We kicked our first MixMatched night off to a whopping start with a total of sixteen performers! What an eclectic mix of genres; we had performance poetry, stand-up, speeches, and songs…
Below are the artists who performed on Sunday the 27th of February at the Big Drum, Canterbury:
- Emma Robdale, Comedy Performance on ‘Dylexie Linguistics’ Performance Description: Dylexic/Neurodivergent people can use/utilize language in alternative ways… watch Professor Robdale deliver a lecture on this new and up coming dialect!
- Winsome Monica. Performance Description: Poetry from her collection, ‘Zion Roses’ upon the topic of the colonization and Caribbean writers, community and exile.
- Ben Schumacher Performance: Poetry upon affairs of the heart.
- Tom Carney Performance: Poetry on the topic of breathing and spirituality Links: https://www.instagram.com/freakinsenses/
- Scott Fishenden Performance: Stand-up comedy upon the topic of being an introvert
- Carole Kenrick: Carole makes music and art to connect with people, and to share feelings and thoughts about life as she experiences it with an ADHD brain! Performance: ‘Let Me Entertain You’ song with tangents and interjections.
- Sarah Jamison Performance: Friend’s poem about becoming drunk and their antics.
- Alba Jato Bravo Performance: Stand-up speech upon sexual liberation
- Brooke Betty Performance: Stand up Poetry
- Fran Dearlove Performance: Poetry upon love.
- Hannah Etheridge Performance: Spoken Word.
- Alice Riley Performance: Bittersweet comical speech.
- Patrick Hayes Performance: Speech and poetry.
- Chloe Lewer Performance: Poetry
- Amy Kemp-Jones Performance: Poetry Links: Amy Kemp has a YouTube channel called, Spaghetti Brain.
- Evie Rostant Performance: original song upon topic of love.
Emma Robdale, Comedy Performance on ‘Dylexie Linguistics’
Performance Description: Dylexic/Neurodivergent people can use/utilize language in alternative ways… watch Professor Robdale deliver a lecture on this new and up coming dialect!
Links to work: https://sweetstream.co.uk/programs/lava-elastic-for-femfest-brighton-2021
https://emmarobdalestoriesandpoetry.wordpress.com/
Contact: emmarobdale@hotmail.com
Winsome Monica. Performance Description: Poetry from her collection, ‘Zion Roses’ upon the topic of the colonization and ‘Caribbean writers who are searching for home’.
You can Purchase her books from: https://www.peepaltreepress.com/books/zion-roses
and
https://www.waterstones.com/book/zion-roses/monica-minott/9781845235178
…. Our first ever audience poem!!! (a poem written by audience members and then read out at our nights!)
Look me up on the Yellow Pages
On EMMA’S NIGHT, SAM WAS ELECTRIFYING.
Feeling anticipatory before I speak… then I hear others inspiring me and I don’t feel so weak.
and then we ate chickpeas.
I don’t no how I got here or why I’m sat this close to this guy with lip stick in my teeth, not quite existing.
Soft sound echoes around the Room
Look me up in the yellow pages.
I’m impressed by the courage in the room.
I wonder how many people in here would like to come climbing?
Light bulbs are rather neat 
I used to get up in the night + watch the rain hitting the roofs outside
What the heck – I’m doing it- slow – easy.
Almighty words are heard in spiralled ears
Random thoughts…
A space where lines can be forgotten, and it is fine! <3
Finding our way home through this utterly astounding, awe-inspiring constellation of stars
Is a cloud full of rain or tears?
A three winged butterfly
Always give things a go
Warm light. Soft faces with no eyes. People spilling their heart in a square of fairy lights. Ripples of clicks echo around the plants and cakes like bubbles in a stream. I saw a bee land on the window pane.
Scott
Fluid ideas now becoming one
To be so similar, in a place full of unique people
I Risk my legibility for the task of this coffee
as I found the ground…
I Have no words
Actually, it didn’t take me 15 minutes to think of this!
This is my body. I can move it. I can stim. I can dance.
This cake has a faint hint of liquorice…
Filled me with the confidence to be me <3
Thoroughly enjoyed the comedy
Enjoyed the jokes – really funny
I like the plants
Poetry was good
exquisite corpses are better than coincidental poetry
Great acts so far, I’m looking forward to the other acts