BOLTON-based arts and heritage organisation, Live from Worktown is hosting an online International Cultural Cabaret on Wednesday featuring artists from Bolton to New York.

Headlining the event will be award-winning poet George Wallace.

No stranger to Bolton, the wordsmith is writer in residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace, the Beat Poet Laureate of the USA and author of 38 books and chapbooks of poetry, published world-wide.

Other artists include Linda Jennings, a musician,singer-songwriter and finalist in BBC’s The Voice in 2017.

Shrutee Choudhary from Mumbai is an actor, poet and author, graduating in 2016 from the New York Film Academy. In 2021 she published ‘A Garage Sale of Lovelorn Things’, on the theme of loss and letting go. She is an outspoken member of India’s ‘Me Too’ movement.

Bolton-born Oliver James Lomax has written poetry for film and television. He has just received a Poetry at Heart Award at the Globe Theatre, London, for his work with Unsworth Academy.

Live from Worktown’s Dave Morgan said: “We are honoured George Wallace has chosen us to host the UK leg of his world tour. We have hosted him both live and virtually before and his beat poetry has enthralled audiences. With such a strong line-up, this will be an event not to be missed.”

There will also be a full supporting line-up from Live from Worktown and the Bharathi Open Mic of Chennai, India.

Dave added: “Five years ago a young Indian post grad student studying at Teeside Uni appeared out of the blue at a Live from Worktown open mic event.

"Five years later Sriram Gokul has set up the Bharathi Open Mic of Chennai based on our Bolton model and already Bolton writers and musicians are sharing the Zoom waves with tabla and sitar players,devotional singers and poets from across India in a truly international feat of cultural cooperation."

The event can be watched on Zoom or live from 7pm.