Poetry as Exploration of the Past – Saboteur Festival Panel 2020
While our commissioned artists are busying themselves to get content ready for the Saboteur Awards Festival 2020 (remember, we’ll be
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Interactive Literature
LIVEwire at the Verve Poetry Festival (February 22, 2020)
Late last year, UK spoken word record label Nymphs & Thugs announced their first national tour. Their goal was to bring ‘LIVEwire’ to eight different venues across the country.
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Utopia, Shop Front Theatre, Coventry, 6th November
Utopia – a single-hander written and performed by multi-disciplinary artist and creative producer Amahra Spence – blurred the barriers between life and art.
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Saboteur Awards 2019 Category Spotlight: Best Regular Spoken Word Night
Up and down the country there are weekly and monthly word events that mean great things to the people who
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Saboteur Awards 2019 Category Spotlight: Best Spoken Word Performer
All over the world at any given moment there are spoken word performers wowing audiences. After the first round of
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Saboteur Awards 2019 Category Spotlight: Best Spoken Word Show
The Best Spoken Word Show is another staple element of the Saboteur Awards and this year there have been so
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Saboteur Awards 2019 Category Spotlight: Best Literary Festival
It’s the first year that the Saboteur Awards Festival has been able to include a literary festival category, and we’re
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Funkenteleky Verve Special (The Old Rep, Birmingham, 17 Feb 2019)
Reviewed by Jonah Corren ‘Funken.. what? Funkenwha? Is it a typo? Funfksjsdksrd?! Seriously? That’s not a word. Funke..Fun…ke? Funkenteleky!’ On
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UniSlam Grand Finals (The Old Rep, Birmingham, 3 Feb 2019)
Reviewed by Tyrone Lewis What an event UniSlam is! For those who don’t know, UniSlam is an annual team poetry
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Hit the Ode x UniSlam Party (The Patrick Studio, Birmingham Hippodrome, 1 Feb 2019)
reviewed by Hannah Ledlie Hit the Ode was launched a decade ago in The Victoria, a popular pub in Birmingham city
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