SPOKEN WORD STAGE AT FREE FORM FESTIVAL 2011

Spoken Word is about the author and the text. Spoken Word is about the direct confrontation between the artist and the audience. Spoken word is about poetry. In Poland Spoken Word made its first appearance on Poetry Slams – a mix of poetry and performance, an open competition during which the audience chooses the best poet/performer of the night. Spoken Word is a western phenomenon which came to refresh the literature scene and to make our poetry nights more vibrant. This year FreeFormFestival has decided to follow in the footsteps of all big festivals from the UK or USA and to organize the first Spoken Word stage at a music festival in Poland !

During the festival on the Spoken Word stage you will be able to see: Harry Baker, Deborah Stevenson, Kamila Janiak, Mateusz Andała, Weronika Lewandowska, Grzegorz Bruszewski and Roman Boryczko

Spoken Word Stage Line-up:

Harry Baker / UK
Harry Baker at the age of 19 was announced the European slam master. He recites poems and  tells stories about how he won the Haiku death matches in US and performed at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh  and other European festivals such as Latitude or Bestival.  Now he is coming to FreeformFestival – you can’t miss it!

Deborah Stevenson / UK
Deborah has performed at many stages around the world but most of her time spends at Nottingham University where she gives lectures about poetry and writes poems that have been published even by Louis Vuitton. Now she is starting her research about spoken word poetry.

Weronika Lewandowska / Pl
Her poems are beyond language. She has presented her melodic, Slavic poems in many capital cities. Recently she works at Warsaw audiovisual project called plan.kton.

Kamila "Daisy Kowalsky" Janiak / Pl
Kamila has published two books, sings at hc/punk band POSING DIRT and electro-industrial one called DAS MOON. In the mean time she works on lyrical project SO CALLED MURDERS but still planning to be even more busy….

Grzegorz „Estragon” Bruszewski/ Pl
Grzegorz has performed  his slam poetry at many European spoken word stages since 2004. He likes to be sad…

Mateusz Andała /Pl
Mateusz  is a born poet but a slammer by chance. For over 2 years has performed at spoken word stages. He is also the winner of this year edition of Spoke’n’Word Festival in Warsaw and was nominated to the most prestigious poetry prize in the National Poem Competition.

Roman Boryczko / Pl
His poetry is like a fascination of citrus fruit’s aroma and colors, is a story that he tells spontaneously.  He regularly takes part in Warsaw and Cracow slam competitions but this year he ahs also performed at Slovak slam festival.

Friday, October 14th

20:00 20:15 Kamila Janiak

20:30 20:45 Mateusz Andała

21:00 21:15 Deborah Stevenson (UK)

21:30 21:45 Weronika Lewandowska

22:00 22:15 Grzegorz Bruszewski

22:30 22:45 Harry Baker (UK)


Saturday, October 15th

20:00 20:15 Roman Boryczko

20:30 20:45 Weronika Lewandowska

21:00 21:15 Harry Baker (UK)

21:30 21:45 Kamila Janiak

22:00 22:15 Grzegorz Bruszewski

22:30 22:45 Mateusz Andała

23:00 23:15 Deborah Stevenson (UK)

Spoken Word Stage Partner and Coordinator: