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The Swing Ninjas
Wednesday 26th January, 9pm
Dirty Horn Gypsy Swing Trio
Check them out: http://www.theswingninjas.co.uk and http://www.myspace.com/theswingninjas.
Inky Fingers Open Mic
Tuesday 25th January, in the Cafe.
Every fourth Tuesday of the month.
The Inky Fingers Open Mic takes place in the main room of the Forest every fourth Tuesday of the month - January 25th, 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.
By felicitous coincidence, the regular Inky Fingers Open Mic slot falls on Burns Night this year, so we’re claiming that prestigious slot to throw the stage open to your performances. we want to hear from the Burnses and the McGonagalls, we want to hear from everyone who loves words. The theme for the night is “Second Degree Burns”; you can choose to write something to that theme, or to celebrate Burns Night by responding in some way to the Scottish writing’s grand traditions, or you can ignore the theme entirely, which is well in keeping with the Inky Fingers way.
Our feature performers this month are Kirsti Wishart and Kevin Cadwallender. Kirsti lives next to a graveyard and tells beautiful and funny stories about Edinburgh and more; Kevin is a Yakker poet and jack-of-many-trades, whose sharp and popular work has appeared in just about every medium you can think of.
Open Mic slots are five minutes long; e-mail inkyfingersedinburgh AT gmail DOT com to sign up and be sure of a slot, and check http://inkyfingersedinburgh.wordpress.com for more details.
The Click Clack Club Beefheart Tribute
Thursday, January 13th, 9pm
Tarzan Stripes, Kings of Cheeze, Ego Ergo Aggro
The Inky Fingers READ-easy Writers’ Group
Thursday 13th January, 6-9pm
FREE (like it should be)
We’ve set up the READeasy Writers’ Group to be a safe and encouraging space for writers to meet up, hear their words read, and get constructive critical feedback. The third open session is at the Forest, Bristo Place, 6 – 9pm, Thursday 13th January.
It’s open to writers of any style, experience, identity and genre — but places each month are limited. To secure a slot, e-mail inkyfingersedinburgh AT gmail DOT com in advance with your name and a piece of your writing attached — and then just come along on the night with cake and a ready mind. See the Writers’ Group page (https://inkyfingersedinburgh.wordpress.com/) for full instructions (including length limits).
Some things people have said about the group:
“I have always wanted to attend a group like this to share and get feedback on my work. However, I was always too nervous to share my work with so many other writers at one time. The Inky Fingers method is very good because it allows you to share your work anonymously, while still receiving feedback. I found it to be an excellent experience with lots of good discussion amongst a very nice bunch of people.”
