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Freelance Reflections #164

This week I didn’t have a great time at the job centre, and found it really stressful and unsupportive. It kept me up at night as even with the financial support on top of my existing work, I’m barely covering my basic needs, let alone saving the last £2000 for my training. I’m looking into ways to make my groceries cheaper like community shops, and found a bag of mystery groceries on ‘Too Good…

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Fringes Friends And Memories

As I have been missing in action for most of the 2019 Edinburgh fringe I thought I would share a few photographs of myself and my friends which have been taken at previous Edinburgh events I’ve attended over the years.

Picture (1) I’m doing what I do at every fringe and that’s performing my work at the Scottish poetry library. As you can probably tell from the badges on my jacket this was taken…

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London Woman Guide Research_  East London

http://cubmagazine.co.uk/2014/08/the-feminists-guide-to-east-london-top-5-hotspots

1. NEW Gen NOW events at The White Building, Hackney, E9

A new project, NEW Gen NOW, has just started at this arts and technology centre: it is a series of talks and events exploring cyberfeminism and feminism’s internet presence and practices. The feminist creative genius behind Girls Get Busy zine, Beth Siveyer, recently gave a talk here addressing online representation for female artists. Contemporary and important.

Nearest tube stop: Hackney Wick overground / http://thewhitebuilding.org.u

2. Gal Space, Limehouse, E1

Gal is an art gallery supporting female artists through exhibitions, events and pop-up shops. It has provided a platform for so many pivotal feminist art projects, including the Beanie Babes products, showcased Vanessa Omoregie’s famous CamGirls project and supported Charlotte Cullen’s Intimates’ Index project.

Nearest tube: Limehouse DLR / www.galspace.tumblr.com

3. She Grrrowls events at The Gallery Café, Bethnal Green, E2

Carmina Masoliver’s event, She Grrrowls, is an arts event in Bethnal Green supporting female poetry, spoken word, music and comedy every third Monday. This is ideal for listening to fearless females and spine-tingling spoken word – and sipping beer in a beautiful café.

Nearest tube: Bethnal Green central line / www.shegrrrowls.tumblr.com

4. Rich Mix, Shoreditch, E1

This performance venue hosts live music, festivals and cinema screenings. DIY Cultures recently held a zine fair here, including exhibitions and workshops on mental health, creativity and talks on Decolonise It Yourself with Black Feminists and OOMK zine.

Nearest tube stop: Shoreditch High Street overground / http://www.richmix.org.uk

5. Power Lunches, Hackney, E8

This café on Kingsland Road is home to a huge variety of cool arts-related events, supporting female musicians and all sorts of creative fairs. I went to a mini feminist zine fest here a few months ago, which was attended by some amazing women, including the teams from OOMK zine, Girls Get Busy, Tom Tom magazine and SALT zine.

Nearest tube stop: Haggerston overground / http://powerlunchesltd.co.uk

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“The Special K adverts asked what I would gain once I had lost. All I gained was an ever-lasting appetite.“

New Year, New You by Carmina Masoliver

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Burn After Reading Presents... Carmina Masoliver, May 5th

BAR poet Carmina Masoliver will be bringing her poetry to our event at Seven Dials Club on May 5th. Here’s a snapshot of her performance, poem entitled, ‘Liar.’ Carmina will be featuring alongside other BARPo and headliners, Martin Figura and Hannah Lowe. Hosted by Will Tyas and Harriet Creelman.

‘Burn After Reading Presents’, Seven Dials Club, 42 Earlham Street, Covent Garden (http://www.sevendialsclub.com/contact/) Tuesday 5th May Doors 7.45pm £5 on the door

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Carmina Masoliver - In her own words

I speak to the fabulous @CarminaPoetry about her work, gigs and much more!

