Next Re:Enchant - May 2025
RE:ENCHANT - Poetic Experiments For A New World
Our annual week-long festival of shows from groundbreaking poets.
Take part in evolutions of the oral tradition; with shows, workshops, panels and more.
Experience live literature as it has never been. As the world breaks down, the spoken-word recomposes consciousness and vandalises literary forms.
"Stage poets - there is still a deep cultural apathy to your artform. Don't buy into it. The discourse of "poetry" has little capacity to appreciate or support the oral tradition. Few educational or arts establishments back poetry as a performing art. So - please - don't forget....
We are living through a mental health and loneliness epidemic. The artful application of poetry on the live setting is more urgently needed than ever. The bardcraft of applied poetics is not just entertainment. It is education, facilitation, activism, rhetoric, healing and consciousness modulation.
You are a front line against disenchantment and isolation. You are a vanguard of Beauty and Joy. You are a vibe holder, a hypnogoge, a spirit lifter and an engineer of collective empathy.
If you stop (because there is no money, you're "too old" or the scene is full of imposters) we all lose zeal, eldership, raw experience and poetry.
Its really hard right now, so its really important to keep the lifeblood of spoken word pumping. Be the micro-economy of poetic Beauty and collective Joy. Build your own stages. Build your own collectives. Start your own nights. Do it in a living room, a back yard, a pub basement, a holiday. Keep going"
Pete The Temp
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