It's a protest-looking gathering in V for Vendetta masks and Jesus garb. Yes, I know, Jesus the Vigilante, MAKES ALL THE SENSE IN THE WORLD.
Y are they there? I didn't know/care/bother, I was going to a workshop under JEAN BINTA BREEZE!!!!
Who is she? Think Nina Simone. Think poetry. Tada! AMAZING!
That's her with Ray. Look at how tight he's hugging her, it's almost like he's trying to siphon talent.
It was a three hour, heavy duty poetry masterclass where we wrote a bunch of concrete nouns and sat in a very uncreative beigey room that looked like this:
FUN!!!
And makes Ray look like this:
not fun raymond.
But at least the workshop was nice. Jean is warm, easy to follow and explains things the way I'd explain them, except I'm patronising and she's not . If I was of her stature, I'd be like, 'ooooh, oooh, you're all stupid, so we'll start with the alphabet.' I would. Blatantly.
One Five o' clock later and we move into the Lecture Theatre for an Open Mic event put up by the Apples and Snakie people.
I dare say, I didn't stay for all of it, but I do believe the audience was probably 99.9% poets here to perform. There's some dude who's bouncing around standing spasm style while delivering a ode to 'JAAAAAAAAAZZZ!' I thought it was the best thying since Jazzman John Clarke. The young poets I had brought in, Jodi
Who'd come all the way from Birminham, and Belinda Zhawi
Who came from that place most closest to hell, i.e West London, both thought he was weird.
tt They were brilliant tho. Check out Jodi right here
On my way home, what did I see?
THEY'VE BEEN THERE ALL DAY!
I just had to ask what the deal-i-o. Turns out they were protesting against The Scientology Centre.
Picture of SCIENTOLOGY CENTRE
That they spent all day, with goofy masks, protesting a religion that TECHNICALLY JUST AS GOOFY AND MANIPULATING AS ANY OTHER RELIGION, REALLY, HONESTLY, must be awarded, even though scientology is an easy target.
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