*This workshop is open to Cardboard Citizen Members 16 – 30 years old.
Come and join poet and performer Arji Manuelpillai in a poetry and performance workshop.
We will explore how to have fun with words and how to share them through performance. Let’s learn to write, read and share your poems with each other in a creative and open environment.
About Arji Munelpillai
Arji is a poet, performer and facilitator.
For over 15 years Arji has worked with community arts projects nationally and internationally. This has given him the privilege of working with some of the world’s most interesting people. In everywhere from prisons and Immigration Removal Centres to schools and youth clubs Arji has continued to push creativity and self expression.
In recent years he has worked for organisations including The Young Vic, The Southbank Centre, The Barbican and The Roundhouse. Arji’s strengths lie in his ability to connect with people from all walks of life, to empathise and build lasting bonds.
As well as being a passionate creative facilitator Arji is a published poet. His debut collection ‘Improvised Explosive Device’ was shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize, was noted in The Telegraph’s Top 20 poetry books of the year, as well as in The Guardian’s best recent poetry section. It was also the Winter PBS selection.
