EVENT | SPOKEN FUTURISM LIVE — OCT 2–4 2025

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 

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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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