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Patience Agbabi

Contains 5 collection items, 78 performances, 83 in total. Currently showing 83 in total.

One of the most prominent figures in British performance poetry, Patience Agbabi identifies as bicultural, bisexual and a radical feminist. Themes of sexuality, politics and race feature heavily in her works, the most recent of which is Telling Tales - a 21st century rework of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. After studying English at Oxford University, she continued with higher education and is currently a Creative Writing Fellow at Oxford Brookes University.

  • Munirah, Merle Collins, Marsha Prescod, Patience Agbabi

    Munirah, Merle Collins, Marsha Prescod, Patience Agbabi

    2 March 1990 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
  • Night of Poems for Liberation in the '90s

    Night of Poems for Liberation in the '90s

    13 April 1990 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
    Part of the Seven Nights for Nelson festival, marking the end of Nelson Mandela’s 26-year imprisonment.
  • Midsummer Poetry Festival (1990)

    Midsummer Poetry Festival (1990)

    23 June 1990 at 
    St Martin's Market Theatre (2)
    Annual partnership event with Alternative Arts.
  • Short, Sharp & Shocking, Sheila Hyde, Patience Agbabi & Regina Bufkin, Marsha Prescod

    Short, Sharp & Shocking, Sheila Hyde, Patience Agbabi & Regina Bufkin, Marsha Prescod

    21 September 1990 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
  • Storme Webber & Richelle, Leonora Rogers-Wright, Pinise Saul's Progress, Patience Agbabi

    Storme Webber & Richelle, Leonora Rogers-Wright, Pinise Saul's Progress, Patience Agbabi

    26 October 1990 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
  • Jackson Sloan Quartet, Lemn Sissay, Colin 'Ishinga' Alexis & Co, Patience Agbabi

    Jackson Sloan Quartet, Lemn Sissay, Colin 'Ishinga' Alexis & Co, Patience Agbabi

    23 November 1990 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
    Patience Agbabi
  • Solango Festival

    Solango Festival

    15 February 1991 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
    Meaning We Who Come Together to Create Something Beautiful out of Love, according to the flyer. Featuring Benjamin Zephaniah, Talvin Singh and Sabahat Shah, with Patience Agbabi hosting.
  • Mother Tongue UK Tour '91- (First Night Middlesbrough)

    Mother Tongue UK Tour '91- (First Night Middlesbrough)

    01 March 1991 at 
    Impasse Centre (Middlesbrough) (1)
  • Mother Tongue UK Tour '91- (Perf 8)

    Mother Tongue UK Tour '91- (Perf 8)

    11 March 1991 at 
    Darlington Arts Centre (Darlington) (1)
  • Sister Netifa & The Woman Determined Band, Lioness Chant, Patience Agbabi, Sista Culcha

    Sister Netifa & The Woman Determined Band, Lioness Chant, Patience Agbabi, Sista Culcha

    22 March 1991 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
       
  • 7th Midsummer Poetry Festival (1991)

    7th Midsummer Poetry Festival (1991)

    22 June 1991 at 
    Victoria Embankment Gardens (8)
    This performance in partnership with Alternative Arts
  • Linda King's A Woman's Blues, Storme Webber, Jade, Patience Agbabi

    Linda King's A Woman's Blues, Storme Webber, Jade, Patience Agbabi

    27 September 1991 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
  • New World Colour Tour - (2 Nov 1991 Leicester)

    New World Colour Tour - (2 Nov 1991 Leicester)

    02 November 1991 at 
    Spectrum (Leicester) (2)
  • Joolz, Maighread Medbh, Patience Agbabi, Leonora Rogers-Wright

    Joolz, Maighread Medbh, Patience Agbabi, Leonora Rogers-Wright

    14 February 1992 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
  • International Workers' Day event

    International Workers' Day event

    01 May 1992 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
    In partnership with Federation of Writers & Community Publishers
  • 10th Birthday Celebration (and Anthology Launch)

    10th Birthday Celebration (and Anthology Launch)

    12 September 1992 at 
    Hackney Empire (2)
    A decade is a very, very long time in performance poetry, so this was a well-earned celebration. However, one despatch to Time Out’s letters page (24 Sep) found the show to be ‘a sickened, weakened thing’, thanks to ‘pollution by PCAs (politically correct attitudes)’. Proof that you can’t please all ...
  • Lemn Sissay, Jalal Nuriddin, Free Speech, Patience Agbabi

    Lemn Sissay, Jalal Nuriddin, Free Speech, Patience Agbabi

    25 September 1992 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
  • Popular Front of Contemporary Poetry Tour - (Book Reading)

    Popular Front of Contemporary Poetry Tour - (Book Reading)

    05 October 1992 at 
    Compendium Bookshop (1)
    This was a book reading at Compendium Bookshop. The Compendium Bookshop in Camden which opened 1968 was closed in 2001, ask anyone of a certain age and they’ll tell you  it was a destination bookshop for bohemian alternative types.
  • Black Women's Liberation Day

    Black Women's Liberation Day

    27 November 1992 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
    Effectively the last date in Merle Collins’s Rotten Pomerack tour.
  • Apples & Snakes Relaunch Party

    Apples & Snakes Relaunch Party

    10 September 1993 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
  • Farewell Event for Sister Netifa

    Farewell Event for Sister Netifa

    15 October 1993 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
  • Black Box

    Black Box

    26 November 1993 at 
    Alabama Kino (Hamburg) (2)
  • Cabaret at 200 Words a Minute

    Cabaret at 200 Words a Minute

    2 February 1994 at 
    Trinity Arts Centre (Gainsborough) (1)
    Nine-date tour – a partnership with Eastern Touring Agency.
  • Cabaret at 200 Words a Minute

    Cabaret at 200 Words a Minute

    4 February 1994 at 
    Bowen West Community Centre (Bedford) (1)
    Nine-date tour – a partnership with Eastern Touring Agency.
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