Lych Gate Tavern. 2.15pm. Pay-As-You-Feel
Rating: 12+
In 1979, despite my pogoing credentials, I’m DJing a Christian Rock Radio show. This show follows my journey from a Christian Youth Club to the Greenbelt Rock festival and centres round three songs which inspired me on a course towards social justice and environment protection.
It includes poems inspired at the time and now and will answer three critical questions (for those who don’t know) 1. why I was so crap with girls, 2. how I got to see one of the biggest bands in the world without realising and 3. why Radio One still owe me a favour.
Lych Gate Tavern. 3.30pm. Pay-As-You-Feel
Rating: 18
High energy and full of bite! Join award-nominated comedian CK Nath as she takes you through the juiciest bits of her life growing up in India, finding herself in the UK and the inevitable culture clash in this work-in-progress show. Blending sharp stand-up, vivid storytelling, and cheeky character work as she channels the conservative Indian mother as easily as a middle class British granny!
Lych Gate Tavern. 5.45pm. Pay-As-You-Feel
Rating: 12+
What happens if we ask for eternal youth? Ask for our bodies and minds to be turned into stone? Petrified and preserved in a moment in time? 'Our Lost Sisters' explores our fascination and obsession with women staying young. Jord visits Mother Shipton for her petrifying abilities to turn her age into stone but will Mother Shipton make Jord see why her voice shouldn't be stuck in one time? 'Our Lost Sisters' uses live music and poetic storytelling to follow Jord's journey and make us question what wool we have over our own eyes. Imogen is a theatre-maker and actor based in Wolverhampton and she is committed to telling women's stories and holding up a mirror to what we just accept in our world: this is her debut play and she is so excited to be sharing it in her home city, Wolverhampton.
Lych Gate Tavern. 6pm. Pay-As-You-Feel
Rating: 18
We all think we know America, but what we know comes mainly from the media and we can't always trust the veracity of that content these days. So Isabel went to America to see for herself how Americans were faring with all the crises that befall us today and to check out some of the lesser known but nevertheless iconic sights that tend to get overlooked by the travel companies. She found a country full of warm and welcoming people, who celebrate our culture as much as we celebrate theirs. The results of this odyssey turned into her 4th poetry collection (Usonia - An American Peculiar), and, as the title suggests, she found much that meets that definition! Isabel will be performing much of the content of the book in poetry and spoken word, with humour, the odd expletive and a little bit of audience participation. Hopefully, much of it will resonate with you, as so much of our culture seems to come from the other side of the Atlantic.