Brother Smudge's Strange Meditation

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Spoken Word (experimental, disabled-led)

  • Venue 498
    Deaf Action - Blackwood Bar
  • 19:00
  • Aug 8
  • 1 hour
  • Suitability: 0+
  • Country: United Kingdom - England
  • Group: Brother Smudge
  • Warnings and additional info: Contains distressing or potentially triggering themes, Pay What You Can in advance to guarantee entry or turn up at the venue for free, with the option of donating at the end of the show. Your Pay What You Can ticket options are: £5, £7.50, £8 and £10
  • Accessibility:
    Audio enhancement system
    Wheelchair Accessible Toilets
    May not apply to all performances. You'll find more information about accessibile performances and how to book tickets in the accessibility tab below.
  • Babes in arms policy: Babies do not require a ticket
  • Policy applies to: Children under 2 years

Description

Join Brother Smudge on a voyage through ventriloquised extinct animals, poems written on discarded objects, BSL poetry, hammer dulcimer playing and Gregorian chant. A playfully serious reflection on climate change, disability and what we've lost. Brother Smudge has invented a new form of poetry, a three dimensional poetry that responds to our contemporary ecological condition.

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General venue access

  • Audio enhancement system
    Wheelchair Accessible Toilets
  • Accessible entry: Walk straight ahead, take the stairs to the right and follow these up to the bar located on the first floor.

    • Wheelchair access type: Building Lift

  • Stairs: 20+
    Number of stairs is provided as guidance and is not in addition to any wheelchair access type (lift/ramp etc) stated above.

Each venue can contain several space with different accessibly information. Visit the venue page for full venue accessibility info

How and when to make an access booking

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  • Would like to book specific accessibility services, e.g. a hearing loop, audio description headsets, captioning units, seating in relation to the location of the BSL interpreter
  • Requires extra assistance when at a venue
  • Has specific seating requirements
  • Is a wheelchair user
  • Requires a complimentary personal assistant ticket to attend a performance

Elaine C 41 days ago

We enjoyed our time listening to the Strange Meditations of Brother Smudge. Some of the poetry was beautiful and the occasional bars of dulcimer music haunting. I felt that there was an interesting story being told although at times I couldn't quite grasp what it was. We were in Edinburgh at the beginning of the Fringe and went to the show because we wanted to be there.

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Meg 60 days ago

Any Fringe-goers partial to poetry should see Brother Smudge's Strange Meditation. Sam is a brilliant poet and presents a peaceful, thought-provoking, beautiful show, with lots of funny moments too. Large themes include poems from the point of view of extinct animals, poems about grief, small poems written that day on coffee cups, with musical interludes on the dulcimer. The show changes day to day, so why not go twice!

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