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Spoken Beat Night at Bimhuis
Courtesy of Onno Beukenhorst | Posted on May 2, 2016
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Thu, June 23, 2016
20:30
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Spoken word and jazz come together at Spoken Beat Nights. This edition features British performer Salena Godden and musician Shabaka Hutchings (Sons of Kemet).
Spoken Beat Night plays with language and turns it into music. For every edition, spoken word artist Jeannine Valeriano invites remarkable guests for an evening full of poetry, lectures, jazz, funk and live animation by ‘comic-jockeys’ Flo and Ckoe.
Poetry and short stories form the oeuvre of Salena Golden. Her writing is wry and full of humor and she’s a powerful performer who has collaborated with ska and punk bands and DJ/producers such as Coldcut. She publishes anthologies, she regularly writes for magazines and newspapers and she can be heard on BBC Radio. Her debut novel Springfield Road describes the life of the child of an Irish jazz musicians and a Jamaican go-go dancer. ‘Her writing is urgent and detailed, colourful and clamorous...’ (The Times)....