Exhibition
Tahera Aziz: [re]locate
09 Oct 2015 – 06 Dec 2015
Otter Gallery
Chichester, United Kingdom
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Performance poet Dean Atta
Talk
Performance poet Dean Atta
30 Nov 2015
Event times
12noon-2pm
Cost of entry
Free but please book on 01243 816098 or email galleryevents@chi.ac.uk.
Address
- University of Chichester
- College Lane
- Chichester
- PO19 6PE
- United Kingdom
Event map
Writer and performance poet Dean Atta performs his poetry about the murder of Stephen Lawrence.
About
Performance poet Dean Atta will perform readings from his poetry about the murder of Stephen Lawrence and from other works about discrimination in general. The session will be themed around the gallery's exhibition Tahera Aziz: [re]locate and there will be a Q&A session following the performance, at which Atta and Aziz will be present.
Atta has written poems for the Damilola Taylor Trust, Keats House Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, Tate Britain and Tate Modern. In 2012 he won the London Poetry Award and was named as one of the most influential LGBT people by the Independent on Sunday Pink List 2012. His debut poetry collection I Am Nobody's Nigger was published in 2013. Atta lives in London and performs internationally.
