ayout 1 - Leicester YMCA

10spoken wordTue 6 April, 4 May, 1 June, 6 July 8pm.£3/£2 concWORD! @ The YCABARETWORD! is the longestrunning poetry and spokenword night in the EastMidlands. It consists of anopen mic and booked actand is now supported bystunning film visuals andlive feed.In April, WORD! have joinedwith Staple Magazine topresent the internationallyacclaimed, Mimi Khalvati. Mimi has published 6 collections ofpoetry. Her latest, The Meanest Flower, was a Poetry Book SocietyRecommendation, a Financial Times Book of the Year, and shortlistedfor the TS Eliot Prize.Prior to her gig, Mimi will facilitate a writing workshop. Places are£4/£3 and booking is essential via Lydia Towsey:secretagentartist@hotmail.comIf you’d like to perform at WORD! arrive at 7pm and speak to thecompere. Visit www.myspace.com/wordleicester for bookedact info in other months as they are announced.SFri 9 April 8pm. £8/£6 concBlackheart ManCABARETBlackheart Man isMoqapi Selassie’sexplosive, incendiary oneman show that looks atgrowing up in Englandas a Black youth and aRastafarian. The showcombines poetry,monologues, video andmusic with humour,drama and emotion.Moqapi Selassie masterfully recreates the atmosphere and games ofthe school playgrounds, the social conditions West Indians and thefirst generation of Black British born children experienced; thedancehall scene of the 1970s and 80s and the feeling of hope andaspiration held by the first generation of Black youths to be born totheir Caribbean parents. This is a rare opportunity to hear about theBlack British experience, as told by a Black Man born in England toCaribbean parents – don’t miss it.11spoken wordSFri 4 June 8pm. £10/£8 concPlease note that times given are ’on stage’ timesTue 20 April, 18 May, 15 June 8pm.£5.50/£4 concShort FuseA stylish short fiction showspacewith visuals, music and bar.April: METROPOLISBlitz and glitz and fritz lang; brightlights, big city; apple, smoke, gayparis…May: ON THE ROADJet setters and globetrotters;wagon-jumping hobos, mountaineersand intrepid backpackers; check outthe very best in travel writing and short fiction on the move.CABARETJune: TABOOContagion and containment; animism, magic and the omnipotenceof thoughts; a night of stories daring to name the un-nameable.For more details and headliners as they are confirmed visithttp://shortfusefiction.comSMurray Lachlan Youngpresents poems, tales andsongs of deviant folkWith a brilliant combination ofbizarre ballads, saucy shantiesand rattling good yarns MurrayLachlan Young - one of the UK’sforemost performance poets anda regular fixture on BBC Radio4’s Saturday Live and 6 Music’sresident poet at the GlastonburyFestival - leads us down a deeplyamusing road to many strangeplaces.Young combines a headycombination of traditional andcontemporary popular art, tocreate an often hilarious andalways unique take on the darkcorners of our modern society.CABARETSPlease note that times given are ’on stage’ times