Staffordshire St LATES | Word Club: Exteriors | Festival of Community Open Mic and Visual Showcase

Join Elida Silvey from Gobjaw Poetry Collective for a unique open mic as part of Staffordshire St's annual Festival of Community. 

Exteriors is a regular event where text, image and sounds collide. Part open mic, part visual showcase we encourage the weird, the off-beat, the experimental and those in between to share parts of themselves on stage. We aim to platform poetry, photography, visual art and performance art that sits at the fringes.

We pass hundred of people on the streets of London only catching glimpses of interiority. This is a space to delve deeper into those strangers minds until they feel less exterior.

The night will start with a visual showcase featuring photography from Mebd, Milly Cope, Nick Silvey and painting by Jack Hilton. Followed by an open mic, sign ups start at 6pm and will be first come, first served. 

Info:

Friday 9th August
18.00 - 21.30

Tickets:

Free or PWYC

If you are financially able, please consider paying more, to keep Staffordshire St events accessible to all.

This workshop is suitable for ages 18+ 

Please note one of the visual showcases will include images with mild nudity. 

Elida Silvey | @elida.silvey | elidasilvey.com :

Elida Silvey is a Mexican-American artist living in London. Her work explores the concept of language and memory as objects stored within the mind. She aims to establish these concrete forms through text in order to cut and collage them to form vignettes of time. To record what is so often forgotten and, in doing so, uncover the entanglement between everyone and everything. Read more of her work at www.elidasilvey.com or on IG @elida.silvey.

About the Festival of Community 2024:

Staffordshire St presents our annual Festival of Community. The collaborative programme of workshops, events and fiestas will celebrate our neighbourhood and the communities that fill its streets.

This year Pipe Dreams, a collaborative project conjured by Jimi and Madeleine Famurewa, will form the centrepiece of the Festival - prepare to be transported to the half-remembered fantasia of a London orbital waterpark in the mid-1990s.

Exploring notions of community, place and belonging, over the summer Staffordshire St will become a locus for playful creativity and celebratory knowledge sharing.

Accessibility: There is step-free access to the gallery via the door to the left hand side of the main entrance. There is a wheelchair accessible toilet. The event will be taking place in the exhibition space, which is a large open room with bright lighting and some seating available.

Staffordshire St is an independent project space in Peckham, South East London. The venue facilitates arts and cultural events and provides affordable studios for artists, makers and designers. ​

Staffordshire St is not-for-profit and all income is invested into developing our public programme which launched the summer of 2022. The venue was established as an art gallery in 2017, before then it was vacant for many years after a community centre closed. Originally it was built as a Methodist Hall. We intend to support a range of cultural events for the local community.

Staffordshire St will build on the established record of these histories, opening up again to the neighbourhood and developing a welcoming interdisciplinary arts space. More information on upcoming events at : info@staffordshirest.com or @staffordshirest

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