Events
Below are details of upcoming shows and events. For more information or to book me for any performances please contact me.
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Sheffield Town Hall, 30th October 2008
Rommi Smith and Ken Higgins perform Umi,
A sequence of poems inspired by the voices of the Middle Passage
Thursday 30th October 2008
7.00 p.m. Sheffield Town Hall, Reception Rooms
8.00 p.m. Refreshments
FFI contact: Gurjit.bhachoo@sheffield.gov.uk
www.sheffield.gov.uk/libraries
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Black History Month, Leeds
Sunday October 12th 2008
13.00 -20.00
The Carriage Works Theatre
Millennium Square,
Leeds
Affirmation - a day of workshops and performances in celebration of Black History Month.
Rommi Smith will be leading workshops for young writers and adults, as well as giving performances from her forthcoming collection, Mornings and Midnights.
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ILKLEY LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2008
Meet Peepal Tree Press
Sunday 5th October 2008
3.45 p.m. Wildman Room, Ilkley Playhouse
Weston Road, Ilkley
Rommi Smith chairs the panel discussion in celebration of this year's featured festival press: Peepal Tree Press
www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.co.uk
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Florence Nightingale Museum, LONDON
Saturday 27th September 2008
11.00 - 4.00 p.m.
Drop in writing workshop for families. Meet Florence Nightingale and tell her the things that should be included in the remedy bank of all time.
http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/events.htm
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Leeds Young Authors Workshops 2008
From April 29th - June 25th 2008 - Tuesdays
Host Media Centre, Saville Mount
Chapeltown, Leeds
6.00 - 8.00 p.m.
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Bloodshot Monochrome - Friday 25th April 2008, 19.30 p.m. The South Bank Centre, London
Bloodshot Monochrome
Friday 25th April 2008
19.30
The South Bank Centre
LONDON
Rommi Smith performs brand new poems from Mornings and Midnights accompanied by bassist Ken Higgins; part of Patience Agbabi's official launch of her new collection of poems, Bloodshot Monochrome.
The evening also features:
Salena Godden
Lemn Sissay, writer in residence at the South Bank Centre
Julian Daniels
Michael Berkavich
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/calendar?action=production&production=39089&performance=39091
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/calendar?action=p
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Vienna Literature Festival 2008 - Workshop - Saturday 19th April 2008
Poetry in Performance Workshop: Rommi Smith
Saturday 19th April 2008
12.00pm - 14.00 p.m. | Literaturhaus, Wien
Explore the sound of your words off the page. Experiment with styles, forms, ways of expressing yourself in live performance. Discover tips and techniques for developing confidence in sharing your work with an audience. An exciting and essential workhop for anyone interested in working with words, whatever their level of experience. This is your chance to work learn from the UK Parliament’s first Writer in Residence, a mistress of words on and off the page
http://www.viennalit.at/festival2008.html
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Vienna Literature Festival 2008 - Performance - Saturday 19th April 2008
Rommi Smith accompanied by bassist, Ken Higgins: Mornings and Midnights
Saturday, 19th April 2008
21.45
Ratpack, Vienna
Florianigasse 56
1080 Wien, Austria
http://www.viennalit.at/festival2008.html#smith
Rommi Smith performs and sings brand new poems from Mornings and Midnights,(her forthcoming collection of Blues and Jazz inspired poems) accompanied by reknowned bassist, Ken Higgins.
http://www.viennalit.at/festival2008.html
Rommi Smith acknowledges the award of a grant from ACE, Yorkshire in making this trip possible.
http://www.viennalit.at/
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Freedom and Culture - The South Bank, London, Saturday 10th November 2007
As part of a day conference dedicated to exploring the impact and legacy of Maafa in contemporary Britain, Rommi Smith is a guest speaker on a panel headed by civil rights activist, Professor Angela Davis.
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The Birthday Poets - New Vic
Rommi Smith is one of five poets commissioned to create brand new work in celebrate of the 21st birthday of New Vic Stoke on Trent. The final poems will be developed into brand new pieces of art by theatre practitioners.
www.newvictheatre.org.uk
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F Words Event with Caryl Phillips - 23rd October 2007 - 7.00 p.m.
Passion and Pride Cultural Day
Tuesday 23rd October 2007
The Carriageworks Theatre, Millennium Square, Leeds
Bookings: 0113 224 3801
F Words with Caryl Phillips
7.00 p.m.
£3.50/£2.50
Rommi Smith, part of the F Words Writers' Project performing new work accompanied by bassist, Ken Higgins.
www.myspace.com/fwordscreativefreedom
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Rommi Smith - Ilkley Literature Festival 2007 Poet in Residence 28th September - 14th October 2007
Rommi Smith is festival poet in residence for Ilkley Literature Festival in 2007. She will be: performing alongside Linton Kwesi Johnson; chairing discussions with Kester Aspden and with Doreen Lawrence, whose son, Stephen, was murdered by white racists, and whose death led to a major public enquiry and overhaul of British policing; running workshops and performance masterclasses; creating an Ilkley freedom poetry quilt with artist Kate Bowles; performing a specially commissioned new work, as part of Coded Language, fusing film, performance and music.
