Artist Spotlight

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Kai is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, video, mixed media, digital art, writing, and poetry.

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Ray is a poet, performer, (paper)maker and facilitator based in Birmingham. BLACK, trans, queer & grateful Ray writes out of compulsion and opportunity to reframe his experiences in abstract ways.

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Molly Walker is a poet, actor and theatre maker from East London. Her passion for storytelling and performance has led her to share her poetry with audiences all across the world.  Her writing uses a comedic lens to explore themes of queerness, class, identity and self-discovery.

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Nigeen Dara is an NHS doctor and writer based in the North of England. She is currently working on her debut collection of poetry and prose. Nigeen’s creative work draws on her Kurdish heritage to explore the themes of identity, war, immigration, and womanhood.

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Chloe Tenesha Giles aka TENÉSHAS is a poet and spoken word artist originally from Bristol, based in London, and of Caribbean descent.

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Roshni Marath Jairaj is a writer of prose, prose poetry, and creative non-fiction. Her work explores the everyday rhythms of life, paying attention to the small, fleeting moments that often go unnoticed.

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Astrid Solace is a transgender comedy performance poet from Birmingham. Her work explores the absurd, the queer, & the lies she tells herself and others.

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Memory Bhunu is a Zimbabwean born poet and creative raised in the Black Country. Their work is deeply confessional. They began their poetry career in the University of Birmingham’s 2019 winning Unislam team.

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Lena Ngoudjo is multidisciplinary artist woven by her obsession with undressing the raw beauty of the bare self through the complexities of self-expression and the merging realms intersecting culture and identity.

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Shakquille is a spoken word artist and co-author of the audiobook ‘Which Way the Words Grow’. A powerful live performer, workshop facilitator, and project leader, he has worked with many organisations across the UK.

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Our latest Artist Spotlight features poet Jo Eades, Jo performs regularly on the Bristol spoken word scene and was selected as one of eight emerging poets from the South West to be part of Apple and Snakes Future Voices project.

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Francis-Xavier Mukiibi is a poet and spoken word performer of Ugandan heritage from North London. He is an alumnus of the Barbican Young Poets, Roundhouse Poetry Collective and Obsidian Foundation.

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Beth is a multi-disciplinary artist who explores concepts of identity, femininity, and grief in her work. Predominantly a page poet, Beth was recently part of the Apple and Snakes Words A Stage 2024 cohort and is now building a collection of work based around performance that she hopes to take to the stage next year.

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David Woolcott is a multi-disciplinary artist specialising in spoken word, facilitation and directing. As a working class creative he creates socially conscious art to inspire social change and hold important conversations.

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Jerome is a multi disciplinary artist who explores stories through writing and movement. He writes through a poetic lens exploring identity, intimacy, masculinity (not limited to).

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Nathalia Khawand is a Lebanese spoken word artist and storyteller. Her work speaks widely of culture and heritage within the context of the Arab diaspora.

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Noor Iman is a spoken-word artist, singer and writer. She has performed all over the UK from Scotland to Brixton. She has performed on esteemed platforms like Sofar Sounds and is a part of the Flovortex Collective of poets.

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