FEMFringe

Greenside,
1 Royal Terrace,
Edinburgh EH7 5AB

Rosie Garland performs at FEMFringe, Tuesday 14th August!

Greenside Venues are proud to present FEMFRINGE - two nights celebrating feminist performance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018. With over 40 acts from the biggest venues in Edinburgh, this is not an event to miss!

Over two evenings, four showcases will be taking place at Greenside Royal Terrace with performances from a variety of feminist-focused performance, ranging from stand-up to cabaret and theatre to music. Each night, we'll begin with drinks at 7.30pm. The talent will kick off at 20.00 and run until 21.30, followed by a short break and then another 90 mins of performances. There will be performances and a drinks reception running throughout the evening, outside of the main showcase.

From 19.30 we will be hosting a networking session between press, performers and producers to swap information and chat about all things FEMFRINGE.

This event is free and non-ticketed - there will be a standby queue and events happening around the showcase in the bar. If you are a member of the press, a producer or programmer, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to secure a seat at the showcase.

She Grrrowls
11th August: 23.20-00.20am

Banshee Labyrinth (venue 156)
Banqueting Hall,
29-35 Niddry Street,
Edinburgh,
EH1 1LG

She Grrrowls is a feminist arts night that features poetry, comedy, music and everything in between.
She Grrrowls is heading to the Edinburgh Fringe festival again in 2018! At the Banqueting Hall, Banshee Labyrinth, with a late-night slot of 23.20-00.20am

London's favourite feminist arts night bringing you a night of the best women in spoken word mixed in with some music and comedy. There are new features every night and you can give us your best grrrowl with the all-inclusive open mic! Hosted by Carmina Masoliver @shegrrrowls

https://shegrrrowls.com/

Sanctuary of Sin

11th August: 9.15pm – 10.15pm

Bar Bados (Venue 281) ROOM 1
68 Cowgate,
Edinburgh
EH1 1JW

The Convent of Corruption once again opens its doors! We invite you to come worship at our late night services of debauched, depraved and downright naughty Cabaret performance. Only the most subversive sinners are granted entry. So come to the confessional and leave your innocence at the door... 18+

https://tickets.edfringe.com/venues/bar-bados

Poetry Bordello

Woodland Creatures (Venue 282)
260-262 Leith Walk,
Edinburgh EH6 5EL

9th August 2018
20.00-22.00
Free event

Poetry Bordello is a deliciously naughty blend of risqué spoken word and astounding burlesque performance brought to you by List Hot 100 performance poetry company – Poetry Circus. 2018's line-up includes bestselling novelist and chanteuse Rosie Garland; slam-busting performance poets Max Scratchmann, AR Crow, Jo Gilbert, Suky Goodfellow and Angie Strachan and a whole host of stunning poets and performers, old and new. A unique experience awaits at the Fringe's most daring spoken word evening, so come along and sample our sumptuous bordello atmosphere and delicious spoken word and performance.

https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/poetry-bordello

Speakin’ Weird

Spin,
10 Littlejohn Street
Aberdeen AB10 1FG

7.30pm-10.30pm

Open mic spoken word event in Aberdeen featuring poetry sensation Rosie Garland!

2nd Wednesday of the month. Poetry, comedy, prose, stories, angry rants and introspective musings all welcome. Hosted by Sparklechops.

https://www.facebook.com/sparklechops3/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel

Gothic Manchester Festival Events presents
Twisted Tales of Hybridity

Saturday 4 August, 6.00pm – 8.30pm
International Anthony Burgess Foundation
3 Cambridge St
Manchester
M1 5BY

Celebrating the sixth year of the Gothic Manchester Festival, Twisted Tales of Hybridity will bring together three authors who have all appeared in previous years; Rosie Garland (Vixen and The Night Brother); Helen Marshall (Hair Side, Flesh Side and Gifts for the One Who Comes After) and Laura Mauro (Naming the Bones) to explore how hybridity informs their work.

The event will feature a reading from each author, a panel discussion, and Q&A. It will be followed by a signing session.

