by Scruff | Thursday, October 10, 2019
Raise the Bar’s popular ‘Spotlight’ open mic event is back for a special edition at PRSC, celebrating the launch of Tom Sastry’s ‘Complicity’ with Nine Arches Press. Spotlight focuses on the emerging talent pool of Bristol and its surrounding areas, providing a relaxed and welcoming environment for newbies, veterans and anybody in between to perform their work to a warm and intimate audience in the heart of Stokes Croft.
by Scruff | Thursday, September 12, 2019
Come and join us for an evening of performance and a People’s Question Time ahead of the demonstration at the Tory party conference in late September. London based spoken Word artist, author and community organiser Potent Whisper will open the evening before a panel of speakers discuss the question of how the left can beat Boris?
by Lisa | Friday, June 28, 2019
Meta-Slam is a competition where 8 poets will be randomly selected from a pool of applicants to compete for a £50 headlining set in the heart of Bristol. We strive to make the event as close as possible to a fair and balanced cometition where pure lyrical skill and...
by Lisa | Saturday, February 23, 2019
Meta-slam: A slam that aims to refine the Poetry Slam into a well oiled machine, with no score creep, real judges and a cash prize for the winner. Updated ruleset, new visuals, faster runtime, better content, expect updates of this size and magnitude every time a new...
by Lisa | Saturday, November 17, 2018
A brand new slam is coming to Bristol and it’s coming in hot! Meta-Slam is a competition where 10 poets will be randomly selected from a pool of applicants to compete for £100 in prize money, using nothing but their words, their wits and their ability to impress...
