Listen to Oluwatannaayo Fagade read his poem 'O ti su mi'.

Remembering Yoruba grew out of Creative Multilingualism, a four-year research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of its Open World Research Initiative.

Kate Clanchy has been collaborating with poets from diverse language backgrounds, running workshops in schools that have encouraged students to discover the creative potential that lies hidden even in ordinary words. Timileyin Amusan has shared his love of Yoruba with the students of Brampton Manor Academy. Together, they have composed this wonderfully creative multilingual collection of poems.

Remembering Yoruba

O ti su mi

Listen to Esther Showemino read her poem 'Mo Fe Sun'.

Remembering Yoruba grew out of Creative Multilingualism, a four-year research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of its Open World Research Initiative.

Kate Clanchy has been collaborating with poets from diverse language backgrounds, running workshops in schools that have encouraged students to discover the creative potential that lies hidden even in ordinary words. Timileyin Amusan has shared his love of Yoruba with the students of Brampton Manor Academy. Together, they have composed this wonderfully creative multilingual collection of poems.

Mo Fe Sun

Listen to Esther Showemino discuss her experience with the Remembering Yoruba project.

Remembering Yoruba grew out of Creative Multilingualism, a four-year research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of its Open World Research Initiative.

Kate Clanchy has been collaborating with poets from diverse language backgrounds, running workshops in schools that have encouraged students to discover the creative potential that lies hidden even in ordinary words. Timileyin Amusan has shared his love of Yoruba with the students of Brampton Manor Academy. Together, they have composed this wonderfully creative multilingual collection of poems.

Esther reflects on Remembering Yoruba

Listen to Bethel Uduojie read her poem 'Ma sukun'.

Remembering Yoruba grew out of Creative Multilingualism, a four-year research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of its Open World Research Initiative.

Kate Clanchy has been collaborating with poets from diverse language backgrounds, running workshops in schools that have encouraged students to discover the creative potential that lies hidden even in ordinary words. Timileyin Amusan has shared his love of Yoruba with the students of Brampton Manor Academy. Together, they have composed this wonderfully creative multilingual collection of poems.

Ma sukun

Listen to Bethel Uduojie describe her experience with the Remembering Yoruba project.

Remembering Yoruba grew out of Creative Multilingualism, a four-year research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of its Open World Research Initiative.

Kate Clanchy has been collaborating with poets from diverse language backgrounds, running workshops in schools that have encouraged students to discover the creative potential that lies hidden even in ordinary words. Timileyin Amusan has shared his love of Yoruba with the students of Brampton Manor Academy. Together, they have composed this wonderfully creative multilingual collection of poems.

Bethel reflects on Remembering Yoruba

Listen to Amaris Ogunyemi read her poem 'Nkankan bikose otitọ

Remembering Yoruba grew out of Creative Multilingualism, a four-year research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of its Open World Research Initiative.

Kate Clanchy has been collaborating with poets from diverse language backgrounds, running workshops in schools that have encouraged students to discover the creative potential that lies hidden even in ordinary words. Timileyin Amusan has shared his love of Yoruba with the students of Brampton Manor Academy. Together, they have composed this wonderfully creative multilingual collection of poems.

Nkankan bikose otitọ

Listen to Amaris Ogunyemi describe her experience with the Remembering Yoruba project. 

Remembering Yoruba grew out of Creative Multilingualism, a four-year research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of its Open World Research Initiative.

Kate Clanchy has been collaborating with poets from diverse language backgrounds, running workshops in schools that have encouraged students to discover the creative potential that lies hidden even in ordinary words. Timileyin Amusan has shared his love of Yoruba with the students of Brampton Manor Academy. Together, they have composed this wonderfully creative multilingual collection of poems.

Amaris reflects on Remembering Yoruba

Listen to Adepeju Adelusi read her poem 'Sho gbo yoruba?'.

Remembering Yoruba grew out of Creative Multilingualism, a four-year research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of its Open World Research Initiative.

Kate Clanchy has been collaborating with poets from diverse language backgrounds, running workshops in schools that have encouraged students to discover the creative potential that lies hidden even in ordinary words. Timileyin Amusan has shared his love of Yoruba with the students of Brampton Manor Academy. Together, they have composed this wonderfully creative multilingual collection of poems.

Sho gbo yoruba?

Listen to Adepeju Adelusi describe her experience with the Remembering Yoruba project.

Remembering Yoruba grew out of Creative Multilingualism, a four-year research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of its Open World Research Initiative.

Kate Clanchy has been collaborating with poets from diverse language backgrounds, running workshops in schools that have encouraged students to discover the creative potential that lies hidden even in ordinary words. Timileyin Amusan has shared his love of Yoruba with the students of Brampton Manor Academy. Together, they have composed this wonderfully creative multilingual collection of poems.

Adepeju reflects on Remembering Yoruba

Rajinder Dudrah explores the impact of the Slanguages project on local communities, art, performance, and research in a special podcast for Creative Multilingualism.

He interviews 7 different artists – the poet and playwright Ashlee Elizabeth-Lolo; the writer, performer, and creative curator Rupinder Kaur; the Grammy Award-winning musician, percussionist, and poet  Lekan Babalola; the graphic designer Nick Drew; the  post-doctoral research associate and artistic director of the Sputnik Theatre Company Noah Birkstead-Breen; artists, film-makers, and educators Rebekah Tolley-Georgiou & Darryl Georgiou; and visual artist Nathaniel Telemaque – about how languages interact with their work and creative process. While the impact of research can have is often measured in terms of social, cultural, and economic and physical well-being, Rajinder has encouraged these artists to also think about how Slanguages has contributed to their own development, thinking, creativity, language uses, language learning.

The Slanguages in the Creative Economy research project – undertaken by Beatfreeks and Slanguages – spoke to 10 artists from the West Midlands who use other languages as part of their work. The ensuing report sees the beauty and power in using different languages, slang and dialect across a range of artistic disciplines.

Slanguages is exploring the creative way artists employ and take inspiration from languages such as Arabic, Hindi, Patois, Pidgin, Polish, Punjabi, Russian, Urdu, urban sign languages, and Yoruba. The project is wide-ranging and includes exhibitions, performances, and collaborations with artists, creative professionals and partners such as Punch Records, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, and Sputnik Theatre Company, London.

Read more here>> https://www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk/blog/exploring-multilingualism/slanguages-impact-podcast

Creative Multilingualism's Slanguages project is a collaboration of Birmingham City University, the University of Oxford, and AHRC.

The 'Slanguages Impact Podcast' was produced by Georgiou & Tolley/ArtsLabInternational.

The podcast features 'Bol' (Speak) by Handsworth-based artist Rozart (@Rozart_producer on Instagram) and 'A Word is Worth 1000 Pictures' by Bonsah, used with a Creative Commons Licence.

Slanguages Impact Podcast 2020

Creative Multilingualism is a 4-year research programme, funded by the AHRC and led by the University of Oxford. It is investigating the connection between creativity and multilingualism.