Mixtape Poetry Festival - LGBTQ+ Open Mic!

is proud to bring you the inaugural MixTape Poetry Festival 2025, bringing together London's burgeoning poetry, open mic and spoken word community. Celebrate the power of love, truth, connection, urban genius and a rockin' good time at exciting independent bookshops and venues, featuring top and emerging talent, music, food, fun and new memories. Whether you're watching or taking part, be part of this constellation! It's a bit of all your favourites...

Harper Walton

Harper is the author of the poetry collection Common Only in Name (Porters Books) and the fiction collection Midnight Movies (Femmesocial Press). They have a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from the Paris School of Arts and Culture. Their work is featured by Magma, Seedlings, 1883 Magazine, Whitechapel Gallery, Venice Architecture Biennale and more. They edited the anthology Carnival at the End of the World (Buoy Press). Harper is a two time Young Poets Network challenges (winner), ame third in the Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize , was Highly Commended at the Creative Future Writers’ Awards and for the Manchester Cathedral Poetry Prize. They were a lead actor and co-writer for Persona Collective’s immersive theatre show The Village in Soho and Chinatown. They have headlined and hosted spoken word events in Bath, Bristol and London and performed at Bath Pride, the Southbank Centre, Pushkin House and more.

S-Bars

S-bars is a queer spoken word artist and creative whose work treads the line between funny and beautifully honest. Blending wit with rawness, their poems dig deep while still landing a punchline, or two. They’ve headlined stages across the UK, and are a regular face on the spoken word scene. Off-stage, they run poetry and writing workshops. They also host open mic nights, creating spaces for the LGBTQIA+ community. Whether performing, hosting, or holding space in a workshop, S-bars brings heart, humour, and a sharp eye for the messiness of being human.

Chloe Filani

Chloe AyoDeji Filani, Artist of Poetry, Performance and Black Feminism.

She is of Nigerian Yoruba and Eshan heritage. Her work pulses with power, vulnerability, and a language that refuses to be tamed. Using poetry and embodied performance, Chloe channels myth, memory, and personal cosmology into presence. She does not just perform - she conjures. Her body becomes archive, her voice becomes invocation, her words fracture silence and stitch new imaginaries. Her poetry has been published in Play-ing FEMME (16nst gallery press,) Boy Brothers Friend and Montez Press Interjection Calendar. Chloe has live recording of her poetry on Anthems podcast and on a vinyl recording from 180 Studios with the poetry with collective Black Geographies.

Each performer has a 10 minute slot!

Doors 5pm!

Host or Publisher Morocco Bound Bookshop