From The Archives: Summer Edition ☀️
From The Archives - Poetry & Open-Mic Night - Summer Edition ☀️
📍The Archives, Brighton, BN1 1YW
📆 June 14th, 6pm - 8pm (doors & open-mic sign up from 6pm)
Step into an evening where forgotten voices, untold stories, and hidden gems take centre stage.
From The Archives is more than a poetry night; it’s a reclamation. A reimagining of what poetry can be, who it’s for, and how it shows up in our communities.
Hosted by The Archives , Kaia and YouthTheGap, this event creates space for the already-poets, the curious, the up-and-coming, and the quiet lovers of language. Whether you’re picking up the mic for the first time or soaking in the rhythm from your seat, this night is for you.
There will be one event per season 🥹 And we look forward to welcoming Summer with our headliner Samreen - who won our Spring Edition. The amazing Sam will be underscoring each poet with live music - and he may jazz in between the breaks too 😉
Sign up to the open mic on the night (arrive from 6pm onwards, closing at 6:30pm) for a chance to win a paid headline slot at our Autumn edition 🥹 6 slots - once they’re gone, they’re gone!!
Bring your verses, your voice, or just your ears. Let’s dig into the archives - and make some history of our own.
Get to know Samreen:
“When she is not daydreaming about writing poetry, Samreen is pursuing a PhD in social psychology. Her academic and artistic lives often intersect as both focus on lived experiences, social justice, emotions, coping, and art in the everyday.
She has acted in four theatre productions, and has been an assistant director for three. Her poetry and essays have appeared in The Usawa Literary Review, The Wire, The Poetry Business UK, and the anthology, ‘A Map Called Home.’
She grew up in Chandigarh, India, and is currently based in Brighton. In her spare time, you will find her running (read: struggling to catch her breath) by the sea, obsessing over films, subjecting her friends to her experiments in the kitchen, or gabbing to anything with ears.
Expect to be invited into her world of vulnerability, whimsy, and drama.”