Mind Over Matter: The Grey Dog

Mind Over Matter are holding a fundraising event at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation on Tuesday 27th February to raise money for The The Grey Dog Festival, who focus on putting young peoples mental health centre stage. The organisers have kindly offered Mind Over Matter a stage at the Festival to be held in Northampton, on Saturday 25th August this year.

You can find all the information on the Grey Dog and what they do at https://www.thegreydog.org

There will be FREE FOOD, open mic and our amazing headliners Amani Saeed and Shareefa Energy!

Shareefa Energy is a spoken word artist, performance poet, writer and workshop facilitator. Her poetry delves into a journey of self and shares the experiences of witnessing the world through the eyes of a working class South Asian woman born in England. She was awarded with the UK Entertainment Best Poet 2017 Award and received the UK Unsigned Hype Best Spoken Word Artist 2014 award.

'Duality' - https://youtu.be/WqFv8NGpAPY

Amani Saeed is a London-born American-British-Indian-Middle-Eastern-etc spoken word artist. She is a member of the poetry collective The Yoni Verse and has worked with the Roundhouse, the BBC, and the Huffington Post, among others. Her work tackles a range of issues including the struggles of having a multifaceted identity, how to love after abuse, and being a ‘bad Muslim.’ Amani’s poetry has been described as ‘electric,’ ‘strident,’ and ‘brave.’ Her first collection, Split, will be published with Burning Eye in May 2018.

'Premature' - https://www.facebook.com/BBCAsianNetwork/videos/10160036371950381/
(Written especially for BBC Asian Network marking #100years since women first got the right to vote).

Tickets £5 in advance / £7 OTD

Doors 6pm: (Open mic sign up & FREE FOOD)

1st Open Mic section : 7pm-7:30pm

1st Headliner : 7:30pm - 8pm

BREAK: 8pm - 8:30pm

2nd Open Mic section : 8:30pm - 9:00pm

2nd Headliner : 9pm - 9:30pm

We hope to see you there for an evening of poetry, open mic, inspiration and FREE FOOD!

Lets discuss mental health.