This performance brings together Preston-based They Eat Culture's Live Literature strand Word Soup and Blackpool's own Dead Good Poets.
The event is funded by a Learning Revolution Festival Grant, managed nationally by the Museum, Libraries and Archives Council and is part of Blackpool Council's Cultural Services Wordpool programme.
The live literature event is free and open to the public and gives budding poets and story writers a chance to perform their work to a friendly audience under the expert eye of Sarah Hymas, an experienced writer and performer whose first collection of poetry, Host, is due out in summer.
She is working with musician Steve Lewis and singer Beth Allen on improvised voice work, and has performed with Lewis at The Harris Museum in Preston, the Mammals Room at the Manchester Museum and the Green Room, Manchester.
She writes for the theatre company, Gambolling Arena, and her work has appeared in collections, anthologies, magazines, multimedia exhibits, dance videos and improvised operas. Sarah says "my poetry becomes music; where sound is sense and rhythm is embodied."
The event includes a special performance of work titled New Beginnings by Blackpool and The Fylde College's Dead Good Poets creative writing group.
Dead Good Poets is a society founded by students and staff as part of the writing community emerging from the increasing number of creative writing programmes offered at the college. Members host and participate in regular open mic events both in college and elsewhere.
Lancashire Writing Hub is a writing development project run by They Eat Culture which provides writers across the county opportunities to network, develop, publish and perform.
Word Soup, events series for the Lancashire Writing Hub, has developed of live literature, panel and performance based spoken word events across Lancashire
The evening is open to anyone who wants to see Sarah's performance and/or perform their own work.