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Chip Shop live on BBC Radio 3

Friday 7th May, 9.15pm on The Verb Following his performance of the Chip Shop Poem, a poem composed of the words generated by the Chip Shop at the London Word Festival 2010, Ian McMillan enjoyed the Chip Shop so much he asked us to come on his BBC Radio 3 ‘caberet of the word’ show,

McMillan Chip Shop Poem Review, Spoonfed 01.04.10

Ian McMillan’s ‘the Verb’ on BBC Radio 3 has accompanied my news blackout of the last few months. I quit listening to or reading about current affairs after I realised it was mostly bad news, not ‘bad’ in the gloomy sense but rather the ‘inaccurate’. So it was fun to realise while listening to the

Chip Shop 3: Keep Printing & Carry On Photos

Thanks to all who came, it was totally sold out! We had a great time and hope you did too. It turned out to be a wonderful evening of printing mayhem! Here are a few photos, more may follow later: Last chance to see Chip Shop at the London Word Festival will be on Wednesday

Come Early to Keep Printing & Carry On

Just a quick note to encourage y’all to come early to Keep Printing and Carry on. Not only does the first set kick off at 7.20pm with Murray Macaulay introducing the art of Sister Corita, the fantastic Screenprinting Nun, but also we’ve just been told that the first 60 people through the door will be

Feature in the Independent 19th March 2010

You can read an article by Nancy Groves here about us in the independent about the Chip Shop project for the London Word Festival or see a scan of the print version through the thumbnail below:

Chip Shop 2 Photos + Keep Printing & Carry On Flyer!

Here’s some photos from Chip Shop’s second outing at the Red Art Cafe, in Dalston. That was the last day for word submissions for the official London Word Festival 2010 Poem, which will be unleashed by Ian McMillan at the Art of Storytelling Event on 31st March. (More about that later) Next up is Keep

Guardian Books Blog 12.3.10

The Guardian books blog has written a round-up of the London Word Festival, joining the words ‘Family’, ‘Press’ and ‘Henningham’ to the word ‘Fantastic’. You can read it here A blog called the first pint has also written up a report of the Chip Shop at Dalston’s Red Art Cafe here

Chip Shop 1 Photos up!

Chip Shop’s appearance at Toynbee Studio Arts & Café Bar, our 1st official outing was a roaring success – from the minute we opened to the moment we ran out of chips to sell (by popular demand, closing time was delayed by half an hour) we were rushed off our feet! Here’s some photos from

Grazia Magazine 8.3.10

Lauren Laverne has been championing the London Word Festival on BBC6 Music, one of our favourite stations, especially making mention of the Chip Shop. She also writes for Grazia magazine and here we are again: your local family press mentioned between Sandra Bullock and Drew Barrymore? Apparently.