Emotional Madness with Mary-Ann & Mates v Three Wise Monkeys
Join Mary-Ann and mates for a night of poetry and spoken word on Three Wise Monkeys Top Floor!
This event is a charity special in aid of Papyrus UK - The national charity dedicated to the prevention of young suicide.
Papyrus exist to reduce the number of young people who take their own lives by shattering the stigma around suicide and equipping young people and their communities with the skills to recognise and respond to suicidal behaviour.
£3 minimum donations will be collected on the door.
PERFORMING ON THE NIGHT:
LJ
Wife, mother, grandmother, teacher, owned by my cat. Family is important to me. My passions; textiles, art, words and fighting Brexit. Freshly retired from teaching, I'm looking forward to devoting time to be more creative again. Favourite word - serendipity
WAYNE BAKER
Wayne is a Colchester boy and he has been writing poetry since he was in primary school. His other interests are art,philosophy, nature and the paranormal. His poetry is mainly based around life experiences and memories and he has many styles. And can write in classic form to free verse, haiku to limericks. But there’s nothing he likes more than simply making people laugh with his funny poems. Though even some of them have hidden messages or serious undertones...
JACKO POOK
Jacko Pook is an artist who has spent the last six years developing his skills in the South East. He has turned his hand to acting, poetry, playwriting, and music. He currently resides in Ipswich but is a familiar face on Colchester's stages as an actor and on it's streets as a busker.
RACHEL HOWSE BINNINGTON
is a writer and Archivist based in Colchester, UK. She is an avid tree-hugger and napping afficianado, as well as consumer of coffee and mystery novels and film noir.
ANNIE BELL
A poet, novelist, cat lover and self-confessed disco goth (whatever that means), Annie Bell writes on a broad selection of subjects, ranging from death and the afterlife to bullying and mental health; fantastical vampires and lots of local history, to the occasional exploding eyeball. She loves to dabble in the dark art of black humour, while addressing serious issues in a sometimes heartbreaking way. Knowing that her literary heroes are Wilfred Owen, Emily Bronte, Roald Dahl and Terry Pratchett might go a long way to explaining this.
BELINDA BAKER
Belinda Baker has been active in the poetry scene in Colchester on and off for the last six years. Her poetry comes from the heart expressing her own life experiences and emotions which resonate with others. She started writing poetry as therapy getting through depression, surviving breast cancer and an abusive marriage, finding the pleasure of release in performance. She describes herself as an armchair activist, community minded and ideas person looking at the positives in any situation.
SARAH BEAVINS
Sarah grew up in Maldon, a dirty footed wild child whose parents encouraged her to explore and dare. Her career took precedence in her adult years, and life dealt from the back of pack as often as it dealt the cards straight. She would change nothing. Her poems are often coloured by her Pagan path, one of attunement to nature’s cycle, of the dark and light of life, and of honouring the Gods within and without. She’s been fascinated by words, poetry and performance from childhood. She attends local and regional poetry, storytelling and writing events, reading her poems and telling stories at some. Though she still has dirty feet, she’s not quite so wild now. Sarah lives in Braintree with 2 black cats (who would be miffed not to get a mention!), and her campervan, Hestia.
BARRIE STRAWSON
A Husband, A Father, A foster Dad. A Poet and Artist and daily headache sufferer. Now at his most creative...awaiting an audience!!
RICKY FROST
A keen traveller who enjoys putting pen to paper whenever possible. Inspired by hardships in life, every poem he writes is a form of therapy, and he feels it's about time he shared it to more than his leatherback book.
LOTTIE HICKS
A professional actress turned poet from Ipswich, Suffolk. She is a firm feminist writer standing strong at five foot tall. She has been living with diagnosed GAD for last 10 years and her poetry reflects her life experiences and passion for equality. She feels things very deeply but would 'rather feel everything than nothing at all'
SOPHIE MARIE
Sophie is a poet who gains her inspiration to write through her own experiences. Talking about her own Mental Health, trauma and battles she has faced and is currently facing. When she’s not writing poetry (very rare), she will be writing her blog. Her passion for writing comes from being silenced as a child. Now she is ready to speak out and let her voice he heard.
CHLOE GIBSON
Serious and confusing, Chloe's writting Sparks some delusion of herselfs past. She's been writting since she was 16, she was inspired by a previous lover who wrote a lot of poetry and raps. He taught her a lot. Now she writes in a creative manner playing on words and letting everyone know that it doesn't take much to start writing poetry, anyone can do it. She feels that her writting is down to the audience to perceive in their own way as she's not the type of person to make you feel anything or even give you an image of what she's trying to say, all she can do is speak the words and leave the rest to you.
NATALIE PFEFFER
Natalie was born in Wimbledon in the late 1950s. She taught herself to read by listening to a 45rpm record of Jemima Puddleduck, while studying the strange black symbols in the accompanying book. She has loved the written word, ever since, and poetry, in particular. She has lived in London, Winchester and Colchester and says that being around during the last six decades has given her an endless supply of poem-fodder. Her claim to fame is that she was the first person in Colchester to have a Ziggy-Stardust haircut and dyed it red (ala David Bowie) in the river in Castle Park!
LEO GEORGE
Leo George is a Jack of all creative trades. They find freedom in art and the stage has proved an excellent location to be loudly queer and autistic. They love cats, glitter and intersectional feminism.
JOHNNY MARRIOTT
Bio to come
MARY-ANN AMBROSE
For most of Mary-Ann’s life she has been in and out of the Mental Health System. On different occasions Mary-Ann has been diagnosed with 3 different conditions such as Borderline Personality disorder, Bi Polar Disorder and most recently Asperger’s which is on the Autistic spectrum in which she does identify with most. One of Mary-Ann gifts is poetry and she found that through her extreme expressions whilst reading she is excellent at manipulating people’s emotions. From Reciting to her audiences she could have them laughing one minute and crying the next.
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