Fireside Storytelling workshop facilitators:
malakaï sargeant
malakaï sargeant is an anti-disciplinary artist, educator, and producer from pre-gentrified north-east London. They create and interrogate through an Afroqueer lens, in an often subversive and nonlinear way, employing unconventional forms that disrupt notions of time and space. malakaï orbits around ideas of creolisation, gender binaries, Black interiority, hood surrealism, and magic within carceral geographies. They do bits in the spaces between literature, audio, installation, theatre, and performance. For their writing are represented by The Good Literary Agency.
malakaï has been commissioned by the RSC, Apples & Snakes, Spread the Word, the Royal Court Theatre, and Nationwide. They (almost) completed an MA in Black British Literature and DJ and sound design under the pseudonym anxious.selecta. malakaï has tutored various cohorts of Black writers and is Co-Creative Director of Afrodiasporic literary arts platform BORN::FREE.
Indira Toussaint
Indira Toussaint (she/her) is a Saint Lucian born poet, educator, public speaker whose work interweaves narratives of home, displacement and everything in between.
As a multi-disciplined artist her work has led her to partner with the likes of the BBC, Piccadilly Theatre and Russell Group Universities in the UK and abroad. She is one of the co-founders of Twossaints, a language and cultural arts company with a mission to empower diaspora communities through language and culture.
@BORN::FREE
BORN::FREE is a literary arts organisation founded in 2014 for established, young & emerging writers of all narratives, with a special interest in African/Afro-diasporic & experimental writing. Having presented work in the UK and internationally, partnering with the likes of the V&A, ICA, British Council, Southbank Centre and Somerset House, BORN::FREE is a staple in London’s poetry scene.