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...
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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...