UPROOTED AT LYRA - THE NEW BRISTOL POETRY FESTIVAL

 
 

UPROOTED
 
LYRA, Bristol Poetry Festival
The Main Auditorium, Arnolfini Art Gallery, Bristol
Saturday 13 April 7 p.m. 
 
Spoken word poet and LYRA Poetry Festival co-director Lucy English, and poetry filmmaker Sarah Tremlett, co-directors of Liberated Words CIC Poetry Film festival and workshops will be presenting Uprooted – a touring screening of short films by international poetry filmmakers on the refugee crisis and migration. Our aim is to show how artists can provide a different, more empathetic view than is portrayed in the media. We have films from artists such as: Ghayath Almadhoun and Marie Silkeberg, Jan Baeke, Alfred Marseille, Maciej Piatek and poet Hollie McNish, as well as our own work, so please drop by, all welcome. 
 
Previous screenings: North Cornwall Book Festival; Bath Spa Empathy Conference, 2018.: ‘Wonderful’ Patrick Gale, North Cornwall Book Festival. ‘Thought provoking and so many different types of film’; ‘Really revealing’; ‘We really support what you are doing’; ‘Powerful – and giving artists a voice’ ‘How do you make poetry films?’  The films generate a big response; the audience all cheered at Holly McNish’s film: Mathematics. www.liberatedwords.com