Welcome to Tongues&Grooves
Since 2003, Tongues & Grooves has enabled poets and musicians to collaborate and share ideas. Based in Portsmouth, we provide platforms for established poets, musicians and emerging talent – particularly from the ‘quiet voice’ and under-represented groups. Tongues and Grooves also welcomes approaches from individuals or organisations wishing to work with us in achieving our aim and will sponsor open mic events that support our community … Continue reading Welcome to Tongues&Grooves
Thursday 13 February 2020: Snow Q
Thursday 13th February 2020 Square Tower Old Portsmouth, PO1 2ND Tickets: £8 advance / £10 door Advance ticket purchase through Eventbrite Welcome to our first show of 2020: SnowQ – a troubled fairy tale for troubled times. A collaborative project inspired by The Snow Queen story by Hans Christian Andersen through poetry, film and performance. Snow Q re-imagines this richly symbolic story as a vehicle … Continue reading Thursday 13 February 2020: Snow Q
Sunday 29 December 2019 – An Adult Dr Seuss
SUNDAY 29 DECEMBER 2019 THE SQUARE TOWER OLD PORTSMOUTH 4.00 pm |: £8.00 An Adult Dr Seuss is a one man show by performance poet Geoff Allnutt AKA The Speech Painter. It takes the work and world of Dr Seuss and re imagines them for adults using the rhythms and tongue twisting alliteration of Seuss’s classics to create a show of mind altering poetry. Along … Continue reading Sunday 29 December 2019 – An Adult Dr Seuss
Sunday 27th October 2019: Project Adorno – Brontë Beat
Sunday 27th October 2019: Project Adorno – Brontë Beat The Square Tower, Old Portsmouth PO1 2ND 7.00 pm £8 on the door Buy tickets http://www.tonguesandgrooves.com Brontë Beat by Project Adorno The Brontë sisters’ contribution to literature is the stuff of legend: their work has a unique flavour, mingling domestic realism with wild romance, the personal with the peculiar. This, coupled with their extraordinary life story, … Continue reading Sunday 27th October 2019: Project Adorno – Brontë Beat
Journeys Festival International: Community Conversations
Join Tongues & Grooves in the Community and Journeys Festival International 18– 27 October 2019. Community Conversations is a project which explores how poetry can facilitate conversations across communities. A selection of poems written by members of the refugee and asylum-seeking community will be touring to libraries around Portsmouth until September 2019. Keep an eye on our website for exhibition dates and free upcoming workshops. Further information can … Continue reading Journeys Festival International: Community Conversations
Journeys Festival International: Thursday 6th June 2019
COSHAM LIBRARY PORTSMOUTH PO6 3EB THURSDAY 6 JUNE Workshop: 3pm – 5.00 pm Public Reading: 5.30 pm Tickets are here Join Tongues & Grooves in the Community and Journeys Festival International for a free poetry workshop with poet Robyn Bolam, exploring themes of home, hope and journeys. Taking inspiration from poems written by members of Portsmouth’s refugee and asylum-seeking community, the workshop is suitable for all levels of experience, whether … Continue reading Journeys Festival International: Thursday 6th June 2019
Thursday 16th May: Words and Music for Mental Health Awareness Week
WORDS & MUSIC FOR MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK Thursday 16 May | 6.30pm The Square Tower Old Portsmouth PO1 2ND FREE EVENT TICKETS are available here. LOUISA CAMPBELL’S experiences as a Mental Health Nurse and psychiatric patient come to life in her new collection The Ward, where people with catatonia, schizophrenia, depression, paranoia, mania, anorexia and alcoholism speak out from the pages, with the nurses trying to care … Continue reading Thursday 16th May: Words and Music for Mental Health Awareness Week
Poetry and Music in Portsmouth and Southsea 