TESTING GROUND - open mic poetry and performance

Join Testing Ground on the 7th Octobber for another night of poetry and music.

Everyone's welcome for a night of poetry, music and performance which includes an open mic where audience members can sign up to show their stuff too! Testing Ground is a night to try out new things - whether it's your first open-mic, or you're a seasoned pro, it's a welcoming, supportive audience who want you to succeed as much as you do. Open-mic slots are sign up at the door and assigned on a lottery basis.

Clara-Læïla Laudette is a writer, facilitator and journalist. Her debut pamphlet Appetite is out now with fourteen poems. She won Magma Judge’s Prize and placed third in the Poetry London and London Magazine Prizes. An Adrienne Rich Poetry Award semifinalist, her poems were shortlisted for the Oxford Poetry, Bridport and Pat Kavanagh prizes, and the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award. She's also been…