STATUS FLO
AFLO, the poet, hosts an uplifting night of spoken word where artists challenge the status quo with rhythm and flow. At each event, fresh local talent and special guests from across the UK are invited to pick up the mic.
In November your host, AFLO. the poet, is joined by award-winning author, poet and broadcaster of mixed Jamaican-Irish heritage, Salena Godden, and a local talent yet to be revealed.
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Meet your host AFLO. the poet
Award-winning Brighton-based spoken word artist, AFLO. the poet, presents an uplifting night of spoken word featuring fresh local talent and special guests from across the UK.
AFLO. the poet is an activist and academic who embraces creative expression to disrupt the status quo and inspire social change, using poetry as a vehicle to address hard-hitting topics, particularly racism and mental health, primarily speaking from her lived experiences. Previously an in-house artist for Brighton Dome, she is a significant force directing change in Brighton's creative scenes and continues to sow seeds across the country
Salena Godden FRSL
An award-winning author, poet and broadcaster of mixed Jamaican-Irish heritage. Her debut novel, Mrs Death Misses Death, won the Indie Book Award for Fiction and the People’s Book Prize, and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards and the Gordon Burn Prize.
Her most recent books include the literary childhood memoir, Springfield Road and poetry collections, With Love, Grief and Fury and Pessimism is for Lightweights: 30 Pieces of Courage and Resistance.
Her work has been shortlisted for the 4thWrite Short Story Prize, the Ted Hughes Award, Jerwood Compton Foundation, Bridport Poetry Prize and highly commended by the Forward Prize. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Patron of Hastings Book Festival and an Honorary Fellow of West Dean, Sussex.
Pablo Franco
Pablo Franco (she/her/shroom/fun/gyal) is a mushroom cosplaying human, a poet, and performing artist from East London. Pablo’s art explores radical kinship with the more-than-human world—particularly fungi—as a way of disrupting human exceptionalism and deepening ecological intimacy.
Storytelling as a creative practice took root during their final year of their sociology and criminology degree, where they became enchanted by the often-overlooked role of fungi in deconstructing anthropocentric thought. Since then, Pablo has developed a poetic spiritual-ecoism that weaves theories of kinship, colonial disentanglement, and mythology, into a gentle offering of spoken word and stories. Their sonic soundscape invites Kin into a space where the disconnection between species, self, and so(i)ul dissolve—reminding us that we are not above nature, but of it.
