Griots To Emcees

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Social protest manifests itself in language change. For defiance of society includes defiance of its language.

- Rex Nettleford

Dub Poetry

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Louise “Miss Lou” Bennett

Mikey Smith/Onuku

Lillian Allen

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Jean Binta Breeze

Mutabaruka

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Benjamin Zachariah

Sheldon Shepherd

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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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