Written by Ian Henery adapted by ES Cooper Directed by Marcus Fernando Performances: Venue: The Blue Orange Theatre, 118 Great Hampton Street, Birmingham, B18 6AD Dates and times: 1st – 5th February 2022 7.45pm (with a 3pm matinée on the 5th) ‘They came to help. They stayed to die.’ One of the least known stories […]
Ian Henery, Andrew Clayton and Phil Buckley are three ordinary chaps, living in Walsall and enjoying the creative muses of poetry, music and photography respectively. So why did they turn out last Tuesday with a converted ice-cream trike to delivery poetry to the people of Walsall? The story behind the project turns out to be […]
What do you get if you stick a poet on a bike? This is the question more than a dozen local poets are hoping to answer on Tuesday 5th October when Poetry in Motion hits the paved thoroughfares of Walsall Town Centre. Looking for a way to celebrate the second stage of the AJ Bell […]
A local poet is to perform at the You Are Not Alone arts exhibition and festival between 6 – 10th October 2021 in Birmingham. It is a free event. Ian Henery, who is a solicitor with offices in Birmingham and the Black Country, is to feature on National Poetry Day on Thursday 7th October during […]
Blue Orange Arts presents – The Chinese Labour Corps Original script by Ian Henery adapted by Emma Cooper ‘They came to help. They stayed to die.’ One of the least known stories of the First World War. The moving and surprising story of the Chinese Labour Corps, who volunteered to travel thousands of miles to […]
A former Walsall Poet Laureate is due to appear at Shrewsbury Food Festival on 4th September to champion mental health. Alongside other Walsall poets including Phil Buckley, Tina Cox, Julia Dean-Richards, Angela Wood Maurice Malcolm and Elliot Parker there will be spoken word performances, workshops and a community poem on the theme of mental health […]
A group of local published poets have come together to champion mental health and aim to take their workshops and performances to the Shrewsbury Food Festival in Quarry Park on 4th September near Shrewsbury town centre. The topic for their poetry will be mental health. Walsall poet and retired social worker and lecturer Phil Buckley […]
A local poet and solicitor is performing on Sunday 25th July in Mile of Smiles to spread some much-needed cheer after the planned final easing of lockdown on 19th July. Ian Henery is taking part in the free family festival in Shrewsbury in the region`s first big event to raise money for charity. The free […]
A former Walsall Poet Laureate, who worked with 3 Mayors of Walsall between 2011 – 2015 to raise money for charity, is to perform at Mile of Smiles on Sunday 25th July in Shrewsbury. The event is a free family event aimed at spreading some happiness for charity. Ian Henery, who is also a playwright, […]
A local solicitor, poet and playwright is celebrating after receiving additional Arts Council England funding for his play based on the largely ignored story of the Chinese Labour Corps who served thousands of miles from their homeland in the foreign mud and trenches of the Western Front. It is estimated that between 1917 – 1920 […]