We are THRILLED to be bringing Bad Betty Press to The Kings Arms on 20 May 2024! With a wonderful line up of Bad Betty authors and Manchester’s own B!TEZ🫀 !

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also, i have no interest in sticking to one (career, life) path. i will do every single thing i’ve ever wanted to do in my lifetime, and i will be amazing at all of it because that’s how i am. i literally see no limit.

Happy International Haiku Poetry Day!⁠
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For #TheFutureIsOursFestival 2023, @pabitez created a series of beautiful haikus - here's one of them that was displayed on a billboard to share with the city.

#Haiku #Haiku CelebrationDay #InternationalHaikuDay #Haiku Day #CreativeSpace

Make sure to sign up for B!TEZ🫀’s drop in session focusing on meaning making in the age of Artificial Intelligence.

Princess will provide interactive prompts and exercises for participants to inform her work for the Poets of Colour Incubator

Tickets: tinyurl.com/55wbys7r

The free drop-in sessions will be run twice: at 12pm-1pm and 1.30pm-2.30pm. You can also pop in to meet B!TEZ🫀, Jeremy Pak Nelson + #IlishaThiruPurcell and hear them discuss their #poetry and approaches from 11.15am-11.45am. bit.ly/PoCIDropin

Anyone interested in #poetry and changing society can be part of an interactive session and inform new work. B!TEZ🫀's drop-in, 'Algorithms of Meaning', focuses on meaning making in the age of #AI and asks, who is the future for?' bit.ly/PoCIDropin

Spread the Word: Come and participate in a series of in-person drop-in sessions Contact on Thurs 25th April , led by the #PoetsofColourIncubator artists, and help develop a poetic response to global issues. bit.ly/PoCIDropin Manchester Poetry Library

Today the first score and learning tracks from our latest phase of Voices Weaving are sent off to Let’s Sing 26 (janet crowther) with gorgeous words by B!TEZ🫀. Also, we officially became a company last week!

Information is neutral,
our response is not.

1. romeo and juliet is fictional

2. the 1996 film romeo and juliet was not the first film adaptation of william shakespeare's play

3. romeo and juliet is not a movie; it’s a play

4. francesca is not the first black woman to play juliet

5. the first juliet was played by a man

selah. I put that on my asé.

Synchronicities pop up when you're on the right path.

“Picking myself up; has been the heaviest weight I have lifted.”

— Heba Nazar

Thank you Jonzi D tox for your incredible work, & all who took part! so many gems <3 B!TEZ🫀 maya🍉 don't miss this new poetry video! Homerton College Library Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge Manchester Poetry Library Forward Prizes Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education Faculty of English Apples and Snakes Cambridge University HOME Cambridge University Library

James Baldwin: 'We have yet to understand that if I am starving, you are in danger. If people think that my danger makes them safe, we are in trouble.'

Japanese Jazz is absolutely INSANE🙆🏾‍♂️

ABUNDANT APRIL

This might be the cutest thing I’ve ever seen😭