21

Jun
2019

WHISC 35th Birthday Party

WHISC 35th birthday party flyer

Support The Women’s Charity – From 7pm, Thursday 11 July
Leaf, Bold Street
£5 (Advance ticket price £7 on night)

Provisional Programme:
Compare Eithne Browne – Emmerdale Star, Comedian and Proud Scouser
Fantastic event line up! Get yourself some tickets and come along.

Spoken Word Poetry:
Francesca Georgia – Writer – Francesca Georgia is a Yorkshire gal, adopted by the wonderful city of Liverpool. She writes about sex, love and mental health with dark humour, raw honesty and uncensored enthusiasm. Winner of Best New Writing for ‘The Plumbing’ at Liverpool Fringe 2018 and Liverpool Headliners Slam 2018 finalist.
Katie Jarman – A queer poet and performer who works supporting young women by day and poeting about feminism and identity by night. I’ve performed at local events and Leeds International Festival and my first play is being produced by a feminist theatre company early next year

Stand Up Comedy:
Verity Dow – Verity doesn’t like to brag BUT she is a socially awkward, thirty two year old, third wheeling professional and soon to be divorcee, who laughs in the face of danger so hard, she has to wear a tena lady! She has been writing and performing comedy for as long as she can remember and all of her stand up stories are true, based on her own entertaining experiences in attempting to adult, divorcing without dignity and surrreal social setbacks

Music:
Rachael Jean Harris Music
Galileo Girl – Galileo Girl is the name for the sonic exploration of Abi Dot from Seatbelts. Vibing, dancing and making music in Liverpool, from her basement base. Live performances
in 2018 at The Reeds, Bold Street Festival and the Invisible Wind Factory followed in 2019 in Chester for the Lobotomy Boogie. Mixing folk, spoken word, ambient guitar, and featuring different live collaborators Galileo Girl had been described as sounding like a “Mellow Sabbath” or if “Bjork and Sonic Youth had an Acoustic Child”
WHISC Yukele Band – The Sweet Spots
DJing
Luna

Story Telling:
Cath Holland

Raffle Prizes:

  • News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop
  • London Carriage Works
  • St Johns Beacon
  • GO Karting Liverpool
  • Breakout Liverpool
  • Dig Vinyl
  • Cow Vintage
  • Shared Earth
  • The Body Shop
  • The Olive Tree
  • Uncle Sam’s Liverpool
  • The Painted Ladies
  • Dafna’s Cheesecake Factory
  • Chester Zoo
  • Unity theatre
  • SIREN Liverpool
  • Alternatively Better
  • Rampworx Skatepark
  • ODD SOCKS Entertainment Ltd
  • Andrew Collinge Graduates

Auction Prizes:

  • Everton Football Club and framing from Rennies Arts & Crafts & Airbnb

Special thanks to Yvonne Page at Dig Vinyll as volunteer stage manager and local artist Lois Tierney who will also be doing live portrait drawing at the event (proceeds given to WHISC)

120 Bold Street O151 707 1826
www.whisc.org.uk

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