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MEET THE PERFORMING POETS AT #GABLIPFEST . Uphile Chisala is a Malawian storyteller. She is the author of two collections of poetry and prose, Soft Magic (2015) and Nectar (2017). Born and raised in Zomba, Malawi, her hope is to tell stories from the margins. Themes she explores include the self, joy, blackness, gender, the diaspora, spirituality, love and survival. She has been featured in OkayAfrica, Essence Magazine and Huffington Post. She lives and studies in Oxford where she continues to write poems. . #GAB #LIPFEST #LIPfestGAB #GABSEASON #gab2019 #GABSEASON #BritishCouncil #LIPFEST #poetrylovers #SpokenWord #girlpower #womenwholead . #openmic #openmicnight #poetryspaces #poetryafterwork #spokenwordspace #spokenword #spokenwordcommunity #communityspaces #onlinecommunity #communalREImagination #creativecommunity #communitymember #RapRadioAfrica #TheBionicShow #DownloadAndroidApp #OrderMerch #Donate #GoFundMe #Patreon https://www.instagram.com/p/B4OyaCHHv2I/?igshid=5w6v4oa40w7i

MEET THE PERFORMING POETS AT #GABLIPFEST . Born and based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Tanya Evanson is an Antiguan-Canadian poet, performer, producer, Arts Educator and Director of The Banff Centre Spoken Word program and ANU live art. . Over a 20-year career in Spoken Word, she has performed at festivals in Canada, US, Mexico, Antigua, UK, Ukraine, Turkey, South Africa, Australia and Indonesia; published six artist books; recorded four studio albums; and released two videopoems including the award-winning Almost Forgot My Bones. In 2013, she was Poet of Honour at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word and received the Golden Beret Award for her contribution to the genre. . Bothism (2017 Ekstasis Editions) is her first published poetry collection accompanied by the Bothism live videopoem. Her latest collection Nouveau Griot (2018 Frontenac House), gathers the texts from her four studio albums. She has published recently in Arc Poetry, WSQ-Feminist Press, Making Room: Forty Years of Room Magazine (Caitlin Press) and Resist Much/Obey Little (Dispatches Editions). With fiction forthcoming in Changing Face of Can Lit (2020 Guernica Editions), she is at work on a novella and moonlights as a whirling dervish. . #gab2019 #GABSEASON #BritishCouncil #LIPFEST #poetrylovers #SpokenWord #girlpower #womenwholead #RapRadioAfrica #TheBionicShow #OrderMerch #DownloadAndroidApp #Donate #GoFundMe #Patreon https://www.instagram.com/p/B4OxmfhHE5N/?igshid=cut1gcfb43j0

MEET THE PERFORMING POETS AT #GABLIPFEST . Busisiswe Mahlangu is a poet, performer and TEDx Speaker born in 1996 in Mamelodi, Pretoria. She explains her work as a space of healing and growth for herself. Her poetry is mostly described as hard-hitting and raw, she uses her work to hold space for conversations around poverty, mental health, education, healing, domestic violence and being and staying alive. . Busisiwe is the founder of Lwazilubanzi, a community project that aims to use literature as a tool of learning, resistance and healing; working with public schools around Pretoria. Her work was longlisted for the Sol Plaatje European Poetry Award in 2017 and 2018. She is published in Kalahari Review (2017), Ja magazine (2017), Best ‘New’ African poets (2018) and forthcoming in Atlanta Review. . #gab2019 #GABSEASON #BritishCouncil #LIPFEST #poetrylovers #SpokenWord #girlpower #womenwholead . #spokenwordpoetry#spokenwordspace #spokenword #spokenwordcommunity #communityspaces #onlinecommunity #communalREImagination #creativecommunity #communitymemberenmic #openmicnight #poetryspaces #poetryafterwork . #RapRadioAfrica #TheBionicShow #OrderMerch #DownloadAndroidApp #Donate #GoFundMe #Patreon https://www.instagram.com/p/B4OwCXsnsOy/?igshid=1gfup465rdxay

MEET THE PERFORMING POETS AT #GABLIPFEST . TOLU AGBELUSI . Tolu Agbelusi is a Nigerian British poet, playwright, performer, educator and lawyer. A Callaloo fellow, she was longlisted for the Jerwood Compton inaugural prize and has been published widely including by AKE REVIEW, PITTSBURGH POETRY REVIEW and in Peepal Tree Press’ latest anthology, FILIGREE. Creator of Home Sessions, a poetry development program for young Black poets, Tolu has also led several workshops as well as a series of guest lectures to PhD students at Birkbeck University. More information at www.ToluAgbelusi.com. . Join us at Griots and Bards at the British Council. Enjoy internationally, fierce and magical feminity, Spokenword prowess, curatorial depth, and moving metaphors. . #GAB #LIPfestGAB #LIPFEST #BritishCouncil . #gab2019 #GABSEASON #BritishCouncil #LIPFEST #poetrylovers #SpokenWord #girlpower #womenwholead . #spokenwordpoetry#spokenwordspace #spokenword #spokenwordcommunity #communityspaces #onlinecommunity #communalREImagination #creativecommunity #communitymemberenmic #openmicnight #poetryspaces #poetryafterwork . #RapRadioAfrica #TheBionicShow #DownloadAndroidApp #OrderMerch #Donate #GoFundMe #Patreon https://www.instagram.com/p/B4OuvVXH8dA/?igshid=xhullz3bsfea