August 2010
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Alison Dunne's Leicester Mercury Article on the...
To read Alison Dunne’s Leicester Mercury article on The Lyric Lounge please follow this link:
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/Fun-festival-turned-sheer-poetry/article-2553293-detail/article.html
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Pictures and Words with Tim Clarke
James Black
New Walk Museum – The Other Gallery
July 31st and August 1st
The Lyric Lounge at New Walk Museum gave members of the public the opportunity to take part in a number of exciting workshops featuring expert tuition on a range of creative endeavours. Tim Clarke, The Lyric Lounge’s official ‘Artist in Residence’ ran two Pictures and Words workshops, (on July 31st and August 1st) which...
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Lyrical Lounging with Mellow Baku
New Walk Museum - Lord Mayor’s Room
July 31st 2010
Mellow Baku has performed jazz, reggae, soul, funk world and blues music with bands, ensembles, and solo for over 10 years. Her work covers a range of these influences including Spoken Word. An accomplished performer and songwriter she has toured with Afro/Jazz/Dub band Soothsayers around UK/Europe, performed in New York with El Pussycat...
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Poetry that Dances
New Walk Museum - Gallery 6
July 31st 2010
Filmmaker and dancer Gareth Morgan tells us about the Poetry that Dances workshop that took place at The Lyric Lounge.
Poetry that Dances was a workshop happening in Gallery 6 on Saturday afternoon. Led by a husband and wife duo, this workshop used the spoken word to inspire movement content, using breath and vocalisation to widen the aspect of a...
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Get Stuffed! Workshop
James Black
New Walk Museum - Council Room
July 31st 2010
The official Lyric Lounge programme stated that the Get Stuffed! workshop would be ‘a writing session with the Book Doctor and a menagerie of stuffed animals!’ with this sparse information and equipped only with a notebook and pen I ventured into the unknown.
The Council Room at New Walk Museum underwent something of a transformation...
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Lyric Lounge Overview
With so much to cover, I tried to condense the whole event into a brief overview to get a general idea of how fabulous this event was…
LYRIC LOUNGE LEICESTER 2010
By Tara Gatherer
July 30th until August 1st promised to bring something different and innovative to The New Walk Museum in Leicester. Lyric Lounge 2010 was long in coming, due to the festivals success last year, this year it has...
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Films at the Lounge
The technicians work on projecting the ‘Khushi’ and ‘Word for Health’ films
New Walk Museum - First Floor Lobby
Everyday at the Lounge
Filmmaker Gareth Morgan from Zenithfilms gives his thoughts on the two short films that were shown over the three days of The Lyric Lounge.
Due to some technical issues the films weren’t actually show in the room stated, and were...
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ILUVLYRICS at the Lyric Lounge
James Black
New Walk Museum - Gallery 6
30th July 2010
The ILUVLYRICS event headlined the first evening of The Lyric Lounge at Leicester’s New Walk Museum. The event was compèred by a talented slam champion Andy Craven Griffiths with the prize of £100 up for grabs to the winner.
ILUVLYRICS boasted a multitude of different performers, a variety of material and a mixture of presentational styles...
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'Muse in the Muse' with John Hegley
New Walk Museum - Council Room
July 30th 2010
Steph Mantle, who took part in performance poet John Hegley’s Muse in the Muse Workshop at Leicester’s Lyric Lounge, tells us about her experience of this very special event.
The Lyric Lounge Leicester event was held at New Walk Museum from the 30th July to the 1st August and created dozens of opportunities for people of all ages to get involved in...
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‘Lyrical Bite’ with Fatima Al Matar
James Black
New Walk Museum - Gallery 6
July 30th 2010
Fatima Al Matar was the first of the special guest poets to perform at The Lyric Lounge. Fatima was born in Kuwait. In 2005 she moved to the UK and currently lives in Coventry with her four year old daughter Jori.
During The Lyrical Bite event Fatima read from her published work entitled The Heart and the Subsidiary which is divided into...
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Knit and Think Poetry Workshop Launches...
James Black
New Walk Museum - Gallery 6
July 30th 2010
The interesting fusion of poetry and knitting that was Knit and Think had the prestigious honour of being the very first event at Leicester’s Lyric Lounge this weekend. The event was led by Leicester Libraries’ Book Doctor Alison Dunne and boasted a healthy crowd of fifteen participants. Being the initial happening at such an action packed...
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Final Meeting of the Promo and Events Team at New...
James Black
On Saturday 24th July the final events and promotions meeting before this weekend’s Lyric Lounge took place at New Walk Museum. After last week’s session in which Lydia Towsey led the proceedings it was the turn of the Book Doctor herself Alison Dunne to put us through our poetical paces. Alison decided that we should retreat to the Dürer Room away from the chaos of the Council Room...
