Veranda is London’s flagship and O.G poetry and music jam– featuring a house band boasting London’s top emerging musicians, and an audience made up of minds ready for meditation, conversation and creative elevation. Veranda facilitates experimental live performance that prioritises Afro-diasporic narratives; opening up space for rhythmic dialogue + curious encounters.

The first Veranda of 2024 features JEMILEA WISDOM-BAAKO and KAREEM PARKINS-BROWN ft. a DJ set from MA.MOYO (RTM FM) and a house band led by our Musical Director NATE RICKETTS (Steamdown). Hosted as usual by our Creative Directors BELINDA ZHAWI + MALAKAÏ SARGEANT

There will be an opportunity to perform on our open mic. If this sounds like a bit of you, get in touch with a sample of your work before 20 June with your name and 'Veranda open mic' in the subject line. Shout us on bornfreejam@gmail.com.

Jemilea Wisdom-Baako (she/her)

@writerznscribez

Kareem Parkins-Brown (he/him)

@parkins.brown