3rd March 2008
WISE WORDS 3-9 March 2008
WISE WORDS celebrates International Women's Week with a diverse line-up of novelists, poets, playwrights, journalists, comics and musicians. The programme presents authors from Africa, America, Bangladesh, Britain and East London.
MARION MOLTENO Mon 3 March: 6.30pm, South African author discusses her re-launched novel 'A Shield of Coolest Air' (Longstone Books) set among Somali refugees in London. FREE
BRAND LITERARY MAGAZINE Tues 4 March: 6.30pm. Nina Rapi, Cherry Smyth, Alev Adil, Caroline Smith and Jennifer Farmer invite you to celebrate their exciting new literary magazine that specialises in the short form & international voices. FREE
CUPCAKE BROWN Wed 5 March: 6.30pm, African American writer arrives from the USA to discuss her memoir 'A Piece of Cake' (Transworld Publishers). Tea & cupcakes will be served. FREE
JOOLZ DENBY PLUS Thurs 6 March: 8.30pm. Apples & Snakes present an evening of pithy and thought provoking performance poetry led by Joolz Denby and featuring Mab Jones and Realitie with MC Steph Hernandez. £7/£5concs
COMEDY NIGHT Fri 7 March: 8.30pm with NINIA BENJAMIN, NINA CONTI, JO ENRIGHT, SHAPPI KHORSANDI & SHAZIA MIRZA + CHi2. A fantastic line-up of some of the best female comics in the country celebrating comedy writing at its most crucial, and a couple of exploding Chinese violinists. £10/£8 concs...
