Workshop with Keith Jarrett & Sophia Walker

Capturing Fire 2014:
Workshop with Keith Jarrett & Sophia Walker

"The Great British Wank Off" 

  

 

June 1st

2:30-5pm

DC Center for the LGBT Community

2000 14th St NW #105

Washington, DC 20009

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Open to all!

$25
or
FREE for Capturing Fire Festival Registrants
(e-mail browning@splitthisrock.org for code)

**Scholarships are available**
(e-mail browning@splitthisrock.org)

Workshop Description

There is nothing a Brit can't get away with, and it's not just the accent. Preaching to the choir is boring. It's easy. How do you turn your biggest detractors into the ones snapping loudest at your lines? Push boundaries, push uncomfortable truths, push your audience. With satire, we can say anything. Looking at the work of some of the most successful British poets (Gerry Potter, Anna Freeman and others), we'll take on everything we're not supposed to talk about. Be ready to write.

Bios

Keith Jarrett lives in London, England. A former London and UK poetry slam champion, he writes performance poetry and short fiction and teaches as part of a pioneering Spoken Word Educator programme. He is also working on his first novel, a tale written partly in verse.  

Sophia Walker is an internationally touring poet and teaching artist. She is the 2013 BBC GrandSlam Champion, winner of the 2012 London Poetry Olympics, 2012 Edinburgh International Book Festival Slam and is a former Scottish National Slam Champion.