Diary dates
Monday, July 25, 2005, 01:51 PM
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META-UPDATE
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5th Feb 2011 - Happy Chinese New Year! -
Animal Olympics at the National Portrait Gallery
Shows: 1330 & 1500
http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson.php
Apologies for the hiatus: leaves on the track.
5th July
Workshops at 1600 and 1815
International Youth Arts Centre,
Rose Theatre, Culture Cafe, Kingston.
7th, 8th, 16th, 19th July
CREATE London Workshops for Roam
please see Roam website for times, places and further details.
http://createlondon.org/2010/roam
24th July
London Tales @ Midnight Run, in association with Spread the Word.
Time:1900 - 0700
Place: Various; central London
Please see the website for meeting place.
Midnight Run with STW
Dates for May/June 2010
Barbican, Plymouth
When: Thursday May 20 @ 8pm
Where: B-Bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, Plymouth PL1 2NJ
Tickets: £5
Info: 01752 242021 / http://www.b-bar.co.uk
Each month, feathery jazz-floozy Mama Tokus draws back the red drapes and shines the chandelier on an evening of lyrical revelry. Poets to make you laugh, poets to make you think, poets to make you hold your head in your hands and moan softly to yourself: yes, all poetic life is here - in the Barbican's burlesquemost bar, complete with its mouthwatering menu of Thai food.
Featuring
Francesca Beard - "Spine-tingling... Witty and narcotic." The Independent
"...witty and whimsical... a quality-guarantee." The Evening Standard
"Sensuous and funny" Time Out "The Queen of British performance poetry."
London Metro http://www.francescabeard.com/
John Osbourne "The poet that makes you go “aaahh…” – in a good way. John Osborne has been melting the hearts of festival-goers and barflies across the country for four years now, with poems that steer a skilful course between the mundane, the sentimental and the extraordinary." Norwich Poetry Club http://johnosbornepoet.blogspot.com/
Sabrina Mahfouz - ‘Sabrina freeze frames the banality and eccentricities of everyday life and replays it, in hyperbole multi-coloured glory’ Writer’s Block ‘Energetic and smart’ The Economist, Intelligent Life ‘Oozes talent and charisma’ Ctrl.Alt.Shift Magazine http://www.myspace.com/sabrinamahfouz
Callum Mitchell - Cornwall-born writer, actor and poet http://callummitchell.co.uk/
To take advantage of the great range of Thai food at the B-Bar, please arrive by 7.30pm. Meal deals available - advance booking only.
SPIN at Theatre Royal Bath, the egg
Tuesday 1st June 2010
with Jan Blake, Rosie Harris and Francesca Beard
presented by Apples and Snakes
http://url=www.applesandsnakes.org
Box Office: 01225 823409 / 448844
Recommended for ages: 3 – adults
Performance Times:
Tuesday 11.30am – ages 3-5 years
Tuesday 3pm – ages 4-7 years
wednesday 11.30am – ages 4-7 years
Wednesday 3pm – ages 8 – adults
Tickets: Adults £7 / Children & Students £5
Petersham Festival
Friday 18th June 2010
3-5pm in The New Inn, Ham Common
A wonderful opportunity to hear Francesca Beard, a London-based Malaysian poet who grew up in the Malaysian island paradise Penang, performing spoken word in the intimate and cosy setting of The New Inn.
Tickets £10 to include a glass of wine or beer or cup of tea kindly provided by The New Inn.
Please call or email:
tel: 0844 586 7644 - message may be left at any time
email: boxoffice@petershamfestival.org
Dates for March/April 2010
Thursday 25 March, 8.30pm
Studio, Rose Theatre, 24-26 High Street,
Kingston KT1 1
Tickets: £6, concessions £5
On the door or online
www.kingston.gov.uk
www.rhythmandmuse.org
BEARD, BIRD, HARVEY & HARROLD - A Poetry Show
Saturday, March 27 at 7:00pm
Jacqueline Du Pre, Cowley Place, off The Plain, OXFORD
£12 (£2.40 per poet)/£10 concs.
Tickets available on the door OR in advance from www.wegottickets.com
TEL: 08708033475
Thursday 29 April, 8.00PM
ARNOLFINI
16 Narrow Quay, Bristol, BS1 4QA
Tickets: £12.00
BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH
with special guest FRANCESCA BEARD
Dates for Jan & Feb 2010
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Book Slam @ The Tabernacle
Powis Square, London, W11 2AY
Doors open at 6pm, stuff starts at 8pm
Tickets:
£6 advance/ £8 door
Put aside your resolutions and your indifference and come retox at the first Book Slam of the new decade. Please note, we've gone mid-month on account of all sorts of forthcoming shenanigans. Our guests include: -
JON MCGREGOR - Booker-listed for both 'If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things' and 'So Many Ways To Begin', he'll be reading from his forthcoming novel, 'Even The Dogs'. Jon's one of the best contempary writers I've read and one of the worst footballers I've ever seen ...
