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Chewstick Youth Poetry & Spoken Word Program
Community poets from across the island will take part in the first ever slam poetry competition in Bermuda for the culmination of The Chewstick Foundation’s Break The Chains Youth Poetry & Spoken Word Program. Break The Chains is a creative writing and performance program using spoken word and poetry as a storytelling tool for students age... Read more of this article
Chewstick To Host Spoken Word Competition
On Friday, May 30 and Saturday, May 31, The Chewstick Foundation is inviting the community to experience its Break The Chains Poetry Spoken Word Competition. The two day event will be the culmination of The Chewstick Foundation’s Break The Chains program, a creative writing and performance program using spoken word and poetry to develop literacy,... Read more of this article
Chewstick To Present Poetry, Music This Week
If you appreciate poetry, music, cultural expression, and multi-talented artists, then you won’t want to miss the performances happening at The Chewstick Neo-Griot Lounge, in their intimate artist performance series, Griot Sessions. Starting on Thursday, December 12 with talented poet, Yesha Townsend, quickly followed on Saturday, December 14 with... Read more of this article
Poet Malcolm London To Perform At Chewstick
The Chewstick Foundation invites the community to experience a dynamic evening of poetry featuring Chicago Poet, Activist, Teacher and 2011 Louder Than A Bomb Poetry Festival Winner, Malcolm London in his international debut performing at The Chewstick Lounge this Saturday, October 26th. Called the Gil-Scott Heron of this generation by Cornel West,... Read more of this article
“Bermudian Poems With An Educational Twist”
A local teacher is working to get children and adults alike more interested in Bermudian poetry, using her talents to not only share her own work, but to inspire the same in others. Following two years of work, Nelsalene Lespere has self-published her very own collection of island-inspired poetry, titled Bermudian Poems with an Educational Twist. The... Read more of this article
ARS Poetica’s Last Showcase On Thursday
The last installment of the “ARS Poetica” series is going to be held today [Aug 29] at The Chewstick Neo-Griot Lounge & Cafe on Elliot Street from 7.00pm to 10.00pm. The show will start at 8.00pm and entry is $10 with part of the proceeds going to fund the ChewSLAM Teen Poetry Club. This is the last installment of the “ARS Poetica”... Read more of this article
ChewSLAM Group Leave For Overseas Festival
Eight young people from the The Chewstick Foundation’s ChewSLAM Teen Poetry & Spokenword Club Program set off today [Aug 7] to represent Bermuda at the international Brave New Voices Poetry & Spokenword Festival in Chicago. “After months of reaching out for community support and taking part in intensive fundraising, the group left this... Read more of this article
Poet Aja Monet To Appear At Chewstick Tonight
American poet Aja Monet will share the stage with local poets Ron Lightbourne, Yesha Townsend and the ChewSLAM Teen Poetry group at the Chewstick Foundation’s Neo-Griot lounge tonight [June 27]. The show start at 8 p.m. and admission is $15. “This is a night that is not to be missed as it will be filled with a velvety smooth delivery of... Read more of this article
Chewstick To Host Poetry Workshops Series
The Chewstick Foundation will be producing a series of Poetry Workshops, starting Tuesday [June 18] or Saturday [June 22]. This series of workshops will be facilitated by Yesha Townsend, a recent graduate with a Bachelors of Music in Composition from McNally University. Yesha Townsend is a self published poet as well as the education coordinator for... Read more of this article
Festival Nomination For Bermudian’s Web Series
A Bermudian actor, performance poet and recent graduate of Atlanta Technical College has added another feather to her artistic cap. Tamicka [Tee Jay] Johnson directed and co-produced seven of ten episode of the “Studville TV” web series written by Ron Fox. “Studville TV” is one of four series to be nominated by Detroit’s... Read more of this article
BNG, Chewstick To Hold Young Members Party
The Bermuda National Gallery [BNG] will be joining forces with Chewstick to throw a Young Members Party on Friday, June 14. The event — which gets underway at 5 p.m. at the BNG’s City Hall facility — will be a celebration of art, music and poetry. There will be performances by such talented young Bermudians as Paper Cutouts, Haz, Essence,... Read more of this article
Andra Simons To Appear At UK Keats Festival
Bermudian poet Andra Simons will be reading at London’s Keats Festival tomorrow [May 30] as part of a global chorus organised by the UK’s Poetry Parnassus project. Initially a “back of an envelope” idea conceived by artist-in-residence at London’s Southbank Centre in the run-up to the 2012 Olympic Games, Poetry Parnassus saw 204... Read more of this article
Saturday: Seventh International Poetry Festival
The Department of Community & Cultural Affairs and the Bermuda National Library believe that poetry, like music, has charms to soothe the savage breast — and the Seventh International Festival of Poetry: The Word in the World will be built around the theme of peace and reconciliation. Being held on Saturday [May 18] at the Queen Elizabeth... Read more of this article
Annual School Poetry Competition 2013 Winners
The Youth Library Teen Advisory Board has announced the Winners of the Annual Poetry Competition 2013. The competition was open to Middle and High School students, and they were asked to create an original poem that fit into one of the themes: Spring, Locked in a Box, New student and Friday. In the 11-13 Age Group Alys Webber [Saltus] was first, Isabella... Read more of this article
Bermuda Poet Van Putten To Launch New Book
Bermuda educator, poet and writer Melodye Micëre Van Putten’s latest work, “Healing History: Reflections of Race and Forgiveness in Prose and Poetry” will be officially launched at the Bermuda National Library next Thursday [May 10]. Weaving narrative and verse in a scholarly and artistic exploration of historical events and contemporary... Read more of this article
Bermuda Poet To Participate In MacNeice Tribute
Bermudian poet Paul Maddern will participate in an upcoming Belfast tribute commemorating the 50th anniversary of celebrated Irish poet Louis MacNeice’s death. Being held in conjunction with Ireland’s National Poetry Day, the Louis MacNeice Poetry Evening event takes place on May 17 at Ulster Hall Group Space. Other readers include contemporary... Read more of this article
