Loosen your lips and let your chins wag at CHOPSY!!
CHOPSY is a gorgy soiree, supporting and spotlighting the best Queer talent in poetry and spoken word from across Wales and beyond.
There'll be rhyming words, also lots of stuff that doesn't rhyme. There'll be sequins, also lots of dungarees - we're here for the whole community, beb.
Hosted by award winning local loud mouths, BopaRhys and Rufus Mufasa.
Sit back and relax as this pair guide you through a night of mumbling, music and magic.
Hosted at Pontypridd's home of creativity, YMa
This months line up;
Patrick Jones
Published words – fuse/fracture. The Guerilla Tapesty. Darkness is Where The Stars are Performed words – Everything Must Go, Unprotected Sex. Before I Leave Soundtracked words – Even in Exile. Tongues for A Stammering Time. Renegade Psalms. Cat lover neuroscience nerd humanist republican and Dad
Dee Dickens
Dee Dickens lives on a mountain with a husband and two shedding familiars. They have existed on male tears since 1984 and would swap a small child for ribs. They hate writing these things about their achievements, you'll either love them or loathe them. They bring poems meant to ask the audience a single question. "Is there anywhere round here I can get some ribs?"
Rachel Taylor-Beales
Rachel Taylor-Beales is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose music sits at the crossroads of Americana, alt-folk, blues, and jazz. Described by BBC Radio 2’s Bob Harris as ‘highly recommended’, Rachel’s dynamic brand of beautiful melancholy, advocates for issues of social justice and ecology, drawing inspiration from folklore tales alongside her own life and keen observations of the word around her. Her latest album, Out Of This Frame was nominated as a best of 2022 album by Folk Radio UK, with songs featured in Tom Robinson’s BBC Radio 6 mixtape BBC introducing in Wales.
Karen Gemma Brewer
Born of coal-mining & farm-working stock, Karen Gemma Brewer KGB is an award winning poet & performer from Ceredigion. Her work combines mundanity with a strong sense of the absurd, has been translated into several languages and published in Europe and USA. Her second poetry collection 'Dancing In The Sun’ is out now.
There are some spots available for open mic performances. Please contact Rhys to book your place - rhys@artiscommunity.org.uk