For dates and further information visit: www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk
www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk
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23rd August 2007 - Parliamentary Writer in Residence, open workshops for families
Westminster Hall,
Westminster Palace
Thursday 23rd August 2007
2.30 p.m. onwards
FREE
Marking the Unesco Day remembering transatlantic slavery and the abolitionist movements. From 2.30 p.m. Rommi Smith will be working with family groups to write poems inspired by the Parliamentary Exhibition, The British Slave Trade, Abolition, Parliament and People. The poems will be featured in a special virtual poetry quilt.
www.parliament.uk/slavetrade
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GLA (Greater London Authority) Memorial Day - Marking 23 August: International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
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FRIDAY 9TH MARCH 2007 7.00 P.M.
PEEPAL TREE PRESS EVENT
PART OF SPIT LIT WOMEN'S WRITING FESTIVAL
TOYNBEE STUDIOS
28 COMMERICAL STREET
E1
KADIJAH IBRAHIM
RAMAN MUNDAIR
SENE SENEVIRATNE
ROMMI SMITH
DOROTHEA SMARTT
NEW WORK BY FIVE POETS OF AFRICAN AND ASIAN DESCENT, PUBLISHED BY PEEPAL TREE PRESS, THE LEADING PUBLISHER OF CARIBBEAN AND BLACK BRITISH LITERATURE. A LANDMARK EVENT FOR BLACK BRITISH POETRY.
WWW.ALTERNATIVEARTS.CO.UK
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SABLE LGBTQ EVENT - SPIT LIT WOMEN'S FESTIVAL, LONDON, 7TH MARCH 2007
Wednesday 7th March 2007
Toynbee Studios
28 Commerical Street
London
E1
8.30 p.m.
Event in celebration of the life and work of poet and activist, Audre Lorde.
Jackee Holder, Life coach, writer discusses her work with poet Dorothea Smartt.
Rommi Smith, Akaas, Al Ali, Laken Randhawa, Seni Seneviratne and Tanya Chan Sam reading their work inspired by poet Audre Lorde.
www.sablelitmag.org, www.alternativearts.co.uk
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OUR DEEP SORROW, PART OF FROM FACT TO FICTION - SATURDAY 2ND DECEMBER 2006, BBC RADIO 4, 7.00 P.M.
In a week when Tony Blair expressed 'deep sorrow', for Britain's role in the Slave Trade, and the Mayor of London accused the black Chairman of the CRE of 'failing the victims of racism', Jazz Poet, Rommi Smith meditates on our legacy of Empire and why sorry always seems the hardest word.
HISTORY: Burt Caesar
NEWSREPORTER: Joseph Kloska
Music composed by Ken Higgins
Singers: Claudia Smith, Travis J Cole and Annette Bowen of London Community Gospel Choir
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/fromfacttofiction/pip/
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WOMAN'S HOUR. THURSDAY 22ND FEBRUARY 2007
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www.bbc.co.uk/womanshour
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PRIX EUROPA, BERLIN 16TH OCTOBER 2006
Rommi will be performing her poem specially commissioned for the BBC, at this conference to mark the creative links between countries within the European Union. Rommi's short play Rain in His Suitcase, (commissioned as part of The Unexpected European, an interlinked commission of six European writers) will be aired as part of the festival celebrations.
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ILKLEY LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2006, SUNDAY 15TH OCTOBER 2006
Alan Plater and Rommi Smith
When Poetry Met Jazz
Alan Plater
Rommi Smith
Sunday 15th October
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM
₤4.00 (Full Price) ₤3.00 (Concessions)
In this laid back mixture of poetry and discussion, distinguished playwright
Alan Plater shares his well known passion for jazz – with Leeds based poet, playwright and performer Rommi Smith writer in residence for
the BBC’s Africa Season. Together,they discuss his autobiographical
journey, 'Doggin’Around' describing his
lifetime affair with jazz and tease out the meeting between jazz and poetry in her new collection, 'Mornings and
Midnights',inspired by the lives of divas and chosen as the Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice for Spring 2006 .
www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk
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ILKLEY LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2006, SUNDAY 8TH OCTOBER 2006
Rommi Smith in conversation with authors Jon McGregor and Martin Bedford
Sunday 8th October
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
₤4.00 (Full Price) ₤3.00 (Concessions)
Two of the country’s most exciting authors explore stories of two very
different men – the museum curator and the draft dodger –caught at moments of choice. Do they have they courage to change their lives, or
can they only observe and catalogue the might-have-been?
