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Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth)

Contains 208 collection items, 291 performances, 499 in total. Currently showing 499 in total.

Write On Festival: Mark Miwurdz, Anne Clark, The Popticians, Nick Toczek
24 September 1983 at
Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
First of three shows that A&S programmed for the Write On festival, which ran at BAC between September and October. Seemingly A&S’s first event at the venue that has so far hosted the most of their shows.
Write On Festival: African Dawn, John Agard, Pepsi Poet
29 September 1983 at
Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
Write On Festival: Attila the Stockbroker, Slade the Leveller, Emile Sercombe, Marsha Prescod, Mark Steel
01 October 1983 at
Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
Spartacus R, Pat Condell, Belinda Blanchard
24 November 1983 at
Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
Apples & Snakes Book Benefit
10 February 1984 at
Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
In which Apples and Snakes rather cutely solicit funds for the publication of their first anthology.
John Hegley, Lindsay MacRae, PR Murry
18 November 1984 at
Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
Skint Video, Clive Benson, Ann Ziety, Bet Lynch
24 February 1985 at
Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
International Women’s Day
08 March 1985 at
Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
Apples & Snakes meets Tongue Circus
20 October 1985 at
Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
Thanks to Patric Cunnane for finding the flyer.
The Popular Front of Contemporary Poetry 1994 - (Perf 2)
12 February 1994 at
Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
Sekunjalo
9 September 1994 at
Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
dirty words
23 September 1994 at
Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
The Final: New Performance Poet of the Year Award 1994
5 October 1994 at
Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
This was the first performance poetry competition held by Apples and Snakes. Joolz, Lemn Sissay and Patience Agbabi also did guest performances. According to the flyer, there were eight knock-out heats before the last eight performed in the Final. The heats were held on 24 and 31st August and September 7th. The Winner was ...
One Hell of a Storm
7 October 1994 at
Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
Not the 9th!
Conscious Response
21 October 1994 at
Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
Uncomfortable Edges
4 November 1994 at
Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
Passion Notes
18 November 1994 at
Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
Carousel of Verse
2 December 1994 at
Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
Three Women Poets intricately interweave slide images and text to create breathtaking performance pieces. Maya Chowdhry – Annandaa The Goddess of Food Dorothea Smartt – Medusa Bushy Kelly – From Dark to Light or a Case of Mistaken Identity
Pantorhymes
16 December 1994 at
Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
Word Warriors
13 January 1995 at
Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
Da-Da-Drum!
27 January 1995 at
Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
Love Lines
10 February 1995 at
Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
Traffic Jam
24 February 1995 at
Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
Wise, Wild & Wilful Women 1
10 March 1995 at
Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)

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