Saturday 9 July, 12pm, Waterstones Bradford
The Wool Exchange, Hustlergate, Bradford, BD1 1BL
Enjoy films inspired by Bradford from Kirsty Taylor; performances by acclaimed, Leeds-based Peepal Tree poets Malika Booker and Khadijah Ibrahiim; appearances from Bradford and Ilkley Young Writers, the Beehive Poets and Friends of Bradford Beck; plus the Words in the City Poetry Slam at 4.30pm, hosted by Sai Murray.
12pm - Friends of Bradford Beck – stories, songs, poems about Bradford’s hidden river
12.45pm - Beehive Poets
1.45pm - Bradford & Ilkley Young Writers groups – teenagers perform their own work
2.45pm - Kirsty Taylor – Poetography: new poetry films inspired by Bradford
3.30pm - Peepal Tree Poets – Malika Booker, Khadijah Ibrahim, Sai Murray
4.30pm - Words in the City Poetry Slam – hosted by Sai Murray
About the writers
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.
Khadijah Ibrahiim was born in Leeds of Jamaican parentage. Hailed as one of Yorkshire’s most prolific poets by BBC Radio, she has appeared alongside the likes of Linton Kwesi Johnson, Lemn Sissay and Benjamin Zephaniah.
Sai Murray is a writer, poet and graphic designer of Bajan/Afrikan/English heritage. In a former life he worked in advertising – he has been clean for over 13 years and now works with selected grassroots community organisations through his artist/activist promotions agency, Liquorice Fish. The first part of his debut novel, Kill Myself Now: The True Confessions of An Advertising Genius was published by the Inscribe imprint of Peepal Tree Press (2008).
