Word Wise #81 Cara Thompson

Name: Word Wise #81 Cara Thompson
Start: 2024-10-25T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Dubrek Studios, 67 Bridge Street, de1 3lb Derby, United Kingdom

Schedule

Fri Oct 25 2024 at 07:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Dubrek Studios, 67 Bridge Street, de1 3lb Derby, United Kingdom | Derby, EN

Word Wise is a spoken word and poetry night uniting the best talent from around the UK and beyond, with Derby's finest performers. Word Wise won the 2019 Saboteur award for Best Regular Spoken Word Event in the UK.
£3 Early bird tickets (plus booking fee) £5 on the door.
Cara Thompson is a writer, performer and artivist based in Nottingham, UK. A proud descendant of Jamaican migrants who came to Britain as part of the pioneering 'Windrush generation', Cara's work explores the richness and complexities of her Caribbean-British heritage while inviting audiences to unpack our shared histories, heartaches and humanity. Cara's poetry has been featured and commissioned by Penguin Random House, Huffpost, Oxfam, the NHS Leadership Academy, UNESCO, Simon and Schuster and more. In 2021, Cara won UNESCO Cities of Literature's international slam poetry competition Slamovision with her poem 'Island Screams (Where Are You From)'.