A gig held at The Golden Guinea on Monday 16th January. The event starts at 19:45pm.
Happy New Year!
We're back and better than ever in 2017, it's our second birthday so we'll be celebrating with cake, music and some absolutely cracking performers.
Jasmine Gardosi
Jasmine Gardosi is the current Cheltenham Poetry Festival Slam Champion, Mix It Up Midlands Slam Champion 2015 and one of the winners of the International Pangaea Poetry Slam 2015. She has appeared on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb and was shortlisted for Birmingham Poet Laureate 2016/18. A former BBC Arts Young Creative, she has worked as a Poet in Residence for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and is collaborating with Autin Dance Theatre on a sexual health show combining dance and spoken word. She likes to write about weird things in unweird places - kind of like her, everywhere.
Travis Alabanza
Travis Alabanza is a Black, trans, femme performance artist and poet who combines the soul of their mother and the spirit of their council estate to create a combination of poetic, visual, and audio responses to topics such as race, gender and class. Recently being published in the UK anthology Black & Gay in the UK, Black girl dangerous, Not trans enough and the Barbican young poets 2015/16 Anthology, Alabanza's words unapologetically scream about the revolution they deserve. In 2015/16 they have toured their show Stories of A Queer Brown Muddy Kid to a sold out Vauxhall Tavern, Keble Arts Festival, Oxford Queer Week and Housman's Bookstore. In 2016/17 they are one of the artist and residences at the Tate, as well as recently performing in Scottee's acclaimed show "Putting Words in Your Mouth" at the Roundhouse, Alabanza will have their first solo show exhibition in February at Transmission's Gallery, Glasgow. Alabanza's poetry in 2016 has appeared in magazines such as Wildabout, I-D, Lunar Poetry Podcast's, as well as being referenced by art magazines such as Artsy as one of 2016's influential queer artists.
And to top it off, you're welcome to get involved in our 6-man audience voted slam.
Comment down below for a space. This is your chance to earn a slot at our next event. Winner gets great acclaim, lots of love and a little milky somethin'.
The evening will be poured (with a healthy splash of ukelele) by Malaika Kegode.
Join us from 7.30pm for an 8pm start.
£5 OTD & Slammers go FREE!
Entry requirements:
We're back and better than ever in 2017, it's our second birthday so we'll be celebrating with cake, music and some absolutely cracking performers.
Jasmine Gardosi
Jasmine Gardosi is the current Cheltenham Poetry Festival Slam Champion, Mix It Up Midlands Slam Champion 2015 and one of the winners of the International Pangaea Poetry Slam 2015. She has appeared on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb and was shortlisted for Birmingham Poet Laureate 2016/18. A former BBC Arts Young Creative, she has worked as a Poet in Residence for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and is collaborating with Autin Dance Theatre on a sexual health show combining dance and spoken word. She likes to write about weird things in unweird places - kind of like her, everywhere.
Travis Alabanza
Travis Alabanza is a Black, trans, femme performance artist and poet who combines the soul of their mother and the spirit of their council estate to create a combination of poetic, visual, and audio responses to topics such as race, gender and class. Recently being published in the UK anthology Black & Gay in the UK, Black girl dangerous, Not trans enough and the Barbican young poets 2015/16 Anthology, Alabanza's words unapologetically scream about the revolution they deserve. In 2015/16 they have toured their show Stories of A Queer Brown Muddy Kid to a sold out Vauxhall Tavern, Keble Arts Festival, Oxford Queer Week and Housman's Bookstore. In 2016/17 they are one of the artist and residences at the Tate, as well as recently performing in Scottee's acclaimed show "Putting Words in Your Mouth" at the Roundhouse, Alabanza will have their first solo show exhibition in February at Transmission's Gallery, Glasgow. Alabanza's poetry in 2016 has appeared in magazines such as Wildabout, I-D, Lunar Poetry Podcast's, as well as being referenced by art magazines such as Artsy as one of 2016's influential queer artists.
And to top it off, you're welcome to get involved in our 6-man audience voted slam.
Comment down below for a space. This is your chance to earn a slot at our next event. Winner gets great acclaim, lots of love and a little milky somethin'.
The evening will be poured (with a healthy splash of ukelele) by Malaika Kegode.
Join us from 7.30pm for an 8pm start.
£5 OTD & Slammers go FREE!
Entry requirements: