TWENTY-SEVEN

TWENTY-SEVEN is a monthly poetry meetup, for women aged 27 plus, cultivating community and creative exchange.

In partnership with Apples & Snakes, TWENTY-SEVEN is a free monthly meetup for women aged 27 plus to engage in their creativity and empower them in building a supportive, intergenerational community through poetry.

Guided by poet & cultural producer Koko Brown, led by the women in the room, each session combines time to write and time to share in an informal, communal space.

This event will run 8-9pm, Tue 30 June via Zoom.

Is this sessions for me?
This event is for women who enjoy writing poetry in notebooks, on the Notes app or just random scraps of paper. These sessions are for women who came across a professional poet and would love to share that brilliant poem they found. These sessions are for women who want to explore and express their creative potential… and build a community along the way.

What can I expect?
1 hour dedicated to your writing, sharing and your creative self.

Each session begins with Koko leading a short check-in, sharing a poem & a prompt. From here we’ll have about 20 minutes for writing and 20 minutes of open space for us to collectively share.

You can bring something you’re currently working on, use the session prompt to get started on something new or see where the mood takes you - there are no expectations!

If you’d like to share something - this could be your own writing, work from professional poets or even an interesting poetry podcast you’ve found - you can sign up in the session. You'll have roughly 3 minutes (so we can hear from as many people as possible) but, other than that, there are no boundaries.

What do I need?
- Access to Zoom (via laptop, tablet or smartphone) for our cameras-on session.
- Whatever you’d normally use to write with - this is a judgement free zone!
- Space to allow yourself to be a little selfish & focus on you

Anything else I need to know?
This is a pilot project, which means we’re trying out an idea in a low-cost, experimental way. We’re aiming to be responsive and will keep tweaking things along the way until we create something, together, that really works.

In future, we’d love to run more of these sessions and even take them into the real world.