INKY FINGERS OPEN MIC
Tuesday 22nd February 8-11pm
Featuring Sophie Cooke & Morag Edward

The Inky Fingers Open Mic takes place in the main room of the Forest every fourth Tuesday of the month, from 8-11pm. It’s free to come and free for anyone to perform, regardless of style, experience, or identity.

We want to hear from everybody. We want your poems, your rants, your ballads, your short stories, your diaries, your experimental texts, your heart, your mind, your body. We want the essay on your summer holidays you wrote when you were four, your adolescent haiku, and extracts from your eventually-to-be-completed epic fantasy quadrilogy.

We want to hear your best new work as well. And we want people to care about the way words are performed.

Our feature performers this month are Sophie Cooke, known for her Saltire-shortlisted first novel The Glass House and work from travel writing to poetry, and Morag Edward, whose short stories have featured in a wide variety of anthologies, and who has been seen at performances from the Victoria & Albert Museum to the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Open Mic slots are five minutes long; e-mail inkyfingersedinburgh@gmail.com to be sure of a slot.

Sunday Music Night
Live Music on Sunday 20th February - 9pm

A wonderful night of music with performances from:
Tim Holehouse
Duncan Evans
Andrew Mill & The Stolen Pirates

Free The Land
Friday 18th February 7.30pm

FILM MONDAYS
Film Nights every Monday at The Forest - February

more info on film programs at the Forest please visit our website

AFTERBIRTH
Friday 11th February, 8 till Late
Bring Booze & Dancing Shooze

Akimbo Divine DJ Set (Edinburgh)
http://akimbodivine.wordpress.com/
Rootmitten (Bristol)
http://theapocryphalbrumedispenser.tumblr.com/
Visuals Esotericka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZG0Nmo7Dew
Satellite link to:
Faith Nicolson (Peru) of Sea Is Salt
http://theapocryphalbrumedispenser.tumblr.com/theseaissalt

READ-easy The Inky Fingers Writers’ Group
Thursday 10th February 6–9pm
more info at Inky Fingers

Interactive Theatre Workshop and Call Out for Collaborators
Tuesday 25th January, 5:30-7:30 pm, Forest Hall.

An Interactive Theatre Workshop and Callout For Collaborators: Open Source Theatre Company wants to find some new people to discuss, play, learn, meet, act and think with.

We’re doing a project with This Collection and Tollcross Community Centre called Property and Theft this March: it’s an interactive theatre project about daily life in a decaying capitalist society. But we need some more collaborators for it.

So we thought we’d run a totally open and totally free workshop in interactive theatre in order to make some new friends. We’ll talk about some of the ideas behind interactive theatre, do some exercises, play some games, run around a bit, and plant the seeds of something new.

Come along if you’re interested in collaborating, or if you’re not sure but it sounds like you might be, or if you just want to explore the ideas of interactive theatre. You won’t be making a commitment: this is a way of meeting people and sharing ideas.

E-mail harry.lodestone@gmail.com if you’re planning to come or if you’re interested in the project but can’t come that day (e-mail us anyway: we want to hear from you)
and please forward this call-out to anyone you think might be interested.

Open Source Theatre is a loose collective specialising in interactive political theatre expeiments: we’ve performed at places like the Soho Theatre, London, the streets of Essex, the Byre Theatre, St Andrews, and the Forest, of course. For information about us and our projects, see http://opensourcetheatre.wordpress.com.