Voiced, the UK’s first creative festival for endangered languages, comes to Manchester.
Join us for the opening event to discover writers and poets working to keep their languages alive through their work. Hear from Rachel Lichtenstein, who has been learning her heritage language of Yiddish to inform the book she is writing, a journey she will share at this event.
And if you have never been in the presence of an Archdruid, now is your moment as Mererid Hopwood performs her work and talks of her role in activating for the Welsh language through poetry. Kabir Kapoor, the UK’s first BSL Poet Laureate, brings British Sign Language poetry to the stage in an embodied performance which foregrounds British Sign Language as a beautiful and expressive visual language of poetry.
All performers will take part in a Q and A exploring questions at the heart of the Voiced festival: how can creativity help keep a language alive? What is the role of the young in language activation? And how might we think of the relationship between language and landscape?
