60 acast.com My Words: Response Exhibition https://shows.acast.com/my-words-response-exhibition en Museum of Colour poetry, museum,colonialism,creativity,artists,art,performance Museum of Colour My Words: Response Exhibition podcasts. A central component of the Museum of Colour's offer is contemporary artists from the global majority, responding to British history. This set of podcasts provides an opportunity to hear the poets describe the approach taken to their responses and at the end, each one shares their poem. These poets had the opportunity to select an item from the Royal Albert Memorial Museum collections and reflect on the impact the item had on them and their poetic imaginations. This is a rare opportunity to hear poets describe their response process. To read the poems and see the items go to https://museumofcolour.org.uk/my-words/exhibition-index. For more information on RAMM, visit https://rammuseum.org.uk.

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]]> My Words: Response Exhibition podcasts. A central component of the Museum of Colour's offer is contemporary artists from the global majority, responding to British history. This set of podcasts provides an opportunity to hear the poets describe the approach taken to their responses and at the end, each one shares their poem. These poets had the opportunity to select an item from the Royal Albert Memorial Museum collections and reflect on the impact the item had on them and their poetic imaginations. This is a rare opportunity to hear poets describe their response process. To read the poems and see the items go to https://museumofcolour.org.uk/my-words/exhibition-index. For more information on RAMM, visit https://rammuseum.org.uk.

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]]> false Museum of Colour info+645b5ff062ead300117e8ae0@mg-eu.acast.com 645b5ff062ead300117e8ae0 my-words-response-exhibition episodic https://assets.pippa.io/shows/645b5ff062ead300117e8ae0/1683711349009-d98fe02a0ed0b939b1b3c89dd2eefa50.jpeg https://shows.acast.com/my-words-response-exhibition My Words: Response Exhibition Yusra Warsama Yusra Warsama Wed, 10 May 2023 09:34:20 GMT 9:52 645b651c1a339e001159f1f1 false https://shows.acast.com/my-words-response-exhibition/episodes/yusra-warsama 645b651c1a339e001159f1f1 645b5ff062ead300117e8ae0 yusra-warsama full 10 Yusra Warsama is a performance poet, actor, writer and theatre practitioner, her passions lie in creating work through play and exploration of life experiences in world we live in. Past, present and future work takes many forms, from her developing a one woman show which uses spoken word, storytelling, live art and physical expression, to ‘Grace’ and ‘Make – Believe’ with Quarantine, which looks at exploring theatre without focus on

characters but the one to one relationship between performer and audience. Yusra began her theater career in her home city Manchester, whilst studying (BA HONS) Criminology & Sociology. From there, she began working with both national and international theatre companies and artists, learning that art and communicating narrative, had the power to translate human experience through a multitude of lenses.


Her collaborative work includes Don Lett’s Speakers Corner, a spoken word theatre piece. She is currently acting on several projects and working on her pieces - 'Of All the Beautiful Things In The World' (2023) inspired by Lorca’s - Arewelo - the original Somali warrior Queen. As well as continuing work with young and community groups in 'making something'. Yusra is also a professional actor and work can be found here: https://www.unitedagents.co.uk/yusra-warsama

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]]> Yusra Warsama is a performance poet, actor, writer and theatre practitioner, her passions lie in creating work through play and exploration of life experiences in world we live in. Past, present and future work takes many forms, from her developing a one woman show which uses spoken word, storytelling, live art and physical expression, to ‘Grace’ and ‘Make – Believe’ with Quarantine, which looks at exploring theatre without focus on

characters but the one to one relationship between performer and audience. Yusra began her theater career in her home city Manchester, whilst studying (BA HONS) Criminology & Sociology. From there, she began working with both national and international theatre companies and artists, learning that art and communicating narrative, had the power to translate human experience through a multitude of lenses.


