Free Practice 001

2 poets\\n1 mic\\nA conversation\\nJust words\\n\\n\\nFree Practice is a bi-monthly poetry night shaped by a conversation between two poets. In an ongoing exchange between the poets and their work, space is created for echoes, responses and interruptions.\\n\\nFREE PRACTICE 01 Features Brother Portrait + eve of poems\\n\\nWe’re starting Free Practice because we’ve noticed something missing in the poetry event landscape. While many nights spotlight a wide range of voices on a single bill, Free Practice makes room for something more focused: a duet. Two poets, one stage, and a shared space for dialogue that’s improvised, porous, and alive.\\n\\nAcross 45 minutes, two poets move in and out of each other’s work; riffing, responding, colliding, and letting their poems take on new forms in the presence of each other. Think of it like a back-to-back DJ set: two selectors weaving a shared sonic and emotional journey, guided not by a script but by energy, trust, and curiosity.\\n\\nAfter the poets have performed, the evening transforms into a conversation and Q+A hosted by Rohan Ayinde. Serving as interviewer and first responder, Ayinde guides a discussion that traces the threads that emerged during the performance. \\n\\nFree Practice is a site for overlap, for listening, and for spontaneous invention. It’s an invitation to witness two voices finding new rhythms together, and to learn in the spaces between them.\\n\\nBios: \\n\\nbrother portrait is a London-born Sierra Leonean artist & writer often thinking on: memory and objects as vessels; how we're shaped by space and place; the limits of language; social living; map making and; freedom dreaming. His preoccupations find form in poetry, prose and song\\n\\nEve AKA Eve of Poems (she/they) is an award-winning spoken word artist, storyteller and creative community facilitator based in South-East London. A 2022 BBC Words First poet, Eve’s work has featured on BBC4, Radio 1Xtra, at BFI Flare Festival and film festivals worldwide. Her animated poem, After The After Party, won an RTS award for best short form in 2023. Her latest project, poetry film Holding An Island, is due to be released later this year.\\n\\nWith an immersive, trauma-informed and radically present praxis, Eve brings spoken word to schools, prisons, arts organisations such as Roundhouse and Southbank Centre and programmes such as Daniel Kaluuya’s Centre 59, helping to nurture the next generation of poets. She organises and hosts Special Guest, a monthly community open mic night where the audience are the special guests and anyone can take the mic for 60 seconds.\\n \\nEve’s happiest drinking tea, learning a new language, and listening to grime on TfL.\\n\\nRohan Ayinde (they/he) is a poet and artist from Tulse Hill Estate committed to dreaming new worlds through a Black feminist imagination\\n\\n