Sunday 10 July, 11am-3pm
Inkwell, 31 Potternewton Lane, Leeds LS7 3LW
Building on the successful launch of the Chapeltown Word Junction collection (housed at the Reginald Centre library), this popular event returns to once again showcase an eclectic sampling of Chapeltown writers and publishings about Chapeltown. Expect a range of stimulating poetry, prose, performance and discussion that crosses genres and the ages.
Celebrating Creativity in Chapeltown
Events and activities include poetry from acclaimed writer, theatre-maker and multi-disciplinary artist Malika Booker. Malika is author of the collection Pepper Seed and is the Douglas Caster Cultural Fellow at the University of Leeds. Now resident in Leeds, Malika Booker writes out of a passion for Caribbean culture; the music, the food, the dance, the religion, the storytelling, the festivals, the musicality of the spoken language. She takes an active part in Carnival Mas in Notting Hill every year. In her house there is usually background music of soca and calypso and hardly a day goes by when she doesn’t speak to her family; these are the rhythms she lives by and which emerge in her outstanding debut collection.
The Peepal Tree/Inscribe Readers & Writers Group will also share writing and discuss Caribbean & Black British books and writers The group is co-ordinated by local author Khadijah Ibrahiim, whose poems about 56 Cowper Street and the surrounding Caribbean community of Chapeltown and Harehills in Another Crossing bring LS7 to vivid life.
The event will be co-hosted by Sai Murray, author of Ad-liberation, who brings his own high-octane performance style to the proceedings. A former ad man, Sai subverts the style and wordplay of advertising to deliver a powerful, political first collection that finds freedom in owning and exploding language.
