University College London, Apples and Snakes poetry organisation and poets, Zena Edwards from Verse in Dialog in collaboration present Human Code Computer Tongue. When: Monday 20 February 2017, 10am-4pm Where: UCL, 5th Floor Reception, One Euston Square, 40 Melton St, London NW1 2FD (Please report to the ground floor reception) Tickets: FREE – but booking essential! Booking: To book…
Next Moves: Coffee Shop or Chicken Shop?
©V:iD’s director Zena Edwards has been busy working on the upgrading of the infrastructure of the collaborative youth project Shake Youth, Arts and Media project, but it launches it community engagement with the project called Tale of Two Cities later this year. The fine line between regeneration and gentrification seem like it evaporated and there…
THE FURY PROJECT
The Fury Project is an interdisciplinary arts exploration of the emotion of anger, and seeks to tell stories that carve paths to justice, transformation and empowerment. Using the power of spoken word/poetry, monologue, live vocals, dance and performance; the visceral nature of multi-media arts installation and techniques of inclusive artists/audience interactive debate, a diverse…
CONVERSATIONS
At it’s foundation, ‘Conversations’ is an arts project that brings together a team of creatives who believe that organic interplay between art forms is a medium for spontaneous dialogue and thought provoking storytelling. Professional Performance Poets, Spoken Word Artists, Musicians, Filmmakers, Visual Artists and Theatre Practitioners combine their skills in a series of workshops or…
The Poetic Debaters Project
And then: The Poetic Debaters Project This is perhaps one of the most exciting projects ©V:iD has been involved in. It is an issue based gaming program using poetry to raise awareness around issues that are important to all age groups. PDP explores diverse polemics from youth unemployment, gender issues, power and propaganda, bullying, to…
The Fury Project
The Fury Project This is a project that has been in development of nearly 2 years now and has made a successful application for a commission with 3 Faiths Forum and King’s Cultural Institute in June of this year. The collaboration extends into working along side Dr Althea Legal-Miller who PhD focused on sexualized Violence,…
Arts Awards and ©V:iD
I am now Gold Arts Award trained so can facilitate young and aspiring artists to bronze, silver and gold Arts Award achievement. The awards themselves are gaining momentum as a valued accreditation, so this is a great asset to the potentialities of the ©ViD. It is my plan that ©CV:iD will be able to offer…
Zena Edwards Guest Article For the Arts Awards
Zena shares the story of her trajectory into Youth Arts and participation – “The power of your own voice, opinions and perspectives on life is such powerful force for change especially if its used creatively. Creativity transform lives. Creativity and education combined can change society one student’s voice at a time and the work that…
Voices That SHAKE! 2013
Zena Edwards has been a core project consultant and devisor of Platform London Youth Project, ‘Shake!’, and finally the time has come for it’s delivery. Shake! has been in development since it’s pilot 2010 and successfully received two years funding thanks to the hard work of Jane Trowell at Platform. Zena spent a day withe…
Travelling Light. A One Woman Show
What is it ? Travelling Light is a feast of poetic story-telling binding three generations of women, through a gritty and moving autobiographical account of a fractious and touching mother/daughter relationship. It is a multi- artformed account of a mother, daughter of a Windrush Migrant from the Island of Nevis , who is reunited with…
The Science of Storytelling
There is always a good reason to tell a story, to sit down and listen to a story, to be the storyteller. One of the best reasons is because we can escape and venture to other worlds with heros and protaganists we can love, hate or replace with our own secret wanna- be selves. But…
HKB Finn and Leeto Thale – Conversations performances
The objective of Conversation performances is to expose an audience to a high quality musical, spoken word and visual experience. How? True to any conversation, the freedom to contribute with an opinion on a theme allows the audience to be taken on a genuine journey as poets, visual artists, musicians and dancers respond to each…
Past Conversations’ Team
This crew of people were prepared to go out on faith to follow an idea of a pursuing a fresh way to create. Sometimes being a working artist, you can find yourself in a groove where your art can become stifled as you try to pay the bills. “Conversations”was an opportunity for them to meet…
Conversations – Verse In Dialog: Inception
Conversations began in the basement of the Poetry Cafe in London’s Covent Garden with myself, Randolph Matthews (Vocals, Percussion), Henrik Jensen (bass), and Mauricio Velez (percussion and lautist). We were all fascinated with the way poetry and music were virtually one language if we as the artists allowed ourselves to be open to the processes…
The Security Sessions
The show Security asks many questions from the cities that we live in – how do we interact with the people we meet and what do the politics of the time mean in regard to the stresses and strain put on people relationships because of economic, conflict-worn and What we do find is that extraordinary…
Security – A one Woman Showdown
“SECURITY” is a comical and moving tale of unexpected friendship which confronts the issue of security and identity through a fusion of performance poetry, hip hop theatre, movement and song. It’s the chaotic stories of four ordinary characters, four extraordinary people with stories of resilience and evolution. They live in Tottenham but their stories could…
Voices that Shake!
Shake! arts and activism project has just recently landed ACE funding for two years to continue its works!! In 2010 Shake launched as a pilot and the Stephen Lawrence Centre in Deptford. Eric Soul, Zena Edwards, Ed Lewis, Simon Murray and Ana Tovey were acting facilitators using Film, DJ-ing and Music as well as the…
Zena Edwards is “Raising Game” – EP Xtra
Due to popular demand, ©V:iD brings you Zena Edwards collection of poetry and music in “Raising Game” extended EP. “This is a selection of my favourite spoken word and music collaborations over time . I’m proud of them all and thought it was time to have them compiled so I can look back on them…
End of the Rainbow
All Change collaborative initiative with Nitro encouraged people from migrant communities who use Islington Council’s NRPF service, to create art to tell they’re immigration stories using poetry and music. Using photography, `collage, music and poetry, Zena inspires families and young people who use independeant No Recourse to Public Funds services to tell their stroies in…
CONVERSATIONS TV
Conversations TV is now Live! It is a blogspot dedicated to showcasing the innovative fusion o f verse in dialogue with other arts forms so you can browse through posts of poetry with animation, dance, music and film. Click, take a look, be inspired. Write to us at conversationsvid@gmail.com (subject: conversationsTV) to share your work.
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