Lemn has single-handedly raised awareness of fostering through his words and music and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live.

The theme of the day is Journeys – from the events that happen in your living room to those observed from a barred window.

Workshops 2 – 6pm £3
Evening performance 7 – 10pm £12 (£10 Concessions, £6 Under 26s)

TICKETS

Please note that you are welcome to attend just the workshop – Tickets £3, or you can buy an Evening Ticket for £12 (£10 Concessions, £6 under 26s). You can also buy a full Day Ticket (workshop & performance) for £15 (£13 Concessions, £9 under 26s).

WORKSHOPS

Beers and Books @ Cast Bar 2-­4pm
Nowhere is safe! We’re turning this bar and restaurant into a library with a little help from our friends from Bromley House. Browse through books from local authors and nominees of the East Midlands Book Award – a few of the writers might even join you! Dive into debate and discussion with our on hand Mouthy librarians.

Scrabble and Babble @ Understudy 2-­5pm
A haven of word play ­- get comfy and join us for a game of Scrabble, words and, if you fancy, put pen to paper and send a postcard, the old fashioned way.

Cypher Space @ Lower Foyer 2-­6pm
Collaborate, record, perform and listen to live music and poetry. Work with Project St2di0s, Black Drop and guest band Wooden Arms to write your own poetry, fuse it with music and share it with the world. Acoustic musicians, writers and novices welcome!

Open Mic 6-5pm

Pickyheads’ Global Glamour @ Upper Foyer 2-­4pm
Join The Pickyheads Movement as they celebrate the natural beauty of African hair. Play and experiment with your appearance. There will be craft activities and merchandise too! Explore your sense of who you are, talk about stereotypes and identity, learn about each other’s ideals of beauty – flick through magazines, write poems, have debates.

Internal Flight @ Auditorium 6.00-­6.30pm
Watch a short documentary on our headlining artist, Lemn Sissay, and his search for his father.

WORKSHOPS WITH INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED WRITERS

2-­3pm with John Berkavitch @ Neville Studio
Uplift your work with the same versatility in this quick fire lesson in how the page and stage don’t always need to be in conflict. John “Berko” Berkavitch has worked in the UK as an artist in education for almost a decade. As a former UK Poetry Champion, his unique approach to learning and focus on transferable skills served as an inspiration to thousands of hard-to­-reach and disenfranchised young people in Britain.

3.15­-4.15pm with Peter Kahn @ Neville Studio
Chicagoan, Peter Kahn will guide you through world class contemporary poetry and enable you to write creatively in response to it. Co-founder of the London Teenage Poetry Slam and founding member of Malika’s Kitchen in Chicago. Peter has nearly twenty years experience working with young people as both a social worker and teacher. Based at Oak Park & River Forest High School in Chicago, he runs the largest school­-based spoken word club in the world.

5­-6pm with Michael Eaton @ Ustinov Room
Explore narrative and character with Michael Eaton, MBE. He is a screenwriter who specialises in docudrama. His work includes Shipman, Shoot To Kill and Who Bombed Lockerbie? and adaptations of works by George Eliot and Charles Dickens for BBC Radio 4. Michael’s Charlie Peace: His Amazing Life and Astounding Legend will be showing at Nottingham Playhouse in October.

For more information and to book your place