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Empower Poetry '4 The Arts' Fest

Mon, 26 Aug 2024 21:47:39 GMT

3rd Birthday Pending

2nd November 2024. Empower Poetry presents their 3rd Birthday, in a Festival Style Show. Expect a Team Slam, Open Mic, Panel Discussions, Workshops and More

Empower 15

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 20:07:22 GMT

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Second half of 2024

Mon, 27 May 2024 20:21:42 GMT

What We Have in Store

With the 2nd half of the year fast approaching-we are gearing up for a strong Summer and Autumn. This year for us has been about partnering with other groups to create different unique experiences. Whether that be workshops, shows or Poetry Projects.

Look out for more of those going forward :)

A Placed Called Home Poetry Project

Wed, 15 May 2024 00:08:53 GMT

10 Midlands Poets Engage in Region Wide Project

April sprung open a new opportunity from Empower to our Midlands Poetry community- with 10 Poets from different regions selected to be apart of a Video Poetry Project that was broadcasted at the Inspirational Youth Awards on Saturday 27th April 2024.

The Poets were commissioned and tasked to write a 90 second Poem on where they're from, which was then put together as a 'Mash Up' highlighting snippets of each of their Poems. This project was in collaboration with Powered by Can. Look out for their individual Videos on Social Media in the upcoming weeks!

We Told It To The Music

Tue, 14 May 2024 23:19:25 GMT

Last Month's show saw us collab with 'Tell it to the Music' another fantastic Poetry night in Birmingham, where we had 3 Headliners and 10 Open Micers smash their performances. Alongside giveaways and announcements, this was a night not to miss or forget.

Photographer : Connor Pope

Empower 11 Roundup

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:51:30 GMT

Heavy Hearts & Heavy Hitting Poems

Another scintilating night, where we had an uber talented open mic followed by 2 local headliners- Darnell and Ilaf & our guest headliner from Poetic Unity, Aaron James. Vibrations were high as we paid tribute to those that have lost their lives recently, as well as commemorating black history month. If you missed this, you won't want to miss our 2nd Birthday!

Empower 10

Sun, 02 Jul 2023 23:45:59 GMT

EMPOWER 10

We welcomed the summer with Empower 10- featuring a buzzing open mic segment which featured many new debutants to Empower, and 2 hilarious yet strikingly brilliant headliners Maddie&Jazz. Plenty of laughter throughout the night to go with the good weather, with resident Neighborhood caterer Albert providing the authentic South African street food!

Content rollout pending, Look out for our next show coming late August!! .

Journeying Through Poetry with Mica Montana

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 16:57:28 GMT

It was great having Mica Gray AKA Mica Montana lead our 2nd workshop this past weekend entitled 'Journeying Through Poetry' with 1 attendee brought to (happy) tears and a whole group satisfied.

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Our First Workshop!

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 11:56:14 GMT

Our 1st workshop went down a treat! Hosted and delivered by Naomi Black aka @GrowingNai at Eastside Projects, Digbeth. This was entitled 'Journeying through Poetry' and each of our guests went through a holistic and enriching experience.

We had a dozen attendees from the local community who each left amazing feedback on their experience. Look out for our next workshop on April 22nd :)

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New Year, New Venue, New Headliners, New Opportunities

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Fresh off of our Birthday event, we head into our first Empower of 2023 with two new first time headliners.

Nathan AKA 'Virtual Scribe' who by his own admission is ' a poet, performer, educator and writing mentor based in Birmingham.'

As well as Jaleesa who in her words 'is a rising poet from Nottingham who uses her words to speak love and life to others. Her poetry is a real reflection of her lived experiences and she has already performed to audiences in Northampton, Nottingham and Birmingham'

Both have been working the local circuit over the past 12 months, and January 26 will present both headliner's first ever time headlining at The Night Owl.

2023 will also see the introduction of 'Well-being Workshops' in the community, which will take place in Digbeth also. This will be facilitated by local creatives in the community, to the community. Watch this space!!