The venue is Watlington House Community Hall, accessed on foot from South Street in Reading. The postcode is RG1 4RA. The cost is £10 cash on the door (£5 if you are under 25) and you bring your own refreshments. The poster surrounding the photo is filled with musical images of notes and instruments and flowers. It includes a QR code leading to www.readifolk.org.uk and a logo for the club. There are social media icons for @readifolk on Bluesky, Facebook and Instagram.

🎵Our next guest night 🎵 is an evening of song with Readifolk first-timer @denmillermusic.bsky.social
Find us on Sunday 12th April at 8pm in the ♥️ of #TheDing. @rdgwhatson.bsky.social @acespacenewbury.bsky.social #SundayNight #FolkMusicNight #InRdg #TheDing

Photo of the duo Milton Hide singing and playing at Readifolk. Both are smiling. Jo has a wooden percussion instrument and Jim is playing guitar.

Photo of the duo Milton Hide at Readifolk. Jo is playing clarinet and Jim is playing guitar.

Collage of photos of Milton Hide and floorsingers at Readifolk

Some snaps from our excellent guest night with @miltonhide.bsky.social and floor singers #SundayNight #FolkMusicNight #InRdg #TheDing

Another blast from the past, the month Dreading #Slam was based in Fisherman’s Cottage (home of BoHo #openmicnight ) before we moved into Rising Sun #Arts Centre

#spokenword #inRDG #Berkshire

Colourful collage of images advertising Milton Hide at Readifolk 8pm on Sunday 29th March. There are details of the venue (Watlington House Hall, Reading RG1 4RA) and Readifolk's logo, with the words "Folk song and music", as well as images of musical notes and of the duo Milton Hide holding musical instruments.

🎵🎶🎵🎶🎶🎶
🎶TONIGHT🎶
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An evening of song accompanied by guitar and clarinet with @miltonhide.bsky.social
#SundayNight #FolkMusicNight #InRdg #TheDing

Bungaroosh, by Milton Hide 14 track album

Sunday's guests @miltonhide.bsky.social are on Bandcamp!
miltonhide.bandcamp.com/album/bungar...
#SundayNight
#FolkMusicNight #InRdg #TheDing

Colourful collage of images advertising Milton Hide at Readifolk 8pm on Sunday 29th March. There are details of the venue (Watlington House Hall, Reading RG1 4RA) and Readifolk's logo, with the words "Folk song and music", as well as images of musical notes and of the duo Milton Hide holding musical instruments.

Our next guest night is with @miltonhide.bsky.social - an evening of song with clarinet and guitar accompaniment #SundayNight
#FolkMusicNight
#InRdg
@rdgwhatson.bsky.social @acespacenewbury.bsky.social
See you Sunday 29th March at 8 in the ♥️of #TheDing.

Colourful collage of images describing Readifolk's theme night "Home, sweet home". In the centre are details of the event, Sunday 22nd March, 8pm, Watlington House Hall, RG1 4RA. £3 cash on the door, under-25s free. There are also images of Readifolk's logo, a guitar, a keyring in the shape of a house and icons for Bluesky, Twitter and Facebook with the handle @readifolk.

TONIGHT!
#SundayNight
#FolkMusicNight #InRdg #TheDing

Helen Story Telling at Castle Tap Festival

Monday is 4th Monday of the month (yes #poets can count)
Which means it is #openmic at Castle Tap on castle hill #RdgUK
Some of the Dreading Poets will be amongst the #openmic performers
#inRdg #spokenword

What sort of music do we like?
You can hear some of the music we like on our weekly podcast, and join us #InRdg #TheDing for our #SundayNight #FolkMusicNight Theme Night - Home Sweet Home 🎶🏘🎵

Heavy Pop: Hayseed Dixie (USA) Heavy Pop presents Hayseed Dixie (USA) Sat 6th June | The Face Bar, Reading14+ (under 18s w/ an adult | 7:30pm | £26 Adv (subject to booking fee) - Hayseed Dixie (USA) - “The Hayseed’s berserk hedonis...

It's been a fair few years since the undisputed kings of rockgrass Hayseed Dixie have played #inrdg

but they're back this June for a foot-stompin', hard-rockin', grass-whoopin' night at The Facebar, courtesy of Heavy Pop
whatsonreading.com/venues/heavy...

Look bottom right for a glimpse of our club where #SundayNight #FolkMusicNight rounds off another musical weekend #InRdg #TheDing. This week we'll be sharing songs and tunes on the theme "Home Sweet Home" (or we'll find a link) and you're welcome too to sit back and listen.

...and that's right, in the bottom right corner we welcome you to round off another musical weekend at one of our theme nights.
"Home Sweet Home" is the theme this week for your songs and tunes, and you are welcome too to sit back and listen.
#SundayNight #FolkMusicNight #InRdg in #TheDing

Image advertising Readifolk's guest night with Milton Hide on 29th March at 8pm. In the centre is a photo of the duo, Jim Tipler (holding a guitar) and Jo Church. The venue is Watlington House Community Hall, accessed on foot from South Street in Reading. The postcode is RG1 4RA. The cost is £10 cash on the door (£5 if you are under 25) and you bring your own refreshments. The poster surrounding the photo is colourful with musical images of notes and instruments. It includes a QR code leading to www.readifolk.org.uk and a logo for the club. There are social media icons for @readifolk on Bluesky, Facebook and Instagram.

