See Dominic Berry, Léonie Kate Higgins & Kristiana Rae Colón perform their poetry for FREE!

The brilliant Dominic Berry is filming a showreel of himself on 7pm Wednesday 13th February at the 3 Minute Theatre (3MT), Oldham Street, Manchester M1 1JG. Top notch film makers are coming in to record a poetry performance, which will be made into a DVD!

Dom is filming the showreel in front of a live audience and it's completely FREE to be part of the audience!

If you haven't heard or seen Dom in spoken word action, here is a little more about him and his   work ...

Dominc Berry is a Manchester based, gay, vegan, performance poet (possibly Manchester's BEST gay, vegan, performance poet ... possibly Manchester's ONLY gay, vegan, performance poet). Last year Dominic performed his poetry on Channel 4 news, Channel 4's 'My Daughter The Teenage Nudist' and CBeebies 'Rhyme Rocket'. He has recently won New York's infamous Nuyorican Poetry Cafe slam and UK's Superheroes of Slam. With three poetry books published by Flapjack Press to his name as well as a successful national tour of his full length poetry play, 'Wizard', and he has just secured Arts Council funding for his first children's show, 'The Dragon Who Hates Poetry', which will be touring later this year.

 

And if all that wasn’t enough Dominic will be joined by two very special guests ...

***Léonie Kate Higgins***
http://www.leoniekate.com/
Singer/songwriter/cellist for band Geddes Loom, along with poet/beatboxer Ben Mellor and guitarist/technology-spinner Dan Steele, Léonie's also one fifth of all-female performance group Eggs Collective.
PLUS
all the way from Chicago USA
***Kristiana Rae Colón***
http://www.kristianacolon.com/
Seen on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, Kristiana was also nominated for a 2011 Pushcart Prize for her poem 'Severance' in Organs of Vision and Speech. Her work's been anthologized in Dzanc Books' Best of the Web 2010 and in Saul Williams' anthology, Chorus: A Literary (Re)Mixtape, released by MTV Publishing in Summer 2012.
Kristiana is an Artistic Associate at Teatro Luna, Chicago's all-Latina theater company. Her short plays have appeared from Rebel Theater's Sunday Reading Series in New York to American Theater Company's The Silver Project. Her most recent full-length project 'One Week in Spring' was a finalist for Victory Gardens' Ignition festival.
 

You can find out more about the event at:

   http://www.threeminutetheatre.com/100240/info.php?p=3&pid=5517609&ack=9

And:

   http://www.facebook.com/events/387958384630766/?fref=ts

 

It's going to be a brill eve, so so come along if you can!

 

Source: Dominic Berry

Featured Poem January 2013 - ‘The Dragon Who Hates Poetry’ by Dominic Berry

‘The Dragon Who Hates Poetry’

The dragon who hates poetry is feared throughout the land.
This brutal beast won't back down until all poetry's banned.
Now every poet’s bullied by his cruel and crazed command;
"FORGET YOUR RHYMING GAME!"
bellows the fiend of fire and flame.

There is no dragon scarier in any earthly place.
His face looks like his bottom and his bottom like his face.
He'll sneeze out snot as big as rocks - you'd better clear some space – (Splat!)
"TREMBLE AT MY NAME!"
demands the fiend of fire and flame.

Oh dragon flame! Oh dragon flame!
His face and bum, they look the same.
He rips verse raw, leaves limericks lame
and poets curse the day he came.

Reciting rhymes to roses was a rhyme lover called Rick.
The dragon sneezed all over him! It hit him like a brick.
A face of boiling bogeys left poor Rick feeling quite sick.
"I AM A PERFECT AIM!"
boasted the fiend of fire and flame.

So poor old Rick stopped reading books, he said, “Why take the chance?
Instead, I’ll stitch my verse into spare pairs of underpants.”
But dragon saw his washing line. Without a second glance,
"YOUR WORDS I'LL MAUL AND MAIM!"
he roared. Rick’s pants went up in flame.
 
Then Suzie Sue the farmer, she just felt so sad and blue.
To whisper verse in horse’s ears seemed a safe thing to do.
When dragon bawled she fainted, fell face-first into...
into...
into...
pony poo.
"JUST GOT YOURSELF TO BLAME!"
chuckled the fiend of fire and flame.

Oh dragon flame! Oh dragon flame!
Leaves poets feeling fear and shame.
Is there nobody who can tame
this flagrant fiend of fire and flame?

One person stands with outstretched hands, calls out to any friend,
"Our poems, rhymes and lyrics, these are things we must defend!
Who here will join me now? Help bring this menace to an end?
Success will find us fame.
We'll stop this fiend of fire and flame.

Oh dragon flame! Oh dragon flame!
My rhyming comrades, I proclaim
we WILL succeed, earn high acclaim.
The poet's path we WILL reclaim!
We'll stop this fiend of fire... and flame... ... ..."

 

© Dominic Berry 2012
Please do not use without the poet’s permission



For further information about Dominic Berry and his work please visit Book a Poet.