Jon McGregor author of the critically acclaimed 'If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things', winner of the
Betty Trask Prize and Somerset
Maugham Award talks to prize
winning Ilkley based author Martyn Bedford, about Bedford’s powerful
fifth novel, 'The Island of Lost Souls' and McGregor’s own, 'So Many Ways To Begin'.
www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org
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THE GUINNESS JAZZ FESTIVAL, CORK, SUNDAY OCTOBER 29TH 2006 8.00 P.M.
Rommi Smith in performance with bassist Ken Higgins
Triskel, Tobin Street(off Grand Parade)
www.guinnessjazzfestival.com
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WHITE OPEN SPACES , SOHO THEATRE, WEST END, LONDON 26 SEPTEMBER-14TH OCTOBER 2006
SOHO THEATRE
21 Dean Street
London
W1D 3NE
Ignited by Trevor Phillips’ (Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality) suggestion that the countryside is guilty of a ‘passive apartheid', seven writers explore our attitudes towards race, environment and identity. Uncovering the complex layers of fear and misconception that cause prejudice, and also the similarities and shared beliefs that can bond, this is a heart-rending, moving and provocative show from award winning company Pentabus.
‘Excellent performances and some spellbinding writing coincide in a tightly directed and provocative piece of theatre.’
The Stage
White Open Spaces is written by:
Francesca Beard
Richard Rai O’Neill
Rommi Smith
Ian Marchant
Sonali Bhattacharyya
Courttia Newland
Kara Miller
First performed at the Pleasance during the Edinburgh Festival 2006.
Presented by Pentabus Theatre in partnership with BBC Radio and BBC Radio 4.
box office: 0870 429 6883
administration: 020 7287 5060
fax: 020 7287 5061
Transport
Tube:
Tottenham Court Road is the nearest station.
Also within 5 minutes walk are Leicester Square, Oxford Circus and Piccadilly Circus.
Buses:
to Oxford Street: 7, 8, 10, 25, 55, 73, 98, 176; to Shaftesbury Avenue: 38,19,14; to Regent's Street: 3, 6, 12, 13, 15, 23, 53, 88; to Charing Cross Road: 14, 29, 176.
Parking is restricted.
Car:
MasterPark - Theatreland Parking Scheme
50% off Parking when you visit the theatre
To qualify, simply get your car park ticket stamped at the theatre and present it with your theatre ticket stub (dated the same day) and vehicle registration number to the cashier at the time of payment. You may park for an unlimited period and receive a 50% discount off the standard casual rate*.
This offer is valid seven days a week at China Town, Leicester Square, Marble Arch & Park Lane, Pimlico, Soho (Poland Street), Trafalgar Square, Cavendish Square and Rochester Row Car Parks. Please note tariffs vary between car parks.
For more information about the Theatreland parking scheme visit www.masterpark.org.uk or Freephone 0800 243 348.
26-30 Sep; 2-7,9-14 Oct 2006
7.30pm
Matinees: 30 September, 7, 14 October, 4pm
26-30 September: £10
2-7 October: £15 (£12.50)
9-14 October: £20 (£15)
Post show discussion:
9 October
BSL interpreted:
12 October, 7.30pm
Audio described:
11 October, 7.30pm
Is there an apartheid in the UK?
‘An utterly absorbing collection which manages, despite its serious subject matter, to be amusing as well as thought provoking… essential plays and essential viewing.’
The List
A white man blanks his black girlfriend at a society wedding. A black landlord pins a 'no travellers' sign to his pub door. A farmer's wife rams her shopping trolley into a stranger in the village:
‘Everyone just turned around and stared like I was from Mars or something.’
http://www.sohotheatre.com/fromhomepage/pl1176.htm
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WHITE OPEN SPACES
Rommi Smith is one of seven writers commissioned to write short monologues as part of
White Open Spaces, an exploration of race and the English countryside.
The complete plays entitled WHITE OPEN SPACES are now published by Oberon Books as part of the Oberon Modern Plays series
http://www.pleasance.co.uk/edinburgh/listings/sear
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The Unexpected European, BBC Radio 4, Friday September 8th 2006 21.00
Rommi Smith, (the UK writer) and five other writers chosen from across Europe each write 9 minute dramas challenging the notion of what it is to be European in the 21st Century. Rommi has also been commissioned to write a celebratory poem to announce the series, which will be published on the BBC website in September 2006.
BBC Radio 4
Friday 8th September 2006
9.00 p.m.
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4
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British Council Poet in Residence at California State University, Los Angeles
From February 20th - March 17th 2006, Rommi Smith will be British Council Poet in Residence at California State University in Los Angeles. Her work will involve promoting a different face of 'British Literature'; giving readings, performances with music, leading workshops, developing a multimedia collaborative performance with staff and students as well as giving talks and presentations.
http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/nsmith.
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