Price: £5
Time: 12:00 - 14:00

A workshop exploring the city with Lyra’s 2023 Festival Poet Malaika Kegode.

A new city always seems vast and unknowable. In time, the same city can become part of your bones. A city you know can also change over time, becoming more or less familiar to you, or showing new parts of itself. Join Malaika Kegode in exploring the magic of moving to, visiting or rediscovering an unfamiliar city, and what this can reveal about the creative self.

Through discussion, writing exercises, and examining inspiring source materials, we’ll write an ode to relocation, whether permanent or temporary. We’ll pause in the middle of the bustle to find the stories hiding in the cracks of the pavement.

MALAIKA KEGODE:

Malaika Kegode is an award-winning writer, performer and creative producer based in Bristol. Her work is focused on uplifting and celebrating the overlooked and misunderstood. Beginning her arts career as a performance poet in 2014, Malaika has since developed her practice to encompass theatre, radio and film writing. In 2022, she was the recipient of the Kevin Elyot Award, and became writer-in-residence at the University of Bristol Theatre Collection.

Her gig-theatre show Outlier, an autobiographical piece about addiction and isolation in rural England performed with prog-rock band Jakabol was the first piece of new writing to appear on Bristol Old Vic’s main stage in 2021. Malaika’s work has been featured on BBC Radio 4 and Black Ballad. Her poetry collections are published by Burning Eye Books.
Malaika also works in film. She has been an associate curator at Watershed in Bristol, a resident at Encounters Film Festival and programme selector for a number of film festivals. (Photo credit: Paul Blakemore)

Part of Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival 2023.

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