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Creative writing group + event producer 🌱 Tickets for exploring land & climate anxiety, through music and sound w/ Asmaa Jama | Sun 28 April ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Just under 2 weeks to go!🔊 Until our workshop at Bristol’s @w_shed with @asmaa_floats 🌱🌷✨ Tickets still available - head to the link in our bio to get yours💨 ☁️ a workshop celebrating words and sound • £PayAsYouFeel • No prior experience necessary Come join! 📸 original by Ladan Osman by @wbywcollective
What trace do we leave behind? What new worlds are possible out of the old? What would they sound like? Come join us for a workshop led by multidisciplinary artist @asmaa_floats exploring these questions, land, climate anxiety through music and sound and by the end we’ll have made a sound piece!🐚 Sunday 28 April ☁️ 3pm - 5pm ☁️ Watershed, Bristol ☁️ £PayAsYouFeel Head to the link in our bio for tickets✨ by @wbywcollective
Hey folks it’s been a minute but we’re back with another workshop, this time in Bristol! Hosted by the amazing @asmaa_floats, join us for a workshop exploring land and climate anxiety through music, performance and sound🌱✨🐚 📸Ladan Osman Ticket links in our bio x main info below: Sunday 28 April | 3pm - 5pm | Watershed, Bristol Join multidisciplinary artist, writer and filmmaker Asmaa Jama for a creative writing workshop exploring themes of land, climate anxiety, through words, sounds and performance. Asmaa will guide you through writing exercises exploring the workshop’s themes and offer examples of different performance styles. You will then be invited to record some of your words (whether a word or a full poem!) as well as field recording - all towards creating a collective sound piece! You will be able to listen to a rough version of the sound piece at the end of the workshop, and then be sent a private soundcloud link to listen to the final piece following the workshop! + £PayAsYouFeel + no prior experience needed, come and have a go:) + open to all, particularly welcome black and people of colour This workshop is part of @lyrafest 2024’s Community Collabs events. by @wbywcollective
ONE WEEK TO GO!🥳🥳 Tickets still available for our Spring Session - joy against the machine with @tstheidiot 🌷 ☁️ £payasyoufeel ☁️ BPOC, QTIBPOC + LGBTQIA+ folk to the front ☁️ aged 18+, no experience required ☁️ link in our bio for tix by @wbywcollective
A beautiful poem by @tstheidiot Join Tom for their creative writing workshop on Sunday 23 April, tickets in bio⬆️⬆️ “A poem i wrote on the train. The windows were shimmering, reflecting the world in strange ways. I was thinking about growth, loss and letting go of things. by @wbywcollective
🚨 workshop announcement🚨 Hello✨After a period of deep rest post our Word by Word Presents 18 month project, we’re back! Celebrating the arrival of spring and 3 years (!!) of Word by Word as a writing group we’re going to be hosting a one off workshop on Sunday 23 April from 1:30pm - 4:30pm with amazing multidisciplinary artist of page, stage and screen Tom Stockley @tstheidiot In this special extended edition of Tom’s ‘joy against the machine’ workshop, they will work with participants to journey through the history of queer and marginalised writers, interpreting their work and creating our own original poetry to imagine a community-focused future of queer joy and radical resilience. Link in bio for tix⬆️⬆️⬆️ As with all our workshops, this event is open to writers of all levels, no prior experience necessary ☁️The first round of tix are open to BPOC, QTIBPOC and LGBTQI+ folk only ☁️ The second round of tix is open to everyone and will go on sale on 10 April ☁️ £pay as you feel ☁️ aged 18+ ☁️ breaks included ☁️ dm us with any questions We’ll be back at @delinaonline and the workshop will feature lovely homemade snacks by Nazareth😍 by @wbywcollective
Hello lovely folks! We as a team have been taking the week to process just how special last Saturday’s event was, it really was everything we dreamed it would be and more!💜💜💜☺️☺️☺️💓💓💓Andd now it’s time for some thank yous… Thank you so much to everyone who came through, it meant so much to have you all there!✨and we basically sold out! To thank you to our incredible performers: @abena_essah_ who created such a warm and open space for folks to share their words, thank you for bringing so much care and your shining self @commonsound_ldn house band and family for bringing your usual energy for yet another beautiful jam To our DJs @iamdjquinn and @marla_kether who braved the heat to give us everything we needed with banger after banger🔥🔥 To our guest spoken word performer the wonderful @ola_elhassan thank you for rounding off the day with your poems that drew us in and held us captive to the last, it was the perfect send off To everyone who shared either in the open mic or came up for the jam, we see you and appreciate you. The day was shaped by your performances and each of them were so amazing, moving, honest it means so much that you shared them with us To our amazing (multitalented!) camera crew Sylvan, Mark and Muz, for capturing the day so thoughtfully and with your lovely presences To our sound engineer @butcher_pete_beats_the who kept everything running and solved any problems with so much calm and chill Plus extra help from dream team @elharrakyouness and @theokrish To Carollyn, Kevin and all the @nudawnldn team, for the amazing food, rum punch, and being so ready for us to take over the space - thank you! And ofc our wbyw team and volunteers who were on it from the moment we got in and helped to make the day run smoothly! Love you all (see final slide for an end of the night celebratory drink on the curb) 🌱Both zines (see slide 9) are available to buy, at (type in) www.wordbywordcollective.co.uk🌱 🦋we’re taking a pause but we’ll be back in September for our usual monthly online writing hours hosted internally. If you’d like to join the group/interested in what we do, say hey via our email: wbywcollective@gmail.com🦋 by @wbywcollective
