Takeover: Glasgow City of Poets
Join award-winning Scots poet Keeks Mc for a multimedia performance bringing together poetry, music and visual art, illustrating the cultural richness made possible through diversity of language and the importance of language conservation. With readings from poets in Scots, Gaelic, Guernesiais, Igbo and Rohingya, this takeover by the collective Glasgow City of Poets will explore how personal experience is powerfully and poignantly conveyed through work with endangered languages. With readings by Keeks Mc, Theodore Cross, Chisom Okoronkwo, Ro Mehrooz and Elissa Hunter Dorans, music production by Spencer Mason and artwork by Anne Wilkie.
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