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- Liza Minelli 
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SONNETS IN THE GARDEN

Thursday 1 May 2025
Thursday 15 May 2025
Thursday 5 June 2025
Thursday 19 June 205

6pm to 7pm


The Onion Garden
5 Seaforth Place
London SW1E 6ABT
Sebastian Michael recites some of his and your favourites sonnets by William Shakespeare at the gorgeous Onion Garden in London Victoria.

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BOOK LAUNCH: THE SNOWFLAKE COLLECTOR

Thursday 5 December 2024 from 6PM

The Orangery at The Onion Garden
5 Seaforth Place
London SW1E 6ABT
Launch of the Second Edition of The Snowflake Collector by Sebastian Michael, illustrated by Diego Cassia.

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THE (POSSIBLY FIRST EVER) HALF SONNETHON — IN AID OF ARTS FOR DEMENTIA

Tuesday 23rd April 2024; 7:30 PM

Kensington Unitarians
Essex Church
112 Palace Gardens
Notting Hill Gate
London W8 4RT

And as live webcast online at sonnetcast.com
Charity event to mark Shakespeare Day:

In what may be a first of its kind, Sebastian Michael is challenging himself to recite the first 77 of William Shakespeare's 154 Sonnets by heart to a live audience, raising money for Arts for Dementia.


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SOME SONNETS AND A BIT OF BACH

Monday 14th to Saturday 26th August 2023; 11:30 AM
(No performance Sunday 20th August)

The Ivy
Greenside @ Infirmary Street
Edinburgh
Spoken word performance as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023

What do Shakespeare and JS Bach have in common? Sebastian Michael, author of The Sonneteer and SONNETCAST podcaster, is trying to find out, bringing you glorious poetry and connecting it—somewhat adventurously—to a fugue...

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Banner image: Stephen Schreiber as Angel Alphon and James Messer as Angel Raoul in Top Story at The Old Vic Tunnels, 2013; photograph: Foteini Christofilopoulou.


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