Tickets are available https://buyonline.mmu.ac.uk/product-catalogue/arts-and-humanities/events/twisted-tales-of-hybridity

https://www2.mmu.ac.uk/english/gothic-studies/gothic-manchester-festival/detail/index.php?id=8549

Brontë 200 - What Emily Means to Us

A celebration of Emily Brontë at 200

Venue – Haworth venue tbc
Time – 7.30pm

We’re rounding off Emily’s birthday weekend with a celebration of her work and legacy. Join a stellar line-up of Lily Cole, Patience Agbabi, Rosie Garland and an array of other special guests as they perform readings of Emily’s work and share their responses to the words ‘what Emily means to me’. We will also be joined by The Unthanks, who will announce details of their forthcoming Emily-inspired work and give a short performance from their repertoire.

This tribute to the astonishing creative mind behind Wuthering Heights and some of the most evocative and moving poetry in literature, set against the stunning landscape that so inspired her, promises to be an evening to remember. Book early to avoid disappointment!

Tickets £15/£12 concessions and Brontë Society members (£5 for 16--25 year olds). Please book in advance at www.bronte.org.uk/whats-on
or on 01535 640192.

Brontë 200 - Women, the Gothic and Emily

Haworth,
Venue tbc
Tickets £8/£6 concessions and Brontë Society members

The imposing houses, eerie doubling of names and wandering of unquiet spirits combine within Wuthering Heights to create one of the great Gothic texts of the nineteenth century. Emily Brontë’s only published novel continues to cast a looming shadow over Gothic writing up to the present day.

On the occasion of her two hundredth birthday, novelists Katherine Clements, Beth Underdown and Rosie Garland discuss the impact of Wuthering Heights on their own writing, and how their work contributes to a continuing Gothic tradition.

Katherine Clements is a critically acclaimed novelist and the current Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Manchester. Her latest novel, The Coffin Path (2018), is a ghost story set on the West Yorkshire moors, described by The Times as ‘a wonderfully sinister novel’.

Beth Underdown’s first novel, The Witchfinder’s Sister (2017), won the Historical Writer’s Association Debut Crown Award, and has been selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club. She was born in Rochdale and lectures in creative writing at the University of Manchester.

Rosie Garland is a novelist, poet and performer based in the north of England, and one of the contributors to Making Thunder Roar, our 2018 exhibition on Emily Brontë. Her most recent book, The Night Brother, was released in 2017.

Tickets £8/£6 concessions and Brontë Society members (£2 for 16-25 year olds). Please book in advance at www.bronte.org.uk/whats-on
or on 01535 640192.

https://www.bronte.org.uk/bronte-200/events/625/women-the-gothic-and-emily/627

Prose Pride: An Evening of Fabulous Words

Waterstones Nottingham
1/5 Bridlesmith Gate,
Nottingham, NG1 2GR

23 July at 19:00–22:00

Write Pride proudly presents an evening of LGBTQ performance...
Admission: £5

Featuring ROSIE GARLAND
Also featuring work from participants of Rosie Garland's masterclass workshop.

Taking place in Nottingham from July 23rd to 27th for the week leading up to Nottingham Pride, Write Pride is a series of workshops and events exploring and celebrating the work of LGBTQIA writers from 5 writing disciplines: prose, film, song writing, poetry and theatre. Each day will also include an evening celebration event and will come to an end with a final celebratory project on July 28th - the day of Nottingham Pride!

For more information, contact WritePride at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/prose-pride-an-evening-of-creative-readings-tickets-46696093272

PROSE PRIDE writing workshop

Write Pride proudly presents a masterclass with Rosie Garland!

Waterstones Nottingham
1/5 Bridlesmith Gate,
Nottingham, NG1 2GR

23 July at 14:00–17:00
16+ only

Masterclass Price: £5

Our series of masterclasses will include a combination of writing prompts, focussed writing time and professional advice from an experienced writer to support you in exploring LGBT themes in your writing.

We are delighted to welcome Rosie Garland!
Tagged ‘literary hero’ by The Skinny, Rosie Garland is a novelist, poet and singer with post-punk band The March Violets. She performs twisted music-hall songs as The Time-Travelling Suffragette.

