Photo by Lawrence Blackman
BETTINA SCHROEDER has performed spoken word at various poetry and music events, frequently accompanied by her electric Ukulele or lap steel guitar with FX or/and found objects.
Performances have included: ‘Paper Tiger Poetry’ at Tea House Theatre, üF-Beat Fringe Music Club night as part of the Crouch End Literary Festival, CRUNCH’ poetry and exhibition events, ‘Molypolyscriptoscribble’ poetry events, London Improvisers Orchestra, ‘BOA-TING’ with Steve Beresford, Neil Marsh’s Vanishing Point at AMP Studios, international improv music SKRONKFESTS, Anna Göldi Museum, Glarus Switzerland, Intox Extravaganza and more.
“Flirting on an Escalator is a sparky clutch of poems from a writer excited by the mundane… Her humanity reminds me of a couple of my favourite writers, the Soviet dissident Vasily Grossman and the Polish reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski. Both have European sensibilities skewed differently from our own and both share the same humanity and excitement in the life that surrounds them.”
Hank Wangford (writer and musician)
Flirting on an Escalator, published by London Poetry Books, is the first time Bettina’s poetry has been seen in print. Available here.
23/2/24 - Performance at üF-BEAT part of the Crouch End Literary Festival, London, UK. Video Lee Campbell
1/3/24 - performance POW! PLAY ON WORDS at Aurelia Art Studios, Croydon, UK. Video: Lee Campbell
8/3/24 NTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY POETRY EVENT, Clocktower Cafe Gallery, Croydon, UK. Video Lee Campbell
23 Oct 2023, Release of album BESPOKE by Andrew Ciccone aka Omphalopticon with spoken word contribution by Bettina Schroeder on Bezirk Tapes. Album available at: https://bezirk.bandcamp.com/album/bespoke
SCHROEDER/SMITH at Joanne Roberts exhibition, 2024, Hundred Years Gallery, London
Multipolyscriptoscribble, 2/06/22. Photo by Peter Tainsh
Performance with Iris Colomb at SKRONK, New River Studios, London, Dec 2023. Photo: Émilie Newman
ZEN JERK, ukelele and spoken word with Felix Tigersonic, Endeavor, Deptford, London, UK, 11th June 2024
Bettina and Iris Colomb performing Book At Bedtime at Gritstone Book Launch: Alan Newcombe & guests. Photo: Gardyloo
SELECTED PAST PERFORMANCES
2024 - NEW EARTH POETRY, The Bedford, Balham, London, UK
2024 - CRUNCH, Firey Bird Arts Centre, Woking, UK
2024 - MULTIPOLYSCRIPTOSCRIBBLE 11, Cave, London, UK
2024 - GRITSTONE BOOK LAUNCH: ALAN NEWCOMBE & GUESTS, Hundred Years Gallery, London, UK
2024 - MULTIPOLYSCRIPTOSCRIBBLE 10, BeeUrban, London, UK
2024 - SKIBABBLE, Clocktower Cafe Gallery, Croydon, UK
2024 - ZEN JERK, music and spoken word with Felix Tigersonic, Endeavor, Deptford, London, UK
2024 - SCHROEDER / SMITH performance at JOANNE ROBERTS exhibition, Hundred Years Gallery, London, UK
2024 - CRUNCH ON FIRE, poetry & visual arts, Soho Studios, London, UK
2024 - INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY POETRY EVENT, Clocktower Cafe Gallery, Croydon, UK
2024 - POW! PLAY ON WORDS: SPOKEN WORD AT AURELIA ART STUDIOS, Croydon, UK
2024 - üF-BEAT part of the Crouch End Literary Festival at The Holy Eve, Holy Innocents Church, London, UK
2024 - OPEN MIC NIGHT, Brixton Recreation Centre, London, UK
2023 - 2024 - PAPER TIGER POETRY regular open mic appearances, Tea House Theatre, London, UK
2023 - Performance at 16 DAYS, creative event for change around gender based violence and abuse. Soho Studios, 2 Archer Street, Soho, London, UK
2023 - LONDON IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA, performance with Bettina Schroeder & poet Roger Huddle, The Old Church, Stoke Newington, London, UK
2023 - Performance of spoken word at CRUNCH MINI, The Glitch, London, UK
2023 - Performance of spoken word at MULTIPOLYSCRIPTOSCRIBBLE 8, Cave, London, UK
2023 - Performance of spoken word at MULTIPOLYSCRIPTOSCRIBBLE 6, poetry/performance at The Glitch, London, UK
2023 - SCHROEDER /SMITH & RAXIL4 at AVANT GARDEN, plus live painting, Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses, London, UK
2022 - BOAT-TING, Steve Beresford & Bettina Schroeder, Bar&Co, Temple Pier on the Thames, London, UK