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Work In Progress Podcast with Abdullah AdekolaEdek Thompson - Work in Progress with @adekolpoetry
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Work In progress is a show where I talk to people about something they are working on personally or creatively.
Hi, I’m Abdullah Adekola (he/him) a Black-British working-class writer and performer. My breakthrough collection of poetry 'Nigrescence' is out now on adekola.bigcartel.com
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2024-02-1958 min
Work In Progress Podcast with Abdullah AdekolaWork In Progress. Season 2. Kamil MahmoodKamil Mahmood is a Poet, Spoken word, and Visual Artist born and raised in Birmingham. His work explores identity, community, Islam, the British Pakistani diaspora, masculinity, and power dynamics. His debut collection, Mute Men, was published by Verve Poetry Press in 2019. He is co-founder of Gully Collective; a space connecting and supporting south Asian creatives. He was shortlisted for the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Prize in 2021.
2022-03-261h 12Work In Progress Podcast with Abdullah AdekolaWork in progress podcast with Abdullah Adekola - Nour K“Nour K. (they/them) is a 22-year-old Sudanese journalist, poet, and writer currently living in the Netherlands. They identify with the third culture experience of being brought up in countries that are not their own & yet making homes out of shared experiences. Their poetry collection ’emerge(ncy)’ explores the non-linearity of growing up and themes of connection, displacement & spirituality.” After some technical issues, we get into a really uplifting conversation.
Recorded August 2021
Check out Nour's work https://www.lulu.com/en/gb/shop/nour-and-abdullah-naji/emergency/paperback/product-njqdm6.html?page=1&pageSize=4
2021-12-2936 min
Burning Eye PodcastAbdullah Adekola!This episode we are joined by Leeds based upcoming poet Abdullah Adekola to talk about Nigrescence, his debut collection out with us in September this year. We discuss the process, the identities that define and restrict us and what's next for this new creative.
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2021-10-1730 minWork In Progress Podcast with Abdullah AdekolaWork In Progress Podcast with Abdullah Adekola - Ana SilvérioAna Silvério is from Brazil, where she began her studies of Ballet, Folk Dances, Jazz, and Drama. She received a first-class honours degree in “Choreography, Methodology, and Pedagogy of Dance” from the St. Petersburg University of Human Sciences, Russia
Ana performed with the White Nights Ballet Theatre, Folk dance group Banzé, Performing Arts Company Lorenzo Fernandez, among others. She was awarded in different dance festivals as well as served on the judging committee of many others. She has published several articles on dance history and critique, and the translation of the book “Basic Principles of Classical Dance” b...
2021-08-2435 minWork In Progress Podcast with Abdullah AdekolaWork In Progress Podcast with Abdullah Adekola S1 E2 - Abigail BusenzeFrom Abigail - I am a 2nd-year psychology student at the University of Leeds. Not really seeing many people like me I got involved with the black feminist society that made me come to terms with my passions. Such as journaling having been featured on Gurls Talk. Writing, being a member of Word by Word (WBW) and curating, having put on events such as decolonising psychology mental health workshop, black fem soc bookclub, journaling workshops with WBW, and the LS6 project a Livestream of Leeds based artists raising money for charity. Alongside this, I have been a youth advocate...
2021-06-1341 minWork In Progress Podcast with Abdullah AdekolaWork In Progress Podcast with Abdullah Adekola S1E1 - Suzanne PearsonSuzanne Pearson is a creative freelancer, currently across television, poetry, and spoken word. She’s Manchester-based but is originally from Rotherham. Her poems stem from her own experiences which usually center around grief, joy, feminism, and anything else that may pop into her head at any given moment.
I talk to Suzanne about, our New Creative North Audio Projects (poems /music). Challenges of making it as a professional creative. Black trauma/representation. Being stranded in New Zealand during Covid
2021-05-1546 min
Light on LeedsCorona Bloody Virus Extraordinary Episode 51: AdekolaI really enjoyed chatting to Adekola and I was veryhonoured to hear him perform a beautiful poem in this episode."Abdullah Adekola is a writer, performer, poetry promoter, and all-around creative based in Leeds UK.He writes, performs and teaches poetry.He believes people need hope and they need stories. He believes you should tell your story or risk being ignored or misrepresentedHis style is playful, philosophical, and romantic.He has had an immigrant experience and is a Black-British, working class artist.He offers p...
2020-12-0233 minWork In Progress Podcast with Abdullah AdekolaRight Now (Coronadiaries)I read my poem 'Right Now' I talk about finishing the good immigrant book and celebrating a birthday in quarantine
2020-04-2508 min
Work In Progress Podcast with Abdullah AdekolaDark and Deep (coronadiaries)Books and Banter with Adekola.
2020-04-1214 min
Work In Progress Podcast with Abdullah AdekolaDouble EdgeI read a poem (Double Edge) talk about my year in review, depression, and wish you happy New Year
2020-01-0209 min
Work In Progress Podcast with Abdullah AdekolaEpic FailI read epic fail (poem) and talk about not giving up
2019-12-2306 min
Work In Progress Podcast with Abdullah AdekolaProtect Ya NeckI read Protect ya neck (poem) I talk about the mood personally and nationally
2019-12-1610 min
Work In Progress Podcast with Abdullah AdekolaBooks and Banter with Adekola, 5, Love YourselfLove Yourself (poem) general catch up and i talk talk first dates (show)
2019-12-0408 min
Work In Progress Podcast with Abdullah AdekolaCan do attitudeI read can do attitude (poem) and catch up with you
2019-11-2308 min
Work In Progress Podcast with Abdullah AdekolaMelanins and MelaniesI talk about Real (movie) romance film I saw at Leeds film Festival
2019-11-1806 min
Work In Progress Podcast with Abdullah AdekolaBooks and Banter with Adekola 2, Can Do Attitude (Poem)I talk about This is going to hurt (book) and top boy (show)
2019-11-0914 minWork In Progress Podcast with Abdullah AdekolaBooks and Banter with Adekola. 1Checking in on you, talking poetry, books, art, culture, race, class, faith, beauty, meaning, self healing and self love, from a silly black British kid
2019-11-0213 min