Our next guest night, Readifolk debut for East Sussex duo @miltonhide.bsky.social on Sunday 29th March. Expect an evening of story-based songs with vocal harmonies, accompanied by guitar and clarinet.
@rdgwhatson.bsky.social @acespacenewbury.bsky.social
#SundayNight
#FolkMusicNight
#InRDG #TheDing

Montage of gig posters

It's a quieter weekend for live music #inrdg - so we have a WEEKEND GIG GUIDE that's all about quality, not quantity - electronica, Latin, prog and more - at @southstreetarts.bsky.social, @purpleturtlerdg.bsky.social, @readifolk.bsky.social and more

whatsonreading.com/themes/weeke...

Children making dough at Reading Museum

poster saying "Half-term Pokemon trade & play, Friday 1.30pm-5pm", designed to look like a chalkboard

Poster for the show "Tiny Planet", featuring an image of a tiny panet where the scale of a person, a tree, a stream are all much bigger than on a regular planet

Poster for Little Ravers event with a cartoon monkey and details about the event

We're more than halfway through half-term, but there's still plenty of fun #forkids #inrdg to be found - at @readingmuseum.bsky.social, @themerl.bsky.social, @southstreetarts.bsky.social, @eclecticgames.bsky.social and more!

whatsonreading.com/themes/half-...

14 February may be in the rear-view mirror, but there's still plenty of Valentine-themed fun coming up later this month #inrdg that we think you'll LOVE 💞

It seems March is Miyazaki season #inrdg.

Because Sub89 are also hosting "The Art History of Studio Ghibli", a Seed Talk from Helen McCarthy discussing the inspiration taken from mystical qualities and traditions from Japanese culture, amongst other thing.

whatsonreading.com/venues/sub89...

logo for "Play space" next to an abstract watercolour painting

LEGO bricks with various nautical elements, and the Master Builders Club logo

Banner featuring an image of a beaver, and an image of a beaver character from the animated film Hoppers

Rabbit on the run logo

Half Term is well and truly here, and there's still plenty of fun to be found this week #forkids #inrdg

Like crafting with @thejellyreading.bsky.social, LEGO-ing with Master Builders Club, trail-ing at Basildon Park or catching a show at Reading Rep. And more!
whatsonreading.com/themes/half-...

montage of gig posters

It's another PACKED weekend of gigs #inrdg
So it's time for another PACKED WEEKEND GIG GUIDE

Punk. Folk. Psych. Hardcore. Rockabilly. And much more!
At @purpleturtlerdg.bsky.social, @readifolk.bsky.social + others!

Look & book (where applicable) via whatsonreading.com/themes/weeke...

this Friday #poetry #inRdg coms from #poetscafe @southstreetarts.bsky.social
guest #poet James Womack, plus friendly #openmic.
Doors at 8pm, poetry from 8:30.
Tickets here: whatsonreading.com/.../whats-on...

Obviously, we're biased, but we firmly believe the cultural prescence here #inrdg is astonishingly good and ready to be showcased on a national level - heck, some of it already is. We're amazingly proud of everything that goes on in this town and we're 100% behind this bid!
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From the archives of Dreading #slam, two of our past Grand Slam winners Sarah Wordsmith and Sven Stears

Our current champion is Paul Holroyd

To be our next champion join us 1st Sunday of Each Month to take part Rising Sun #arts centre RG1 2ST
#poetry #inrdg

Poster for Bodacia's Game Show with a cartoon image of drag queen Bodacia

But that's not all in the world of #drag #inrdg - Bodacia's Game Show is coming to the Oakford, too - that'll be on the last Thursday of the month starting on 26 Feb!
whatsonreading.com/venues/oakfo...
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Montage of gig posters

We say goodbye to January
We say hello to the WEEKEND GIG GUIDE!

With punk poets, top tributes, dance-centric delights, the final @ivwuk.bsky.social gig #inrdg for this year, hometown heroes and more!

All the info via whatsonreading.com/themes/weeke...

#bards in a bar returns for the new year with a fixed time of last Saturday of the Mont. Join us @sirencraftbrew.bsky.social in Friar Street #RdgUK
13:00 on Sat 31 Jan.
Join other #poets to talk about #poetry and learn from each other.
Help make poetry fun
#inRDG #Berkshire

What's on Reading Awards logo

Did you attend events or classes #inrdg last year?
Do you think any of those events - or the people and places that put them on - deserve an award?
A 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙊𝙣 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘼𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 ?

Nominations are now open - so let us know what you achieved, experienced or, crucially, enjoyed last year!
buff.ly/17MTEdC

A smartphone on a desk playing the What's on Reading podcast

Have you heard our January #podcast?

Toby and Hannah from RABBLE join us to talk about taking Glitch on tour - and how you can be part of great theatre here #inrdg!

Listen, look and book via whatsonreading.com/themes/podca...

Fiona Larkin at #Reading #poets cafe in @southstreetarts.bsky.social last Friday
#poetry #spokenword #inRDG

It's the big Bowie weekend #inrdg!

This Friday 9 January, it is #poetscafe @southstreetarts.bsky.social
guest poet Fiona Larkin plus an #ope mic open to all. Come read, listen, or soak it all in. Cover #poems welcome.
#inrdg