Word Wise #98 Bridie Squires (10th Birthday Bash)
About this Event
Word Wise returns for our 10th birthday show! To celebrate we have the enigmatic Bridie Squires bringing the energy to our stage. The event also marks a new era of collaboration with the fantastic Poetry Praise Sandwich crew! Do not miss what promises to be an unforgettable night of poetry, praise, and possibly cake!
We’ll also be hosting a workshop before the event! (We recommend arriving for 6:30 if you’d like to take part).
Open-mic sign-up will be available at the workshop and on the door before the event!
Entry is £5 (pay-it-forwards/concessionary options also available).
More about our headliner:
Bridie Squires is a poet, playwright, producer and performance artist from Nottingham.
Previously journalist and editor at LeftLion Magazine, she was appointed Nottingham Trent University’s first Writer in Residence in 2019, and founded Nottingham spoken-word collective GOBS in 2020.
Bridie was Producer for Nottingham Poetry Festival and Young Creative Awards, and is Production Manager at British Gestalt Journal.
A Mouthy Poets alumnus, she has performed her poetry in Southbank Centre, London, Badisches Staatstheatre, Karlsruhe, and We Out Here Festival, Cambridge.
Bridie has performed alongside Lemn SIssay, Holly McNish, Henry Normal, Yomi Ṣode and Linton Kwesi Johnson.
She is Lead Artist at GOBS Collective, Creative Writing Tutor at Headway Nottingham, and has delivered workshops for Nottingham City Council, Archway Learning Trust, UNESCO City of Literature, and Nottingham Community Artists Network.
She was commissioned by BBC Radio 4 for Mardy, a poem for Talk and Tongue: The Dialect Poets, and was selected to take part in BBC Words First and BBC New Creatives, where she developed her audio drama Self-checkout, for BBC Sounds, in 2022.
Bridie was awarded both a Develop Your Creative Practice grant and National Lottery funding by Arts Council England to create Casino Zero - her one-woman loop station play based on her experiences as a croupier.
Bridie published her debut poetry collection Duck on Bike in 2023. She is currently collaborating with Nottingham Playhouse to continue developing Casino Zero and GOBS Collective.
Where is it happening?
GBP 5.00