JOSEPHINE ONIYAMA - just the most tender and entrancing singer-songwriter ('an old soul singer in a beautiful young girl' - Guy Garvey [Elbow]).
DAN ANTOPOLSKI - the smartest Antopolski on Brixton Hill and winner of the funniest joke at the Edinburgh Festival.
Hosted by the incomparable FRANCESCA BEARD - poet, raconteur and every child's favourite grown-up.
All-Star Poetry Olympics SuperJam
Part of Voices of Freedom
Fri 22 Jan / 7.30pm / Bar / £12 / £10 concs
Michael Horovitz presents a galaxy of scintillating superbards: Francesca Beard, Charlie Dark, Salena Godden, Daljit Nagra, Molly Parkin and Tim Wells with Pete Lemer’s piano, Annie Whitehead’s trombone, vocals & spoken-word settings, the William Blake Klezmatrix Band, plus special guests.
Click to book tickets online or call our Box Office on 020 7613 7498
Purcell Room
Michael Horovitz: 50 Years of New Departures
Thursday 4 February 2010
Poetry Olympics torchbearer and New Departures Editor, Michael Horovitz, presents an evening of poetry, song and popular music to celebrate 50 years of New Departures and 30 of Poetry Olympics festivals.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Michael Rosen's A-Z of Poetry
Thursday 11 February 2010
Launching Imagine are three of the brightest names in children's writing who read from their latest books and talk about their brilliant characters and stories. With Michael Rosen, John Hegley and Francesca Beard.
Francesca Beard presents:Animal Olympics
Running Time: 55 minutes
Showing: Sun 14th Feb
Full: £6.00 full price
Concession:£4.50 concessions
Language: English
Ages: 5+
Animal Olympics, a special storytelling show for children and families, presented by Francesca Beard, storyteller extraordinaire.
Watermans 40 High Street Brentford TW8 0DS
020 8232 1010
Apples&Snakes at Soho Theatre
Wednesday, 24/02/2010 at Soho Theatre
21 Dean Street, London, W1D 3NE
£8/ £6
supporting Ian McMillan.
Thursday, 08/10/2009 at Guy's Hospital
Atrium 2, Guy's hospital, Great Maze Pond, London, SE1 9RT
Free
Join poets Jean 'Binta Breeze, Francesca Beard and Simon Mole to celebrate National Poetry Day.
Bookings: 020 718 81215
SPIN
Saturday, 10/10/2009 at Chelsea Theatre - Corus Fresh Flower,
The Chelsea Theatre, Kings Road, London
FREE
Suitable for ages 7+
Join Apples & 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 and have your kids fired up by poetry.
Featuring : Charlie Dark, Francesca Beard & Sally Pomme Clayton
Tour of Namibia with The British Council,
12th - 21st October 2009
Public Performance
Saturday 17th October, 7.30pm
Paul's Place,
Windhoek
ANIMAL OLYMPICS
1300 Saturday 4th July 2009
CORN EXCHANGE
Market Place, Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 5BD
Telephone : 01635 582666
Fax : 01635 582223
admin@cornexchangenew.co.uk
1100 SAT 23rd & MON 25th MAY
The Parlure
Brighton Fringe Festival
POETRY LINK
Sundown in Southend : May 17th
Norwich Arts Centre : May 18th
Speakeasy in Peterborough : May 19th
Wax Lyrical - Colchester Arts Centre : May 20th.
ANIMAL OLYMPICS DATES
arts depot
5 Nether St
Tally Ho Corner
North Finchley,
N12 0GA.
Sunday 8th February 2009 12.00PM
Sunday 8th February 2009 3.00PM
http://www.artsdepot.co.uk
The Albany : Douglas Way : Deptford : London SE8
Box Office 020 8692 444
Sunday 8th March 3pm
http://www.thealbany.org.uk
New Wolsey Studio,
St Georges Street,
Ipswich
Box office 01473 295 900
Saturday 14th March at 11am & 2pm
http://www.wolseytheatre.co.uk
Jacksons Lane Theatre,
269A Archway Road,
Haringey,
London, N6 5AA
Telephone: 020 8341 4421
Sunday March 15th 2pm
http://www.jacksonslane.org.uk
Norden Farm Centre for the Arts
Altwood Road
Maidenhead
Phone: 01628 788997
Saturday 28th March 11am & 3pm
http://www.nordenfarm.org
South Street
21 South Street, Reading, RG1 4QU
Tel: 0118 9606060
Sunday 29 March 2009 11.30 & 2.00
http://www.readingarts.com/southstreet/
more dates to follow...
