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Date: Sunday 4th May 2025
Venue: Arnolfini (Workshop Room)
Time: 12:30 - 14:30
Tickets: £5

The Pen as Protest: Poetry & the Art of Resistance

Join Sukina Noor, Bristol City Poet (2024-26), for a workshop exploring poetry as a tool for resistance and ushering change. Using the exhibition Raise the Bar | Poetry and Resistance at Arnolfini for inspiration, participants will engage in dialogue and creative writing exploring how poets - past and present - have used their words to question, challenge, inspire action, and call for transformation.

Sukina will guide you through reflective discussions and help you craft your own poetic works of resistance. Whether you're a seasoned writer or new to poetry, this workshop invites you to explore the power of words to disrupt, heal, and spark change.

Sukina Noor:

Sukina Noor is a poet, spoken-word artist, playwright, workshop facilitator and educator, event curator and public speaker. She is the current Bristol City Poet (2024 - 2026). She has toured extensively across the UK, Europe, America and Africa performing, delivering poetry workshops, partaking in panel discussions and delivering lectures. In 2017 she delivered a Tedx Talk on the healing potential of poetry exploring the ways in which the process of poem-making can have a therapeutic outcome. Her debut poetry collection Love and Longing: Yearning for the Face of God was released in October 2023 and her spoken word album of the same name will be released in the Spring of 2025.


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