Word Life - 20th June @ Cafe Euro

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Word Life - U.S SLAM POETRY SPECIAL
@ Café Euro
20th June
8pm - 11pm.
£4 Advance £5 on the door
A night of spoken word and music

Featuring;

“Mighty” Mike McGee is an international spoken word artist, writer, performer, speaker, slam poet and comic. He has performed in thousands of venues all over North America and In 2006, McGee became the first person to win two separate individual titles by being crowned the 2006 Individual World Poetry Slam Champion, besting over 70 of the world’s best ranked slam poets. His “stand-up poetry” has been written about in Writer’s Digest magazine, and been featured on American networks NPR, HBO and CBC.

Derrick Brown, former paratrooper for the 82nd Airborne, gondolier, magician, and fired weatherman, now travels the world and performs his written work. To date, Brown has performed at over 1200 venues and universities internationally including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, La Sorbonne in Paris and The Nuyorican Poets Café in NYC. He has won the California Independent Book Critics' Award in 2004, and his performance poetry has won six first-place poetry slam finishes in Venice Beach, England, and Germany.

“Derrick Brown is one of the best living poets in America. Death to open mics. I always keep him on my radar.”-Sage Francis, Hip Hop Artist

"Derrick has written one of the greatest love poems ever written. He is one of the top five poets in America, a true artist."-Marc Smith, author and creator of The National Poetry Slam.

Kayo Chingonyi is a poet, performer, workshop facilitator, events promoter and compere based in London. He has performed his work at such prestigious venues as Buckingham Palace, Shakespeare’s Globe, Tate Modern and Soho Theatre as well countless live venues in London, Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield.

Joe Kriss is the Word Life head honcho and a poet in his own right having performed across the UK at The Tate Modern (London), The Roundhouse Theatre (London), Django's Riff (Liverpool), and Theatre In the Mill (Bradford). He is the creative writing editor of ‘Now Then’ magazine.

Live music will follow the poetry: Acts tba.