7–9pm

97–99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QL
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This event is free, suggested donation is £3. Booking required. To book please click here.

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Join us for this special evening of performances with Black Geographies, a living chorus of poets and musicians rooted in resistance, memory, embodiment, and the sacredness of place.

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Formed in response to the changing shape of the British high street, Akinfe’s exhibition RM5 9AN, continues her ongoing engagement with identity, memory, class and place. This event, set against the backdrop of Akinfe’s new paintings invites us to consider what is possible when we begin to see the ordinary as luminous, as a site of beauty, and of resistance.

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The evening will be hosted by poet Phoenix Yemi and will unfold through poetry and improvised sound from Arnold Chukwu (clarinet), Gabriel Dedji (keyboard), Anna Adetiba (saxophone), and Alex DT (percussion). There will also be a reading by Akinfe of her text, The History of Chicken and Chips.
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Peer aims to be open and accessible to all. Find further details on how to access our space here.
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Biography:

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‍Phoenix Yemi is a Nigerian-British poet, artist, and curator whose work is dedicated to resistance through the erotic. Rooted in surrealist traditions of liberation, she works at the intersections of body and earth, desire and dissent, reimagining language to summon new ways of being. She has performed across London in spaces including Tate Modern, the Barbican, and the Serpentine. She writes ‘A Worm Moon’ for Worms Magazine, and is the founder of Black Geographies.