Writing Our Legacy Poetry Room: WORKSHOP & SHARING
Come join an artistic sharing from our poetry room artists and learn more about their practice at Glasgow Zine Library on Friday 22nd March!
About Writing Our Legacy Poetry Room: WORKSHOP & SHARING
With special guests, poets and artists Titilayo Farukuoye, Sean Wai Keung and Adriana Lord, as well as Akila Richards and DJ Fever2Ray from African Night Fever.
Produced by Writing Our Legacy and Glasgow Zine Library
Supported by Arts Council England.
Sean Wai Keung is a writer and performance maker based in Glasgow. His work often uses food as a starting point for explorations of identity, migration and communities. His pamphlet you are mistaken won the Rialto Open Pamphlet Competition in 2016 and his debut full-length poetry collection, sikfan glaschu, was published by Verve Poetry Press in April 2021. It went on to be shortlisted for the 2022 Kavya Prize and was also described as “joyful, earnest and offering unexpected poignancies from everyday life” by The Scotsman. He has also had poetry published in journals and anthologies including Street Cake zine, Datableed zine, Haunted Voices: Gothic Storytelling from Scotland (Haunt, 2019), and The Dizziness of Freedom (Bad Betty Press, 2018) and has contributed articles and essays on community, food and identity to The Skinny, Bella Caledonia and the Vittles Newsletter. Find him on Instagram or X/Twitter @SeanWaiKeung or via seanwaikeung.carrd.co
Titilayo Farukuoye (they/them) is a writer, educator and organiser based in Glasgow. They address social injustice, and community care throughout all of their work. Titilayo co-directs the Scottish BPOC Writers Network (SBWN) and is a co-winner of the 2022 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. In 2023 Titilayo was selected for HarperCollins’ Author Academy for Writing Children’s Literature. Titilayo’s poetry featured at the Edinburgh Radical Book Festival, Fringe of Colour, Paisley Book Festival among others their poetry pamphlet is forthcoming with Stewed Rhubarb Press. Instagram @titiiilayo // Twitter @titilayoGLA
Lullabies for the Exhausted | Poetry by Akila Richards | Songs with music by Adriana Lord 'Lullabies For The Exhausted’- Akilas & Adriana's new R&D project based on Brighton's diasporic communities, in response to performers at Brighton Dome e.g. by Maya Angelou, Paul Robeson, Sister Rosetta and more. It is an acknowledgment of their ceaseless activism and artistic work and to honour this with a creative community response. This is a Brighton Dome Reveal commission funded by Brighton Dome BPOC heritage grant scheme and National Heritage Lottery Fund.
Adriana Lord (she/her) is a singer-songwriter, writer, theatre performer and singing group leader. She uses her creative expression to entertain while opening people to connections and healing as well as raising awareness about social issues. She is the lead vocalist of Brighton-based Afro-Cuban bands Son Guarachando and LOKEBA. Her most recent artistic collaborations are the “Rest Experience” lead by the poet and rest activist Akila Richards and the co-writing of the critically celebrated album “Delirio” by the band LOKEBA.
Akila Richards is an award-winning poet, writer and spoken word artist, performing and collaborating nationally and internationally. Her work features in collaboration with artists and genres for theatre, film, visual arts and digital platforms. Her portfolio includes facilitating and initiating creative and cultural events, offering creative workshops, managing projects and providing mentoring and coaching to writers. From an Artist-in-House residency at Brighton Dome, Akila is developing ‘The Rest Experience’ programme. Her poetry and prose are published in Covert Magazine, Creative Future, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Peepal Tree, Penguin, Waterloo Press, Brighton Festival and online platforms. Her latest fiction is included in the speculative anthology ‘Glimpse’ at Peepal Tree Press. Her poetry pamphlet “Ritual for a Mango’ was edited and published by Flipped Eye and launched on 2nd February 2024 at the International Black Speculative Writing Festival at Goldsmith University. https://akilarichards.wordpress.com/
African Night Fever: In 2003, Ebou Touray from the Gambia and David Sijale from Tanzania, launched a monthly music night at the Babylon Lounge in Hove, showcasing the music and culture of Africa and the African diaspora. African Night Fever became a hub for local talent as people flocked to the nights in order to dance, mingle and experience a mix of Live bands and DJ sets. From that, sprang friendships, sharing and genuine community spirit. African Night Fever continues to evolve and partners with local venues and promotors throughout the UK to share a taste of African and African Caribbean culture, belonging and community to a diverse range of audiences. https://www.africannightfever.co.uk/
Writing Our Legacy CIC is an arts and heritage organisation that enables Black, Asian and ethnically diverse/BPOC* people to tell their story through writing and the creative arts. We were established in 2012.
We give writers and other creatives a platform and community to feel supported, nurtured and evolve their work through the creative pipeline, from start to publication. We share stories and heritage of diaspora communities and bring them to life through various art forms for audiences to learn and take part in cultural heritage. We are an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.
*BPOC stands for ‘Black people, People of Colour’ and is a self-identifying term. While we use the term BPOC, we acknowledge the limitations of this terminology. At the core of our network is the aim to address and overcome systemic barriers that our members face directly or indirectly based on their ethnic or national identities, race or perceived racial identities, or the colour of their skin as per the Equality Act of 2010. This includes people who identify as Black, brown, people of colour, Global Majority, mixed-race, multiple heritage and/or are from the Global South, and/or are East and South-East Asian, West Asian, Asian, Middle Eastern, African, African-Caribbean, Caribbean, Latinx, Pacific Islander, Indigenous, or First Nations, and diasporas.
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