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

During the posted dates, I shall be on a Writers' Residency at the wonderful Ty Newydd Centre in Wales.
As a result, I shall be unavailable for readings, etc.

MaD (Milnrow & District) Women's Institute

Venue: St James' Church
St James Street,
Milnrow
OL16 3JS

Tuesday 13th March
Time: 7.00pm onwards

We are delighted to welcome Rosie Garland to be our guest at our March International Women’s Day meeting!
There will be cake…
Members and guests very welcome.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/868876533238915/about/

ALL women aged 18 and over are welcome to join the WI. The WI is not a religious organisation; it is non-sectarian and non-party political. Membership for 2018 costs £41 and entitles you to 12 meetings, WI Life magazine and the opportunity to attend various clubs and trips. Guests are welcome to attend!

NFWI website: https://www.thewi.org.uk/
NFWI FB www.facebook.com/thewi

Sugar and Spice 12: Standing Stronger Together

11th March 2018
LGBT Foundation,
5 Richmond Street
Manchester M1 3HF

I’m proud to be on a panel discussing “Overcoming Obstacles and Finding Resilience” – between 2-4pm on Sunday 11th March.
"To finish off our weekend of empowerment, confidence and community power, join our panel of inspirational, strong women as they discuss their own experiences of overcoming obstacles and finding resilience."

Sugar and Spice is Manchester’s annual festival for lesbian and bi women to celebrate International Women’s Day, and this year’s theme is ‘Standing Stronger Together’.
Sugar and Spice is for all women who identify as lesbian, bisexual or questioning, all or part of the time, including trans women, women of colour, older women, disabled/neurodivergent women, women of all faiths and backgrounds and non-binary/gender fluid people.

This FREE weekend event is back for the twelfth year with socialising, song-writing, discussions, dancing, crafts, photography, intersectional feminist histories, films and so much more! As always, there will be also be free food and holistic therapies for you to enjoy.
#sugarandspice12

http://lgbt.foundation/sugarandspice

POETRY CIRCUS: BROKEN HEARTS

Friday 16 February
The Bongo Club
66 Cowgate
Edinburgh EH1 1JX

19:00-22:00 £4 (EB) / £5

For everyone who’s ever been in love, fallen out of love or had their heart broken on St Valentine’s day, Poetry Circus are back with Broken Hearts, a sumptuous evening of stunning spoken word cabaret featuring special guest poets Rosie Garland, Elizabeth McGeown, Elise Hadgraft & Catherine Wilson plus Poetry Circus regulars Matt MacDonald, Lloyd Robinson & Suky Goodfellow, and, of course, a stellar supporting cast of stupendous emerging talent. Songs from Rachel Kelly and performance from Andromada Mystic and Georgia Dunn.

http://www.thebongoclub.co.uk/event/poetry-circus-broken-hearts/

UTTER! Lutonia

Saturday February 10th 2018
Wardown Museum,
Old Bedford Rd,
Luton LU2 7HA

Doors 7pm, show 7.30pm

Rosie Garland & Deanna Rodger feature in this special edition of UTTER!
With special musical guests, Slate Islands.
UTTER! Spoken Word brings a Panoply of spoken word and literary talent to Luton.
The night will be powerful and enlivening, full of bubbling words and running rhythms, voice and mind connecting directly in a room alive with ideas. Compered by Lee Nelson “Our very own peoples’ poet” – Luton News, the keeper of Luton’s live-poetry flame, veteran of the Glastonbury and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals.

http://www.lutonculture.com/wardown-house/whats-on/

WOMEN’S words MCR – Suffragette Tea Party gala event

Manchester Central Library,
St Peter's Square,
Manchester M2 5PD

Doors 5.30pm
Event starts at 6pm

A celebratory event to launch the collection of real life stories built around women’s experience of living, working and growing in Manchester.
A selection of the stories will be published in a beautiful, hand-crafted magazine based on the historic The Suffragette magazine to honour 100 years since women got the right to vote in 1918.
It will also feature commissioned writers such as Rosie Garland, Reshma Ruia, Kate Feld and Michelle Green.
PLUS The Time Travelling Suffragettes!