Her collaborative work includes Don Lett’s Speakers Corner, a spoken word theatre piece. She is currently acting on several projects and working on her pieces - 'Of All the Beautiful Things In The World' (2023) inspired by Lorca’s - Arewelo - the original Somali warrior Queen. As well as continuing work with young and community groups in 'making something'. Yusra is also a professional actor and work can be found here: https://www.unitedagents.co.uk/yusra-warsama

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]]> Yomi Ṣode Yomi Ṣode Wed, 10 May 2023 09:31:00 GMT 11:33 645b645521ff900011bd80ed false https://shows.acast.com/my-words-response-exhibition/episodes/yomi-sode 645b645521ff900011bd80ed 645b5ff062ead300117e8ae0 yomi-sode full 9 Yomi Ṣode is an award-winning Nigerian British writer. He is a recipient of the 2019 Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship and was shortlisted for The Brunel International African Poetry Prize 2021. His acclaimed one-man show COAT toured nationally to sold- out audiences, including at the Brighton Festival, Roundhouse Camden and the Battersea Arts Centre. In 2020 his libretto Remnants, written in collaboration with award-winning composer James B. Wilson and performed with Chineke! Orchestra premiered on BBC Radio 3.


In 2021, his play, and breathe… premiered at the Almeida Theatre to rave reviews. Yomi is a Complete Works alumnus and a member of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen. He is the founder of BoxedIn, First Five, The Daddy Diaries, and mentorship programme, 12 in 12. Yomi’s debut collection, Manorism will be published via Penguin Press in 2022

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]]> Yomi Ṣode is an award-winning Nigerian British writer. He is a recipient of the 2019 Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship and was shortlisted for The Brunel International African Poetry Prize 2021. His acclaimed one-man show COAT toured nationally to sold- out audiences, including at the Brighton Festival, Roundhouse Camden and the Battersea Arts Centre. In 2020 his libretto Remnants, written in collaboration with award-winning composer James B. Wilson and performed with Chineke! Orchestra premiered on BBC Radio 3.


In 2021, his play, and breathe… premiered at the Almeida Theatre to rave reviews. Yomi is a Complete Works alumnus and a member of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen. He is the founder of BoxedIn, First Five, The Daddy Diaries, and mentorship programme, 12 in 12. Yomi’s debut collection, Manorism will be published via Penguin Press in 2022

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]]> John Siddique John Siddique Wed, 10 May 2023 09:29:38 GMT 10:47 645b64021a339e001159b05e false https://shows.acast.com/my-words-response-exhibition/episodes/john-siddique 645b64021a339e001159b05e 645b5ff062ead300117e8ae0 john-siddique full 8 John Siddique is the author of Signposts of The Spiritual Journey and SO and is a much-loved spiritual teacher, writer, and poet, best known for his authenticity, humour, and ‘feet on the ground’ wisdom. His profound, accessible teachings have helped millions of people worldwide find greater peace and fulfilment in their lives. Yet his work is not about gathering followers or preaching a particular spirituality. Instead, his deepest wish is that his teachings are a space for transformation for you so that you may know and live life from your soul.


John is also the creator of two popular meditation courses, ‘Self-Acceptance Through Authenticity’ and ‘Magical Moments’, which is aimed at children and families. He is the author of eight books and has been featured in Time Magazine, The Tablet, Platinum, The Spectator, and many others, as well as in The Guardian and on the BBC. John is a commissioning editor for WritersMosaic and the Royal Literary Fund. He is the former Poet Laureate of Canterbury and was Poet in Residence at California State University, LA, for The British Council. He is an Honorary Fellow of Literature at Leicester University.

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]]> John Siddique is the author of Signposts of The Spiritual Journey and SO and is a much-loved spiritual teacher, writer, and poet, best known for his authenticity, humour, and ‘feet on the ground’ wisdom. His profound, accessible teachings have helped millions of people worldwide find greater peace and fulfilment in their lives. Yet his work is not about gathering followers or preaching a particular spirituality. Instead, his deepest wish is that his teachings are a space for transformation for you so that you may know and live life from your soul.


