Exciting line-up of spoken word, performance poetry, and song to mark Black History Month — live in the Museum of Oxford basement.

Join us at MOX for a musical collaboration marking Black History Month, featuring spoken word, performance poetry, and song. Whilst showcasing different generations and genre, the evening echoes around how music is used to tell our stories and celebrate our history, our communities, and our resilience.

Line up:

Fimber Bravo — internationally-known steel pan maestro

Jali Fily Cissokho — virtuoso kora player & singer

Euton Daley — Unlock the Chains Collective

Asher AJ Dust — singer, songwriter, and poet

Amantha Edmead — Unlock the Chains Collective

Kemastry — hip-hop and spoken word artist

Rawz — hip-hop and spoken word artist

This event has been produced in collaboration with Unlock the Chains Collective. Unlock the Chains Collective make and produce theatre and cultural engagement that explores the Black experience through the fusion of dance, music, song, and spoken word / performance poetry. They bring artists together to explore, make work, and develop a Black Arts aesthetics. More about Unlock the Chains Collective can be found on their webpage here: https://www.eutondaley.com/unlock-the-ch....

Tickets to this event includes free entry to the museum and Sounds of the City exhibition. Doors open at 6:30pm, with a chance to explore the museum before the performances start promptly at 7pm.

Pay less: £8 | Pay standard £10 | Pay more: £12