🚨SPECIAL GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 Gracing the stage as our special guest is @ola_elhassan ! Come down on Saturday and be sailed away by her soul-melting voice and entrancing words! Ticket link in bio🐬 £5 entry, very limited £7 tix OTD Ola Elhassan is a Sudanese poet and electrical engineer in London. Sometimes her poetry experiments with and about music, mathematics, physics, and dancing. You can read her work in journals like Sawti, Inkwell, and PANK magazine or watch her host jams at @commonsound_ldn , an improvised live music and artist collective in Kentish Town.  This event is made possible with the support of public funding by Arts Council England and the National Lottery. by @wbywcollective
We are so excited to announce that the super talented @abena_essah_ will be leading our open mic - they have a beautiful way of weaving words and stories and a presence that always bring so much joy It’s going to be special! This event is also about celebrating you! If you’d like to share something at the open mic, let us know via dm, email: wordbywordcollective@gmail.com or sign up when you arrive on the day Link in our bio for full info. 🦋Abena Essah is a poet, musician, actor and creative of many hats based in London. Their practice often explores the intersections of their queer identity, Ghanaian heritage; navigating relationships and reimagining and decolonising the lens with which black history is told.     Abena Essah has been published by Spread the Word with Ink Sweat and Tears, South London Gallery and Marques Almeida for London Fashion Week 2020. They have performed their music and poetry at several venues such as at the Southbank Centre with Outspoken Live, Brixton studio and the Brainchild Festival.

They are a BBC Words First finalist, a Roundhouse Poetry Slam finalist and a Some-Antics Slam Champion. They are also an alumnus of the Obsidian Foundation and The Writing Room and the Roundhouse Poetry Collective.     Musically, they is influenced by a range of genres from soul, to indie to RnB. Their own sound can be described as soulful, alternative and harmonic – capturing the nostalgia, joy and confusion of growing into your skin and falling in and out of love.  Currently, Abena Essah is a Barbican Young Poet and a Resident Artist. Most recently their debut play Sankofa: Before The Whitewash sold out at the Roundhouse’s Last Word festival. At Present, Abena Essah is working on their debut EP.🦋 This event is made possible with the support of public funding from Arts Council England and the National Lottery by @wbywcollective
Anddd ultimate family @commonsound_ldn are taking a pause from their summer break to host a jam at our event! Will be the usual wholesome, flavourful sounds🍵 ☀️If you want join in on the jam everyone is welcome! Dm us or let us on the day beforehand☀️* Common Sound are a collective and jam offering a space for musicians, artists and all kinds of creative folk to come together. You can usually find them hosting a jam every 2nd and 4th Wednesday at @mapstudiocafe . They’re taking a much deserved pause from these jams but keep an eye on their socials for when they’re back! It’s always a mid-week recharge and a beautiful space to meet so many special people🌱 This project is made possible with public funding from Arts Council England and the National Lottery. by @wbywcollective
Hosting us on Saturday 30 July is Rum and Roti bar @nudawnldn ! Found on Wells St. Hackney, Nudawn describes itself as a ‘hidden gem’ and it really! It is such a lovely intimate space to spend a Saturday afternoon and eve, we can’t wait to be there! And shout out the amazing Carollyn, owner of Nudawn☀️ Image: Nudawn’s deliciously irresistible signature rum punch and rum slushy…both pure power🍹 The kitchen will be open and serving Roti🤩 Come try on the day, tickets on sale in our bio ⬆️⬆️ by @wbywcollective
Thenn nextup is the illegally peng DJ, producer, bassist, chemist (!) and all round queen of the low end @marla_kether 👑👑🥵 Born in London to Congolese parents, Marla Kether is a session musician, producer and DJ. She is currently working with vocalists Yazmin Lacey, Ego Ella May and Obongjayar, as well as working on a self-produced dance music EP to be released in the next year.  Since taking up DJing in lockdown in 2020 Marla has rapidly honed her craft, playing at venues such as Lakota Gardens and The Crofters Rights, and contributing outstanding mixes for the likes of BBC Introducing, Foundation FM and SWU.FM. The different strands of Marla’s musical career are almost as diverse and otherworldly as her excellent selections, which commonly feature a bass-led blend of kuduro, GQOM, techno and Jersey club, as well as high-energy house and disco tunes from around the globe.☀️☀️☀️ Ticket link in our bio⬆️⬆️ This event is supported with public funding from Arts Council England and the National Lottery. by @wbywcollective

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