For the past 4 years, the S+K Project has existed without any funding from public bodies, trusts or foundations. In order to keep our events affordable for everyone, we need support from you to contribute to the costs of running the organisation.

To do this, we’re throwing a fundraiser like no other. As part of our commitment to showcasing emerging artists from all walks of life, we’ve asked some friends old and new to come through and do their ting! Including live performances from Latir, Chelle OT (+ more TBA), an installation by our very own Rumi Woolf (VOID is touring the UK Autumn 2019), a staged reading of Virtue by stand-up and playwright Stella Ajayi (directed by Robert Awosusi), a DJ set from Hana Raage and so much more, you do not want to miss this end-of-year link up.

The price of your ticket will go towards the fees of core staff who plan and deliver our radical and accessible programme of work, including our innovative artist development programme - Scratch That, our national networking event for artists of colour - Bring Me In, our national networking events for artists of colour, and to manage our ever-growing participatory work with young people from all backgrounds.

Bringing you some of the most acclaimed feature acts and up-and-coming artists in poetry and music.

Jawdance has become an institution of London’s spoken word scene regularly attracting the best audiences. Come and join us for London’s biggest spoken word night!

The notorious and always exciting Jawdance open mic is for poets, part-time poets, partial-to-an-open-mic poets, or even I’ve-written-what-I-think-is-a-poem-but-I’m-not-a-poet poets… this is your chance to own the stage with some of the biggest names in spoken word at East London’s very own independent arts venue, Rich Mix.

Sign up on the night from 7-7.30pm to enter your name into the open mic lucky dip draw – there are 10 slots up for grabs, maximum 3 minutes each, selected at random – what have you got to lose?

Featuring:

Danez Smith
Smith is a black, queer, poz writer & performer, and author of Don’t Call Us Dead (Graywolf Press). Smith was shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2018, and [insert] boy (YesYes Books), and winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry.

Anita Barton-Williams
Anita Barton-Williams is a poet and the mother and father of Heaux Noire, a live poetry and music night for Black and Brown womxn. She is a Barbican Young Poet alumni and member of Octavia Collective.

Sugar J & Bumpkin
Modern day psalms focused on: preemptive funerals, relationship struggles, diaspora, rum and love, set in lo-fi soundscapes and organic beats. An exciting new collaboration between producer Bump Kin and SugarJ Poet. They debuted at Summer Poetry X last year and are now working on an E.P.

All this completely FREE, hosted by poet and performer Yomi Sode. 

This piece of new writing mixes poetry, storytelling and a Jamaican grandmother's voice

When I came here, I cried for nearly two years… every day.

Before she was grandma, she was mum; before that she was just herself. How can you love someone if you only start knowing them from when you were born?

Likkle Rum with Grandma is a journey over a generational bridge. This emotive piece of new writing by Croydon-based writer Jeremiah ‘SugarJ’ Brown mixes poetry, storytelling and a Jamaican grandmother’s voice to bring to the fore issues of loneliness, immigration, community, what distance does to family love and the waviness of Port.

Featuring a curtain raiser by the participants of the earlier workshop, come chill and catch a vibe in the Rehearsal Studio from 6pm as we get to know Grandma – and a young man gets to understand himself.

What do I need? Just a little visit.

Part of The Last Word Festival, celebrating fearless storytelling.

Likkle Rum with Grandma is a journey over a generational bridge.

This emotive piece of new writing by Croydon based writer Jeremiah ‘SugarJ’ Brown mixes poetry, storytelling and a Jamaican grandmother’s voice to bring to the fore issues of loneliness, immigration, community and what distance does to family love.

Come chill and catch a vibe as we get to know grandma, and a young man gets to understand himself.

Directed by Laurie Ogden.