JOURNEY FROM SEED TO STAGE
A CALL has gone out for young people to take part in a new Seed to Stage Young Creatives Spoken Word Programme to be conducted during the summer by the author, musician and performer Peter Murphy.
In the spirit of spoken word legends such as Scroobius Pip, Eminem, John Cooper Clarke,The Streets, Temper-Mental, Misselayneous, Kendrick Lamar, Henry Rollins and Polar Bear, Wexford Arts Centre is seeking young blood interested in the free mentoring programme which is supported by a Wexford County Council Artist in the Community grant.
The workshops will cover all kinds of stage performance inspired by the spoken word - poetry, slam poetry, storyelling and prose with music.
Peter will work in a guiding and collaborative capacity with a team of approximately 10 young aspiring performers aged 16 to 25 to write and stage an original show to be developed over a five-week period and staged at Wexford Arts Centre in August.
The programme aims to provide an opportunity for creative expression and allow participants to gain confidence in developing their own spoken word pieces and performing them.
Peter Murphy is the author of two novels John the Revelator (2009) and Shall We Gather at the River (2013) published by Faber & Faber in Ireland and the UK and by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the US and Canada. His fiction has been nominated for the Costa, Kerry Group Fiction Prize and the IMPAC literary awards. He helped develop the radio drama Coma with Kevin McCann which won the silver prize at the PPI Broadcasting Awards in 2015.
His journalism and non-fiction have appeared in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, the Irish Times, Hot Press and the Huffington Post. He has released two albums with the Revelator Orchestra, the Sounds of John the Revelator and The Brotherhood of the Flood. He is currently at work on his third book and his first album under the name Cursed Murphy.