Bridget Minamore: Poets’ Evening
Curated by the Academicians’ Room
Thursday 29 November 2018 6.30 - 9.30pm
Academicians' Room, Burlington House, Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly
£15 Friends of the RA, free for members of the Academicians' Room
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Our third edition of live poetry in the Academicians’ Room welcomes south east London based poet, Bridget Minamore.
Join us in the Academicians’ Room for the third in our series of live poetry evenings. Following in James Massiah’s footsteps, we welcome Bridget Minamore to the Academicians’ Room for our next dedicated poetry evening. Performer and curator, Bridget will be supported by fellow poets and special guests, Sabrina Mahfouz and Belinda Zhawi.
Special thanks to Spread the Word, London’s writer development agency, for helping to make this event happen.
Doors open at 6.30pm and the performance will start at 7pm.
This event is open to Patrons, members of the Academicians’ Room, RA250 Friends and Supporters and Friends of the RA.
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Bridget Minamore is a writer, poet and journalist. She was shortlisted to be London's first Young Poet Laureate, and is part the creative team behind Brainchild Festival. Bridget teaches poetry and drama workshops around the country, has read her work internationally, and regularly speaks on panels and events about everything from politics to pop culture. In 2015 Bridget was chosen as one of The Hospital Club's Emerging Creatives, as well as one of Speaking Volumes’ 40 Stars of Black British Literature. Titanic (Out-Spoken Press), her debut pamphlet of poems on modern love and loss, came out in May 2016.
Sabrina Mahfouz is a playwright, poet, screenwriter and performer who has recently been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and is the recipient of the 2018 King's Alumni Arts & Culture Award for inspiring change in the industry. She has been shortlisted for the Arts Foundation Award for Performance Poetry and has won a Sky Arts Academy Award for Poetry, a Westminster Prize for New Playwrights and a Fringe First Award.
Find out more at www.sabrinamahfouz.com or on social media @sabrinamahfouz
Belinda Zhawi is a Zimbabwean born writer and educator. Belinda was a 2015/16 London Laureate (shortlistee for Young People’s Laureate for London) & the 2016/17 Institute of Contemporary Arts Associate Poet. She’s co-founder & host of the bi-monthly poetry social, BORN::FREE. She’s currently based in London, working on her debut pamphlet forthcoming in 2018 on Oxford Brookes University's ignitionpress.
Find her on social media @mamoyobornfree
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