Taking place in Nottingham from July 23rd to 27th for the week leading up to Nottingham Pride, Write Pride is a series of workshops and events exploring and celebrating the work of LGBTQIA writers from 5 writing disciplines: prose, film, song writing, poetry and theatre. Each day will also include an evening celebration event and will come to an end with a final celebratory project on July 28th - the day of Nottingham Pride!

For more information, contact WritePride at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Hooray Cabaret at Buxton International Festival

Venue:
Spiegeltent,
Pavilion Gardens
St John's Rd,
Buxton SK17 6BE

Time - 7.00pm - 12.00am
Price - £20

The only way to celebrate the last night of the Festival – in the Spiegeltent with Hooray Cabaret!
Join us for a night filled with music, laughter, burlesque and acrobatics
Hosted by the Mistress of the dark herself, Rosie Lugosi!

Keep an eye on our Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts for more details about our amazing performers.
As they say, life is a cabaret.

http://www.buxtonfestival.co.uk/events/hooray-cabaret

That's What She Said MCR

Tribeca,
50 Sackville St,
Manchester M1 3WF

£5

"The biggest spoken word night in London for women" (Evening Standard) returns to Manchester!

Shortlisted for Best Spoken Word Night in the UK (Saboteur Awards, 2017), That's What She Said showcases the best new writing and performance by women, featuring iconic and emerging authors with a mix of performance, poetry, storytelling, slam and more.

LINE-UP FOR THURSDAY 5th JULY 2018

HOLLY RINGLAND
Holly Ringland grew up barefoot and wild in her mother's tropical garden on the east coast of Australia. Her interest in cultures and stories was sparked by a two-year journey her family took in North America when she was nine years old, living in a camper van and travelling from one national park to another. In her twenties, Holly worked for four years in a remote Indigenous community in the central Australian desert. Moving to England in 2009, Holly obtained her MA in Creative Writing from the University of Manchester. Her essays and short fiction have been published in various anthologies and literary journals. She now lives between the UK and Australia. Her debut novel, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, has already sold in 20 territories, and is forthcoming from PanMacmillan on 28th June.
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ROSIE GARLAND
Award winning ‘literary hero’ (The Skinny) Rosie is a novelist, poet and singer. Author of novels The Night Brother, Vixen and The Palace of Curiosities, and six solo poetry collections, most recently As in Judy (Flapjack Press). "One of the country’s finest performance poets" (Apples & Snakes). Winner of the DaDa Award for Performance Artist of the Year, the Diva Award for Solo Performer, and a Poetry Award from the People’s Café, New York.

MORE PERFORMERS STILL TO BE ANNOUNCED

WHAT THEY SAY...

"To put it bluntly, I'd never come across a spoken word night with such a fantastic lineup. 'How have I never come across this before?', I kept asking myself, 'this is everything I've ever wanted from a night out...'

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thats-what-she-said-mcr-the-best-writing-by-women-ft-holly-ringland-tickets-46970674552

Club Big @The Boo

The Boo
679 Bacup Rd,
Rawtenstall
BB4 7HB
7pm till late
Tickets £6 Advance £7 Door

Club Big
John Hyatt brings Club Big to the Boo.
For two months in 2017 as part of his Rock Art exhibition at HOMEmcr, the polymath professor, musician and artist, created an entire club, complete with neon sign, house band, bar and a truly diverse bill of acts. For one night only Club Big re-opens its doors. Confirmed already are wondrous wordsmith Rosie Garland and Spirit Level - Mark Hoyle (Dub sex); from the grime of Little Ireland, through a gleaming steel and polished glass presents and onwards.
Adults only

https://www.horseandbamboo.org/june/

Soapbox, Manchester Histories Festival

Friday 8th June
5.30pm – free event
All Saint’s Park,
Grosvenor Square,
Oxford Road
Manchester, M15 6BH

