predicted why not come along 7 - 10 August at Eastnor Castle, Ledbury
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poets and a whole day of loveliness in the WORDS IN MOTION tent on Saturday
8 August.
We start at 12 and run through to 1am with our late night storytelling.
Come along and say hello.
Jean Binta Breeze, Lemn Sissay and Brian Patten headline.
We've not ...forgotten the pips & snakelets...we're also doing three kids
events, Saturday 4 - 5pm, Sunday 12 - 1 and 2.30 - 3.30 - over in the kids
tent.
BIG CHILL is a very relaxed family festival, and with the hot summer
predicted why not come along 7 - 10 August at Eastnor Castle, Ledbury
Bigchill.netRead more
Apples & Snakes Newcomers meet the seasoned performers on equal terms. It's simple: a roomful of poets, performers and people who just want to hear poetry. Arrive early and claim your all-important slot in the spotlight. Hosted by Leetho Thale and featuring Jade Anouka and Jill Abram
Apples & Snakes
APPLES & SNAKES IN SOHO
Featuring Iain Sinclair
Tonight Iain Sinclair, the poet laureate of London’s peripheries, takes a break from pacing the streets and ventures into W1. With a brace of big-selling books behind him – including London Orbital and Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire – he is the arch-sniffer-out of the sense ...of place. Although ‘banned’ by certain borough councils for suggesting that the capital is worth more than whatever fast buck is being wrung out of it this week, he continues to strike a chord with those Londoners who prefer to look beyond the obvious. This evening he reads a selection of his poetry and prose.
Also on the bill is Tim Wells, who has been described as ‘a bit like Henry Mayhew interviewing Eek-A-Mouse in an East End tailor’s’. Originally one of the ranting poets – and not allowed to forget it – Tim Wells is another writer with the essence of London underneath his fingernails. His latest collection Rougher Yet is currently available from Donut Press.
Jay Bernard, meanwhile, has been resident writer on a pair of allotment sites in London and Oxford as part of My Place Or Yours, an ongoing programme of poetic placements across the UK. As such, she’s been delving into the nature of urban green space and literally getting to know her onions. Join her as she presents a barrowload of words and film-clips documenting her experiences so far.
All told, it’s the ultimate guided tour for lateral thinkers. With poetry. And seats.
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Featuring Iain Sinclair
Tonight Iain Sinclair, the poet laureate of London’s peripheries, takes a break from pacing the streets and ventures into W1. With a brace of big-selling books behind him – including London Orbital and Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire – he is the arch-sniffer-out of the sense ...of place. Although ‘banned’ by certain borough councils for suggesting that the capital is worth more than whatever fast buck is being wrung out of it this week, he continues to strike a chord with those Londoners who prefer to look beyond the obvious. This evening he reads a selection of his poetry and prose.
Also on the bill is Tim Wells, who has been described as ‘a bit like Henry Mayhew interviewing Eek-A-Mouse in an East End tailor’s’. Originally one of the ranting poets – and not allowed to forget it – Tim Wells is another writer with the essence of London underneath his fingernails. His latest collection Rougher Yet is currently available from Donut Press.
Jay Bernard, meanwhile, has been resident writer on a pair of allotment sites in London and Oxford as part of My Place Or Yours, an ongoing programme of poetic placements across the UK. As such, she’s been delving into the nature of urban green space and literally getting to know her onions. Join her as she presents a barrowload of words and film-clips documenting her experiences so far.
All told, it’s the ultimate guided tour for lateral thinkers. With poetry. And seats.
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Time:Wednesday, 24 June 2009 20:00
Location:Soho Theatre
Apples & Snakes
This comical and moving tale of unexpected friendship confronts the issues of security and identity through a fusion of performance poetry, theatre, movement and song.
Set within the beating heart of London, the chaotic stories of five characters in crisis are exposed through the eye of a camera. What happens when one g...eneration collides with another and cultural expectations clash? Does the flash of a blade in broad daylight mean the end or the beginning of Security? Find out when age and youth battle as Palestine meets Peckham. Zena Edwards takes storytelling into the 20th century.
“Zena Edwards is a mesmerizing performer of deeply lyrical, musical, streetwise poetry.” BBC Radio 3
“Edwards is a superb performer, equally at ease as an elderly Caribbean man, as a would-be teenage MC, Ayleen, or as a lonely, 47-year-old Palestinian photographer, Mahmoud.” The Guardian
In association with WorldFest.
