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  • Home
  • About us
  • POETRY HOUSE
  • Newham LGBTQ+ Words
  • Weekly sessions and special events
  • Past projects
    • Poetry Festival
    • Newham Heritage 2021
    • Old pavilion's stories
    • Funders

Newham Poetry Group, building community since 2016

  • ​Weekly sessions at three libraries in Newham with a regular attendance of 25-30 people
  • Quarterly Open Mic events attended by approximately 150 people – since 2016
  • Leading on poetry sessions at Stratford Park – 5 weekends of Poetry House in 2018 and 2019
  • Lead volunteer for ‘Friends of Stratford Park’ – set up resident group to help regenerate the local park
  • Member of Citizens Assemblies Working Group who help design the local community project- Information on Citizens Assemblies can be found here. 
  • Poetry Café in Stratford Park- Weekly Café in park since July 2019, as part of Stratford and West Ham Community Plan project
  • Commissioned to run activities and create exhibition for the Newham LGBT month, Newham Word Festival and Summer Reading Challenge – 2017, 2018 and 2019
  • Commissioned to run Poetry workshops at View Tube Café – Newham Greenway by Poplar HARCA
  • Part of Black History month: Black Ink 2019 -2020 & Afro Art 2021
  • Part of LGBTQ+ HM 2018 - 2019 - 2021
  • Commissioned to facilitate creative sessions for Over 50s, 2021
  • Commissioned  to facilitate Writing with An accent, Newham Word Festival - Discover, 2021 - 2022
  • Participation in FunPalace (Stratford east) Newham Unlocked 2021

Past projects

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