Manchester Histories Festival returns across Greater Manchester for a long-weekender from 7-11 June 2018 with the theme protest, democracy, and freedom of speech. For Manchester Histories Festival 2018 and in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University, we're presenting ‘Soapbox’ from 8th-10th June where we will create a Speakers Corner at All Saint’s Park off Oxford Road. The park will be transformed artists from the region, with a hustings, new visual identity, and food and drink stalls.
On Friday 8th June at c.5.30pm, Rosie Garland will be performing her spoken word piece about the Suffragette direct action in Manchester Art Gallery, which took place in April 1913.

https://manchesterhistories.co.uk/

Manchester Histories Festival launch

Manchester City Art Gallery,
Mosley Street,
Manchester M2 3JL
Free event – 6-9pm

Celebrate the launch of the 2018 Manchester Histories Festival with us. Meet the festival team and volunteers and discover what’s on over the weekend in more detail. Throughout the galleries hear protest poetry and trailblazers of our Soapbox project, drop into our Debate Café, catch Thinking Out Loud: Speech Acts talk.

Includes Rosie Garland reading her piece ‘Syrinx’ right next to the painting that inspired it.

See the full festival programme at

https://manchesterhistories.co.uk

A Splendid Day Out

1st – 3rd June 2018
Winter Gardens,
Morecambe

The Northwest premier Steampunk Festival returns. Follow Phileas Fogg’s Journey "Around the world in 80 days" The A Splendid Day Out airship will land in the UK’s charming Victorian seaside retreat of Morecambe for its fifth year of top-hole entertainment. Presented by The League of Splendid, another weekend of astounding entertainment and events, will take place throughout Morecambe.

The Winter Gardens will host out Art & Literature festival “Arts Of Steam”.

We are delighted to welcome  Rosie Garland!

She will be joining us for Arts Of Steam in the Winter Gardens all over the weekend, 2nd & 3rd June 2018

Friday 1st June @ The Alhambra Theatre, Carleton, Morecambe 7.30 - Midnight - our Cabaret night

Sat 2nd June @ The Alhambra Theatre, Carleton, Morecambe 7.30 - 1am Our infamous sell out Masquerade Ball.

Outside on the Promenade:
Fairground, Steam Traction Engines, Birds Of Prey, Outside stage with Live music from Victor & The Bully. Alice's Night Circus, Montague Jacques Fromage, Kiss Like Ether, Ben Miles, Ukulele Jukebox, Dead Mans Hand.

Join us as we take you on a Journey around the world, visiting all the countries Philieas Fogg travelled to, each with its own entertainment and selection of food.

http://asplendiddayout.com/

Date: Thursday 10th May 2018
Venue: MSP Tech Incubator,
Manchester Technology Centre,
Oxford Road, Manchester, M1 7ED

Timings: Event starts at 5.30pm and finishes at 11pm.
Rosie Garland Performance time tbc but will be between 6.45pm – 7.30pm

https://mspl.co.uk/campuses/manchester-technology-centre/tech-incubator/

MSPL is launching a new tech hub in Manchester.
During the evening we will have a series of experiences from Live Art, Virtual reality playground, to Live AV and a robot orchestra.

This tech hub will be supporting aspiring young women to get into STEM and to empower them to develop their ideas. So it is with great pleasure that we announce Rosie Garland as our key woman figurehead for the evening.

11am-1pm, Tuesday 8th May 2018

Waterstones Deansgate,
91 Deansgate, Manchester,
M3 2BW

Waterstones Deansgate is excited to host a monthly women’s writers' group. Meeting on the second Tuesday of the month, the group is for those out there who are aspiring writers, or simply interested in writerly technical prowess.

Join guest writer Rosie Garland for a two-hour workshop.

3rd May 2018 - Very excited to announce paperback publication day of The Night Brother!
With a superb new cover.

Burnage Library,
Burnage Lane,
Manchester M19 1EW
Monday 23rd April, 2018
7.15 - 9.15pm – free event

We are delighted to welcome Manchester writer Rosie Garland to our special open-mic reading event at Burnage Library! Come and hear Rosie read from her sparkling works, and take part yourself in the open mic.

Burnage Library is located in the Activity Hub on the corner of Burnage Lane and Shawbrook Road. You can see us on the map in the link below.

http://www.burnageactivityhub.org.uk/wp/?page_id=64