Leela in Lockdown
Zoom Poetry Performance for the Pamenar Press Transatlantic Poetry Reading & Collective Book Launch. 22 March 2022.
Asana – poem: live in lockdown
7 April 2020.
Samhain Ritual Poetry Performance @ Hi Zero, Brighton
Hallowe’en *dead*line #Hexit ritual poetry performance with Dolly Turing. 29 October 2019.
Watch the video here!
para.text #7 Launch
Launching Issue 7 of para.text at the Peckham Pelican, London: 4 August 2019.
Buddhafield Ritual Poetry Performance
Buddhafield, Evolution or Extinction, July 2019.
Hesterglock Press Reading
Celebrating the launch of Steven J. Fowler’s Unfinished Memmoirs of a Hypocrit. May Day Rooms, Fleet Street, London: 25 July 2019.
Original Plus Dub launch
Ritual Reading with Dolly Turing of our collaborative pieces for the Original Plus Dub anthology, 20 June 2019.
Into the Wild Beltane
ATHA Book Launch, 4-6 May 2019.
Waterweek Spring Ceremony
Holywell Spring Ceremony & Performance, Eastbourne, 24 March 2019.
Outspoken Poetry Night
Full Circle Solar Stage at Tribal Earth festival, hosted by Yap, August 2018.
Open Mic
Word Up! tent at Buddhafield Festival, hosted by The Glam Reaper (Rosa Wright), July 2018
We The Uncivilised space at Buddhafield Festival, hosted by Danny Emerson, July 2018
Reading
Reading extract from Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’ at Ginsberg’s grave/memorial, Shambhala Mountain Centre, Colorado, June 2018
infinite imperative – Student Reading at Naropa Summer Writing Program, June 2018
Freedom of Movement
Freedom of Movement is a performance in poetry that is both a celebration of free movement and a protest against the idea that it can be brought to an end. 29thMarch 2018 marks the midpoint exactly one year between the triggering of Article 50 on 29thMarch 2017 and the cessation of Free Movement with Brexit on 29thMarch 2019.
Brighton University Library, St Peters House, Brighton: 29 March 2018
Horseplay, The Black Dove, Brighton: 29 March 2018
A collaborative performance by Sally-Shakti Willow & Dolly Turing with Xelís de Toro & Yael Karavan incorporating poetry, ritual, movement and magic. The performance emphasises physicality and embodiment as integral to the poetic experience.
The Bleeding Hearts Club, Rialto Theatre, Brighton: 9 April 2018
Reading
At the launch of Jazmine Linklater’s Toward Passion According, The Peckham Pelican, 18 February 2018
Sacred Grounds Open Mic
Sacred Grounds Cafe, ‘longest running poetry open mic in the US’ (since 1972), April 2017 & June 2017
The Unfinished Dream
‘Moving’
‘Very powerful’
‘A deeply spiritual performance’
Watch Agata Urbaniak’s video of The Unfinished Dream performance here.
Performance dates 2017:
Anathema #2 ~ Arnolfini Bristol ~ 31 March 2017, 7pm
Performance dates 2016:
Press & Release: Phoenix Brighton (for Brighton Festival) ~ 15 May 2016, 4pm
Eastbourne Yoga Show ~ 11 June 2016, 6.45pm ~ Taster performance
Eastbourne Yoga Life Centre ~ 9th July 2016, 7.30pm ~ Full performance
Subterranean Words at Fort Process, Newhaven Fort ~ 3 September 2016, 2-5pm ~ poetry extracts only
Vapour Vox 3rd Anniversary at The Blue Man, Brighton ~ 2 October 2016, 7.30pm
The Fey Din + [Sub]Atomic & Hakarl ~ The Caroline of Brunswick, Brighton ~ 9 November, 7.30pm
Reading & Being Read: Manchester ~Manchester Central Library ~ 12 November, 11am-4pm
Eastbourne Yoga Life Centre ~ 19th November 2016, 7.30pm ~ Full performance
3EYE’s Merry Cosmos ~ The Rose Hill, Brighton ~ 16th December ~ poetry extracts only
Sally-Shakti Willow 