Music
Monday 29th January, 26th February.
Unity Folk Club. Music, songs and camaraderie. Long established left wing folk club.
Last Mondays of the month. All welcome. Doors open 7.15 for 7.30pm start. £4.
Torriano Teas
Every Wednesday 3 -5pm. Hosted this month by Agnes Hay. All are warmly welcome. Drop by for conversation, poetry, music, tea, dance, happenings. Free. On 31 January there will be a Brigid Cross making workshop.
Torriano Poetry
Sundays 7.30pm. £6/£5 according to pocket. Poets from the floor welcome.
21st January – Martyn Crucefix and Julian Stannard
28th January – James Pendle and Tom Rubens
4th February – Kate Bingham, Lisa Kelly and William Wootten read from their New Walk Editions pamphlets
11th February – CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS Tim Waller
18th February – VENN DIAGRAMS Leo Boix and Theodora Lalova-Spinx hosted by hosted by Patrizia Longhitano
25th February – tba
3rd March – tba
10th March – Charlotte Gann, Richard Scott and Sarah Barnsley hosted by Pauline Sewards
17th March – VENN DIAGRAMS hosted by Patrizia Longhitano
Sunday 24th March
Sunday 31st March Easter SUnday
Sunday 7th April Chrys Salt and saxophonist Richard Ingham
Sunday 14th April No reading
Sunday 21st April Fiona Larkin and Jill Abram VENN DIAGRAMS hosted by Patrizia Longhitano
Sunday 28th April Harry Eyres
Sunday 5th May Dinah Livingstone
Sunday 12th May No reading
Sunday 19th May Sue Burge and Rona Luo VENN DIAGRAMS hosted by Patrizia Longhitano
Sunday 26th May – Rory Waterman and Dino Mahoney introduced by Lisa Kelly
Sunday 2nd June – Mike Bartholomew Biggs, Martha Kapos & Katy Mack
Sunday 9th June – Peter Daniels and Martin Figura
Sunday 16th June Jane McCarthy Wilkinson and Jenny Pagani VENN DIAGRAMS hosted by Patrizia Longhitano
Torriano Poetry in Cyberspace.
Every Sunday at 6.30pm Kathryn Southworth hosts a Zoom gathering. “Doors” open 6.15pm. Free, donations appreciated. All welcome. Bring poems to read or just listen:
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St Bride’s Day Feast
Friday 2nd February 6pm.
Bring a dish of food (veggie/vegan), some drink and a poem to share and celebrate the Patron Saint of Poetry.
All Torriano Folk old and new are invited to see in the start of Spring together, mark Imbolc, light candles for Candlemas, meet Lemanjá and Bride, Bridget, Brigid.
A Tuba Press Event
Monday 22nd April 2024
Poetry & Prose. Celebrating 47 years of publishing. Doors open 7.30pm – 10.30pm Entry Free
The following Tuba Press poets, will be reading both their own work, and from that of those unable to be present. Peter Ellson, Patricia Scanlan, Alan Price, Margaret Hannigan Popp, Susan Clydesdale-Cotter
International Women’s Day
Friday 8 March, 7pm. A collective celebration. Bring stories, poems, songs, life and nibbles to share. All genders welcome.
Storynight
Wednesday 14 February, 7.30 for stories at 8pm. £10. Hosted by Nell Phoenix
Sarah Rundle tells Naughty Japanese Badgers
Art
January
Orange peel images by Agnes Hay.
March
Sara Atanasiu and Imogen Garfinkel curate Cosmoscope: an exhibition. Artists from around the world question their sense of place and space, and investigate how interactions with their immediate environment affects their understanding of their/ humanity’s place in the universe. The exhibition will feature a diverse range of works. It will begin with a launch event featuring live performances. Following the exhibition, the project will be encapsulated in a digital zine.
April
Augury: an exhibition of objects, words and paintings by Hannah Machover
May
Amanda Lebus and Emily Johns. Paintings, drawings and prints
Travel
Kentish Town overground Thameslink is open (there are many steps). Kentish Town tube station is closed until summer 2024. But Tufnell Park tube is just a 10 minute walk, or 390 bus along Brecknock Rd to Hilldrop Road stop. Buses 393, 390, 134, 214, 29, 253 stop on or near Torriano Avenue.
Donations
Many of our activities such as Torriano Teas; Zoom poetry; Fun Palace and New Factory plays are offered free in the spirit of how things should be. But we have rent and bills to pay. If you would like to support Torriano Meeting House then click here.
Torriano Working Group Meetings
Sunday 14th January 3pm, Saturday 10th February 3pm
Torriano Meeting House is managed and run by volunteers. Come along if you would like to get involved with running Torriano Meeting House or if you have a project or event you would like to propose. Specifically, please come if you would be interested in joining the poetry programming sub-group which shares the work of booking, hosting and publicising the readers for the Sunday poetry readings.
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Would like to read Poetry tomorrow night. Any space for Open mic?
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Yes, come along. Poets from the floor slot is before the gust reader.
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Please mention that William Oxley will be reading with the rest of us on the 28th of October, 2018!!!!!!!
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Yes, of course, poets read regularly from the floor at the Torriano Meeting House on Sundays. There’s no mic but you don’t need one. The acoustics are very good.
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On 19 March, Nancy Mattson, Frances White, Jane Duran and I will be reading our poetry at the Torriano Meeting House, the usual time. Hope you can come.
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Oh dear, that was long ago!
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I guess I like to talk!
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Are thERE POETRY READINGS IN AUGUST? 2022
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Hi John, no there is a break until September. Are you on the Torriano mailing list? Sign up on the website and we will send programme of autumn readings.
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Hi there, is the poetry evening held every Sunday or just on the Sundays listed on your events page? Wanting to pop in perhaps 27th Aug or 3rd Sept. Thanks.
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