http://womenswordsmcr.com/blog/2017/12/14/selections-for-the-suffragette/

http://womenswordsmcr.com/

Making Thunder Roar: Emily Brontë

Preview event
Friday 2nd February - 7.00pm

Old School Room,
Church Street,
Haworth,
Keighley BD22 8DR

This is the preview of the new exhibition, "Making Thunder Roar: Emily Brontë", which will open at the Brontë Parsonage Museum on Thursday 1 February. The preview show invites a number of well-known Emily admirers to share their own fascination with her life and work. Specially commissioned contributions from Maxine Peake, Sally Wainwright, Caryl Phillips, Rosie Garland and Helen Oyeyemi amongst others result in a thought-provoking selection of Emily’s possessions, writing and artwork as well as some of the well-loved household objects she used daily.

#Emily2018

https://www.bronte.org.uk/whats-on/483/bronte-treasures/501

The Brontë Parsonage is home to the world's largest collection of Brontë artefacts, manuscripts and personal belongings. During 2017 we are offering a unique opportunity to go beyond the security cord into the Parsonage Library for a close-up viewing of some of the items not on display. During these special hour-long sessions, a member of our curatorial team will share facts and stories about a number of carefully-selected objects, offering a specialist insight into the lives and work of this inspirational family. Fascinating and moving in equal measures, Brontë Treasures is a not-to-be-missed experience.

https://www.bronte.org.uk/bronte-200

http://www.bronte.org.uk/whats-on/news/208/bronte-society-reveals-plans-for-emily-brontes-bicentenary-celebrations

Cherie Bebe’s Burlesque Revue

Matt and Phreds
64 Tib Street,
M4 1LG Manchester

Sunday 10th December 2017
Doors at 7pm with the show starting at 8pm.

Enjoy an evening of live cabaret entertainment, music and burlesque debauchery featuring performances from some of the finest burlesque performers in the UK, held at Manchester's iconic Matt & Phreds.

Starring:
Cherie Bebe ~ Burlesque sensation and producer of Cherie Bebe's Burlesque Revue

Kitty & Lilibet The Time Travelling Suffragettes ~ Back by popular demand after their debut at Cherie Bebe's Burlesque Revue 2016.

and compere Jonathan Mayor ~ The cheeky and utterly fabulous diva of the night.

The event will be taking place on

Tickets are £8 (plus booking fee) if booked in advance via billetto / £10 on the door. Tickets are nonrefundable.

PLEASE CALL MATT & PHREDS TO RESERVE SEATING ONCE YOUR TICKETS HAVE BEEN PURCHASED AS THE TABLES ARE STRICTLY LIMITED ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVE BASIS AND WE DO SELL OUT.

0161 273 5495

www.mattandphreds.com

Here is a sneak peek of what to expect at Cherie Bebe's Burlesque Revue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHpqFwp4dEg

The Looking Glass Burlesque

Pyramid Studio Theatre
Palmyra Square South,
Warrington,
WA1 1BL.

Doors are at 7.30pm, show at 8pm.
Tickets are £11 for theatre seats and £14 for cabaret tables.

The Looking Glass Burlesque returns to its favourite home with an outstanding line-up of burlesque and variety talent. With a changing line-up every year, you'll never be disappointed!

Feast your eyes upon glamorous showgirls, sultry songbirds, dazzling dancers, madcap magicians, comedic cheesecake, latin lovelies and a whole host more!
The wondrous Rosie Lugosi will be returning to compere the evening's proceedings in her own fabulous style, ably assisted by the cutest stage kitten this side of the litterbox, Miss Beau Shortcake.

STARRING:
Missy Malone - the international bombshell of burlesque, guaranteed to excite and entertain in each and every way. One of the UK's favourite burlesque performers, and you'll soon see why!
Suzie Sequin - the chameleon of cabaret. This beauty is a master of character burlesque and she will be debuting a BRAND NEW act sure to get your hips a shaking and your feet a tapping!
Dancers Bizarre - and many more!

Tickets are £11 for theatre seats and £14 for cabaret tables. Such a bargain for this jam-packed line up of award winning and critically acclaimed performers. Doors are at 7.30pm, show at 8pm.

Tickets available from www.pyramidparrhall.co.uk

So roll up, roll up and step through The Looking Glass once again for an evening of pure entertainment - you won't be disappointed!