Carmina Masoliver is a Londoner, she studied at UEA, she’s a poet, an entrepreneur and a gig host, but she is also much more than the sum of all those. She is a decent, honourable person who works hard to achieve and works harder to help others achieve, and there she succeeds where many with the first attributes may fail. (more…)

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Maps by Carmina Masoliver

Here's a playful little ditty from queen of spoken word Carmina.

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Maps

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X

                                    marks the spot

  but first, an assault course:

it pokes you, taunts you, threatens your manhood.

            Prepare to get dirty, wriggle under roped nets and know how high

  when required to

                                     jump.

                                                                        Climb over clichés,

                        covered in barbed wire and

            ready to electrocute any trespassers.

  Picture the prize in your mind, shining in all its glory.

Let it help you through the hard times, feed your fight to the end.

                                                                 Do not be afraid to bleed, to starve,

                                    to leave up your mobile phone and internet access.

                        If you try to use GPS, you will be disqualified. It won’t work.

  This is a lesson you will only learn if you listen.

                                                                        Really listen.

                                                                                    You’re going to have to do better than that.

                                    Speed it up.

Faster.

            See the finish line

                                    in your mind.

                                                 Your body            rising          and falling                                                                                                                                         

                                                                                                    with the

                                                                                             last steps.      

                                  But after this, remember, I am not your princess,

                                                not your damsel in distress,

                                                                         not your treasure.

                                                                                                                                                                                                         YOU ARE HERE.

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Carmina Masoliver has completed a BA in English Literature at UEA, as well as an MA in Creative Entrepreurship. She has been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies, and regularly performs her work in London and Norwich. She recently took part in Shake the Dust as a Poet Shadow, and has organised her own event called 'Carmina's Poetry Tease', after her self-published pamphlet of the same name. She hopes to further this experience by producing an event called 'Poetry & Paint'. www.poetryandpaint.wordpress.com, www.carminamasoliver.com

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Freelance Reflections #142

I am officially done. My intense period of work is over and I am feeling really run down now, with very low energy levels. I didn’t do too much last weekend and I’m off to the coast now, so hoping that will allow me time to recuperate. Aside from the journey, it should be a chilled time and will force me to relax rather than being home. resting butterfly I had my usual language school work, but…

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Freelance Reflections #138

Well, I have managed to have one and a bit days of rest before things get super busy again with long working days across six days a week… and still going through time without enough funds. I caught up with ibizo lami and we ended up coincidentally meeting Mr Poetivist, who travelled from Ghana to perform in the UK and is in Brighton tomorrow night at The Rose Hill. This was in the Inspired by…

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Freelance Reflections #117

Things have picked up again and I thought I’d start by reflecting on my resolutions so far. I’m not doing perfectly, but the one I am really pleased with is the social media one as I thought it would be really difficult, but I’m really enjoying not going on it and keeping it to just a specific time. The ones I’m finding more difficult are putting things back where they belong (currently a bunch…

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Freelance Reflections #106

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Freelance Reflections #115

I’ve had a busy break, travelling from SE to SW London, staying two nights, then to Hastings and back in one day via a present swap keeping distance with Covid cousins in Tonbridge, followed by two nights in Yorkshire and home via a final family visit in Nottingham, before back to SW then home in SE London! I had to be organised and unpack for my partner’s return, managing to squeeze in a couple…

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Freelance Reflections #114

There always feels like this rush to tie up loose ends before Christmas, which I’m trying to accept isn’t going to happen. I think I’ve done most of the essentials (aside from some lesson planning and invoicing after writing this). I’d applied for ACE funding, which I didn’t get, but they now have appraisal notes whereby I can look back and try to improve it. I wanted to try to confirm more…

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Freelance Reflections #101

Last week was a quieter period, where I failed to get on top of things as much as I would have liked. I found my marks for my written assignment and was disappointed to get 53, just scraping a pass. I was able to share work with my peers and through this and the verbal feedback, I was able to see where I could have improved. I realised that certain learning processes aren’t working for me and my…