Join local poets Lucy Rose Cunningham, Nivetha Tilakkumar and Say It With Your Chest Arts Collective for an intimate evening of poetry and performance. The second half of the evening will be open to all, sign up on the night.
What you need to know:
- 20th July 2022
- 6.30pm – 10pm
- Ground Floor, The Tetley
- £7 | £3 Members / Unwaged
Performers
(Performing together – Abdullah Adekola and Taiwo Ogunyinka)
Abdullah Adekola (he/him) is a Black-British working-class writer and performer.
His breakthrough collection of poetry ‘Nigrescence’ is out now on adekola.bigcartel.com.
Taiwo Ogunyinka is a poet and collective arts organiser, and project researcher of Nigerian heritage based in Leeds. They are is both founding members of the Say It With Your Chest Arts Collective.
Instagram: @ogunpoeticking
SIWYC is a Black-led, Leeds based creative platform. Started as an adhoc live poetry event, SIWYC has gone on to develop event series, workshops, and advocate for Black arts in the art sector in Leeds and the North of England. We believe in the necessary and world-changing power of creativity for community building, wellbeing, social justice, and racial equity.
Instagram: @siwychest
Lucy Rose Cunningham is an artist and writer based in Leeds. Her practice looks at the performative potential of language, works made emerging as performances or soundscapes utilising voice and movement, and written words in the form of publications and print. Exploring language as a holistic embrace, she seeks to use voices and field recordings to reflect the mutuality between people and the spaces they dwell in. Spaces and bodies interact as a feedback loop, collecting and exhaling each other’s rhythm. The sounds and words she gathers touch on history and embedded memories within landscapes. In recent years, Cunningham has exhibited performances at Leeds Art Gallery, The Hepworth Gallery Wakefield, South London Gallery, and HuMBase, Stuttgart. She is also the author of pamphlet For Mary, Marie, Maria: after the nectar, pyre and linden tree, published by Broken Sleep Books (2021), with a second pamphlet out for release in July 2022.
Website: https://cargocollective.com/lurose
Instagram: @lurosecunningham
Nivetha
Instagram: @nxvtk
Nivetha is a spoken word poet based in Leeds and has been performing for the last 4 years. Her work is centred around her identity as a queer Tamil woman as she explores these intersections in a way that is powerful and sensual to her. Nivetha’s work has recently been featured on the Daytimers x Big Dyke Energy compilation album ‘Celebrating Pride: For the Community, By the Community’. She has also recently performed with Leeds Poetry Festival, Leeds Literature Festival and Daytimers’ first South Asian poetry night ‘Mehfil’.
