A completely free variety evening of elcectic whimsy from spoken word to talks to music to performance art!

The Dereks are a forlorn troupe of wannabe stadium rockers who mask their disappointment by performing gobbets of their own material in front of complete strangers. They are fortunate to receive full and warm-hearted support from those nice people at the Ventnor Exchange.

Featuring (so far):

Ian Boyd, all-round good person who will be talking about and demonstrating how art and landscape might work together. He may also be persuaded to Read a Poem;

Carolyn King, international prize-winning poet who will be reading a selection of her exceptional verse;

Spike Oatley Immensely talented maker and performer of songs giving us a sample of his extensive body of work;

Ivana Popov who will be reading from her growing Bus Poem collection and perhaps leading a ukelele-driven sing along;

John Trotman, crafter of poetic sagacities who we will be dissuading from rmoving Most of his Clothes;

Caroline Donellan, one of our more recent additions who will be giving us some of her courageous and incredibly honest verse;

Greg Barnes, accomplished local musician and maker of songs with his own web site, promo videos and everything;

Joan Ellis, novelist and broadcaster. will be reading two of her darker poems what she has written just for this event;

The Legend that is Dave King who will offend and disturb us all with a true tale of Rent Boys and Pimpery in Sunny Brighton; Angela Freebrey who will be bald and ranting;

Dom Kureen, spoken wordsmith, poet, journalist and podcaster who will be rude to all of the audience at once but in an unusual way;

John Armstrong, the clapped out cobbler together of these evenings who may combine something insightfully political with a demonstration of the value of Serious Play.