Art for Activism: Poetry

Art for Activism: Writing Poetry w/ Selina Nwulu

Thursday, Jan 28th, 6-8pm UK via Zoom

Ticket Info:

Suggested price: £12

PWYC minimum: £6

2 Free Scholarship places available on a first-come, first-served basis, with no requirement to disclose financial or personal information. Please only choose this option if you are unable to contribute a minimum of £6 to your place.

All tickets are non-refundable.

Course Info:

Art for Activism is a series of standalone sessions introducing a particular artist practice through the lens of political activism. We live in a time when social oppression and economic injustice are at the forefront of our lives and minds, and our time, energy, and focus is constantly being co-opted by the need to survive under Capitalism. Creative practice is one way we can stay connected to our humanness and the humanness of everyone else around us, and using art in our activism can engage communities, change harmful narratives, and speak truth to power.

In each session, a different creative practitioner will introduce a specific art form and how it has been and can be applied to our activist practices. Sessions will include history and examples of how that particular form has been used to effect change, invitations to create our own activist art, and opportunities for discussion and sharing. This course is for everyone and anyone. No creative or artistic skill or experience is necessary.  

Session Info:

During this session, we will read a selection of poems, and draw from the techniques and approaches of others as inspiration to create our own poems. We will explore what makes a political poem and how we can find resistance and revolution in our everyday behaviours.

Facilitator Info:

Selina Nwulu (she/her) is a poet and essayist. Her work has been widely featured in a variety of journals, short films and anthologies, including the critically acclaimed New Daughters of Africa, and more recently Nature Matters, an environmental anthology written by the global majority. Her first chapbook collection, The Secrets I Let Slip was published in 2015 by Burning Eye Books and is a Poetry Book Society recommendation. She has performed internationally and her work has been translated into Spanish, Greek, German and Polish, as well as exhibited at Southbank, Somerset House, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, on Warsaw metro and in New York. Her latest work, Drawn Breath, Exhaled Frequencies was exhibited as part of a sound installation at Locust Projects, a contemporary arts space in Florida, U.S. She was Young Poet Laureate for London 2015-6, an award that showcases literary talent across the capital, and shortlisted for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize in 2019. She is also a 2021 Arts Award Finalist for Environmental Writing. Her full-length collection, A Little Resurrection, also a Poetry Book Society recommendation, was published with Bloomsbury in 2022. It was an Irish Times book of the year and highly commended for the 2023 Forward Prizes. Her debut essay collection, Black Climates, is an exploration of Blackness and climate justice and was published by Vintage in August 2025.

Refund Policy: There will be no refunds offered for this course. The session will be recorded and shared with all ticket holders. We reserve the right to cancel the session is we do not reach a minimum number of attendees. In this case, all ticket funds (minus payment processing fees) will be refunded.