Sunday, 27 April 2014
Friday, 25 April 2014
Rafeef Ziadah from Palestine & Rob Auton from York at Chill Pill, Soho Theatre 12th May
Rafeef Ziadah
Rob Auton
Yellow from Mark Chaudoir Films on Vimeo.
ADVANCE TICKETS; £5 http://sohotheatre.com/whats-on/so-chilled-may-2014/
Rob Auton
Yellow from Mark Chaudoir Films on Vimeo.
ADVANCE TICKETS; £5 http://sohotheatre.com/whats-on/so-chilled-may-2014/
Tuesday, 22 April 2014
Chill Pill Shorts (New Youtube Channel for UK Spoken Word Poetry)
Red Earth Studios have teamed up with Chill Pill to curate a new youtube channel dedicated to Spoken Word Poetry, Chill Pill Shorts. The videos are visible from Chill Pill's new site - http://chill-pill.co.uk
We'll see you at The Big one, at The Albany featuring Ty, Femi Martin and Shortmann on Thursday 24th April.
Tuesday, 1 April 2014
Musa Okwonga, Joelle Taylor & Raymond Antrobus at one of London's first Spoken Word Schools
Since September 2013, the UK’s first full-time poetry Spoken Word Educators have been embedded in six London secondary schools.
On Wednesday 9th April students from Cardinal Pole Secondary will perform their work. Coached by Hackney poet, Tedx speaker and one of The Guardian's poets in residence, Raymond Antrobus.
The Spoken Word Education Programme offers a highly effective approach to raising children’s confidence, self-expression, team-building and leadership skills, whilst also developing oral communication and literacy skills.
The Spoken Word Educators comprise award winning poets Peter Bearder, Dean Atta, Indigo Williams, Raymond Antrobus, Cat Brogan and Keith Jarrett. They work with young people who may not otherwise get access to arts opportunities, with a range of complex issues that affect their lives and engagement in learning. Spoken Word Poetry is a cathartic outlet for them, allowing them to be more focused and productive learners.
rafeef
The key to this innovative model’s success is embedding poets in the culture of each school and enabling them to build relationships with the students, both in school and during their after school spoken word clubs.
The programme has already benefitted more than 2000 students in some of the most deprived areas of London. The participating young people have wowed audiences across London including performances at Portcullis House for Parliament Week and the launch of Words Over Waltham Forest. Joshua Izundu, a year 11 student at Cardinal Pole Catholic School in Hackney said, “I have a new appreciation for spoken word. I have learnt how to turn a picture into words.”
http://
Showcase Details
Address:
Time
Musa Okwonga is a writer, broadcaster, poet, musician, communications adviser and commentator on current affairs, including culture, politics, sport, race and sexuality.
A former City solicitor, Musa contributes regular opinion pieces to The Independent, Huffington Post and The Newstatesman on a range of issues, and has on several occasions been a guest on BBC Radio 4′s TodayProgramme. He has been interviewed by Channel 4 News and Sky News, and he has given talks on social media and literature for BBC Radio 3 and 4, the latter at the Royal Society of Arts in London. He has also written for The Guardian, The New Humanist and the Financial Times.
He is the author of two books on football, A Cultured Left Foot (Duckworths, 2007) andWill You Manage? (Serpent’s Tail, 2010), the first of which was nominated for the 2008 William Hill Sports Book of the Year. He has also written about football for The Blizzard, The New York Times and ESPN, and is a regular pundit for the BBC World Service.
On Wednesday 9th April students from Cardinal Pole Secondary will perform their work. Coached by Hackney poet, Tedx speaker and one of The Guardian's poets in residence, Raymond Antrobus.
The Spoken Word Education Programme offers a highly effective approach to raising children’s confidence, self-expression, team-building and leadership skills, whilst also developing oral communication and literacy skills.
The Spoken Word Educators comprise award winning poets Peter Bearder, Dean Atta, Indigo Williams, Raymond Antrobus, Cat Brogan and Keith Jarrett. They work with young people who may not otherwise get access to arts opportunities, with a range of complex issues that affect their lives and engagement in learning. Spoken Word Poetry is a cathartic outlet for them, allowing them to be more focused and productive learners.
rafeef
The key to this innovative model’s success is embedding poets in the culture of each school and enabling them to build relationships with the students, both in school and during their after school spoken word clubs.
