BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6004@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200711T210000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200711T220000 DTSTAMP:20200708T153049Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/liverpool-arab-arts-festival-lis a-luxx-and-dayna-ash-grinding-saffron/ SUMMARY:: Liverpool Arab Arts Festival: Lisa Luxx and Dayna Ash – Grindin g Saffron DESCRIPTION:\nLisa Luxx and Dayna Ash – Grinding Saffron\n\n\nSaturday 11 July\, 9:00 pm - 10:00 pmFree\n\nSpoken WordWatch Online\nSign up here  to receive the link\n\nJoin Lisa Luxx and Dayna Ash for an evening to cele brate poetry and Arab heritage. A night of poetic lesbian sisterhood\, thi s event will blend performance and spoken word. \n\nLisa Luxx and Dayna A sh are two LGBT+ poets of Arab heritage\, and two best friends. This exclu sive evening\, invites you into conversation and exchange between the arti sts\, sharing their own poems on queerness\, identity and longing\, with n ods to the history of Arab lesbian culture.\n\nLisa Luxx is Liverpool Arab Arts Festival Artist-in-residence for 2020.\n\nMinimum age: 16.\n\nLisa L uxx is Liverpool Arab Arts Festival Artist-in-residence for 2020.\n\nMinim um age: 16.\n\n\n\nArtist bios\n\nLisa Luxx\n\nLisa Luxx is a queer writer \, performer\, essayist and activist of British Syrian heritage. She write s for freedoms\, for healing\, to mobilise and to inquire.\n\nWinner of th e Outspoken Prize of Performance Poetry 2018\, Luxx was also shortlisted f or both Peace Poetry Prize 2016 and Sabotuer Awards Best Spoken Word Perf ormer 2017. She has been nominated for the Arts Foundation Fellowship in P oetry. Luxx’s poetry\, essays and opinions are published internationally in newspapers\, magazines and anthologies including by Hatchette\, Saqi\, i-D\, Dazed\, Tate Britain\, The International Times\, Tribe de Mama (US) \, Sukoon (Lebanon)\, The Numinous (US)\, Verve Poetry Press and Wasafiri. \n\nShe regularly headlines literary events in the UK and Middle East\, in cluding shows at Royal Albert Hall\, Latitude Festival and Station Beirut. She’s done readings for Burberry\, Selfridges and her local Women’s C entre. Her poetry has been broadcast across channels including BBC Radio 4 \, VICE TV and ITV. She was named one of the top 4 queer poets by Diva mag azine.\n\nShe has lectured on the philosophy of language in mental health for TEDx\, spoken on panels about refuge at the Tate Modern and given a t alk on sexuality for The Psychedelic Society. She is also a poetry educato r in high schools\, Pupil Referral Units and has taught at School of Every thing summer school at University of the Arts London (Central Saint Martin s).\n\nFounder of The Sisterhood Salon\, a feminist literary gathering in Beirut. She authored an essay on the Economy of Sisterhood for Saqi Books anthology Smashing It\, and continues to develop theories around sisterho od. Her work is also concerned with displacement\, adoption\, mixed herita ge existence and the lesbian experience.\n\nSometimes cited as Lisa Minerv a Luxx\, she splits her time between London\, Huddersfield and Beirut.\n\n “Her poems are sensitive and revolutionary – always kind\, always fier ce.” – Dazed magazine\n\nDayna Ash\n\nA cultural and social activist\ , playwright\, performance poet and the Founder &\; Executive Director of the non-profit arts organization\, Haven for Artists based in Beirut\ , Lebanon. “What I do stems very deeply from who I am therefore I cannot see myself doing anything else. I am a woman and a writer. I am an Arab a nd I am queer. I was raised in the West and in the East. I am not simply a n activist\, I am whatever my city\, my community\, my gender\, my fellow sisters and brothers require.”\n\nHaven for Artists is a nonprofit organ ization that works at the intersection of art and activism\, combining cre ative and humanitarian methods to facilitate a safe space for the exchange of information\, tools\, and skills to create a better world. An all-incl usive arts organization (NGO) based in Beirut\, Lebanon\, HFA was founded in 2011\, by a group of LGBTQI+ artists and activists. Beginning with larg e events hosted to promote local and regional artists. HFA has produced an nual exhibitions with international\, regional\, and local artists\; held regular workshops on many artistic mediums\, renovated two heritage houses in Beirut which acted as a safe space and shelter for LGBTQI and women’ s community. HFA extended its network\, skills\, and tools to work on nume rous campaigns for human rights. HFA provides a platform and network for t alented creatives not found elsewhere in the region while extending the re ach of art and activism through workshops\, public discussions\, and event s.\n\nImage credit: Lisa Luxx courtesy of Maria Klenner\n\nBook Tickets ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2020/07/Lisa-Luxx-Dayna-Ash-768x512-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Performance END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200329T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR