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Golden Tongue
Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, Tasnima Ahmed, and special guests
Presented by: 93 Feet East| 0 | LONDON: 93 Feet East |
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| P | Thursday 26th April, 2018 |
| N | 7:00pm |
Event information
Expect an open mic turned dance. We bring you finger-licking good samosas and heart-warming spoken word poetry. Headliners Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan and Tasnima Ahmed will be gracing the stage, with seven open mic slots up for grabs. We also have a top-secret special guest—keep your eyes peeled on our socials for the big reveal…
Golden Tongue is an open mic night focused on amplifying the voices of South Asian women. It gives them a space to share their stories, and gives everyone else a place to come listen, engage, and learn. While everyone is invited to take part in the open mic, features are reserved for South Asian women.
The Yoniverse is a poetry collective by South Asian women, for South Asian women. We believe in owning our narratives, in celebrating the diversity of our diaspora and identities. Most of all, we believe in being loud.
This night is about bringing everyone to the party. It’s flinging open doors, sharing good food, good music, and good poetry. Everyone is invited!
Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan is an award-winning spoken-word poet, writer, speaker and founder of www.thebrownhijabi.com. Her work focuses on race, gender, Islamophobia, intersectionality and decolonising knowledge production. She has featured in The Independent, on BBC Radio stations, The Islam Channel, TEDx conferences, music festivals, UK Universities, and US slams. All Suhaiymah’s art and activism is grounded in her faith. She has been short-listed for the Outspoken prize for performance poetry 2018.
Tasnima Ahmed is a poet and performer. One of the winners of National Slambassador cohort of 2016 for The Poetry Society. Her work has been featured on the FADER and BBC Radio 4. She is also one of the co-founders and facilitators of the Globe poets collective that aims to deliver poetry workshops to young people in South London. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram @oshanti99
