Sibihan Lawrence

Sibihan Lawrence is a Theatre maker, Performance poet, Arts education specialist, Youth empowerment advocate. A storyteller. Sibihan has worked with organisations such as Black Women in the arts, the Poetry society, Apple and snakes, Breaking Convention, Open art surgery, Polka theatre, Cockpit Theatre, Battersea Art Centre, Oval House. She is featured on UK Hip-Hop icon TY’s timeless album ‘Awkward’.

Sibihan’s latest collection of stories entitled ‘Tales from My Mother’s Kitchen’, explores Black British postcolonial enclaves, addressing intersections between Black joy and Black pain and the precarities of Black life through radical rhyme. She is currently undertaking a PhD at Goldsmiths university, where she among other things explores the tenets of Hip-Hop culture as a virtuosic knowledge centre.

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