Sai Murray
Cultural Creatives
Also working within:
Journalists & Writers
Also working within:
Journalists & Writers
He/Him
Based: Leeds
Organisation:
Racial Justice Network, PARCOE, Voices that Shake!
Sai is a writer, poet, performance and graphic artist. His art addresses issues of self, societal and ecological repair. He is a founding artistic director of youth arts education initiative Voices that Shake!; a founding member of the Racial Justice Network’s Race and Climate collective; an organising member of PARCOE (the PanAfrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe) and a member of Virtual Migrants. Poetry/ theatrical commissions have included: the Black Cultural Activism Map; Continent Chop Chop; Weatherfronts: Writing Climate Change; Action Saro-Wiwa: The Ogoni 9 Living Memorial; Re-Membering: A Creative Journey to Wholeness; C Words: Culture, Carbon, Climate, Capital. Sai’s first poetry collection, Ad-liberation (“Social commentary at its best…”, The Jamaica Gleaner), and his novella, is published by Peepal Tree Press.
“How far is this journey for us? To return to the origin of things? To return to a time Before monocrops of concrete and glass Punched skyward, Fertilised by Afrikan blood. This journey begins with libation A baptism Of water. Fire. Burning free. Remoulding. Rising again.” From ‘Return’ - poem commissioned by Platform London to mark the journey of Sokari Douglas-Camp’s Battle Bus (the Living Memorial to Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoini 8) to Nigeria.