Date: Sunday 19th April 2026

Venue: Arnolfini (Community Workshop)

Time: 15:45 - 17:45

Tickets: £5

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Myth, Movement & Writing the Personal Legend

Writing Workshop

Join Bristol City Poet Sukina Noor for a poetry workshop exploring myth, personal legend and the stories that shape us. Inspired by A Dance With Her Myth by Mounira Al Solh at Arnolfini, this session invites participants to consider the myths we inherit, the narratives that travel across cultures and generations, and the power we hold to rewrite them.

Through guided writing prompts, group reflection and time spent engaging directly with the exhibition, you will explore how myth influences meaning, how stories migrate and transform, and how our lived experiences can become legend. Together, we will reimagine familiar tales, question received narratives and craft new ones through poetry.

No prior writing experience is necessary. Just bring curiosity and openness.

Sukina Noor:

Sukina Noor is a poet, spoken-word artist, playwright, workshop facilitator and educator, event curator and public speaker. She is the current Bristol City Poet (2024 - 2026). 

She has toured extensively across the UK, Europe, America and Africa performing, delivering poetry workshops, partaking in panel discussions and delivering lectures. 

Sukina has facilitated creative writing workshops across the world empowering communities to use the written word as a tool for dialogue and as a means for accessing their authentic voice. Her workshops seeks to explore the intersection between creativity and spirituality and awakening the voice of the heart. She has developed a series of poetry writing courses such as The Art of Speaking from the Heart, The Art of Writing Sacred Poetry and The Poetry of Female Mystics that she has delivered to international audiences and this summer led her first retreat in Portugal called The Healing Art of Sacred Writing.

She has played an intrinsic role within the British Muslim creative communities as a performer and events organiser and has curated many platforms for many national and international Muslim artists to express themselves and launch their careers. She is currently on the board of Black Creatives Bristol, a community initiative to create safe spaces for multidisciplinary Black artists in the city. 

Sukina made her theatre debut in 2016 in a production called Malcolm X at the Royal Flemish Theatre in Brussels (KVS) which was critically acclaimed. In 2017 and 2018 she led a project in collaboration with the theatre called Rise Up where she used poetry as a tool for dialogue and community cohesion in the aftermath of the terror attacks in Brussels. She was commissioned by KVS to write her first play called Afropean / Human Being that premiered at the theatre in February 2020.  

In 2017 she delivered a Tedx Talk on the healing potential of poetry exploring the ways in which the process of poem-making can have a therapeutic outcome.  

Sukina holds a she holds a BA (Hons) Degree in English Literature and Caribbean Studies and has an MSc in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes where she is focusing on the intersection between spirituality, creativity and the healing potential in the poetry of the Sufi mystics.

She is currently training to become a Spiritual Empowerment Life Coach.

Sukina has amassed a loyal fan base due to her international performances, workshop facilitation and social media presence and her debut poetry collection Love and Longing: Yearning for the Face of God was released in October 2023 and her spoken word album of the same name will be released in the Spring of 2025.

Part of Lyra – Bristol Poetry Festival 2026

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