2008 News...
STOP PRESS!! Look out for RBW
in action during the year:-
National Poetry Day Celebrations
6th October 2008
WORDS IN THE LIBRARY
free LIVE poetry recital
hear works from a dozen poets
1.30pm Rising Brook Library
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New Book 'Stafford Remembers' was launched in March and a DRAMA DAY & Poetry Collection 'Staffordshire Introspective' was launched at the MET Theatre in June
To hear an example poem click on the icon at the bottom of this page - a short MP3 download (0.32MB).
Check out www.myspace.com/risingbrookwriterslive
for more of our LIVE poetry some set to music.
LATEST BOOK: Published March 2008
£3-50 donation appreciated.
Also available on loan through
the library service and
RISING BROOK LIBRARY have a few
copies on sale.
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DRAMA DAY and Poetry Launch
pictures on the Gallery Page
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Touring Workshop Programme
for Stafford Remembers
ended in the Spring 08
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Touring Workshop Programme
for
Oh we DID like to be beside the seaside!
(tba once we find some funding . . .)
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LIVE PERFORMANCE POETRY
SESSION
WORDS IN THE LIBRARY
in conjunction with SCC's YOUR LIBRARY
October 6th 2008
£2.99 donation appreciated
available from RBW
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Stafford History Fair
RBW display in County Buildings
top of the stairs outside the White Room
recorded memories of Stafford in Wartime
Stafford Remembers was on sale.
27th September 2008
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LATEST PROJECT:
RBW are recording our books onto CD.
The audio books will be made available for
other disability charities to use in their audio projects
free of charge. More details soon.
NEW BOOK to be launched in Autumn 2008
COLDWYND SANDS
a 1960s comedy set in the
holiday camp from hell
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together with real life memories
of post war seaside holidays
(work in progress)
This project will also be the first
recorded onto CD.
Funding thanks to Midlands Co-op Community Awards.
WINNING ENTRIES 2007
LIMERICK Competition
Staffordshire County Show
30-31 May 2007
It was a very hard job to choose the
top five entries but here they are:-
My schooldays were such a disaster,
I would wish for the time to go faster,
I vowed not to return
To a place where you learn,
And then I became a headmaster.
Charlie R.
Local MP David Kidney in conversation
A chemistry teacher named Yapp
Got a shock when he turned on the tap.
What was water before
Was now hydrochlor -
i.e. acid. A fatal mishap!
Ray B.
Here's the Mayor casting an eye over the 2006 publication: Tales From The Gaiety a homage to old time music hall.
The Article Clerk's job at Crewe
Is just the position for you.
If you've been to Turkey,
Or your past's a bit murky
Or your name's Linda Lovelace, you'll do!
A.P.
One day at the County Show
A lady said: 'Please have a go.
Our travelling group
Want to purchase a loop
But we haven't got quite enough dough!'
Pat T.
Another stand visitor in conversation
There was a schoolboy from Stone
Who was nothing but accident prone
He walked into the class
And fell on his a**
Now the other kids won't leave him alone!
Dan H.
A GREAT BIG THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAD A GO AT THIS COMPETITION AND FOUND IT WAS NOT QUITE AS EASY AS IT LOOKED
Time to go home . . . hope see you next year . . .