Haverhill High School Poetry and Spoken Word Club students will share their talents at a special open mic event hosted by the River Bards poetry group. The teens, who write poetry and prose, are the featured performers at the May meeting of the River Bards, a group of local poets who delight in shining a […]
SCOTS comedian and actor Karen Dunbar is to introduce community groups to the joys of rap to help combat isolation during the pandemic. She is also part of a virtual tour which will offer a panoramic view of Scotland under lockdown. Before that is staged in April, she will be hosting rap sessions through her online Spoken Word Club. The sessions, which aim to spread positivity, are in partnership with Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre and follow a successful pilot project with members of the Citizens’ Community Collective last year. Dunbar said rapping was the “ideal” creative activity for lockdown. “I love hip-hop, I’ve always loved it,” she said.