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Forthcoming Event

Alternative Arts WISEWORDS

3-9 March 2008 at Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, Shoreditch E1 6LA (Liverpool Street tube)

Welcome to WISEWORDS presenting a programme of wonderful women writers celebrating International Women's Week with a diverse line-up of novelists, poets, playwrights, journalists, comics and musicians from Africa, America, Bangladesh, Britain and East London.

MARION MOLTENO Mon 3 March: 6.30pm

South African author discusses her re-launched novel 'A Shield of Coolest Air' (Longstone Books) set among Somali refugees in London. FREE

BRAND LITERARY MAGAZINE Tues 4 March: 6.30pm

Nina Rapi, Cherry Smyth, Alev Adil, Caroline Smith and Jennifer Farmer invite you to celebrate their exciting new literary magazine that specialises in the short form & international voices. FREE

CUPCAKE BROWN Wed 5 March: 6.30pm

African American writer arrives from the USA to discuss her memoir 'A Piece of Cake' (Transworld Publishers). Tea & cupcakes will be served. FREE

JOOLZ DENBY PLUS Thurs 6 March: 8.30pm

Apples & Snakes present an evening of pithy and thought provoking performance poetry led by Joolz Denby and featuring Mab Jones and Realitie with MC Steph Hernandez. £7/£5concs

COMEDY NIGHT Fri 7 March: 8.30pm

with NINIA BENJAMIN, NINA CONTI, JO ENRIGHT, SHAPPI KHORSANDI & SHAZIA MIRZA + CHi2. A fantastic line-up of some of the best female comics in the country celebrating comedy writing at its most crucial, and a couple of exploding Chinese violinists. £10/£8 concs

MUSIC NIGHT Sat 8 March: 8.30pm

with SARAH JANE MORRIS + La Rouge. A very special concert to celebrate International Women's Day given by the sensual singer-songwriter Sarah Jane Morris who straddles rock, blues, jazz & soul with a goose-bump raising four octave range that rumbles from the toes of her size nine shoes to the tips of her flame-red mane. Plus special short set from La Rouge, a very young all-girl rock group from East London. £10/£8 concs

BISHWO SHAHITTO KENDRO Sun 9 March: 6.30pm

(BSK) - The World Literature Centre - with four Bangladeshi women writers Tamima Anam whose first novel 'A Golden Age' (John Murray) was published in 2007 to great acclaim, Shamim Azad poet & story teller, Leesa Gazi performer, producer, director, and Khadija Rahmam artist & writer. FREE

TICKETS: 020 7247 2584 / info@alternativearts.co.uk

For full programme visit http://www.alternativearts.co.uk

WISEWORDS is produced by Alternative Arts : 020 7375 0441 : info@alternativearts.co.uk

WISEWORDS is supported by Tower Hamlets Council, east, Capitalwoman 2008, Rich Mix, Alternative Arts.