Hampshire’s longest-running open mic poetry and song night – February 2024 edition!
Tickets are here: https://movo0224.eventbrite.co.uk/?aff=autoBlog
Moving Voices is Hampshire’s longest running open mic, for poetry, song, storytelling and all things spoken word. Featuring monthly special guests and loyal regulars alongside total newcomers, this evening never fails to inspire and uplift with voices that will move you to tears and laughter.
Hosted by RKP with special guests Carrie Myshkin & Andrew Butcher.
Performers, please arrive between 7 & 7.30pm to sign up.
Carrie Myshkin
is a poet who sometimes sings their poems. She has a guitar & it has a strap covered in flourescent arcane symbols. Their music has been described as “somehow celestial velvety, adept and deft whimsy charmingly so”. Make of that what you will.
When she isn’t listening to contemporary classical/ambient music, she has been known to listen to Cardiacs, Coil, Current 93, Mount Eerie, Slowdive, & things like that, but the question of what her influences are would probably be best answered by armfuls of books & an hour on an analyst’s couch.
What are anyone’s influences? These are questionable questions… They like music for its propensity to be a phenomenological box to be in (is the first – and most concrete – sentence that comes to mind). She has been doing poetry at The Art House for over a decade & is really looking forward to giving it a good sendoff.
Andrew Butcher
is a Writer, Performer, and Puppeteer from the wilds of the Isle of Wight.
In July ‘23 he debuted‘Fake It Till You break It!’; a semi-autobiographical solo show about mental health and personality masking, at Ventnor Fringe Festival. Now he’s back for more with an early work in progress section of his brand new spoken word show: ‘Crazy Tomato Boy’!
Expect traditional poetic turmoil, ‘rap’ dressed in big words and a waistcoat, and the odd identity crisis (or five…), as we transition through eras and alter egos to answer the age old question:
‘What are tomatoes, really?’ — Plato, Ancient Greek Philosopher.
Our host for this event is RKP
RKP a daring poet who doesn’t shy away from exposing their words and nerves on stage, a walking trigger warning.
RKP is a Non-Binary Drip Artist, Host and Poet who was brought up in Cambridge, now dripping and performing at various open mics in Hampshire.
Inspired by their life & all things creative this ‘pensive wordsmith’ daringly invites you to listen to their autobiographical words. Often described as “harrowing” and “destructive”.
(If you like happy poetry, pop outside for their poems!)
There is a Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/3310472365912705
