- Fenland Poet Laureate Awards 2015 - Enter the Competition!
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Could you be the next Fenland Poet Laureate? Enter our free poetry competition and find out! Deadline for entries 30th January 2015.
- POETRY EVENT: Fen Speak’s First Birthday Celebration
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The Fen Speak poetry open mic nights have now been running for a whole year! To celebrate this milestone, the Fen Speak team will be hosting a special birthday edition of their poetry and spoken word open mic night on Wednesday 15th October, and you’re invited!
This time last year, two local poets had an idea [...] - Poetry in Ely in August
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Popular poetry and spoken word open mic night Fen Speak is back in Ely this month, at an alternative venue in the city. For one month only, Fen Speak will be taking place at the Ely Museum, on Market Street. Don’t worry though; the show will still contain an excellent mix of local poetry, prose [...]
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- And this year’s winner is… Yvette Cobley, Free Range
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Congratulations to to Yvette Cobley this year’s winner of the Atelier East Summer show. We love her chickens! Yvette said she has had the urge to create throughout her life but has only recently made her pieces available to the public. She is self taught and has developed her own unique sculpture style using mixed [...]
- VOTE HERE: For Your Summer Exhibition ‘Best in Show’ 2014
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If you don’t get a chance to pop in to the fabulous Wisbech & Fenland Museum to see this wonderful exhibition of work by some brilliant and talented artists (it runs from 18 July - 23 August) and would like to vote for your ‘Best in Show’ then please do it here!
Scroll down to the bottom, [...] - Poetry at the Wisbech and Fenland Museum
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The sun is shining, summer is here, and there’s inspiration all around us - which is just as well because it’s nearly time for the next Fen Speak Poetry and Spoken Word Open Mic Night!
The next Fen Speak Open Mic night takes place on Wednesday 16th July at the Wisbech and Fenland Museum, Museum Square, [...] - Fen Speak at Strawberry Fair
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Ten Fen Speak regulars will be heading down to Strawberry Fair in Cambridge this Saturday to showcase some of the best poetry and storytelling that Fenland has to offer!
Fen Speakers Ashley Fox, Chris Morgan, Dominic O’Sullivan, Elaine Ewart, Jacqueline Mulhallen, Leanne Moden, Lowen Warrington, Meg Burrows, Poppy Kleiser, and William Alderson will be stepping up [...] - Pimms and Poetry celebrates third year at WWT Welney
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Pimms and Poetry is a fantastic annual event that champions poetry in the Fens. The event brings four talented local poets to the Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre at Welney to perform against the beautiful backdrop of the Ouse Washes.
This year, Pimms and Poetry celebrates its third anniversary with readings from the current Fenland Poet Laureate [...] - Fen Speak Poetry Open Mic Nights
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Fen Speak is the only regular open mic night in the Fens dedicated to poetry, storytelling and spoken word performance. So if you’re a budding poet, writer or wordsmith, this is your chance to speak up and speak out!
The Fen Speak initiative is supported by ADeC and Atelier East as part of the Fenland Poet [...] - Fenland Poet Laureate Awards 2014
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On Wednesday 19th March 2014, the Wisbech and Fenland Museum played host to the third annual Fenland Poet Laureate Awards!
In case you’ve never heard of them before, the awards are part of a local initiative - supported by Atelier East and ADeC - that allows writers to compete for the title of Fenland Poet Laureate. [...]