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Set within the beating heart of London, the chaotic stories of five characters in crisis are exposed through the eye of a camera. What happens when one g...eneration collides with another and cultural expectations clash? Does the flash of a blade in broad daylight mean the end or the beginning of Security? Find out when age and youth battle as Palestine meets Peckham. Zena Edwards takes storytelling into the 20th century.
“Zena Edwards is a mesmerizing performer of deeply lyrical, musical, streetwise poetry.” BBC Radio 3
“Edwards is a superb performer, equally at ease as an elderly Caribbean man, as a would-be teenage MC, Ayleen, or as a lonely, 47-year-old Palestinian photographer, Mahmoud.” The Guardian
In association with WorldFest.
Read more
Apples & Snakes
Take five poets and one musician, give them a stage and see what they do with it. Rip it up and replace it with wall-to-wall words and an unflagging backbeat, is what we’re anticipating. Expect a seamless segue of poetry, improvised and otherwise, jousting with jazzy rhythms and forging a hip-hop-skip-and-jump of its v...ery own. But who are these wonder-wordsmiths?
Well, there’s
Charlie Dark: Siver-tongued showman with the charisma of a DJ and the energy of a dozen ordinary poets
Kat Francois: physically flamboyant teller of tales, part harrowing, part hilarious, always captivating.
John Berkavitch: beatboxing, breakdancing badboy with a rising reputation in hip-hop theatre.
El Crisis: smooth-voiced king of incantations, be they to his Creator or to his car.
Lucid: socially-sussed Mancunian lass to whom the stage is a second home.
But five onto one – isn’t that unfair? Not when the musician is globally-acclaimed sax-player Jason Yarde, a man with a genre-transcending sense of invention; a man who’s worked with everyone from Hugh Masekela to Jonzi D, and wins awards on an almost daily basis.
All stars? Yes indeed. The brave new face of spoken word? You bet.
Bookings: www.kingsplace.co.uk
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Well, there’s
Charlie Dark: Siver-tongued showman with the charisma of a DJ and the energy of a dozen ordinary poets
Kat Francois: physically flamboyant teller of tales, part harrowing, part hilarious, always captivating.
John Berkavitch: beatboxing, breakdancing badboy with a rising reputation in hip-hop theatre.
El Crisis: smooth-voiced king of incantations, be they to his Creator or to his car.
Lucid: socially-sussed Mancunian lass to whom the stage is a second home.
But five onto one – isn’t that unfair? Not when the musician is globally-acclaimed sax-player Jason Yarde, a man with a genre-transcending sense of invention; a man who’s worked with everyone from Hugh Masekela to Jonzi D, and wins awards on an almost daily basis.
All stars? Yes indeed. The brave new face of spoken word? You bet.
Bookings: www.kingsplace.co.uk
£11.50 / £9.50Read more
Apples & Snakes
This comical and moving tale of unexpected friendship confronts the issues of security and identity through a fusion of performance poetry, theatre, movement and song.
Set within the beating heart of London, the chaotic stories of five characters in crisis are exposed through the eye of a camera. What happens when one g...eneration collides with another and cultural expectations clash? Does the flash of a blade in broad daylight mean the end or the beginning of Security? Find out when age and youth battle as Palestine meets Peckham. Zena Edwards takes storytelling into the 20th century.
“Zena Edwards is a mesmerizing performer of deeply lyrical, musical, streetwise poetry.” BBC Radio 3
“Edwards is a superb performer, equally at ease as an elderly Caribbean man, as a would-be teenage MC, Ayleen, or as a lonely, 47-year-old Palestinian photographer, Mahmoud.” The Guardian
In association with WorldFest.
Read more
Set within the beating heart of London, the chaotic stories of five characters in crisis are exposed through the eye of a camera. What happens when one g...eneration collides with another and cultural expectations clash? Does the flash of a blade in broad daylight mean the end or the beginning of Security? Find out when age and youth battle as Palestine meets Peckham. Zena Edwards takes storytelling into the 20th century.
“Zena Edwards is a mesmerizing performer of deeply lyrical, musical, streetwise poetry.” BBC Radio 3
“Edwards is a superb performer, equally at ease as an elderly Caribbean man, as a would-be teenage MC, Ayleen, or as a lonely, 47-year-old Palestinian photographer, Mahmoud.” The Guardian
In association with WorldFest.
Read more
