Phil Okwedy - The Gods are All Here

Name: Phil Okwedy - The Gods are All Here
Start: 2024-07-03T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-07-03T22:30:00+01:00
Location: Quaker Meeting House, Wellington St, Northampton NN1 3AS

Schedule

Wed Jul 03 2024 at 07:30 pm to 10:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Quaker Meeting House, Wellington St, Northampton NN1 3AS | Northampton, EN

Phil Okwedy, born in Cardiff to a Welsh mother and Nigerian father, draws deeply on his dual heritage and multiple cultures, and performs regularly across Wales and England. "The Gods are All Here" was built after finding love letters from his father to his mother, when Phil was clearing her house.
Extracts from these form the backdrop to this performance mixing personal experience of growing up as a child of dual heritage in 1960's and 70's Wales with myths, folktales and song from the African diaspora. He considers if his parents were, in fact, the gods which, as children often will, he had believed them to be.
Audience who have seen it have described the performance as:
"Superb storytelling, combining personal, traditional and reimagined stories in a unique way. Very moving and gripping throughout, you always want to know 'what happens next'.”
"spectacularly crafted"
"Highlight of this year’s Beyond the Border Festival!”
And our committee researchers who saw it in Oxford last year were just as keen. So now we've managed to bring Phil all the way here to perform it for you!
As always, doors will open at 7.00 for a 7.30 start.
There will be cake and other refreshments There will be the justly famed Feast of Fools Raffle. All this, as well as stories and music - what more can you ask?!
We meet at the Quaker Meeting House in Northampton.
WELLINGTON STREET, NN1 3AS
Parking in Council Car Park right next door. Bus routes close by.
Find tickets at https://www.wegottickets.com.