A Lovely Word (at the Roundhouse) with Ashleigh Nugent

Introducing Merseyside’s most eclectic spoken word night, where you can turn up, enjoy some poetry or get up and speak yourself. Split into two halves of open mic-ers, with a headliner at the beginning of the second half.

Hosted by Alex Ferguson, this free event is a fun, relaxed and friendly evening of performance poetry.

Ashleigh Nugent is an author, performer and creative director at RiseUp CiC. His debut novel, LOCKS, won a publishing deal with PICADOR and will be re-released in April 2023. LOCKS also won the 2013 Commonword Memoir Competition and received an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards. Ashleigh’s other publishing credits include poetry anthologies, academic journals and magazines. He has also written and performed pieces for theatres including Liverpool’s Everyman and Live Theatre in Newcastle. Ashleigh was nominated Artist of the Year in the Liverpool City Region Culture and Creativity Awards 2021.

Ashleigh’s company, RiseUp CiC, delivers a programme that empowers prisoners to turn their lives around by taking control of their own thoughts, feelings and actions. The RiseUp programme has produced life changing impact in prisons throughout the UK since 2015.

Rise Up CIC: https://www.riseupcic.co.uk/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/NugentAshleigh

take part

We have a FREE performance workshop at 5.30pm - 7pm in the Roundhouse, you can sign up by emailing alovelywordpodcast@gmail.com with the email title '16 June Workshop'.If you want to sign up in advance to perform, then please;I) turning up at 7pm to the Bistro (limited availability)II) emailing alovelywordpodcast@gmail.com with a confirmation of your full name, mobile number and ‘16th June A Lovely Word’ in the email title.When signing up to perform, you are signing up to these principles of the open mic: https://docs.google.com/.../1S70y959L3YzOtrbxaHV7.../edit...