Media and marketing advisers often suggest that organisations try to imagine what they would be like as a person, as a means of defining their unique personality when it comes to engaging customers or consumers. A consistent tone of voice is key to defining the nature of your organisation or product, and to how you talk… View Article
Combining slam poetry and environmental activism Danny Chivers battles injustice using dodgy rhymes and D-locks. His attempts have seen him arrested four times, spied on by undercover cops and sued for £5 million. After a very successful debut last year, Danny will be returning to the Edinburgh Fringe this year with a full run of… View Article
Poet, playwright and theatre maker Hannah Silva characterises her work with playful interrogation of language, voice and form. “Her physical performances, fast-talking delivery and innovative use of cut-up text make her one of the most ambitious and entertaining poets in the country” The Times This April you have the chance to be treated to an intimate… View Article
Ticket sales versus donations; a real dilemma. I’m sure many festivals up and down the country share this issue. One of the most important considerations at the heart of Wise Words is the idea of making the creative arts accessible to all; affordability is key when deciding on tricky issues such as weighing artist’s fees… View Article
If you “want to tingle your spine, nod your head and generally folk with your idea of what hiphop can be” come and see Dizraeli perform at A Few Wise Words. Recently nominated for the Songlines Music Awards Dizraeli is fast becoming the newest buzz on the UK’s music scene reaching across genres with his… View Article
We’re excited to launch our festival brochure for ‘A Few Wise Words’ next month online. Click below to explore the range of creative, challenging, provocative and thought-provoking events happening between 3rd - 7th April.
Julian Baggini answers our 3 questions: Julian Baggini is a writer and founding editor of The Philosophers’ Magazine. He writes for numerous newspapers and magazines, including the Guardian, the Financial Times, Prospect and the New Statesman. His books include The Ego Trick, Welcome to Everytown: A Journey in into the English Mind, Complaint and The Ego Trick. His latest book is The… View Article
Festival Pass - £25 | For a limited time only! Wise Words is a small not for profit festival made up of a mixture of free, family events and ticketed events, the latter usually allowing us to bring an eclectic mix of exciting artists and headline performers to the festival! This year we are offering… View Article
We are looking for a business to sponsor our Street Theatre. This, in many ways, is the highest profile aspect of the festival as it reaches the most people and has the widest audience profile. Our Media Sponsors (The Canterbury Times) are keen to do a feature article on our Street Theatre as this offers… View Article
Cap in hand: not any more The director of the Wise Words festival, Beth Cuenco, and I were deep in conversation over coffee recently, and one of the topics that came up was the idea of supporters; how we might woo them. Like other festivals up and down the country, WiseWords works on a small… View Article
One of the key threads running through ‘A Few Wise Words’ next month is the concept of establishing local connections, both in terms of audience as well as participants. Next month, our mini-festival includes an array of local poets and performers; former Canterbury Laureate Dan Simpson, often to be found poetry-slamming at the Gulbenkian Theatre;… View Article
