Inua Ellams: Search Party at First Light Festival
Award-winning poet and playwright Inua Ellams brings his unpredictable, audience-led poetry event to First Light Festival.
Pick a word, any word. Blurring the lines between artist and audience, poet, playwright and performer Inua Ellams invites his audience to guide his unmissable festival event. Through random, spontaneous word prompts, Ellams will respond in real time to deliver an electric, unpredictable performance to the crowd.
Like his theatrical work, Search Party shows Ellams’s versatility and fearlessness as an artist who’s willing to take risks, especially in a show like this, which by its nature will never be the same twice.
Inua Ellams
Born in Nigeria, Inua Ellams is a poet, playwright and performer, graphic artist and designer and founder of: The Midnight Run (an arts-filled, night-time, urban walking experience.), The Rhythm and Poetry Party (The R.A.P Party) which celebrates live literature and music, and Poetry + Film / Hack (P+F/H) which celebrates poetry and film.
Identity, displacement and destiny are reoccurring themes in his work, where he tries to mix the old with the new: traditional African oral storytelling with contemporary poetics, paint with pixel, texture with vector. His books are published by Flipped Eye, Akashic, Nine Arches, Penned In The Margins & Bloomsbury.
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Image (left) © Danny Kasirye
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