Cassoulette* is a collaborative project created by three established performance poets, Poetry Jack, Radikal Queen and Sky Hawkins.  The concept behind the project is to bring new female voices into the spoken word arena, and to give women an opportunity to express themselves through creative writing, spoken word and performance.    By integrating workshops and performance participants will be able to find a means of self expression that can lead to empowerment in a way that conventional education may have failed to do.   

Each of the poets brings her own life experience to the project — Sky Hawkins is a single mum living on a Newcastle council estate, Poetry Jack is lesbian and an older woman, and Radikal Queen is a black woman with muticultural roots.  In their own distinctive ways all three poets assert the power of womanhood and invite other women to speak up.

The project offers a full day of workshops leading to performances by the participants, and to a performance of Undergrowth, a piece written and performed by the Cassoulette poets.

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*Cassoulette means 'scent of woman'