BLN-WRITE SpeakEasy
Are you Black/Dual Heritage/Mixed/Global?
SpeakEasy is a course designed for ‘Mouth Writers’ a term coined in 2022 after working with an incredible writer, who ‘hated writing’ due to leaving education early in Jamaica. And yet her words echoed at a training weekend for survivors as she stood up in the reflection circle and ‘mouth-wrote.’
After a series of 1:1 online sessions and her attendance at a BLN-WRITE Survivor writing workshop.Florence performed on the BLN-LIVE stage at Bush Theatre to thunderous applause. The power of words to transform, the power of stories to connect, and the right to ‘Take Up Space’ is the story behind this writing project. Florence was and Is the muse and inspiration for BLN-WRITE SpeakEasy.
BLN-WRITE SpeakEasy at Theatre Deli 2024
SpeakEasy is a writing course for those who find writing on paper or computer difficult. Those who have literacy or learning challenges and/or are ‘Mouth-Writers?’ In SpeakEasy you will NOT ‘Write’ you will Speak your Words. Record them on your phone and learn how to turn your Speech into Performance ready scripts with The help of technology and mentorship.
All you need is your Phone, your Voice and the Commitment to Join, Share and Perform.
At the end of the 12-weeks the group will perform a short piece of their collected work at the monthly BLN-LIVE open mic event SpeakEasy Po’JaM on 8th October.
Here is a link to the BLN-WRITE SPEAKEASY VIDEO
SpeakEasy Po’JaM
BLN-LIVE are the live performance events of Black Lives Natter theseinclude BLN-LIVE Podcasts, Cabaret and Community Conferences. BLN-LIVE SpeakEasy Po’JaM is a new event launching on 9th July 2024 at Theatre Deli.
This monthly music, spoken word, poetry and sound, open mic night is hosted by Eljai Morais. SpeakEasy Po’JaM invites Black & Global Majority artists to perform at an experimental night of musicand word fusion. Each month at Theatre Deli we ask musicians, beat-boxers, spoken word artists, music producers and composers to share their work in the open mic, then to jam collectively in a freestyle section at the end of the event (Po’JaM.)
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We are always on the look out for new British Global Majority talent for our open mic spots for BLN-LIVE. Are you a musician, cabaret artist, singer, dancer, comic, story-teller or spoken word artist, lip-syncher, mime or drag him/her/they? Then join the BLN-LIVE family.
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