Lyrical Lunch with the Last Poets
Join Michelle ‘Mother’ Hubbard in Conversation with The Last Poets, Umar Bin Hassan, Abiodun Oyewole and Donn Babatunde. Catch a quick poem or two, find out about their process and journey in poetry, and take the opportunity to ask questions.
“The Last Poets are the birthplace of rap.” Chuck D
Modern day griots, fusing politically outspoken lyrics with inventive percussion – The Last Poets spoken word albums foreshadowed the work of hard-hitting rap groups such as Public Enemy. The Last Poets album (1970), is considered the first hip-hop album of all time, and This Is Madness (1971), landed them on President Nixon’s Counter-Intelligence Programming list!
“The Last Poets are the prototype Rappers… the kina nigger you don never wanna meet! They teach what America does to its Black men, what Black men do to themselves, and WHY!” Amiri Baraka.
“A word hasn’t been coined to fit what we’re talking about,” The Last Poets told Rolling Stone in 1970.
presented by Apples & Snakes in association with Big White Shed and Writing East Midlands
limited number of bursary places available – please contact aimee@writingeastmidlands.co.uk
The Last Poets will be performing at Peggy’s Skylight on Wednesday March 27th 7pm – 12 midnight
Buy Tickets:
Ticket and Venue information:
SPECIAL ACCESS NEEDS
Please email bookings@peggysskylight.co.uk to reserve a suitable seat for you and your party
We have an accessible toilet on the ground floor.
ONLINE TICKETS/ON THE DOOR
Online ticket sales finish an hour before the listed start time
There are often tickets available on the door, but we would advise purchasing online as events can sell out well in advance.
DINING ticket
These are the premium seats, each one having clear sight lines to the stage.
Your ticket purchase guarantees you a seat, which we will allocate.
You can request to be seated in Dizzy (raked theatre), Duke (side wall), Monk or Bird (bar stools), Billie (front of stage) or Mingus (near piano) and we will do our best to allocate you to your chosen seats. (Though we can guarantee that you will have a table, we cannot guarantee exactly where, as we do our best to fulfill all customers requirements) Please email bookings@peggysskylight.co.uk.
Each of these seats is at a table or bar where you can order food and drink with table service. Please note that these tickets are only for those wishing to dine (food is purchased separately)
DINING (Ella/Satchmo) ticket
These tickets are for seating in Ella or Satchmo, which are by the windows (please see floor plan). Please note, a few of these seats are restricted view.
We will do our best to allocate you to your chosen seats on a first come, first served basis. (Though we can guarantee that you will have a table, we cannot guarantee exactly where, as we do our best to fulfill all customers requirements).
Each of these seats is at a table or bar where you can order food and drink with table service. Please note that these tickets are only for those wishing to dine (food is purchased separately)
GENERAL ADMISSION tickets
These are for standing room only
If an event has not sold out of seated tickets, you may be able to occupy spare seating by arrangement with our maitre d’ on the night.
GROUP BOOKINGS
We are able to cater for bookings of up to 22 people in the area ‘Ella’ and up to 12 in ‘Satchmo’
We can also arrange for a standing buffet for more people on request
Please email bookings@peggysskylight.co.uk to discuss your enquiry.
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