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Event: Rochdale Literature & Ideas Festival – The Celox and the Clot

Sunday 20 October 2019
3.30pm - 4.30pm

Rochdale Sixth Form College Theatre
College Road
Rochdale
OL12 6HY

DETAILS:

Hafsah Aneela Bashir is a writer, playwright and performance poet based in Manchester. She is founder and co-director of Outside The Frame Arts, a collective platforming marginalised and under-represented voices. Her debut poetry collection, The Celox and the Clot, was published by Burning Eye Books last year and is currently The Royal Exchange Manchester’s Supported Artist 2018-2019, Longsight’s Writer In Residence with Manchester Literature Festival and a ‘Leader of Tomorrow’ on the Artistic Director’s Leadership Programme.

A former TOAST16 Poet, she has also had 2 sold out one-woman shows at HOME Manchester this year for PUSH Festival. She has recently been awarded the prestigious Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship 2019-2020.

Suitable for: Ages 14+

The festival box office is located at Touchstones Rochdale. Open Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm.

Rochdale Literature & Ideas Festival is aimed at celebrating and promoting the Maskew Collection of classic literature and philosophy at Rochdale Central Library, encouraging people to engage with books and ideas. Rochdale couple, Annie and Frank Maskew, met in Rochdale Library in the 1950s and shared a passion for reading and thinking. They left a sum of money to be used on resources and events related to literature and philosophy to ensure classic works are available for future generations.

Entry fee: Book in advance - £4


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