Line up for 8 November

• Inua Ellams

  

  Headliner: Inua Ellams

  Born in Nigeria, Inua Ellams is a cross art form practitioner, a poet, playwright and performer, graphic artist and designer, and founder of the Midnight Run - an international, arts-filled, night-time, playful, urban, walking experience. He is a Complete Works poet alumni and a designer at White Space Creative Agency.

  Across his work, identity, displacement and destiny are recurring themes in which he also tries to mix the old with the new: traditional african storytelling with contemporary poetry, pencil with pixel, texture with vector images. His poetry is published by Flipped Eye, Akashic, Nine Arches and several plays have been published by Oberon.

  @InuaEllams

  Inua's website

• Malakaï Sargeant

  

  Emerging: Malakaï Sargeant

  Malakaï is a writer, producer and director guy who works bare within theatre to promote inclusivity within the performing arts sector. He freelances so, naturally, he complains about being broke a lot of the time.

  You can find him sitting in a lot of meetings, often as the only brown person, staring blankly while pretending to take notes. Really, he's probably jotting down ideas for a poem, play or essay about gentrification, black masculinity, being sad for no reason or his nan.

  He is an alumni of the Barbican Young Poets collective, and currently co-runs poetry movement Veranda. Malakaï is Co Executive Director of theatre company The S+K Project.

  @MalakaiSargeant.

  Malakaï s website