Blah! Blah!! Blah!!! at Withington Public Hall Institute
Sarah-Clare Conlon, Literature Editor
Blah! Blah!! Blah!!! Writers For Café Blah: A #SaveCaféBlah Fundraiser is a reading event that brings together loads of fantastic writers serving up wonderful words to help Café Blah get set up in a new space after they were recently evicted from their Withington premises.
The event will be compèred by Sarah-Clare Conlon, who set up popular live literature and spoken word regular Verbose in its original spot at Fallow Cafe, almost ten years ago. The line-up for this special one-off event is still under wraps, but watch this space for all the latest news on who will grace the Blah! Blah!! Blah!!! stage, and think: poetry and prose for the people!
A vital part of Manchester’s creative community, the folks at Café Blah regularly put on bands and DJs and sound artists and films and spoken word and art shows and all sorts of fabulous necessary cultural activity – scant days before their locks were unjustly changed, Blah co-hosted the third Party For The People and a literary quiz for the first-ever Withington Book Festival. This reading contributes to an ongoing campaign to make sure they can set up a new space and host many more.
All proceeds from the event go to the Save Café Blah fund. If you’d like to contribute to the #SaveCaféBlah fund, but can’t make this event (or you’d like to contribute more than £10pp), you can donate direct to Blah’s Just Giving crowdfunder via: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/savecafeblah
