Be Manzini - River as witness

A Raybel Charters 'Culture Cargo' event for the Totally Thames Festival. Onboard Sailing Barge Raybel - St Katharine Docks
About this Event

A live poetry performance exploring the Thames as witness, collaborator, archive and living body. Through a sequence of original poems, Be will invite audiences to consider the river not simply as a route for trade or transport, but as a keeper of memory—holding stories of migration, colonialism, labour, ecology, belonging and change, including

environmental justice, cultural exchange, movement, displacement, regenerative futures and our evolving relationship with the natural world. The performance will culminate in the premiere of a new improvised poem, created in dialogue with a voyage on the Raybel.