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Contact: southbankcentre.co.uk / 020 7960 4200
The biggest youth poetry slam the UK has ever seen comes to Southbank. Young people have come together across the country, and now the highest scoring teams from each region will join forces at London Literature Festival, for an unmissable weekend of live performance poetry, films and other interactive events featuring some of the most celebrated spoken word artists writing and performing today.
Poet, playwright and Southbank Centre Associate Artist, Lemn Sissay, the first poet commissioned to write for the 2012 Olympics, welcomes some of the UK’s top spoken word artists. Across the country, young Shake the Dust poets have been learning from the professionals. Tonight, it’s the poet coaches’ turn to show they can talk the talk. Nine exemplary artists will take the stage, blurring the line between page and performance in a medley of styles, poetics and regional accents. Joining them, all the way from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is a delegation from First Wave, the US’s first spoken word and hip-hop university programme, to show us how it’s done across the pond.
Price: £8.00
Time: 6:00pm
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