Welcome to Apples & Snakes, England's leading organisation for performance poetry.
Apples & Snakes focuses on working with emerging artists, producing new work and putting poets in education. We work extensively with schools, prisons and libraries
Apples & Snakes focuses on working with emerging artists, producing new work and putting poets in education. We work extensively with schools, prisons and libraries
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Nuffield Theatre, University Road, ...
Monday, December 14 at 7:30pm - Apples & Snakes at The Gallery...
Gallery Cafe, Queen Theatre, Boutpo...
Friday, December 4 at 8:00pm - The Night We Kept For Seething...
The Albany
Friday, December 4 at 8:00pm - APPLES & SNAKES IN SOHO FEATUR...
Soho Theatre
Wednesday, November 25 at 8:00pm - Apples & Snakes presents...Fresh
@ Watermans
Wednesday, October 28 at 7:00pm - VIVA VOCE
Nuffield Theatre, University Road, ...
Friday, October 23 at 7:30pm - Apples & Snakes In Soho featur...
Soho Theatre
Wednesday, October 21 at 8:00pm - Apples & Snakes at Shunt
Shunt, 20 Stainer street, London, S...
Wednesday, October 7 at 8:00pm - ARTICULATE
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Wednesday, September 23 at 7:45pm - Apples & Snakes In Soho
Soho Theatre, London, W1D 3NE
Wednesday, September 23 at 8:00pm
Apples & Snakes
451 is a bi-monthly showcase of some of the most dynamic and talented performance poets from around the UK as well as an opportunity for up-and-coming and new poets to stand up and be counted in the open mic.
Expect articulate artistry, expressive eloquence and verbal thrills‘n’spills.
El Crisis
El Crisis' combines a hy...pnotic mixture of rap, spoken word, song and chant, with an angelic voice of staggering range and depth, to bring performances that are enlightening, extraordinary and unforgettable. One of the most dynamic voices in UK poetry.
www.myspace.com/elcrisis
Rosy Carrick
Surreal, sensual and decidedly left-field.
"Captivating and glamorous … dark yet humorous. A leading exponent of today's spoken word scene." The Poetry Slam
“(Carrick’s) poems were mesmerizing … intricate rhymes and alliterations that made listening a joy.” www.examiner.com
www.rosycarrick.co.uk
Plus Brighton's own Spliff Richard!
Winner of the Hammer and Tongue Grand Final 2009.
Richard has now swept away the opposition for three years on the trot and gets to keep the cup!
Worldly wise word weaving verbalizer extraordinaire!
And Open mic: a chance to strut your poetry stuff on the Studio Theatre stage.
Space is limited, so sign up for the open mic by emailing: pete@applesandsnakes.org
Price: £5 / £3 open mikers
Box Office: 02380 671 771
Time:7:30PM Monday, December 14th
Location:Nuffield Theatre, University Road, Southamptom SO17 1TR
Apples & Snakes
Steven ‘Swells’ Wells, who died of cancer on 24 June this year, was a roaring, radical, iconoclastic motor mouth, a verbal time bomb permanently primed and aching to explode. As a journalist for the likes of the NME and, after his move to the States, The Philadelphia Weekly, he systematically demolished everything Mid...dle England held dear and then dynamited the rubble, while simultaneously immolating whiny indie bands, pompous rock stars and Morrissey. Before that, in the early to mid ‘80s, as the ranting poet Seething Wells, he did the same thing, only even louder because he was on stage – headlining one of the earliest Apples & Snakes gigs in November 1982. Tonight, some old mates and collaborators celebrate his loud, defiant, wonderful life. Book early!
Featuring
Melodic punk trailblazers The Newtown Neurotics
Innovative journo/broadcaster David Quantick
Gothic poetry-pioneer Joolz Denby
New Model Army frontman Justin Sullivan
Speccy troubadour John Hegley
Livewire anarcho-poet Nick Toczek
Nightingales singer Robert Lloyd
Southern Death Cult/Fun-Da-Mental’s Aki Nawaz
Vintage Bradford ranter Little Brother
Music-video innovator Nick Small
With compere Attila the Stockbroker (who shared an EP, a book and countless memorable gigs with Swells)
There will be a collection for Cancer Research after the show
Tickets £8 / £5
Booking: 020 8692 4446 / www.thealbany.org.uk
Time:8:00PM Friday, December 4th
Location:The Albany
Apples & Snakes
For nearly three decades, John Hegley has been bewildering the nation with poems about dogs, glasses, vegetables, and dogs that are vegetables. The accolade of ‘national treasure’ would undoubtedly bring a blush to his boyish cheek, but would be well-deserved nonetheless. If you like poems that do things you’re not exp...ecting, and songs accompanied by frenzied mandolin mayhem, then tonight’s your lucky night. Heglify yourself.
