FESTIVAL PASS

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TRASHED ORGAN
Festival of Belonging
Monday 30th April - Thursday 3rd May
Venues: The Central Pub (Gateshead) & The Bridge Hotel (Newcastle).

Trashed Organ's Festival of Belonging brings together the North East's most innovative and inspiring writers, musicians and artists for a four-day extravaganza exploring what it means to belong here, there and everywhere.

Pick up a Festival Pass to all events and workshops.

Brought to you in collaboration with NCLA, GemArts and Stepaway Magazine.

Festival Pass - £15/£12 conc. (gives access to all events and workshops)
Individual events - £5/£4 conc.

Full Festival Line Up below:

Monday 30th April, 8pm - 11pm
We're all Mad Here
The Central, The Blue Room, Gateshead

All aboard the Trashed Organ Express for an explosive night of poetry from Stevie Ronnie, Claire Askew, Andrew McMillan and Lizzie Whyman. Music from Fiona's Jazz Express and Oud master Firas Kirala. Meet someone new and send a postcard from the Wish You Were Here booth, and win a bottle of port in our Trashed Laureate competition!

Tuesday 1st May, 2pm - 4pm
Putting Yourself on the Map: A Poetry Workshop
The Bridge Hotel, Upstairs, Newcastle upon Tyne
Free, booking essential (max 10 places)

How do we write about belonging? Read, write and enjoy poetry on this theme, with Christy Ducker. Open to all.

Tuesday 1st May, 8pm - 11pm
Castles, Collieries and Coastline
The Bridge Hotel, Upstairs, Newcastle upon Tyne

Celebrate the culture and history of the North East with Christy Ducker, Pippa Little and Tom Kelly. Plus Darren Richard Carlaw/Stepaway Magazine presents an exploration of North East flânerie with Ira Lightman, Bob Beagrie, Ian Davidson and Keith Parker. With music from local legend The Lake Poets.

Wednesday 2nd May, 2pm - 4pm
A Long Way from Home: Writing Poems of Distance and Belonging
The Central, The Blue Room, Gateshead
Free, booking essential (max 10 places)

Join Tony Williams for a writing workshop exploring distance and belonging.

Wednesday 2nd May, 7pm
Kalagora
The Central, The Blue Room, Gateshead

Penned in the Margins in association with GemArts present Kalagora. Splicing poetry with theatre, Siddhartha Bose journeys from the street surrealism of Mumbai to London's East End via Manhattan on Millennium night. "An extraordinary odyssey" - Julian Sands, BBC Radio 4.

Wednesday 2nd May, 8pm
Anywhere I Lay My Head
The Central, The Blue Room, Gateshead

Celebrate the outsider Trashed Organ style. An evening for nomads and romantics with poetry from Tony Williams, Sheree Mack, Daniel Hardisty and Susannah Pickering. Plus 1930's swing, gypsy jazz and country from Rob Heron (of The Tea Pad Orchestra).

Thursday 3rd May, 8pm
I Don't Think We've Met?
The Bridge Hotel, Upstairs, Newcastle upon Tyne

Don't miss our tantalizing final night of specially commissioned new collaborations between a myriad of musicians, writers and artists exploring ideas of belonging. Sign up for a Trashed Date and start collaborating with someone new. Plus music from our house band Fiona's Jazz Express.

For the latest line up and further details about the festival: http://www.trashedorgan.co.uk