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Set Yourself Free Creative Competition

SET YOURSELF FREE
Creative Competition
Closing Date: 13 January 2010
This month Rich Mix hosts Voices of Freedom, a series of spoken word, music and dramatic events all about liberty.

To celebrate, together with Spinebreakers, we’re offering YOU the chance to be part of the programme – and nab yourself a few free books into the bargain.

To enter
We’re looking for the most rousing, the most inspiring and the most memorable creative material on the subject of freedom. Whether it’s your best beats, stupendous speech, top track, photo or short film – we want to hear it.

There are three age categories: 13–15 years, 16–18 years, and 19–21 years.

You can upload:
• A written speech
• Original piece of music (no longer than 5 minutes)
• Short film (no longer than 5 minutes)

The prize:
Written speech winners will be invited to perform their piece at Rich Mix and on Colourful radio. Film and music winners will have their work exhibited in the Rich Mix Bar.

And all winners will get their hands on copies of Penguin’s No Easy Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela, Penguin Book of 20th Century Speeches and Great Speeches: Words that Made History.
Get inspired by the programme below and click here to enter the competition!

Check out the Facebook group here.


Voices of Freedom at Rich Mix
Mon 18 January – Sat 23 January
http://www.richmix.org.uk/rm_winter10.htm

Film: Malcolm X
Mon 18 Jan/ 7pm/ £5


Spike Lee’s acclaimed biopic of the controversial and influential black activist Malcolm X starring Denzel Washington. The film takes us through his inauspicious beginnings and imprisonment, through to his conversion to the Nation of Islam and his later rejection of their divisive teachings.

More info

Theatre: Eclipse Theatre presents Michael X
Fri 22 Jan / 7.30pm / £12/ £10 concs


Who was Michael X? Black power activist and political icon? Liar? Pimp? Murderer? Set at a political rally, Vanessa Walters’ new play probes at the heart of black politics in the 1960s Britain and tells the ‘true story’ of Michael X.

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In Conversation with: Ben Okri
Tues 19 Jan / 7.30pm / £5

Ben Okri has published 10 novels, including ‘The Famished Road’, as well as collections of poetry, short stories and essays. Awarded an OBE as well numerous other awards, Ben Okri comes to Rich Mix for one of our popular In Conversations.

More info


Theatre: The Uninvited
Wed 20 Jan / 7.30pm / £5

The Uninvited is a performance tour de force telling the extraordinary stories of refugees and exiles, from all over the world, past and present. Performed by Elizabeth Mansfield, Olivier Award nominee for ‘Best Actress in a Musical’.

After show panel discussion
Veena Torthia and Nahid Behzadi - Crisis UK
Dan Hodges, Communications Manager - Refugee Action
Alison Harvey, General Secretary - Immigration Law Practitioner’s Association

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Spoken Word: All-Star Poetry Olympics Super Jam
Fri 22 Jan / 7.30pm / Bar / £12/ £10 concs


Michael Horovitz presents a galaxy of scintillating superbards: Francesca Beard, Charlie Dark, Salena Godden, Daljit Nagra and many more.

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Music Denys Baptiste – Let Freedom Ring!
Sat 23 Jan / 8pm / Bar / £15 / £12


Stirring contemporary jazz with gospel, blues and Afro-Cuban music from Mercury/ MOBO award winning saxophonist Denys Baptiste, inspired by the spirit and rhythms of Dr Martin Luther King’s momentous I Have A Dream speech on its 40th anniversary.

More info

Click here to book tickets for any of the Voices of Freedom Week events or call our box office on 020 7613 7498



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