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SONNET YOUTH
Flint & Pitch Presents:
Blistering Mischief at Hidden
Door!
Join the raconteurs and mischief-makers of Edinburgh
based Flint & Pitch Productions for a show of emerging
talent, one-off collaborations, top music, spoken word,
theatre and more! A delicious mix of talent takes to the
stage with a line-up to send you happily into the following
week!
Freak circus
Sonnet Youth curate monthly
poetry nights, pop-up events
and workshops, bringing
together the best of Scottish
talent. Sonnet Youth - Spoken
Word House Party presents
an unpredictable literary rave,
led by SY hosts Cat Hepburn and
Kevin P Gilday, with special guests
Iona Lee (Scottish Poetry Slam Champ
2016), Drew Taylor-Wilson (award winning
theatre maker and poet) and tunes from Jimbo
(Missing Persons Club). Put the books down and pick
up a beer!
FREAK Circus are Edinburgh’s premier spoken
word theatre company and a List magazine Hot
100 show. For Hidden Door 2017 they present
the spectacular FREAK Circus Freak Show, a
unique audio visual experience combining lavish
imagery and fine art animation coupled with live
performance poetry and theatre from some of
Britain’s top spoken word artists.
LOUD POETS
Loud Poets are a collective
of musicians and spoken
word artists known for
tightly crafted events in
Edinburgh and Glasgow
where music, poignancy
and comedy hit the
stage to prove poetry
can be enjoyed by the
masses.
Inky Fingers at Hidden Door
Edinburgh’s longest running poetry open mic night, Inky Fingers comes to
Hidden Door for the first time. Inky Fingers at Hidden Door is an Edinburgh-
Bristol line-up with Bristol’s poet laureate, Miles Chambers, Bristol short
story writer Tania Hershman and Edinburgh poet and performer, Davie
Cunningham. Want to perform? Put your name in the hat on the night to win
an open mic slot.
Rachel plummer
Shoreline of Infinity
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A quarterly sci-fi magazine from
Scotland, running regular SF events across
the UK. Event Horizon: live sci-fi cabaret,
including music (Bafta award-winner Atzi
Muramatsu on cello, Markee de Saw &
Burt Finkle), poetry (Bram E Gieben and
Colin McGuire) and a sci-fi story adapted
for stage (performed by actors Debbie
Cannon and Jonathan Whiteside)
Rachel Plummer is joining forces with the
acclaimed Scottish Clarinet Quartet to deliver a
vintage sci-fi themed, multi-media performance
on the subject of contact with alien life. The
Parlour Guide to Exo-Politics will challenge your
view of the universe and your own place in it,
featuring experimental film by award winning
film maker Matt Hulse and original music by
internationally recognised composer Matt
Rogers, woven in between spoken word
narrative.
INTERROBANG ‽
INTERROBANG‽ is the UK’s most adorably
edgy night of spoken word, live music
and more – on the shortlist for
the 2017 Saboteur Award for
Best Regular Spoken Word
Night. For Ghosts of the Citadel,
INTERROBANG‽ present Lucy
Ribchester, Jen McGregor, Alex
Howard, and Aurora Engine in a
contemporary, site specific Leith-
set retelling of Gaston Leroux’s Le
Fantôme de l’Opéra.
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