John is also the creator of two popular meditation courses, ‘Self-Acceptance Through Authenticity’ and ‘Magical Moments’, which is aimed at children and families. He is the author of eight books and has been featured in Time Magazine, The Tablet, Platinum, The Spectator, and many others, as well as in The Guardian and on the BBC. John is a commissioning editor for WritersMosaic and the Royal Literary Fund. He is the former Poet Laureate of Canterbury and was Poet in Residence at California State University, LA, for The British Council. He is an Honorary Fellow of Literature at Leicester University.

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]]> Jacob Sam-La Rose Jacob Sam-La Rose Wed, 10 May 2023 09:27:16 GMT 12:37 645b637462ead300117f4039 false https://shows.acast.com/my-words-response-exhibition/episodes/jacob-sam-la-rose 645b637462ead300117f4039 645b5ff062ead300117e8ae0 jacob-sam-la-rose full 7 Breaking Silence was shortlisted for a Forward prize and a Fenton Aldeburgh award, and is required reading for an A-level syllabus.

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]]> Breaking Silence was shortlisted for a Forward prize and a Fenton Aldeburgh award, and is required reading for an A-level syllabus.

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]]> Shivanee Ramlochan Shivanee Ramlochan Wed, 10 May 2023 09:25:35 GMT 11:00 645b630f62ead300117f2c0c false https://shows.acast.com/my-words-response-exhibition/episodes/shivanee-ramlochan 645b630f62ead300117f2c0c 645b5ff062ead300117e8ae0 shivanee-ramlochan full 6 Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting (Peepal Tree Press, 2017) was a finalist for the People's Choice T&T Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the 2018 Forward Prize for Best First Collection. 'The Red Thread Cycle', the central suite of seven poems from her debut collection, won a Small Axe Literary Competition Prize for Poetry (second-place), and was on audiovisual display at the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas. Shivanee has received residencies and fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Millay Arts, and Catapult Caribbean Arts Grant. She has served as a poetry reader and judge for Commonwealth Writers, Honeysuckle Press, Moko Magazine, Forward Prizes and others. A Spanish-language edition of Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting is to be published soon. Her second book, Unkillable, on Indo-Caribbean women’s disobedience, is forthcoming from Noemi Press in 2023.

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]]> Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting (Peepal Tree Press, 2017) was a finalist for the People's Choice T&T Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the 2018 Forward Prize for Best First Collection. 'The Red Thread Cycle', the central suite of seven poems from her debut collection, won a Small Axe Literary Competition Prize for Poetry (second-place), and was on audiovisual display at the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas. Shivanee has received residencies and fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Millay Arts, and Catapult Caribbean Arts Grant. She has served as a poetry reader and judge for Commonwealth Writers, Honeysuckle Press, Moko Magazine, Forward Prizes and others. A Spanish-language edition of Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting is to be published soon. Her second book, Unkillable, on Indo-Caribbean women’s disobedience, is forthcoming from Noemi Press in 2023.

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]]> Adam Lowe Adam Lowe Wed, 10 May 2023 09:23:36 GMT 9:54 645b6298c7168c001165f6b1 false https://shows.acast.com/my-words-response-exhibition/episodes/adam-lowe 645b6298c7168c001165f6b1 645b5ff062ead300117e8ae0 adam-lowe full 5 PATTERFLASH! is due out in 2023 from Peepal Tree Press. He is a graduate of The Complete Works and Obsidian Foundation.

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]]> PATTERFLASH! is due out in 2023 from Peepal Tree Press. He is a graduate of The Complete Works and Obsidian Foundation.

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]]> Jennifer Lee Tsai Jennifer Lee Tsai Wed, 10 May 2023 09:22:02 GMT 9:59 645b623a6de49d0011cb7811 false https://shows.acast.com/my-words-response-exhibition/episodes/jennifer-lee-tsai 645b623a6de49d0011cb7811 645b5ff062ead300117e8ae0 jennifer-lee-tsai full 4 The Complete Works programme for diversity and innovation and a Ledbury Poetry Critic. Her creative and critical work is widely published in magazines and journals including Oxford Poetry, The Poetry Review, Poetry London, The White Review, the Times Literary Supplement as well as in the Bloodaxe anthology Ten: Poets of the New Generation (2017). Jennifer’s debut poetry pamphlet is Kismet (ignitionpress, 2019). She is the winner of a 2020 Northern Writers Award for Poetry. Currently, Jennifer is a doctoral candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Liverpool.

