Jasmine Ann Cooray
Jasmine Ann Cooray is a writer, poet, and creative innovator. She writes with soul and precision, transforming intimate everyday relationships and painting the world into something you want to look at twice. Her performances are warm, animated and affecting. Jasmine founded the Brighton’s monthly sell-out performance night Floetics and is now building a signature range of site-specific creative writing workshops called WRITELondon, which generate rich material for their participants. Jasmine is the winner of both the Farrago Summer Slam and the Farrago Award for Best Feature Debut Performance in addition to runner up at the Roundhouse Slam in 2007. Her poems will be shortly published under the Spread the Word mentorship scheme, FLIGHT.
(About Floetics.....)
Floetics is a monthly established sellout performance evening for new artists in Brighton. It regularly features rising stars making music and words scene and gives people a chance to grab the open mic in an encouragaing atmosphere and bright, classy venue. Organised by multitasking creative legend Luska Mengham and hosted with pizzaz by Jasmine, people go away warm, inspired and often with a desire to keep writing, or, even better, start writing. We also include the added bonus of a poster colouring in competition- the best poster each month gets fame and fortune in all Brighton’s venues! Come and discover our magic if you have not yet done so…..
OH YES - Little Dragon, Ebony Bones, MC Xander, Jamie Woon, Polarbear,
Kate Tempest, Joe Driscoll, Sound of Rum, Pearl Apollo, United
Vibrations, and DJ John Hendicott all at OneTaste in Hyde Park THIS
SUNDAY - FREE ENTRY!!
There is all this stuff on the TV about problems with young people, they suggesting how we can help, what the problem is and why its there etc. I want to see what young people think and not the young people carefully selected to go on BBC breakfast news but all young people.
READ MY BLOGS- criticise, suggest, share your opinion! Please add me to your top friends just so my blogs can be more exposed and I can be more accurate in representing young people!
Seriously I will read anything that’s said very carefully. I will Blog and video diary anything I think really relevant for the channel 4 program which will b on TV in the autumn.
well,thank you! it's so good to have you...... poets...out...there I am still a bit tired, and thoughts don't come easily- but I know you understand! Peace and Love from Berlin,Mmo
Can't get Porcelain out of my head. So much sadness but the end was so defiant. After the poem yesterday I had to suppress the urge to shout silly words like YOU GO GIRL! :p
Hello! Lovely to speak to you the other day - cant wait to meet in person. And I love your Dove Campaign poem - oh my god, is it true, that us gingers can be beautiful too?!
Sorry I didn't post this sooner.. I got sidetracked by bank holiday sunshine...
here's the blog link to the event - do message me a biog if you like:
Hey I saw you perform at the Tate Modern last month and you were amazing. The poem about your mum made me really teary eyed! I'd love to hear more of your stuff =) Hope you have a good xmas & take it easy.xxx
