WORD!Slam 2022 - with Rob Gee and Lydia Towsey

  • This PAST event happened on: Thu, Nov 24, 2022

  • Venue:Attenborough Arts Centre, Lancaster Road, LE1 7HA
  • Time:7:30pm
  • Cost:£4 / £7
  • Web Address:https://www2.le.ac.uk/hosted/attenborougharts/whatson
  • Join us for a first WORD!Slam back since the pandemic - and first ever WORD!Slam staging at Attenborough Arts...

    With great poems and big prizes, the event will be hosted by Rob Gee, multi-award winning and ‘seriously funny’ (Sunday Mirror) and Lydia Towsey, WORD! Host and Creative Director - ’funny, irreverent and rude, thanks to her mum, God bless them both’ (Mark Gwynne Jones)

    Featuring slammers from Leicester and beyond and a special performance from Rosa Fernandez - a spoken word artist and two-time Word! Slam winner who has performed at venues and festivals across the UK and been published in the UK and Canada.

    To take part in a free performance based workshop with Rob and Lydia (4.30-6.30pm prior to the show) and/or to sign up for the open mic, email

    If you would like to take part and/or attend and have any access needs, please do not hesitate to get in touch via the same email,

    "The atmosphere in the room that was nothing short of electric. It was everything I hoped it would be." - Rob Gee (WORD!Slam! Compere, 2018)