Amiri Baraka

When : 10th October 2012 - 8:00pm
Where : Contact Theatre
Price : £10.00

With support from Young Identity

Tilt presents the world-renowned poet Amiri Baraka, a leading figure of the evolution of the spoken word genre, who has influenced politics, artistic practice and cultural change on an international scale. Formerly known as LeRoi Jones, Baraka has produced over 40 books of plays, essays, poems and music history, is an esteemed lecturer, and has won numerous awards including a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and a Rockerfeller Foundation Award. He will be reading from his rich collection of work and talking with Dr Corinne Fowler about his career and influences. Members of Manchester’s talented young writers’ collective Young Identity will be warming up proceedings. An unmissable experience produced by Tilt (www.ontilt.org) in association with Contact.

Wednesday 10th October
8pm
Contact
£10/£6 concessions
Book on 0161 274 0600 or
http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/1131-mlf2012-amiri-baraka-with-young-identity/

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