Wild Heart, Awakened Word: A Celebration of Poetry, Song and Dance.
Friday 13 April 2007, 7pm onwards
Venue: Quaker Meeting House,
7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Evening Events: £7/£5, or £12/£8 for both events.
This collaborative evening will include inspiring and soulful words shared and performed with music, hypnotic drum and lyrical dance in ways sure to enchant and inspire. This evening will expand the notion of poetry and spoken word to include the incantatory, ecstatic and profound. The program will be interspersed with stories from the Celtic lands that inflame the imagination, masterful ritualistic drumming with spoken word, Sufi poetry recited with Persian style dance, live music, the opportunity for audience participation and sharing, and a sampling of the poems and writings of presenters Martin Shaw, Jay Leeming and Jennifer Ferraro.