Speechless Tour dates
London
Thursday 9 October 2008 @ 8pm
The Albany, Douglas Way, Deptford, SE8 4AG
www.thealbany.org.uk
Liverpool
Monday 13 October @ 8pm
Chapter and Verse Literature Festival,
the Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BX
www.thebluecoat.org.uk
Stockton
Wednesday 22 October @7.30pm
The Arc, Dovecot Street, Stockton on Tees, TS18 1LL
www.arconline.co.uk
Lancaster
Thursday 23 October @ 8pm
Litfest, The Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW
www.litfest.org
London
Thursday 30 October @ 7.45pm
Poetry International, Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London SE1 8XX
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
ANIMAL OLYMPICS Tour Dates
25th October 1pm and 3pm
Barnsley Diversity Festival
Cooper Gallery
01226 242 905
1st November 1030
Polka Theatre's World of Stories and Music
Call 020 8543 4888 from the Monday before each event for your FREE tickets.
15th November 3pm
Maltings Arts Theatre
St Albans
01727 844222
16th November 3pm
Stratford Circus Children's Festival
www.stratford-circus.com
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3pm
5th July 2008
Ledbury Poetry Festival,
Herefordshire
(with Jackie Kay and Michael Rosen)
www.poetry-festival.com
1830
8th July 2008
Holloway Arts Festival
North Library
12th July 2008
Come for pub lunch - we'll do the show at 2pm!
Only London Preview before Animal Olympics goes up to Edinburgh!
at the fabulous Grey Goose Pub
100 Clapham Park Road
London
SW4 7BZ
0871-223-1292
hello@francescabeard.com
2pm
19th July 2008
Latitude Festival
Poetry Tent
"Animal Olympics"
www.latitudefestival.co.uk
11.30
31.07.08 - 26.08.08
Assembly @Gerorge Street
Drawing Room
"Animal Olympics"
www.assemblyfestival.com
(illustration:johnhallett.co.uk)
2pm -6pm
15th June 2008
Celebrating Sanctuary
BookSlam Acoustic Tent
Coin Street Gardens,
SouthBank
1pm - 6pm
11th June 2008
EAST Showcase
Soho Theatre
London
HISTORIC
Gigography
1996 - Hard Edge Club (first ever paid gig, a ten minute set booked by Tim Wells. John Cooper Clarke was head-lining. On his request, I got him a tequila from the bar. Spent the next week thinking if I die now, at least I’ll have done something worthwhile.
1997 - Bunjies Folk Cellar on Street(where Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, blah blah also played, now a pizza restaurant.
1998 - Big Word, Islington, run by Jem Rolls
1998 - Express Excess at the Enterprise with Paul Lyalls
1998 - Apples and Snakes, BAC
1998 - Slam Olympics, Boston, Mass
1998 - Roskilde Festival, Denmark (performed every afternoon, with MC Jabber, Paul Lyalls, Jem Rolls, JC001, and Lucy English in a stage just opposite the dance tent; no one could hear us. We were housed in a shed.)
1997, 2000 - Glastonbury, the mud years.
1998 - NuYorican Café, NY, NY
2000 - Cithea, Paris, with Piers Faccini, as Charley Marlowe
2001 - Night Town, Rotterdam with Roger Robinson and Saul Williams.
2002, 2003 - Café Teatret, Copenhagen
2002, 2003 - Gadesjakket, Odense, Denmark
2002 - Tour of Bulgaria for the British Council with Roger Robinson, Lemn Sissay, Malika Booker and Piers Faccini – Hannah Henderson at the Live Literature Department
2002 - Prague, through Renaissance One, for the British Council
2003 - The Spinning Wheel; Babble. Melbourne, Australia
2003 - Medellin, Colombia, with the British Council
2003 - Baku, Azerbaijan, with the British Council
2004 - Moscow, Russia with the British Council
2001 - London Open House Festival of Architecture, commisioned to do a poem for the Imagination Building on Store Street.
2002 - Biennale Internationale, Torino, Winner of the International Slam but only because the clear crowd favourite dropped 5 points in time penalties.
2002 - Romapoesia, loser of the International Slam.
2002 - Crossing Border, Amsterdam
2003 - Aldeburgh Literature Festival
2003 - Bath International Performance Poetry Conference
2003 - International Poetry Festival, Medellin, Colombia, with the British Council. Performed in an amphitheatre at midnight by torch-light to 3,000 people. Also, in a men’s prison.
2003 - Podring, Switzerland – Saw some great African bands, swam in a lake and ate the sweetest tomato I’ve ever tasted – the Rose of Bern.
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Animal Olympics Dates
31st July – 25th August (not 11th)
1130
Animal Olympics
Drawing Room/Assembly Theatre
George Street.
