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The Gloucestershire Poetry Society presents our regular online event, 'Crafty Crows', hosted by Josephine Lay, on Wednesday 15th July 2020, from 7.00pm until 9.00pm, Featuring the legend, Lexia Tomlinson (see below), plus open-mic. Via Zoom (Technical stuff by Jason Conway)

See below how to join Zoom Events. Link code will be added in due course... To reserve an open-mic slot for this event, please email craftycrows2020@yahoo.com from the 18th June onwards (first come, first served). Open-mic slots will be 5 minutes max. (please stick to this, as we don't want to have to cut people off).

- Lexia Tomlinson is a poet, actress and spoken word artist who delivers captivating performances. Her work engages audiences with its unabashed honesty wrapped-up in metaphors; she loves writing about the personal and socio-political issues in life, her main ethos is “the social is political and the political is social but everything is personal”.
- She has opened for the likes of Buddy Wakefield (A Choir of Honest Killers tour) and curtain raised for a Kate Tempest play (Hopelessly Devoted), a 2017 Roundhouse Slam Semi-Finalist she is now concentrating on delivering excellent headliners, like she has done, at events and festivals such as Cheltenham Poetry Festival, Wychwood, Verve, Evidently and Headspace.
- Her work has been commissioned by organisations such as MAC (Midland’s Art Centre), WEP (Women’s Equality Party), Beatfreeks and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
- Her work has been published in multi-media digital formats such as Round House’s ‘Homing Pigeon’, multiple zines and multiple anthologies. She is currently working on her debut collection Sankofa.
- At the heart of it, Lexia cares about stories and people, anything that explores the human condition in an imaginative way; music, poetry, film and activism are her main personal interests.
- Social Media Handles: @Lexialegend
- On Twitter and Instagram
- Facebook Artist Page: Lexia Tomlinson

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1 Go to the link above
2 Scroll to bottom of the page to the Downloads text in the grey block at the bottom
3 Choose the best option for you (Browser Extension/App etc)
4 Follow the instruction to add the app or extension
5 At the event date and time, click the meeting link below to join the event.

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