Sharing the bill is the equally unusual Suzanne Andrade, who recently won an Edinburgh Fringe First award with her cabaret ensemble 1927, and hasn’t looked back since. A wide-eyed amalgam of Grenfellesque vocals and slightly worrying animation, Suzanne is the ‘something nasty’ that lurks in all our woodsheds. But sweet with it.
El Crisis is a different kettle of fish altogether: a one-man boom-box of dancehall rhythms and cosmic incantations (sometimes to his car, sometimes to his Creator), he’s a master of the needs-no-mic school of poetry, and has worked with everyone from Roots Manuva to Estelle. Fasten your seatbelts for a fifth-gear ride to the spiritual plane.
And we guarantee that the whole will be even greater than the parts, so book early for this three-cornered poetical treat.
Tickets £8 / £6
Booking: 020 7478 0100 / www.sohotheatre.com
Time:8:00PM Wednesday, November 25th
Location:Soho Theatre
Apples & Snakes
Patrick Neate is one of the jewels in London’s literary crown. Not only has he successfully crossed club-culture with spoken word to create West London’s popular Book Slam events, he’s also
produced a brace of successful novels with a global perspective and a poet’s twang. His latest book, Jerusalem, has just been publi...shed by Fig Tree/Penguin. Don’t miss this special live set from the only man with a Whitbread Prize and street credibility.
Also appearing tonight is Kate Tempest, one of the new breed of poets snapping at Patrick’s heels. Five years of hard graft have seen her building on her hip-hop roots to become one of the most recognised and admired figures on the circuit, not to mention a must-see at most of the UK’s major festivals. Come along and see why.
And if that’s not enough, we also present Joshua Idehen, another larger-than-life, impossible-to-ignore poet who was last seen wowing the weekend hordes at this year’s Big Chill; and Helen Mort, a writer of incredible gravitas and lyricality, who’ll be previewing part of A Pint for the Ghost, a new show that delves into the murky mythology of her Yorkshire roots.
With Mat Lloyd (the finest MC in Hemel Hempstead) on bigging-up duty, this should be a night to remember.
ANOTHER SHOW FROM APPLES & SNAKES: THE RIGHT WORDS IN THE RIGHT ORDER, IN THE RIGHT PLACES, ALL THE TIME
Time:8:00PM Wednesday, October 21st
Location:Soho Theatre
Apples & Snakes
This Friday 16th October Apples & Snakes, The Albany and The Midi Music Company present Rising From The Dust. Fusing grime, spoken word, music and film. Charting the connection between grime and spoken word, there will also be the launch of a new film Grit Story: Still Rising From The Dust. With live performances from ...Soweto Kinch, Ghetts, Jean Binta Breeze, Rinse,Concise One and Conrad The Scoundrel. Hosted by Charlie Dark. For more details click on the link below.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=16
An exhilarating fusion of grime, spoken word, music & film.
Location:The Albany | Douglas Way | Deptford | London | SE8 4A6
Time:7:30PM Friday, October 16th
Apples & Snakes
BEYOND WORDS: New Poetry From South Africa Live On Tour
Five incredible South African poets tour the UK together for the first time. Brought together by South African Poet Laureate and renowned exile campaigner Keorapetse Kgositsile, the show premieres specially commissioned new work. This is a blistering introduction t...o the new South Africa and to the power of live poetry in performance.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Beyond-Wor
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Apples & Snakes
Announcing the Apples & Snakes South East launch weekend. Woo-Hoo!
This weekend should offer something for everyone performance poetry-wise, from showcase performances by nationally (and internationally) known poets to how-to workshops for budding stars of the poetical stage AND an open mic for you to show off at. And a...ll at ridiculously low prices (don’t ask me how we do it, we just do!)
Apples & Snakes launch weekend at Nuffield Theatre
Location:Nuffield Theatre, University Road, Southampton, SO17 1TR
Time:7:30PM Friday, October 23rd
Apples & Snakes
Shunt together with Apples & Snakes invite some extraordinary poets for week long residencies to celebrate anyone listening. Poets experiment with audience and space, interrupting conversations and challenging people to engage with spoken word in exciting new ways. Featuring:
Helen Mort
Molly Naylor
Joe Hakim
Byron Vincent...
