Poets from two Continents

Allander Church, Milngavie - Friday 9th Sept - 4.00pm

Poetry, storytelling and music with Tawona Sithole and Leela Soma

Includes tea/coffee.

Tawona Sithole grew up with the oral tradition that celebrates the morals and lifestyle of his ancestral family, Moyo Chirandu. As a son of this family he is better known as Ganyamatope. Playing mbira music and poetry and sharing his heritage with others helps increase awareness of lesser-known perspectives of his experience. From Zimbabwe, living in Glasgow, he is co-founder of Seeds of Thought – a collective that aims to promote sharing of cultures through the arts.

Leela Soma is a local poet and novelist. Her first collection of poems' From Madras to Milngavie' raised money for Cancer Research. One of her poems has recently been published in the prize-winning literary magazine 'Gutter'. She has read her poems at the Courtyard Readings at the Edinburgh Festival,  various events in Glasgow and at Poetry Scotland Weekend in Callander. Leela's poems reflect the two cultures of Scotland and India.