Creative Encounters: The Beautiful Everyday

Creative Encounters is your creative space in the heart of the city, bringing together Londoners old and new for live performance, making and conversation.

Are your pockets full of receipts? Books full of gallery postcards and sticky notes? Perhaps you have old train tickets or newspaper cuttings floating around in the bottom of your bag?

Turn it into a story of your everyday existence as visual artist, writer and researcher Nathaniel Télémaque guides us through an evening of communal archiving and collaging alongside live music and poetry to help spark your creativity.

We encourage you to bring bits and bobs like old photographs, tickets, receipts, newspapers, flyers and any other everyday ephemera to help with your own archiving. Materials, including an array of poems from The National Poetry Library, are also provided.

Nathaniel Télémaque is a north-west London-born-and-raised visual artist, writer and researcher who photographs, films and writes about ‘everyday things’ in various urban settings. Bearing witness to mad cities and maverick livelihoods inspires his visual and written practices. His lenses focus on the experiences of young Black adults, creative peers and notions of urban change in cities. He is a lecturer in Geography and Social Justice at King’s College London University.

Black Geographies is a night of poetry and live music rooted in resistance, memory, embodiment and the sacredness of place – whether physical or psychic. It honours language as tools of self-definition and collective survival; a refusal of erasure. Black Geographies is both refuge and reckoning – a night that remembers, reimagines, and reaches toward new futures. A terrain shaped by voice, story, and the deep knowing that our lives are bound to the land, to history, and to one another.