Joshua Idehen
Kayo Chingonyi
Joe Coelho
Mama Tokus
Hannah Walker
For more information contact shunt on 0207 378 7776 / www.shunt.co.uk
Time:8:00PM Wednesday, October 7th
Location:Shunt, 20 Stainer street, London, SE1 9RL
Apples & Snakes
Four poets - four new pieces - for your delectation
What does it take to be a spoken-word artist? Is it about the writing? The stage presence? The knack of stringing a story together? Actually it's about all of these things and more, as tonight's line-up will be amply demonstrating.
As part of our ongoing mission to nurt...ure new writing, we've been putting four poets through their paces with top director Mike Kirchner. Their metaphors are now sharper-than-sharp, they've got more presence than Santa Claus (ouch) and their narrative skills are all revved-up and ready to go.
And those poets are:
Cutglass vamp of the Oxford-London poetry axis Sophia Blackwell
Unfazeable and level-headed weigher-up of words Kayo Chingonyi
Radiant Anglo-Spanish star of a thousand poetry slams Keith Jarrett
Keeping-it-real (and how) Somali storyteller Warsan Shire
They'll each be pulling the wraps off their work-in-progress. Join us for this exclusive unveiling.
Four poets peel off the wraps
Time:8:00PM Wednesday, September 23rd
Location:Soho Theatre, London, W1D 3NE
Apples & Snakes Featuring the mighty Jean Binta Breeze, this promises to be an open mic night to remember. A roomful of poets, performers and people who just want to hear poetry. Arrive early and claim your all important slot in the spotlight!
Time:6:30PM Friday, September 18th
Location:Freeword, Guardian & Observer archive centre
Apples & Snakes
We're delighted to return to the BIG CHILL for our second year, with more
poets and a whole day of loveliness in the WORDS IN MOTION tent on Saturday
8 August.
We start at 12 and run through to 1am with our late night storytelling.
Come along and say hello.
Jean Binta Breeze, Lemn Sissay and Brian Patten headline.
We've not ...forgotten the pips & snakelets...we're also doing three kids
events, Saturday 4 - 5pm, Sunday 12 - 1 and 2.30 - 3.30 - over in the kids
tent.
BIG CHILL is a very relaxed family festival, and with the hot summer
predicted why not come along 7 - 10 August at Eastnor Castle, Ledbury
Bigchill.net
Time:12:00PM Saturday, August 8th
Location:Eastnor Castle
Apples & Snakes Newcomers meet the seasoned performers on equal terms. It's simple: a roomful of poets, performers and people who just want to hear poetry. Arrive early and claim your all-important slot in the spotlight. Hosted by Leetho Thale and featuring Jade Anouka and Jill Abram
Time:7:30PM Thursday, June 25th
Location:Whitechapel Art gallery
Apples & Snakes
APPLES & SNAKES IN SOHO
Featuring Iain Sinclair
Tonight Iain Sinclair, the poet laureate of London’s peripheries, takes a break from pacing the streets and ventures into W1. With a brace of big-selling books behind him – including London Orbital and Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire – he is the arch-sniffer-out of the sense ...of place. Although ‘banned’ by certain borough councils for suggesting that the capital is worth more than whatever fast buck is being wrung out of it this week, he continues to strike a chord with those Londoners who prefer to look beyond the obvious. This evening he reads a selection of his poetry and prose.
Also on the bill is Tim Wells, who has been described as ‘a bit like Henry Mayhew interviewing Eek-A-Mouse in an East End tailor’s’. Originally one of the ranting poets – and not allowed to forget it – Tim Wells is another writer with the essence of London underneath his fingernails. His latest collection Rougher Yet is currently available from Donut Press.
Jay Bernard, meanwhile, has been resident writer on a pair of allotment sites in London and Oxford as part of My Place Or Yours, an ongoing programme of poetic placements across the UK. As such, she’s been delving into the nature of urban green space and literally getting to know her onions. Join her as she presents a barrowload of words and film-clips documenting her experiences so far.
All told, it’s the ultimate guided tour for lateral thinkers. With poetry. And seats.
Time:8:00PM Wednesday, June 24th
Location:Soho Theatre
