We are incredibly pleased to announce that SlamFresh CIC has been awarded a grant from Arts Council England. The grant will allow us to run a trial project in Walker Riverside Academy, as well as to set up a website and build a social media presence. It is the first step on our mission to deliver performance poetry and spoken word workshops in schools and community settings around the North East and beyond.
This has been a long time in the making! SlamFresh registered as a community interest company nearly 2 years ago and is directed by poets Michael MacDonald, Rowan McCabe and Jeff Price. However, in light of the global pandemic, our plans had to take a bit of a backseat.
So we are very excited to say that we are now able to begin running workshops and making plans to expand the business.
Our first series of sessions will be in Walker Riverside Academy, working with a group of 15 students from year’s 8 and 9. Over the course of 6 workshops we will be guiding the group through the process of writing, editing and performing their own spoken word poems. The project will culminate in a final performance for family and friends.
We believe this is the beginning of some very big things, and once this project is complete we will be looking to roll our model out to schools around the North East and, ultimately, the whole of the UK.
Spoken Word Workshops 