A event held at The Wardrobe Theatre on Monday 4th August. The event starts at 19:30.
Great Minds Don’t Think Alike builds on the success of Strong Bones, Milk Poetry’s annual open mic celebrating the words that built us. Now, they are bringing you a new event reflecting neurodiversity and mental health differences in all their flavours and forms.
Join us for a nurturing evening, learning more about different perspectives and celebrating how writing and performance can help to convey the unique ways we all experience the world. Hosted and curated by Beth Calverley (Poet in Residence at University Hospitals Bristol & Weston NHS Foundation Trust).
Featuring Muneera Pilgrim & Kayla Martell Feldman
Muneera Pilgrim
Muneera Pilgrim is an international poet, cultural producer, writer, broadcaster and TEDx speaker.She conducts workshops, shares art, lectures, and finds alternative ways to tell stories, build community and exchange ideas. She regularly contributes to BBC Radio 2's Pause for Thought.
She is a community artist-researcher, a mental health professional, and an alumni associate artist with the English Touring Theatre, where she is working on her first play. Muneera has written for the Guardian, Amaliah, Huffington Post, the Independent, Al Jazeera, Black Ballad, and various other digital and print platforms. She has been featured across the BBC network, as well as Sky News, Sky Arts and Al Jazeera.
Kayla Martell Feldman
Kayla Martell Feldman (she/they) is a multi-award-winning director and writer for the page, stage, and screen. They co-host the monthly poetry night Process and work with Safe Spoken to improve safeguarding and inclusion in poetry. Kayla is an alum of the Roundhouse Poetry Weekender and the NO BORDERS Artists Project at the Royal Court Theatre, and co-produced the Kirkby Lonsdale Poetry Festival in 2024. Her work has been widely published in North America, the UK, and online, and their second poetry collection Same Story is out now from Verve Poetry Press.
Poets, you are invited to perform one poem of your own that somehow reflects your own unique flavour of how you experience the world (the more unusual the better!) AND read a cover of a writer who has helped you feel heard or seen.
Entry requirements: 14+
Join us for a nurturing evening, learning more about different perspectives and celebrating how writing and performance can help to convey the unique ways we all experience the world. Hosted and curated by Beth Calverley (Poet in Residence at University Hospitals Bristol & Weston NHS Foundation Trust).
Featuring Muneera Pilgrim & Kayla Martell Feldman
Muneera Pilgrim
Muneera Pilgrim is an international poet, cultural producer, writer, broadcaster and TEDx speaker.She conducts workshops, shares art, lectures, and finds alternative ways to tell stories, build community and exchange ideas. She regularly contributes to BBC Radio 2's Pause for Thought.
She is a community artist-researcher, a mental health professional, and an alumni associate artist with the English Touring Theatre, where she is working on her first play. Muneera has written for the Guardian, Amaliah, Huffington Post, the Independent, Al Jazeera, Black Ballad, and various other digital and print platforms. She has been featured across the BBC network, as well as Sky News, Sky Arts and Al Jazeera.
Kayla Martell Feldman
Kayla Martell Feldman (she/they) is a multi-award-winning director and writer for the page, stage, and screen. They co-host the monthly poetry night Process and work with Safe Spoken to improve safeguarding and inclusion in poetry. Kayla is an alum of the Roundhouse Poetry Weekender and the NO BORDERS Artists Project at the Royal Court Theatre, and co-produced the Kirkby Lonsdale Poetry Festival in 2024. Her work has been widely published in North America, the UK, and online, and their second poetry collection Same Story is out now from Verve Poetry Press.
Poets, you are invited to perform one poem of your own that somehow reflects your own unique flavour of how you experience the world (the more unusual the better!) AND read a cover of a writer who has helped you feel heard or seen.
Entry requirements: 14+
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