6th September
Animal Olympics
Ealing Literary Festival
28th September
Animal Olympics
Watermans Theatre
Brentford
25th October
Animal Olympics
Barnsley Diversity Festival.
1st November
Animal Olympics (story-telling slot)
Polka Theatre
Wimbledon.
15th November
Animal Olympics
St Albans
16th November
Animal Olympics
Stratford Festival
8th February 2009
Animal Olympics
Arts Depot
London
28th March 2009
Animal Olympics
Nordern Farm Arts
29th March 2009
Animal Olympics
Reading South Street
4th April University of Warwick
NATE Conference 2008
Performance: 20.15 - 21.15
9th - 12th April 2008
'Chinese Whispers' in Portugal with the British Council.
(venues and times to follow)
Express Excess Birthday Party
23rd Jan 2008
'Animal Olympics',
South Bank Imagine Children's Festival
in the Purcell Rooms on the 20th Feb 2008 at 11.30am.
Some Public Performances in 2007.
14th &15th JULY
Latitude Festival, Southwold, the Poetry Tent.
(also BBC Tent 15th July).
4th and/or 5th AUGUST
Brockwell Park Lido.
11th &12th AUGUST
Poetry Party, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Meadows.
8th SEPTEMBER
Romapoesia, Rome, Italy.
16th - 25th SEPTEMBER
British Council Vietnam. Venues tbc
26th SEPTEMBER - 5th OCTOBER.
British Council, Manila, The Philippines. Venues tbc
16th NOVEMBER
Watford Festival
www.watfordpalacetheatre.co.uk
Box office number 01923 225 671.
Some Public Performances in 2006
Poetry Tent at Latitude Festival 14th - 16th July 06
(I've also got a short play on in the Theatre Tent at Latitude, as the Royal Court is presenting 'Angry Now', a showcase of new British writing. In which I am.)
2nd August, Roddy Lumsden's BroadCast night in London.
Edinburgh Book Fair in a British Council showcase on the 19th August.
Pleasance Dome,
Pentabus Theatre's 'White Open Spaces'.
Chinese Whispers at Cheltenham Literary Festival, October 2006
20 &21 April 2006 Chinese Whispers, Salisbury Playhouse
1 - 3 April 06 Bangkok International Book Fair with the British Council
26/3/06 Family Workshops at the Natural History Museum
25/3/06 Chinese Whispers at Leicester Phoenix
22/3/06 Chinese Whispers at Birmingham Rep
17/3/06 Huddersfield Literature Festival, with Patrick Neate's Book Slam
3/3/06 Get London Reading Event at Castlenau Library, Hammersmith
2/3/06 Chinese Whispers at Theatre Royal, Stratford East
26/2/06 Family Workshops at the Natural History Museum
25/2/06 Chinese Whispers at the Croydon Clocktower
24/2/06 Children's Poetry Bookshelf Gala at the Unicorn, with Daisy Goodwin, Aidrain Mitchell, Mandy Coe and Ian McMillan
22/2/06 Express Excess 10th Birthday Bash, with Paul Lyalls, Mark Gwynne Jones and Roger Robinson
20/2/06 Poetry Cafe with John Hegley and Friends
14/2/06 Local Government Conference on Sustainable Communities at the ICC Birmingham with Arts Council East
12/2/06 Family and Identity at the British Library with BBC Roots.
29/1/06 Family Workshops at the Natural History Museum, 2.30pm and 3.30pm
13/1/06 Island Queen Pub, Angel.
18/12/05 - Open Workshops at the Natural History Museum.
17/12/05 Performance for 'Vibes in the Libes' at Luton Libraries.
5/12/05 - Workshops with John Hegleyat Lumb Bank, for the Arvon Foundation.
3/11/05 Performance of 'Chinese Whispers' at the Brewery iin Kendall, Lake District
9/11/05 Poetry Performance, Manilla, Phillipines
21/11/05 - White Open Spaces, The Hurst Arvon Foundation
27/11/05 - Open Workshops in the Creepy Crawlies Gallery at the Natural History Museum
Bibliography
1998 - Gargoyle (Black Spring Press)
1998, 2003 - Cheap Date, The Idler, Ape, Rising, PIL, Saltpetre…
2001 - Oral (Hodder & Stoughton)
2001 - Dazed and Confused Annual
2001, 2002 - Guardian Guide Column: Francesca Beard’s Weekend
2002 - Chris Ofili’s Freedom One Day (Victoria Miro Gallery)
2002 - Short Fuse (The Global Anthology of New Poetry) (Rattapallax Press)
2003 - Westside Storeys (The Xpress)
2003 - Kin (Serpent’s Tail)
2003 - Velocity (The Best of Apples and Snakes, Black Spring Press)
2004 - The Poetry Store (compiled by Paul Cookson)
Discography
2002 - Charley Marlowe - This Could Be You EP