The Poet’s Performance Lab

Apples and Snakes: The Poet’s Performance Lab

Join Apples and Snakes for a day of creative exploration to develop your performance skills as a poet. The Lab is for poets of all stages of their careers, curious about how they can use voice and body to enhance their words and connect with audiences. 

Come in your comfy clothes, let’s play, let’s meet, and let’s grow.

If you have any access needs, please contact us on [email protected]

This event is part of Lyra Festival. Lyra brings together local, national and international poets and speakers, representing Bristol as a centre of world class poetry and booking artists from across the UK and world alongside Bristol based artists and local communities.

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Event Schedule:

Hosted by Muneera Pilgrim 
10.30 – 11.30 – Muneera Pilgrim
11.50 – 12.50 – Saili Ketebe 
1.15 – 2.45 –  The Poet’s Performance Lab with Ty’rone Haughton
3.00  – 3.30 – Q+A

About the Artists

Muneera Pilgrim is a Poet, Cultural Producer, Writer, Broadcaster on BBC and Ujima,  TEDx Speaker, and WOW Festival Speaker with international acclaim. She conducts workshops, shares art, guest lectures, hosts, and finds alternative ways to educate and exchange ideas while focusing on methodologies of empowerment for non-centered people. At heart, Muneera is a storyteller, concerned with telling stories to disrupt mainstream narratives of non-centered people globally and to beautify truths that are rarely told. 

Saili Katebe is a writer, performer and workshop facilitator. Born in Zambia and now based in the South West of England, his work celebrates language and the power of story. Author of his debut poetry Pamphlet, “Katabasis”, published by Frosted Fire Press. His work has been featured on BBC Arts and BBC Radio Bristol Bristol. From commissions to collaboration, he looks for opportunities to explore and express the nuances of moving through the world.

Ty’rone Haughton is a Jamaican-born poet and playwright whose work focuses on social issues, identity and exploring shame and trauma. Ty’rone is the founder of Literati Arts and the Leicester Poetry Committee. In 2023 Ty’rone was named as one of BBC Radio 1Xtra’s ‘Future Figures’ for his contributions to the arts and social care.

In 2022, Ty’rone’s debut poetry collection HOODS was published, a probe into childhood, manhood and fatherhood. Outside of poetry, Ty’rone is an active voice in the social care sector, using his lived experience of growing up in care to provide consultation and training to foster services and organisations that work with looked after children.