Archive for the 'Festivals and Events' Category

Unbound

Friday, April 7th, 2017

A few years ago I came across a rather novel publishing company – at the time crowd sourcing was still a relatively new thing. I was working at a music festival running workshops when my little girl spotted something of interest elsewhere on the festival grounds. It turned out to be the QI Elves, we […]

Jan Food For Thought

Saturday, January 21st, 2017

Food For Thought is my local monthly spoken word event, this months one was lit. standing room only and was live streamed. I as always crashed into the speaker whilst getting up on the little raised platform but all was well. There was a brilliant mix of poems from conventional to rhyming comedics and pretty […]

Marking Your Musings

Saturday, January 7th, 2017

On the Sat 4th Feb 2017 there is the OK True Believers Comic Book Festival at the Race Course in Cheltenham. This will be it’s third year – it will be my third year there selling zines and poetry booklets and my illustrations plus maybe some steam punk, cyber and fantasy jewellery etc… I have […]

A Quick Look Back 2016

Wednesday, December 28th, 2016

I had meant to submit poetry this year – I kind of didn’t but I did take part in The Cheltenham Poetry Festival, Swindon Literature Festival, Wychwood Music Festival, Cornbury Music Festival, Science Show Off, Horoscope Disco, Bristol Mini Makers Faire, the Cheltenham Literature Festival, the Saffron Waldon Maze Festival, the Wilson Gallery’s events. There […]

Christmas Activity Booklet

Wednesday, December 21st, 2016

I have created this Christmas Activity Booklet, they are all made at home by me and my husband – rock on printer and binding machine!!! It contains a craft activity tutorial, festive poetry, colouring in, a story and a puzzle. It is one of a series of booklets I am creating at the moment including […]

Christmas Fayre :)

Thursday, December 1st, 2016

Just a reminder that I have a few things for sale this festive season! Starting with Love: A Stranger Dream which is a non-linear visual poem on identity presented as a colouring book. < iframe style=”width:120px;height:240px;” marginwidth=”0″ marginheight=”0″ scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ src=”//ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ac&ref=qf_sp_asin_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=httpwwwsnellp-21&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=1530078490&asins=1530078490&linkId=&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true”> Then there is the audio which you can listen to for free or by […]

Album Launch Round-Up

Tuesday, November 15th, 2016

The album Within and Without is finally launched!!!! It is a weight off my mind – I thought it would be finished for Oct 2010 you see so I am only about 6 yrs behind where I should be. Within and Without by Sarah Snell-Pym However this is not the end of the project – […]

Within and Without Finished!

Saturday, October 29th, 2016

So for years now I have been working on an album Within and Without – it is a mix of poetry, music and art. The small is within the big and big within the small and as our society swirls in interlocking patterns so what is without is within and what’s within can change what […]

Fun Palaces with Two Can Theatre Spoken Word

Friday, October 21st, 2016

At the beginning of the month I took part in a grass roots community project known as Fun Palaces. I ran craft workshops and brought out my science puppets but then it was time for the Spoken Word! I opened the set with my visual poem and narrative piece Reclaim the City which is part […]

NPD 2016

Thursday, October 6th, 2016

I wanted to write a message Wanted to scream my thoughts to the world But they got stuck tumbled over each other Fighting for supremancy Each wanting to be heard the most Until I could not think To put words to paper And all those things Those insightful things Things that needed to be shared […]