Date: Friday 24th April 2026

Venue: Loco Klub

Time: 19:30 - 20:30

Tickets: £5

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Reverence: Poetry and the Sacred

Join Sukina Noor and friends for a sacred listening experience where poetry, vocals, meditation, and sound bowl healing create a space of deep listening.

The evening is designed to help words move deeper, settling gently into the inner landscape of the listener. Through stillness and reverence, we ask: how can words become a spiritual pathway? How can poetry carry meaning that lingers beyond the final spoken word?

The performance space will be held as a place of mindful presence, with Sukina Noor’s poetry weaving themes of Divine love and the sacred dimensions of everyday life, inspired by both her personal and academic engagement with the Sufi poetic tradition.

Guests are invited to enter the space gently, as if stepping into a quiet sanctuary of words and sound.

Bring blankets, cushions, yoga mats, or anything that helps you feel comfortable and held in the space (chairs will also be available).

Sukina will be joined by singer Chloe Rose, sound bowl healer Melissa from Drift Away Wellness + others

Sukina Noor:

Sukina Noor is a poet, spoken-word artist, playwright, 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 work-shops, partaking in panel discussions and delivering lectures. 

Her teaching 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, 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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