EVENT | SPOKEN FUTURISM LIVE — OCT 2–4 2025

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Spoken Futur­ism Live will première on Octo­ber 2–4, 2025, at the Bathway Theatre, Green­wich, open­ing in the first week of Black His­tory Month UK. 

This bold new pro­duc­tion invites audi­ences to step through the door into The Sanc­tum of Stor­ies, a liv­ing poet­ic mul­ti­verse where spoken word, music, visu­al art, and role­play con­verge. The pro­ject is co-cre­ated by acclaimed spoken word artists Miss Yan­key (Esi Yan­key) and Solo­Man The Wiz­ard (Kai Larasi), who togeth­er have built the found­a­tion of a vis­ion­ary poet­ic mul­ti­verse. Part live per­form­ance, part research exper­i­ment, and part open invit­a­tion to dream, Spoken Futur­ism Live is both a cre­at­ive spec­tacle and a blue­print for the future of mul­tidiscip­lin­ary storytelling. 

Fea­tur­ing a stel­lar team of poets, musi­cians, and visu­al artists, Spoken Futur­ism Live is not only a per­form­ance but also the launch­pad for a wider cre­at­ive eco­sys­tem. Through an Afro­fu­tur­ist­ic RPG-inspired storytelling sys­tem, audi­ence mem­bers dis­cov­er arche­types such as Car­to­graph­er, Dream­s­mith, and Sound­caller, con­trib­ut­ing to a liv­ing archive that expands with every show. 

Co-creators Miss Yankey and SoloMan The Wizard, architects of Spoken Futurism Live. [The Sanctum Of Stories].

 

The pro­duc­tion also grows from The First Exped­i­tion, a glob­al digit­al res­id­ency con­nect­ing Black and Glob­al Major­ity cre­at­ives across the UK, Ghana, the USA, and bey­ond, already gen­er­at­ing over 100 new works across poetry, music, and visu­al art. 

On Fri­day 3 Octo­ber, the per­form­ance will be fol­lowed by a pan­el dis­cus­sion and Q&A on Black ima­gin­a­tion, hos­ted by cul­tur­al act­iv­ist Marai Larasi 

Dates & Tick­ets 

Thursday 2 Octo­ber | Fri­day 3 Octo­ber** | Sat­urday 4 Octo­ber **Per­form­ance + Panel/Q&A with Marai Larasi (recom­men­ded date) 

Bathway Theatre, The Old Baths, Bathway, Wool­wich, Lon­don SE18 6QX 

GET TICK­ETS HERE:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spoken-futurism-live-presents-the-genesis-path-before-the-map-was-made-tickets-1600382580379?aff=oddtdtcreator

The Door to the Sanctum of Stories – the threshold into Spoken Futurism Live, an immersive multiverse of Black imagination (Oct 2–4, Bathway Theatre, Woolwich). [The Sanctum Of Stories].

 

Addi­tion­al Inform­a­tion 

Spoken Futur­ism Live is the flag­ship pro­ject of The Sanc­tum of Stor­ies, an evolving poet­ic mul­ti­verse that blends spoken word, music, Afros­ur­real­ist design, and immers­ive RPG sys­tems. It cre­ates space for Black and Glob­al Major­ity cre­at­ives to archive, explore, and expand the Black ima­gin­a­tion across time, geo­graphy, and genre. 

The Cre­at­ives Behind the Mul­ti­verse 

Powered by a con­stel­la­tion of 12 Black and Glob­al Major­ity cre­at­ives work­ing across four dis­cip­lines includ­ing Cre­at­ive Dir­ect­ors Miss Yan­key and Solo­Man The Wiz­ard lead the pro­ject, sup­por­ted by visu­al artists Vince Fraser (cur­rently exhib­it­ing at Out­er­net, Tot­ten­ham Court Road), RCL Gra­ham (BFI NET­WORK-awar­ded film­maker, Chan­nel 4), and Emeka Mal­bert (Lon­don-born concept artist and 3D gen­er­al­ist). The music team brings togeth­er Kayncee (sound­scape explorer), Kadey James (multi-genre pro­du­cer and rhythmic storyteller), and Kun­fused (pro­du­cer, musi­cian, DJ). Guest poets Yaw Osafo Kantanka Kyeremateng (2025 World Poetry Slam Cham­pi­on) and Watusi (HipHop Sham­an and facil­it­at­or) con­trib­ute ori­gin­al mono­logues, while stage dir­ec­tion is led by Jim Osman, whose prac­tice spans sci-fi theatre, opera, and sound art. 

Afro­fu­tur­ist­ic RPG-Inspired Storytelling 

Through an Afro­fu­tur­ist­ic RPG-inspired storytelling sys­tem, audi­ence mem­bers and sup­port­ers dis­cov­er arche­types such as Car­to­graph­er, Dream­s­mith, and Sound­caller, con­trib­ut­ing to a liv­ing archive that expands with every show. 

This pro­duc­tion con­tin­ues to grow from The First Exped­i­tion, a glob­al digit­al res­id­ency con­nect­ing Black and Glob­al Major­ity cre­at­ives across the UK, Ghana, the USA, and bey­ond, already gen­er­at­ing over 100 new works across poetry, music, and visu­al art. 

Innov­a­tion Meets Ances­try 

Spoken Futur­ism Live is also serves as a research and devel­op­ment pro­ject, com­mit­ted to explor­ing the lived exper­i­ences of Black and Glob­al Major­ity cre­at­ives work­ing at the inter­sec­tion of art and tech­no­logy, espe­cially around: 

● Eth­ic­al con­sid­er­a­tions and lived exper­i­ence of util­ising ai tools in the arts 

● Racial and gender-based bias in visu­al tools 

● The invis­ible labour of prompt design and troubleshoot­ing 

● The envir­on­ment­al impact of ai 

● Build­ing equit­able path­ways for cre­at­ive co-cre­ation with tech­no­logy 

Data from the pilot will feed into a forth­com­ing aca­dem­ic pub­lic­a­tion and a set of blue­prints for eth­ic­al, inclus­ive hybrid storytelling. Sup­port­ers 

Fun­ded by Joseph Rown­tree Found­a­tion Storyteller’s Fund, with sup­port from the Uni­ver­sity of Green­wich Centre for Cre­at­ive Futures, and Bathway Theatre. 

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Apex Zero

An emcee, beat­maker, film­maker and writer from Lon­don with Gren­adian roots, Apex Zero has spent his life learn­ing and liv­ing Hip Hop cul­ture, using it to inspire and affect change. Based in Beijing for a few years and reg­u­larly tour­ing the globe, Apex is well trav­elled, and uses the les­sons this provides to inform his art and out­look. He is a mem­ber of the Glob­al­Fac­tion digit­al pro­duc­tion house and the inter­na­tion­al Hip Hop col­lect­ive End of the Weak.

About Apex Zero

An emcee, beatmaker, filmmaker and writer from London with Grenadian roots, Apex Zero has spent his life learning and living Hip Hop culture, using it to inspire and affect change. Based in Beijing for a few years and regularly touring the globe, Apex is well travelled, and uses the lessons this provides to inform his art and outlook. He is a member of the GlobalFaction digital production house and the international Hip Hop collective End of the Weak.