Saturday 22 February 2025, 7.30pm
Welcome to the first MUSHAIRA of 2025! Join us for an unforgettable evening of poetry, performance, and music, curated by the87press. This February, we’re celebrating three exciting titles coming up later in the year: Recupera by Emma Gomis, gestalt by Karenjit Sandhu, and MAAFA by Harmony Holiday.
We’re thrilled to have all three authors in London to read from their new titles. Throughout the night, DJ Jimmy Two Shoes will keep the energy high with smooth tunes and great vibes. Don’t miss this special evening of creativity and connection!
Karenjit Sandhu's publications include Poetic Fragments from the Irritating Archive (Guillemot Press), young girls! (the 87 Press) and Baby 19 (Intergraphia Books). Her work is featured in Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry and The Blue Notebook: Journal for Artists’ Books. Sandhu's artists’ books have been collected by the Tate Archive (London) and exhibited at The Showroom (London) and Galerie éof (Paris). Her performance work has led to collaborations with the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Barbican, Flat Time House and Christie’s (London), Arnolfini (Bristol) and Galerie Eric Dupont (Paris). She is a member of the British Art Network and has written for exhibition catalogues on contemporary British, European and South Asian art.
Harmony Holiday is a writer, dancer, archivist, and the author of five collections of poetry. She curates an archive of griot poetics and a related performance series at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. She has received the Motherwell Prize, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, a NYFA fellowship, a Schomburg Fellowship, a California Book Award, and a research fellowship from Harvard University's Woodberry Poetry Room. She lives in Los Angeles.
Emma Gomis is a Catalan American poet, essayist and researcher. She has published four pamphlets of poetry, two of which were cowritten with Anne Waldman, and is a coeditor of New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archives (Nightboat Books, 2022) and Manifold, a journal of experimental criticism. She was selected by Patricia Spears as The Poetry Project’s 2020 Prize winner, holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the Jack Kerouac School, where she was also a fellowship recipient, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in contemporary feminist art writing.
Forever a humble student of the dancefloor, Jimmy Two Shoes is inspired by music and its capacity for creating those magical moments. As a Subtle Radio resident and multi-genre label boss of Sub Merchants, Jwarn seamlessly navigates an array of bass-infused flavors, delivering the flows to wriggle your toes to.
