About this Event
12 Acts of Shelter is a year-long monthly performance series unfolding through object, text, and sound: a small house under light, poetry and music.
Across twelve months, the series becomes a visible archive of time. Each month, a new house. Each house, a new performance. These small hand-built structures will anchor each gathering.
Each evening features a performance by Black Geographies, alongside invited readers whose work speaks to questions of shelter, inheritance, desire, and survival, as well as a short open mic. And together, the night will move between music, language, and ritual.
A guided freewriting session, scored by Alex DT and led by Phoenix Yemi, will invite the audience into a quiet act of making. You’ll leave the evening with your own poem.
Audience members will also receive a small printed token designed specifically for each month.
12 Acts of Shelter asks: What do we build to survive? What remains in the aftermath of ruin, and what is the body, if not another kind of house?
Curated by Phoenix Yemi.
W/ Invited Readers
TBC
& A performance by Black Geographies
W/
Arnold Chukwu | Clarinet
Gabriel Dedji | Keys
Anna Adetiba | Saxaphone
Alex DT | Drums
& Phoenix Yemi | Poetry
ORDER OF EVENTS
7:30pm / Doors Open
8:00-8:30pm / Invited readers
8:30-8:45pm / Guided Freewriting
INTERVAL / 8:45-9:00pm / INTERVAL
9:00-9:30pm / Black Geographies set +
9:30-10:00pm / Open Mic
10:00-11:00pm / Soft Closing
Phoenix Yemi is a Nigerian-British poet and artist rooted in surrealist traditions of liberation. Writing at the intersections of body and earth, desire and dissent, her work resists and reimagines language to summon new ways of being. She has performed across London in spaces including Tate Modern, the Barbican, and the Serpentine. She writes A Worm Moon for Worms Magazine.
Black Geographies is a living chorus of poets and musicians rooted in resistance, memory, embodiment, and the sacredness of place (physical or psychic). It honours language as tools of self-definition and collective survival; a refusal of erasure.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Reference Point, 2 Arundel Street, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
