Introducing our first WORD! at Attenborough Arts:
WORD! - the longest running spoken word night in the Midlands and Saboteur Awards Nominee - presents this gala night with Paula Varjack to celebrate and launch its relocation to Attenborough Arts Centre. Paula Varjack is a writer, filmmaker and performance maker. Her work explores identity, the unsaid, and making the invisible visible. She has performed at numerous arts festivals and cultural spaces including: Glastonbury Festival, Berlin International Literature Festival, Vault Festival, Chelsea Theatre, The Victoria & Albert Museum, Richmix, Wilton's Music Hall, Battersea Arts Centre, The Southbank Centre, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Musicbox Lisbon, Es Balluard Museum of Contemporary Art, and The Photographer's Gallery. She is also the creator of the Anti-Slam a satirical take on Poetry Slams where the lowest score wins. To perform on the open mic, sign up in the bar from 6pm.