Date/Time
Sunday 15 December 2024
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Categories Performances, shows, and events
Rosemary Griggs: Devon’s Daughters
Sunday 15 December 5.30pm £12 or £10 or £8 Book here
Rosemary presents a unique blend of history, theatre and re-enactment. She has researched Devon’s 16th century history for years. She tells the stories of the forgotten women beyond the royal court: wives, sisters, daughters and mothers who played a significant part during the tumultuous Tudor years focusing on the story of Katherine Champernowne, mother of Sir Walter Raleigh (notoriously arrested in Ashburton at the Exeter Inn).
A Woman of Noble Wit (Matador)
NB: This performance will take place in our first floor Studio, accessible via a staircase (20 steps). There isn’t any lift in the building.
And after Rosemary, stick around for the Festival finale:
West Street Words Spoken Word Special
Stand Up Poetry Festival Finale
with Ceri Baker, Poppy Jayne Jones, Harula Ladd & Tim King
Sunday 15 December 7.30pm £12 or £10 or £8 Book here
Ceri Baker, Ashburton’s own! is making waves on the poetry and live spoken word scene wherever she goes. The current Bard of Exeter, she’s a performance poet also experimenting with music and sound. Ceri pulls people in on the funny sides of serious life stuff, exploring themes of woman, change, death, grief, mother, neurodiversity, sex, cycles and creativity.
“Ceri Baker is a bold and beautiful poet.” Salena Godden
Poppy Jayne Jones is a South-West a capella singer-songwriter, poet and facilitator who has supported the Plymouth Poetry Festival, worked with the National Poetry Society, runs Pyre Events, a mixed marginalized genders arts showcase and published Between Reeds with Jawbone Collective in 2023.
Harula Ladd A slam-winning, home-made-cargidgan-wearing, nature-loving, narnia-believing, creativity-worshipping, word-smithing deep-diving, heart-touching, tear-inducing Totnes based poet!
Tim King Seasoned poet, performer, event organiser and former Bard of Exeter, Tim is also “a full on boffin under that checked shirt, poetry community connector exterior” (according to Ceri Baker).