100 Thousand Poets for Change

Think global - rhyme local!

Poets from all over Devon will be converging on Paignton Town Centre to take part in an international event.

Poets in 400 cities representing 95 countries are currently organizing the largest poetry reading in history with over 500 individual events scheduled to take place simultaneously on September 24th to promote environmental, social, and political change.

Please join us at this unique and special event and be part of something BIG.

* Doors open at 7.30. Entry fee is only £1 (yes, one pound!) to cover costs - and there will be a donations pot to raise funds for charities.* further details tba

Refreshments available from the lovely Epicentre Cafe ♥
01803 553 790 http://www.epicentrebookcafe.org.uk/

With many of Devon's most vibrant poetry voices:

Bryce Dumont, Jackie Juno, Lucy Lepchani, The Freakboi, Simon Williams, Ellie Davies, Susan Taylor, Jade Moon, Alasdair Paterson, Kenny Knight, Katie Moudry, S V Wolfland, Graham Burchell, Toya Harvey, Rich Thomas
and featuring the work of ourselves + great poets past & present

SPECIAL GUEST all the way from Manchester - Ben Mellor! & all the back from somewhere else at the last minute....Matt Harvey!

This really is something BIG: Immediately following September 24th all documentation on the 100TPC.org website will be preserved by Stanford University in California, which has recognized 100 Thousand Poets for Change as an historical event, the largest poetry reading in history. They will archive the complete contents of the website, 100TPC.org, as part of their digital archiving program LOCKSS.

See you there!

For more information visit http://www.bigbridge.org/100thousandpoetsforchange/