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]]> The Complete Works programme for diversity and innovation and a Ledbury Poetry Critic. Her creative and critical work is widely published in magazines and journals including Oxford Poetry, The Poetry Review, Poetry London, The White Review, the Times Literary Supplement as well as in the Bloodaxe anthology Ten: Poets of the New Generation (2017). Jennifer’s debut poetry pamphlet is Kismet (ignitionpress, 2019). She is the winner of a 2020 Northern Writers Award for Poetry. Currently, Jennifer is a doctoral candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Liverpool.

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]]> Fred D’Aguiar Fred D’Aguiar Wed, 10 May 2023 09:20:25 GMT 9:33 645b61d91ddd9f001198b3b5 false https://shows.acast.com/my-words-response-exhibition/episodes/fred-daguiar 645b61d91ddd9f001198b3b5 645b5ff062ead300117e8ae0 fred-daguiar full 3 The Longest Memory, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award and his acclaimed memoir, Year of Plagues, was published in 2021. His eighth poetry book, Letters to America was a Poetry Book Society Choice. His numerous plays have been staged in the UK and broadcast on BBC radio. He has lived in the US since the 1990s and he is currently Professor of English at University of California Los Angeles.

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]]> The Longest Memory, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award and his acclaimed memoir, Year of Plagues, was published in 2021. His eighth poetry book, Letters to America was a Poetry Book Society Choice. His numerous plays have been staged in the UK and broadcast on BBC radio. He has lived in the US since the 1990s and he is currently Professor of English at University of California Los Angeles.

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]]> Victoria Adukwei Bulley Victoria Adukwei Bulley Wed, 10 May 2023 09:19:00 GMT 6:27 645b61846de49d0011cb5476 false https://shows.acast.com/my-words-response-exhibition/episodes/victoria-adukwei-bulley 645b61846de49d0011cb5476 645b5ff062ead300117e8ae0 victoria-adukwei-bulley full 2 Quiet, was released by Faber earlier this year, and is set for North American release in January 2023 with Knopf.

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]]> Quiet, was released by Faber earlier this year, and is set for North American release in January 2023 with Knopf.

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]]> Mona Arshi Mona Arshi Wed, 10 May 2023 09:17:19 GMT 10:06 645b611f6de49d0011cb3d08 false https://shows.acast.com/my-words-response-exhibition/episodes/mona-arshi 645b611f6de49d0011cb3d08 645b5ff062ead300117e8ae0 mona-arshi full 1 Small Hands won the Forward Prize for best first collection in 2015. Her second collection Dear Big Gods was published in 2019 (both books published by Liverpool University Press’s Pavilion Poetry list). Her writing has been published in The Times, The Guardian, Granta, The Yale Review and The Times of India as well as on the London Underground. She was writer in Residence at Cley Marshes in Norfolk. In 2020 she was appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Liverpool and will be a fellow in creative writing at Trinity College , Cambridge from 2022. Her debut novel Somebody Loves You was published by And Other Stories in 2021.

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]]> Small Hands won the Forward Prize for best first collection in 2015. Her second collection Dear Big Gods was published in 2019 (both books published by Liverpool University Press’s Pavilion Poetry list). Her writing has been published in The Times, The Guardian, Granta, The Yale Review and The Times of India as well as on the London Underground. She was writer in Residence at Cley Marshes in Norfolk. In 2020 she was appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Liverpool and will be a fellow in creative writing at Trinity College , Cambridge from 2022. Her debut novel Somebody Loves You was published by And Other Stories in 2021.

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