Take a dive with us into the deepest recesses of the sensual mind, where some of London’s finest lyricists regale stories of the subversive, poems of the perverse and ruminations on the erotic. Exploring both the dark and light aspects of pleasure, this is an intimate evening of poetry set to live music. After the headline poets there will be time to partake in an open mic.
Featuring:
Maedb Joy @maedbjoy
Maedb Joy is a poet, theatre maker and writer. She makes political, feminist and sex positive work. Maedb is the founder of sex worker arts company Sexquisite Events, and is currently developing a play with the Royal Court playwriting group
Hediye
Hediye is a queer spoken word artist whose poetry aims to impart her experiences as a first-generatiom immigrant from Turkey. She believes in the healing power of poetry to unite the various intersections of her identity and the inevitable crises which come with them.
Jay They Stallion @jaytheystallion
Bio incoming…
Jordan Minga @mingting_mania
Jordan is an interdisciplinary Artist and Poet. His work reflects his lived experience, diagnosed with Autism when he was nine. Jordan also comes from the experience of being a young carer. His works express care, individual understanding and introspection on our quality of life. He hopes for a future full of freedom.
Mamoyo
Bio incoming …
Black Venus @blackvenusinfurs
Black Venus is a sex worker, performer, martial artist and poet. Her work is an exploration of pleasure, power and agency and an expression of the play between the metaphysical and the embodied. She is currently curating her first publication, Body of a Woman: Dreams and Memories from a Moving Archive
buitumelo kotekwa @buitumelo
buitemelo is a poet and space holder based physically in South London. A futurist by force, buitemelo’s poetry engages mainly with themes of embodiment, collective fulfilment prophecy and the beauties/brutalities of migration and statelessness. Their debut poetry collection Respond will be available mid summer 2023.
Gin @gin_likeginandtonic
Gin is a multi-disciplinary artist, DJ, and cultural curator. Their work through poetry spans back to ISIS, a poetry collective they founded alongside Guilia Loi in 2020. Their work has explored the liminal places where soundscapes and poetry, politics and music collide. She is currently exploring topics around mental health and body dysphoria.
Music by… TBC
We will have a keyboardist and a bassist creating some soundscapes of soultry sounds throughout the evenings readings..
The event will be at VFD’s new community centre located right beside VFD @vfdalston - It’s on the ground floor though it’s doors are not wide enough for a wheelchair. The bathrooms are down a flight of stairs, but there is a possibility of using the accessible toilet in VFD next door.
We are excited to bring back our erotic reading series under a our category “Sex and Rage presents A Nasty…” Topics at this poetry reading will be about Mental Health and Sexuality. Content will range and not all content will be explicit.
This event is open to everyone, but we maintain our safer spaces policy as per every event and there is a zero tolerance policy to any form of abuse!or harassment of any kind. (18+)
Any questions please get in touch.