Polari at Birmingham Lit Fest
Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Centenary Square,
Broad Street,
Birmingham, B1 2EP
8 October at 19:00–21:00
Tickets: £8 / £6.40 concs
Festival Pass: Free
Polari returns to Birmingham as part of Birmingham Lit Fest and our Tenth Birthday Tour, supported by Arts Council England.
Hosted by Paul Burston with Rosie Garland, Scott Campbell, Laura Wake, Karen Mcleod and more.
Polari has come a long way from its humble beginnings above a Soho pub. Now celebrating its 10th year, the award-winning LGBT literary movement calls London’s Southbank Centre its home and tours regularly.
Tonight’s show is part of the salon’s tenth anniversary tour, funded by Arts Council England. Curated and hosted by author Paul Burston with guests Scott Campbell, Rosie Garland, Karen McLeod, Gerry Potter and Laura Wake.
In association with SHOUT festival.
https://www.birminghamliteraturefestival.org/event/polari-literary-salon/
The Institute
78 Digbeth High Street
Digbeth
Birmingham
B5 6DY
Saturday 6th June 11am - 5pm
Join us in the Edwardian splendour of Birmingham's most iconic venue for 'The Ultimate Alternative Shopping & Entertainment Experience' only this time BIGGER & BETTER. New for Summer we are expanding to all 4 levels of the venue, near doubling guest capacity, with up to 60 exhibitors and seated balcony viewing for the main stage.
★ Up to 60 exhibitors
★ 4 levels
★ 3 shopping zones
★ 2 stages
★ Entertainment throughout including Burlesque, Twisted Cabaret, Aerial Acts & DJ's
★ Vintage Dining Experience courtesy of Lil's Parlour
★ Multiple bars
★ Cloakroom & Cashpoint
Admission : Advance tickets £6 available online (with NO BOOKING FEES) admission on the door £7 or £4 N.U.S. with ID. Please note that the increase to the previously advertised price of £5/6 is due to our compulsory VAT registration on 6.4.15.
Ticket sales, event information, exhibitor listings & performer lineups www.thealternativeandburlesquefair.com/birmingham
LOCATION & DIRECTIONS
Directions & Location : Opposite Digbeth coach station 5 minutes walk from Bullring Shopping Centre/Markets & Custard Factory
Car Parking : Custard Factory (Digbeth High Street) & Trinity Street (behind former Air Nightclub Heath Mills Lane) both around £5 all day and less than 5 minutes walk.
Public Transport : Nearest train station Moor Street, but only 10 mins walk from New Street.
Age Restriction : Strictly 18+ ID may be requested. Babies under 12 months old are permitted providing they are suitably carried.
Cloakroom : Available in venue
Cashpoint : Available in venue
Accessibility: Most areas are fully accessible, although smaller library room has accessible viewing for stage, but stair access is required for stalls
Dress Code : None, but feel free to look FABULOUS whatever your style
Apples and Snakes presents
Hit the Ode
Hit the Ode brings the most exciting poets from the region, the country and the world to the heart of Birmingham. Join us! We have poems. Poems written on the backs of lottery tickets and on the margins of holy books; poems which yell through covered mouths and whisper through megaphones; poems which send you emails every day and poems which are not available to take your call right now. Good poems. Come and get them.
Line-up: Rosie Garland plus Dominic Berry from Manchester & Alexandre Sa from Portugal!
A very few open mic slots will be available! For more info, contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
When: Thursday 15th January 2015, 7.30pm
Where: The Victoria, 48 John Bright St, Birmingham B1 1BN
Tickets: £5
Info: www.thevictoriabirmingham.co.uk / Facebook
Open mic: half of the open mic slots available via email (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), the other half can be claimed on the door on the day of the event.
Thrilled that 'Now that you are not-you' is Guardian Poem of the Week!
"A very modern, secular kind of elegy reflects on death with a surprising lightness" - Carol Rumens
"This week’s poem is from What Girls Do in the Dark, the latest collection by the multi-talented Rosie Garland. It stands alone, while extending the narrative of the short poem that immediately precedes it, Stargazer. The setting of Stargazer is a hospital bedside, where the dying patient’s visitor must navigate “the vertigo tilt / of old words like spread, outlook, time.” That poem ends with the metaphors that will be reconfigured in Now that you are not-you. “Doctors / murmur the names of new constellations / - astrocyte, hippocampus, glioblastoma – and calculate / the growth of nebulae; this rising tide of cells that climbs / the Milky Way of the spine to flood your head with light.”
Read the whole article here...
7.30pm GMT
Join us to celebrate the launch of What Girls Do in the Dark by Rosie Garland, with guests Tania Hershman & Ian Humphreys
About this Event
Join Rosie Garland, plus guest writers Tania Hershman & Ian Humphreys to celebrate the publication of Rosie's new poetry collection What Girls Do in the Dark.
Thursday 12th November 7.30pm (GMT)
This event will be streamed live & can be viewed now, through the Nine Arches Press YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Z7yq1Ey_U&feature=youtu.be
I thought it wasn't possible to feel any more thrilled about joining Nine Arches Press
- then I see the stunning cover of my new poetry collection, 'What Girls Do In The Dark'.
Out October 2020
https://www.ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/what-girls-do-in-the-dark.html
Dystopian classics to modern crime - Nine must-read Manchester novels
“Fantasy, romance, sci-fi, comedy…we’ve got a genre for everyone
There’s a very good reason Manchester is a UNESCO City of Literature, as we highlighted before its bid to join the prestigious network in 2017. Innovative publishers, diverse bookshops and a lively events scene make it an unrivalled literary melting pot.
Rosie Garland’s The Night Brother is our historical highlight
Ever the entertainer, Rosie Garland sung in post-punk band The March Violets and now performs ‘twisted cabaret’ as Rosie Lugosi the Vampire Queen. But she’s also a literary maverick with an array of essays, short stories and poetry to her name (much of which she also reads at spoken words events citywide) and three acclaimed novels. Her latest, The Night Brother, navigates themes of gender and identity through two siblings in Victorian Manchester. Rich and Gothic, it’s a must for fans of Angela Carter.”
https://confidentials.com/manchester/dystopian-classics-to-modern-crime-nine-must-read-manchester-novels
An unexpected & encouraging piece of news!
Northern Soul has selected 'The Night Brother' as a Best Northern Read
Desmond Bullen, Northern Soul writer
“In days that can seem desolate and uncertain, there’s a lot to be said for windows into a better world and, ultimately, joyfully, that is exactly the view that The Night Brother by Rosie Garland affords. Not that its window seat is cheaply achieved. Far from it.
Rooted with disbelief-suspending specificity in Manchester at the end of the 19th century, Garland’s novel blossoms compellingly from the exquisite simplicity of its central conceit, one which owes the tiniest debt to the 1971 horror film Dr. Jekyll And Sister Hyde. Edie and her brother Gnome are joined in a very particular symbiosis, so that their singular sibling rivalry threatens to be the undoing of both. Themes that could be leaden in other hands emerge from the premise with a beautiful lightness of touch, developing into a persuasive fable of inclusivity and self-acceptance. This is a book that sings a rainbow at its end.”
https://www.northernsoul.me.uk/books-best-northern-reads-part-one/