A event held at Arnolfini on Saturday 3rd May. The event starts at 19:00.
Raise the Bar: Poetry and Resistance
Featuring Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan + MORE
Date: May 3rd 2025
Venue: Arnolfini
Time: 19:30 - 21:30
Tickets: £10 (£12 solidarity, £8 concessions)
Short Event Blurb:
Raise the Bar presents another raucous, dynamic, thought-provoking and life-affirming evening, with a long-awaited return to Arnolfini. Featuring Suhaiymah Manzoor-Kahn + more poets TBA.
Coinciding with Raise the Bar’s Arnolfini exhibition of the same name, Poetry and Resistance features poetry of revolution, resistance and activism, showcasing the power of poetry to question authority, speak up for the oppressed, and call for radical change.
Plus support acts TBC. Followed by a book signing.
Raise the Bar:
The South West’s leading live poetry night, running blockbuster spoken word events in Bristol and beyond since 2014.
“Raise the Bar is one of the most professionally run and dynamically curated events in the country, poetry or otherwise” - Harry Baker
“Raise the Bar are hands down one of the best nights out this country has to offer, for poetry lovers and poetry newbies” - Hollie McNish
“Out-loud reactions are encouraged…shaking off traditional theatre etiquette” - Bristol 24/7
Part of Lyra – Bristol Poetry Festival 2025
#LyraFest
Entry requirements: 16+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
Featuring Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan + MORE
Date: May 3rd 2025
Venue: Arnolfini
Time: 19:30 - 21:30
Tickets: £10 (£12 solidarity, £8 concessions)
Short Event Blurb:
Raise the Bar presents another raucous, dynamic, thought-provoking and life-affirming evening, with a long-awaited return to Arnolfini. Featuring Suhaiymah Manzoor-Kahn + more poets TBA.
Coinciding with Raise the Bar’s Arnolfini exhibition of the same name, Poetry and Resistance features poetry of revolution, resistance and activism, showcasing the power of poetry to question authority, speak up for the oppressed, and call for radical change.
Plus support acts TBC. Followed by a book signing.
Raise the Bar:
The South West’s leading live poetry night, running blockbuster spoken word events in Bristol and beyond since 2014.
“Raise the Bar is one of the most professionally run and dynamically curated events in the country, poetry or otherwise” - Harry Baker
“Raise the Bar are hands down one of the best nights out this country has to offer, for poetry lovers and poetry newbies” - Hollie McNish
“Out-loud reactions are encouraged…shaking off traditional theatre etiquette” - Bristol 24/7
Part of Lyra – Bristol Poetry Festival 2025
#LyraFest
Entry requirements: 16+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
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