Sample some of the best young artistic talent in Norfolk with the SoapBox Mini-Festival on Saturday (4pm-1am) at Norwich Arts Centre.

Sample some of the best young artistic talent in Norfolk with the SoapBox Mini-Festival on Saturday (4pm-1am) at Norwich Arts Centre, off St Benedict's.

The nine-hour extravaganza promises bands, solo acts, comics and poets.

Those lined up include high-energy indie-rockabilly quintet Bambi Get Over It, Norwich funskters Clickshaft and ska-shanty hybrids with Cakes & Ale, plus solo artists Gary HateCrime, Danny Whitehouse, Sula Mae Deane, Stewart Harrington, Slightly Offensive Steve and Screaming J Jarvis.

Poets include the ukulele-wielding Susie Showers, deadpan Marcus Keeley, award-winning Hannah Jane Walker, Robert Jackman, Andy Spragg and the Poetry Choir, plus Mooncalf Curios.

Comedy comes from the LOL Comedy Club with Lorcan McGrane, Tom Moran, Joz Norris and Scott Brown.

t 01603 660352 (�5 adv, more on door); www.norwichartscentre.co.uk; getonthesoapbox@hotmail.co.uk