Friday 26 January 2024, 7.30pm
the87press and Cafe OTO are pleased to announce the launch of an event series entitled "Mushaira" in partnership with Norton Motorcycles. Each evening will embrace the fusion of music, poetry, and performance. Hailing from 17th Century South Asia, Mushairas were spaces where poetry was made, performed, and listened to. They continue today in a multitude of forms and ours is a 21st Century take on this traditional form. the87press first held their first Mushaira at the ICA in March 2022 and our mutual decision to re-launch that initiative at OTO has come through the continued support our collaboration has received from our wonderful community.
Mushaira 3.0 brings together a cross-generational of poets working in diverse contexts from Film, to Literature, from Dance, Choreography and Performance to Law and Human Rights.
Each poet/performer will read for 15-20 minutes.
Jwarn, our resident DJ, will craft a soundscape that befits your company, turning phrases out of synchronic snares or ensnaring us in a continuum for sociality.
A special guest DJ will close the night.
Sara Crangle has edited the writings of Mina Loy and Anna Mendelssohn. She has just completed a two-volume Anatomy of Mina Loy (Edinburgh UP 2024) and in 2023, curated an exhibition of Mendelssohn's art with Whitechapel Gallery. Her poetry chapbook, Press & Release is forthcoming with Dancing Girl Press. Of late, her poems have appeared in Vestiges (2022) and the Earthbound Press poetry series (2020).
Nadine El-Enany’s poetry has appeared in Butcher’s Dog, Magma, Propel Magazine, 14 Magazine, fourteen poems and Gutter Magazine. She was shortlisted for the 2023 Poetry London Pamphlet Prize and longlisted for the 2023 Rialto Nature and Place Poetry Competition and the 2022 Fish Poetry Prize.
Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa is a British born Barbadian raised choreopoet and PhD student in Cultural Studies. Her interdisciplinary art braids dance and poetry.
Safiya is an Obsidian Foundation alumni and an Apples & Snakes/ Jerwood Arts Poetry in Performance recipient. Her work has appeared in a variety of journals including Poetry London, Poetry Review, Wasafiri and The Caribbean Writer.
Her debut poetry collection Cane, Corn & Gully (Out-Spoken Press) arrived in November 2022. Cane, Corn & Gully was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2023 and won Barbados’ Gine On People’s Choice Book of The Year Award 2023. It has now been shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2023.
Oluwaseun Olayiwola is a poet, critic, and choreographer living in London. His poems and criticism have been published in the Guardian, The Poetry Review, Oxford Poetry, the Telegraph, the TLS, and elsewhere. Seun was an inaugural member of the Southbank Poetry Collective. His debut collection is forthcoming in 2024 in the US and UK. He recently began lecturing in the Kingston School of Art.
Nadī is a Bangladesh-born DJ, host and curator with an unparalleled passion for music. Dominating dancefloors with her genre-bending sets. Having become an essential part of the underground South Asian electronic music scene in the UK, Nadī is a dynamic selector and bubbling Producer of her own music.
For the London based DJ, her sets are all about creating a musical narrative, where she likes to combine different flavours, incorporating underground sounds from dub, UKG, dancehall, plus Eastern inspired D&B tunes and there's always one thing in common: ‘a bouncy bassline’.
As one of the minds behind DAYTIMERS, she’s featured alongside the collective in publications such as Crack, i-D, VICE, DJ Mag, Mixmag, Dazed and Vogue India.
Nadī has already played multiple sets at Glastonbury festival and has several sets in Europe, India and Japan under her belt.
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.