THE DRAGON WHO HATES POETRY by Dominic Berry

Z Arts, 335 Stretford Road, Manchester M15 5ZA 

0161 226 1912

New Spoken Word show from Dominic Berry

'The Dragon Who Hates Poetry'

Written and performed by Dommy B

Created with support from Grants for the Arts / Big Lottery Fund

Saturday 20th October - 2pm

At Z Arts, Hulme, Manchester

£2 adults / children get in free

There is no dragon scarier in any Earthly place.

His face looks like his bottom and his bottom like his face.

Dommy B (aka Nuyorican Poetry Cafe / UK Superheroes of Slam winner, Dominic Berry)

presents a work-in-progress performance of his debut show for children and families.

Fast-paced, funny and full of audience participation, Dommy B needs your help to bring

this fearful dragon’s reign to an end!

 

For further info please visit http://www.z-arts.org/ 

BANG SAID THE GUN: MANCHESTER with Mike Garry

7.30pm til 10.30pm

13th September 2012

(and then every Thursday, every week, until 6th December 2012)

 Old Nags Head

 Jacksons Row

 (off Deansgate)

 Manchester

 M2 5WD

£5 / £3 concessions (concessions = anyone skint)

Each week there will be a different special guest head-liner poet and on Thursday 13th September the head-liner is the awe-inspiring ... Mike Garry!

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ACCLAIM FOR MIKE GARRY: 

"Genius" Peter Saville

"Gritty" John Cooper Clark

"Top Manc Street Poet" Shaun Ryder

Author of recent BBC commission poetry collection 'God Is A Manc', Bang Said The Gun: Manchester are proud to be kicking off the start of their second season of dates with the true poet laureate of the north.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L61okbUrdg0

http://www.cheersta.co.uk/ 

BANG SAID THE GUN: 

with hosts Dominic Berry, Kieren King, Rod Tame, Dave Viney and Benny-jo Zahl.

If underpants, sex, gravy and Keith Moon giving the Queen Mother drumming lessons are your thing, then this could be the verbal romp you’ve been waiting for ...

Bang Said The Gun in London is considered one of the best poetry nights in the country and has recently been reaching over 4 million viewers on Channel 4’s Random Acts.

Repeating this winning formula, its Manchester’s first weekly poetry night celebrating the best in local and national poets as well as offering audience members the chance to compete ... for the coveted **Golden Gun prize** in the Top Banana Open Mic!

Each week's Golden Gun prize winner is offered a guest set at a future Bang Said The Gun: Manchester! First come, first on open mic so get down early if you wanna be on. Or, just come join the crowd to listen and cheer for a top notch night out.

 

© Bang Said The Gun: Manchester

Dominic Berry's Wizard Tour and Workshops

Dominic Berry: Poetry & Performance | The Cockpit

 

www.thecockpit.org.uk

 

Wednesday 2nd May, 2pm-5pm Tickets: £5, including free entry to the performance of 'Wizard' at The Cockpit later that night (7.30pm). To book, call 020 7258 2925 (from noon, Mon-Sat) Limited spaces available - book now!

Here is a link with more details of what this workshop will cover: http://thecockpit.org.uk/other/

 Wizard Tour

 

1st May at 19:30 until 10th May at 20:00

• The Cockpit, Gateforth Street, Marylebone, London, NW8 8EH Tue 1st - Wed 2nd May. 7.30pm. Tickets: £10/6 Booking: thecockpit.org.uk / 020 7258 2925 ACE Centre, Cross Street, Nelson, BB9 7NN Thur 3rd May. 6.30pm. Tickets: £8/4 Booking: www.acecentre.co.uk / 01282 661 080 Oxford University, Corpus Christ College, Merton Street, OX1 4JF Thur 10th May. 8pm. Tickets: £7/5 Booking: tickets available from the venue on the night   When an agoraphobic Wizard shares his world of tea loving carpet goblins and a zombie slaying dish rack with a neighbour from the flat above, three days of magic change both their lives forever. A funny, delicate and imaginative show by Dominic Berry, champion of New York's Nuyorican Poetry Cafe slam and Manchester Literature Festival's Superheroes of Slam. "Really very inspiring. I love the seriousness and the humour.” Benjamin Zephaniah, Poet “From the moment he started to speak we were totally captivated- the incredible way he uses words, the expression and energy of the delivery and the subject matter made him irresistible.” City Life Magazine “He is one of Manchester’s finest poets of the stage. Fearless in his engagement with a wide variety of issues, his public works exhibit the same exuberance of spirit that mark him out as a person.” Pete Kalu, Artistic Director, Commonword “Dominic is an exceptional force in the poetry and spoken word scene in the North West, who is also starting to have an impact in theatre. I am always impressed by his desire and determination to push beyond his comfort zone and write work that will challenge himself and his audience.” John McGrath, Artistic Director, National Theatre Wales Written by Dominic Berry with additional material by Dave Viney. Performed by Dominic Berry and Ben Jewell. Directed by Martin 'Visceral' Stannage. Produced by Chris Jones. Arts by Ian Wallis and Paul Neads.   Wizard has been produced with a Grants for the Arts / National Lottery award and support from Contact