Poetry and Rap with City of Poets and OILCAN - The Musical

A creative session mixing poetry, rhythm, and storytelling. Join City of Poets and members of the OILCAN CREATIVE TEAM to explore how poetry can transform into rap — how your words can take on a new life when spoken over a beat. You don’t need to be a rapper; you just need a willingness to play with language. Together, we’ll experiment with structure, flow, rhyme, and emotion. Some of the work created here may even influence or inspire material for our upcoming OILCAN the musical in 2026.

This is your chance to be part of something huge.

OILCAN is an ambitious, new community-rooted musical project blending poetry, rap, music, and top class Scottish patter. Designed to be adaptable for both professional and community performance, OILCAN centres lived experience, collective authorship, and access-led creative practice. Its collaboration with City of Poets opens the door for poets to shape and influence a major new work from the ground up.

This event runs as part of City of Poets Takeover of Knightswood Pavillion as they make February the COOLEST month.

To see the full programme of events, see our Eventbrite profile page.

City of Poets members receive discounts on a wide number of events throughout the year. Membership is free and open to anyone with a connection to Glasgow. See our website to sign up.

Often called the cruelest month, February, with its dark nights, cold mornings, and that slow drag toward Spring. (unlike poet T S ELIOT who famously declared it to be April…)

For four weekends, the Pavilion in Knightswood Park becomes a hub for storytelling, sharing, learning, laughing, swapping, reading, crafting, and meeting new people who love words just as much as you do.

Whether you’ve been writing for years, just starting out, or simply enjoy being surrounded by creative energy, you’re welcome here.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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