Books & Spoken Word
Buddy Wakefield
- Artists
- Buddy Wakefield, Rebecca Tantony
Buddy Wakefield is a three-time world champion spoken word artist who has featured on the BBC, HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, and ABC Radio National. In 2004 he won the Individual World Poetry Slam Finals and went on to share the stage with nearly every notable performance poet in the world in over 1500 venues internationally from The Great Lawn of Central Park, Zimbabwe’s Shoko Festival and Scotland’s Oran Mor to San Quentin State Penitentiary, House of Blues New Orleans and The Basement in Sydney, Australia.
An author at Write Bloody Publishing and an original Board of Directors member with Youth Speaks Seattle, Wakefield is published internationally in dozens of books.
Also on the bill is one of UK’s leading spoken word artsits, Bristol’s Rebecca Tantony. She has read, performed and produced in numerous venues, including the Royal Albert Hall, the Natural History Museum, Arnolfini, St George’s, The South Bank Centre and Colston Hall. She is currently touring her Arts Council funded immersive spoken word show All The Journeys I Never Took. Her two poetry collections have been published by Bristol-based Burning Eye Books.
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Price: £16.50/£13.20 (inc. booking fee)
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