Curated by award-winning poet Luke Wright, the First Word programme brings the best in spoken word poetry, theatre, comedy, and storytelling to Suffolk’s sunrise coast.

Saturday 17 June

12:30-13:30  The Funny Life of… James Campbell
13:30-14:15   Francesca Beard
14:15-14:30   Brigitte Aphrodite
14:30-15:00  Jasmine Gardosi
15:00-16:00  Linton Kwesi Johnson, in partnership with National Centre for Writing
16:00-16:30  Caleb Femi
16:30-17:30   Luke Wright’s Silver Jubilee
17:30-17:45    Brigitte Aphrodite
17:45-18:30   Joelle Taylor
18:30-19:15    Harry Baker
19:45-20:30   Marcel Lucont

Sunday 18 June

10:00-11:00   The Feathered Thorns
11:00-11:15     Luke Wright
11:15-12:15      John Osborne’s A Supermarket Love Story
12:15-12:30    Luke Wright
12:30-13:30    The Best of INK Festival 2023
13:30-14:30    Jonny Fluffypunk’s If we just keep going, we will get there in the end
15:00-16:00    Josie Long

 

First Word is kindly supported by Norwich Arts Centre

 

Meet Your Comperes

Brigitte Aphrodite (Saturday) is a neurodivergent punk poet, theatre-maker & intersectional show-woman from Kent. She makes joyful, accessible, genre-crossing work. She’s toured with artists such as Kate Nash and Josie Long, and has written three critically-acclaimed theatre shows.

Luke Wright (Sunday) is a poet, theatre-maker and broadcaster. Luke makes a new show or play every year and schlepps it around a variety of glorious venues, occasionally presenting stuff on the radio in-between shows.

Joelle Taylor

First Word - 17/06/2023
17:45-18:30

Linton Kwesi Johnson

First Word - 17/06/2023
15:00-16:00

Josie Long

First Word - 18/06/2023
15:00-16:00

Caleb Femi

First Word - 17/06/2023
16:00-16:30

John Osborne

First Word - 18/06/2023
11:15-12:15

Francesca Beard

First Word - 17/06/2023
13:30-14:15

Jasmine Gardosi

First Word - 17/06/2023
14:30-15:00

Harry Baker

First Word - 17/06/2023
18:30-19:15

Jonny Fluffypunk

First Word - 18/06/2023
13:30-14:30

James Campbell

First Word - 17/06/2023
12:30-13:30

Luke Wright

First Word - 17/06/2023
16:30-17:30

Best of INK

First Word - 18/06/2023
12:30-13:30

Feathered Thorns

First Word - 18/06/2023
10:00-11:00

Marcel Lucont

First Word - 17/06/2023
19:45-20:30