July 2010
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The Poetical Happenings Team's Final Meeting at...
Saturday’s won’t be the same at New Walk after the lyric lounge. No longer will the hoards of avid volunteers take over the museum to plan and invent new ways to lure in the general public for the wonder and splendour that will be the Lyric Lounge.
This final meeting was set to finish and plan times of all the idea’s so far set out as ‘poetical happening’s’ at...
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The WORD! Show on Panj Pani Radio, 21st July.
The penultimate show for lyric lounge took place last Wednesday. The usual dedicated group of volunteers made their way to Panj Pani radio station for another great instalment of the WORD! show. This weeks theme was community and featured guest’s poet; Bobba Cass, and Writer and member of the Literature Network, Damien Walter.
The show began as normal with a brief introduction to WORD! and...
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The Third Khushi Poetry and Ceramics Group Meeting...
James Black
On Wednesday 21st July the third meeting of the Khushi women’s poetry group took place at Belgrave Library. Once again the poetry side of meeting was led by Leicester Libraries resident Book Doctor Alison Dunne whilst Fiona Meagher from Fosse Arts and City Gallery instructed the ceramic work.
In last week’s session each of the ladies wrote about their experiences of being at the...
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The Lyric Lounge Promotions and Events Team...
James Black
The third meeting of the Promotions and Events team for the Lyric Lounge took place at New Walk Museum on Saturday 17th July. The meeting focused more on the creative process than either of the previous two sessions as the group put pen to paper and came up with some original pieces of writing that describe the objects and architecture of the museum.
The meeting began in the gardens of...
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Second ‘Khushi’ Poetry Meeting @ Belgrave Library
James Black
On Wednesday 14th July the second meeting of the Khushi women’s poetry group took place at Belgrave Library. The meeting was led by Leicester Libraries resident Book Doctor Alison Dunne and from Fosse Arts ceramics tutor Fiona Meagher.
The word ‘Khushi’ means happy in Gujarati and the idea of happiness is central to the group as the meetings allow each of the members to get together...
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The WORD! Show on Panj Pani Radio, 14th July.
Wednesday, 12pm, and the regular crowd of volunteers have arrived at Panj Pani Radio’s studio for our third instalment of the WORD! Show, to speak all things lyric lounge and poetry related. Today being no different we had a fully packed show, with two interviews, a wide selection of music (including a live performance) and many discussions. Not to mention the newly printed and extremely...
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Lydia Towsey is interviewed by Citizens Eye on...
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6BrZXICsy4&feature=related
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAFUcJy6gQ&feature=youtube_gdata
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Lyric Lounge Events Team @ New Walk Museum July...
James Black
On Saturday 10th July New Walk Museum hosted the second meeting of the Events Team of Leicester’s Lyric Lounge. The meeting began in the informal surroundings of the museum’s gardens as the Happenings Group meeting drew to a close. Some plucky participants showed their dedication and commitment to the Lounge by attending both events!
The relaxed atmosphere of the garden get-together...
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The WORD! Show on Panj Pani Radio, 7th July.
Wednesday the 7th July brought together Lyric Lounges band of volunteers for the second instalment of the WORD! show on panj pani radio. it will be broadcasting throughout July every wednesday, 12-2pm. The show was broadcast live and on schedule today and was manned this week by Lydia, Lauren, Kishan, Diviesh, Yvette, Zara, Saskia, Karen and Tara. Presented this week by Tara, the show kicked off...
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WORD! at the Y Theatre, 6th June 2010.
Every month, many many people potter down to the evening of wonder and entertainment that is WORD!. This month being no exception, except that its the last show to be held at the Y theatre before next month it breaks into new walk museum as part of the Lyric Lounge festival. As a regular myself to WORD! i knew what to expect, those who wish to perform arrive promptly at 7pm to sign up and pick...
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The WORD! show on Panj Pani Radio 30th June
Yesterday was Lyric Lounges first appearance on Panj Pani radio, we all turned up thinking we were short for time but as it turned out we had fifteen minutes to spare to run over what we were going to talk about in the show. we decided on some songs and poems to play, what we would discuss, and the rest we figured we’d make up as we were going along!
After a breif introduction from the...
June 2010
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Lyric Lounge Volunteer Meeting June 26th 2010
Saturday June 26th was the first meeting of volunteers involved with Lyric Lounge Leicester. We met at The New Walk Museum and Art Gallery – where the festival’s set to happen from July 31st to August 1st. John Coster (Editor of Citizens Eye), James Black (Citizen reporter) and Tara Gatherer (Co - Editor for Community Action Photographers) all came down to see what support they could offer in...