Rising Tides | Shore Women

What's current and coming up

Readings and exhibition	Our exhibition on Poetry and the Arts appears at the Lord Louis Library Gallery, Newport, throughout June. Shore Women are taking part in the Brading Roman Villa Roman Voices Creative Writing competition 2008. The competition is open to children and adults, closing date 23rd August. You can download an entry form at www.bradingromanvilla.org.uk. We read regularly at Women's Institutes across the island and are currently booking into 2009.
The Irex Project	The Wreck of the Irex: Riddles of the Sea - The Irex shipwreck in Scratchell's Bay in 1890 is a fascinating story which we have presented through poetry and performance over the past year. Funded with a grant from the Isle of Wight Economic Partnership, we have run workshops and poetry readings for a wide variety of community groups including WIs, schools, librarians and a circle dance group. There have been public Open Mic shipwreck sessions at the Apollo Theatre in Newport and at Quay Arts Newport. We have performed to full houses at Niton Parish Church, West Wight Middle School and Dimbola Lodge Freshwater. More poems and pictures...	photo courtesy of County Press
Other News	We welcome Camilla Lambert and Linda Goodwin as new Shore Women. Marion Carmichael rejoins us after having a year off touring Europe in a camper van. The Irex DVD is now available! Buy it by contacting us through this site. The video shows the live performance of the poems at Dimbola Lodge, Freshwater, and includes all characters in costume and some very clever screen editing. It was well received when screened at Quay Arts in October. Felicity Fair-Thompson and Pat Murgatroyd's winning bus stop poems are now appearing at Bleak Down bus stop (Felicity's) and Carisbrooke, Castle Road (Pat's). Shore Women Joan Waddleton and Lydia Fulleylove are also part of the island's High Tide Poets group in Newport. Their work can be seen at www.hightidepoets.org.uk Kate MacDonell's poem The Wee Tin House Painted Pink appears in the Images of Women anthology published by Arrowhead Press and Second Light.


	Some of the Shore Women at our Beach Hut day in Sandown, August 2007. From left, Pat , Kate, Shelley, Felicity, Joan.

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