These writers for the stage are modern day griots who not only engage in the sacred art of telling their stories, but also span the gamut of dramatic styles, form and language.

- Djanet Sears, playwright

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Ntozake Shange

African American playwright, poet, novelist, and innovator of the choreopoem artform.

D’bi Young Anitafrika

Dub poet, playwright-performer, director-dramaturge and activist-scholar of dub theatre and dub pedagogy.

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Jonzi D

UK-based MC, dancer, spoken word artist, director and Hip Hop theatre creator.

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Will Power

Internationally renowned playwright, performer, lyricist, educator and pioneer of Hip Hop theatre.

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Oral Traditions

Oral Traditions

Griots to Djelis, storytellers, news sharers, social commentators…

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Passages And Migrations

Passages And Migrations

Migration and memory: mapping movements of history, language, culture and the Afro-Diaspora…

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Spirituals to Seculars to Folk

Spirituals to Seculars to Folk

From ancient praise to secret codes, soulful songs travel the cosmos…

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Rennaisance

Rennaisance

Golden eras of Black expression, local to global.

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Black Arts Movement

Black Arts Movement

Poetry to Power; Art to Activism!…

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Dub Poetry

Dub Poetry

Word, Sound, Power: roots, rhythm, reasoning and rebellion

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Rapso

Rapso

Cross-Atlantic cultural connections, from Mas to Chantwells and voices

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Hip-Hop & Spoken Rhyme

Hip-Hop & Spoken Rhyme

Bars meet beats: words from the lyrical minds of rap’s MC’s

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Spoken Word Revolution

Spoken Word Revolution

Speak it! Page, stage, open mic nights… poets’ voices rise and reverberate

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Slam

Slam

Mic v.s. Mic, the poetic battleground is the live stage.

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Theatre, 
Choreopoetry
& Spoken Word

Theatre, 
Choreopoetry
& Spoken Word

Choreopoetry, Hip Hop and Dub Theatre, Spoken Word drama and more…

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Film, Video & Spoken Word

Film, Video & Spoken Word

Words meet the screen: telling stories in videopoetry and multimedia

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Oralfuturism

Oralfuturism

Text to tech, ancient innovations to future traditions, imagine the now and the next…

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