The programme has already benefitted more than 2000 students in some of the most deprived areas of London. The participating young people have wowed audiences across London including performances at Portcullis House for Parliament Week and the launch of Words Over Waltham Forest. Joshua Izundu, a year 11 student at Cardinal Pole Catholic School in Hackney said, “I have a new appreciation for spoken word. I have learnt how to turn a picture into words.”
http://
Showcase Details
Address:
Cardinal Pole Catholic School
205 Morning Lane
London, E9 6LG
Time
5pm - 7pm
Nearest Station
Hackney Central or Homerton Overground
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| Musa Okwonga, one of the UK's most popular bloggers |
A former City solicitor, Musa contributes regular opinion pieces to The Independent, Huffington Post and The Newstatesman on a range of issues, and has on several occasions been a guest on BBC Radio 4′s TodayProgramme. He has been interviewed by Channel 4 News and Sky News, and he has given talks on social media and literature for BBC Radio 3 and 4, the latter at the Royal Society of Arts in London. He has also written for The Guardian, The New Humanist and the Financial Times.
He is the author of two books on football, A Cultured Left Foot (Duckworths, 2007) andWill You Manage? (Serpent’s Tail, 2010), the first of which was nominated for the 2008 William Hill Sports Book of the Year. He has also written about football for The Blizzard, The New York Times and ESPN, and is a regular pundit for the BBC World Service.
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| Joelle Taylor |
Joelle Taylor is a spoken word artist, playwright, performance novelist and cultural terrorist. She has performed across the UK as well as internationally for the British Council in Zimbabwe and Botswana, taking in a diverse range of venues from Dingwalls, the 100 Club, the O2 Arena, the Royal Festival Hall and Ronnie Scott’s to the Royal Court, the ICA, Buckingham Place and Pentonville Prison. Her book Ska Tissue was released in 2011 and, after a summer festival tour, is now in its second edition. In 2001 she co-ordinated the first London youth slam championships for the Poetry Society and is currently the Artistic Director of SLAMbassadors UK, the national youth slam championships. Joelle is also the coach of the UK team and delivers Master Classes and ongoing mentoring for young poets and spoken word artists (aged 12 – 19). She has a wide experience of working in both primary and secondary schools – and is the Poet in Residence at both Kingsmead Primary in Hackney and Newstead Wood School for Girls in Kent – as well as tutoring adult poetry courses (Arvon Foundation, Cardboard Citizens).
BOOK TICKET HERE - http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardinal-pole-showcase-tickets-11161154313 (free to book, £3 on door)
BOOK TICKET HERE - http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardinal-pole-showcase-tickets-11161154313 (free to book, £3 on door)
Tuesday, 25 February 2014
ChillPill Speak Poems at TedxEastEnd (Society Beyond Borders)
In January, three of the Chill Pill poets (myself, Adam Kammerling and Deanna Rodger) were invited to speak poems at TedxEastEnd. The theme was "Society Beyond Borders", here's what went down...
Thursday, 20 February 2014
Wednesday, 19 February 2014
Tuesday, 18 February 2014
Monday, 17 February 2014
Open Ode To Climate Change Sceptic, MP Owen Peterson
Green budget halved
in the grip of a man
who shakes more hands
than he holds.
who knows the slash
better than the marks
they leave on the ground.
O, Owen,
tell the men with castles
that they need canoes.
Lie to their tears
when it’s too late to stop
the flood.
There is violence in truth -
when it hits –
it winds and fires
the stomach
we’re sucking
too much turbulence
from our whirling failure.
Who isn’t frightened
of what rips doors
and uproots houses?
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Q1. Can writing poems about climate
change change anything?
A. The first draft of this poem was called “Ode To Owen Peterson”, (I
believe his name is Owen Paterson) so yes, ignorant poets writing about political
issues need to research and channel their education through poetry.
Q2. What will you do with your educated
opinion now you have written a political poem?
A. The evening I wrote this poem, I fell asleep in the kitchen of my
shared flat, leaving the heat and all the lights in the house blaring. When my
flat mate came home to ask what I was doing, I said writing a poem about climate change. My educated opinion has
intensified my guilt about this incident.
Q3. Really
though, what are you going to do?
A. I have signed anti-climate change cuts on SumOfUs.org, 38 Degrees
and Change.org. I will participate in protests and not shy from confrontation
with Climate Change sceptics. It’s about the facts.
Speaking of
facts, by 2016, Climate Change will be removed from the UK National Curriculum,
when I told my mother this she said “isn’t the National Curriculum the most
dangerous form of censorship?”
Fact; if more
people thought like my mother there would be no Peterson’s.
Actually 98%
of people probably do.
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