‘Rise Up, Youth!’

The poetry project Rise Up Youth by the British-Jamaican poet and performer Sukina Douglas is an extension of the slam workshop Rise Up (KVS, 2017). Collaborating with young people from the Chicago youth centre and Atheneum Etterbeek, she examined themes such as identity, citizenship, taboos and stereotypes, and freedom of speech and used the commemoration of the attacks to express, share and heal experiences. The young people went into the city with the Brussels slam collective Slameke, for a series of video workshops.

Sukina Douglas?
Along with Muneera Rashida, Sukina Douglas is one half of the British spoken word and hip-hop duo Poetic Pilgrimage. She tours the world and has led poetry workshops in the United Kingdom, the USA, South Africa, Sweden, Morocco, Belgium and elsewhere. Her aim is to inspire through the power of the word. She is a regular media guest abroad and, in 2015, the international TV network Al Jazeera made a much-talked-about documentary entitled Hip Hop Hijabis about Poetic Pilgrimage.

Artist: Sukina Douglas
Young participants: KA Etterbeek & Maison de jeunes Chicago
Collaboration: KVS, Rumi's Cave, London & Suncokret Govd, Croatia
Expert: Sammy Mahdi
Theme: Terror and the city
Final output: Slam poetry & video

Performances

Thursday 10 May 17:00 - 17:30 / Salle des Vitraux

Saturday 12 May 15:00 - 15:15 & 17:00 - 17:15 / Salle des Vitraux

Sunday 13 May 15:00 - 15:15 & 17:00 - 17:15 / Salle des Vitraux