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CHANJE KUNDA
Nationality: British
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Based in Manchester, Chanje Kunda performs nationally and internationally. As a poet she has performed alongside some of the most influential modern poets including Benjamin Zephaniah and Linton Kwesi Johnson. Some of her prominent performances as a poet include features at The Royal Albert Hall London, Calabash Literature Festival Jamaica, Black Magic Woman Festival Amsterdam, Apples and Snakes at Soho Theatre and the Latitude Festival. She has also been published in literary Journals, anthologies as well has having a full length solo collection published by Crocus books. She recenmtly beat off stiff competition and won the Verb New Voices Award, run by the BBC, New Writing North and Arts Council England. Her new work will be featured on BBC 3 Programme The Verb Hosted by Ian McMillan in autumn 2015. As a playwright she has had 2 full length plays produced which received critical acclaim. Her latest play Amsterdam was adapted from her collection of poetry and toured Nationally in 2014 and 2015 and will be be touring for some time to come. This show was nominated for Best Studio Production by the Manchester Theatre Awards, as well as receiving rave reviews including a 4 star rating from What's on Stage. The show seeks to revolutionise the spoken word theatre genre by combining the visual elements of Live art and contemporary dance with the beauty of an epic poem. Woven into a tight dramatic narrative, the piece is part autobiography, part travelogue, part lyrical drama. It explores what happens when you abandon your responsibilities to chase your dreams? More information can be found following this link http://www.chanjekunda.com/latest-project-amsterdam/ Chanje has been artist in residence at Central Manchester Hospitals and Manchester Museum, The Harris Art Gallery and Museum in Preston, and also the Whitworth Art Gallery, where she did performance poetry installations and lead participatory literary projects inspired by the collections. Chanje also won a year long Artist Residency in 2012 at the Heesterveld Creative Community in the Amsterdam, Netherlands where she performed extensively, not only in Amsterdam, but also in Rotterdam, Eindhoven and Groningen. . As a performance Artist Chanje has been experimenting with an abstract and pictorial style of performance, since working with director and performance artist Juliet Ellis on her show 'Amsterdam'. Chanje has produced a piece of performance art entitled #ICantBreathe for digital media as a way of using art as activism. She is also working on a performance art piece using movement, that explores perceptions of the female body and sensuality. She is also a part of a performance art collective called Divergency, based in Manchester.
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below is a list of Chanje Kunda's plays - click on a Play Title for more information
Amsterdam Blue Black Sister Sistas Speak! Universe Was Conspiring Against Me for 7 YearsAmsterdam
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Fusing spoken word, physicality and music, Amsterdam is a high-powered, supermodern 21st-century play of love and lust. Seduced by the attractions of the city and a charming Surinamese man she met on holiday, Chanje embarks on a voyage into the unknown. What will be her fate? Nominated for Best Studio Performance by the Manchester Theatre Awards, Amsterdam is adapted from Chanje Kunda's own collection of poetry of the same name, published by Crocus Books.
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Theatre in the Mill, Bradford 22 Oct 2014
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Performed by spoken-word poet and artist Chanje Kunda, BLUE BLACK SISTER draws on the experience of growing up as a young girl in this country, being black, being a woman, and what it was like being part of a large, eccentric and volatile family, with all the ups and downs, laughter and tears that it involved. Using poetry and storytelling, interlinked with projected photographic art and motion film created by her two sisters, Chanje takes the audience on an emotional journey that explores human sentiment, gender identity and sexuality.
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As part of International Women's Week celebrations, this performance features two of the UK's spoken word ambassadors.
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written by Chanje Kunda and Khadija Ibrihim
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Birmingham Library Theatre, Birmingham 16 Mar 2006
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part of Come Closer, a festival of new writing
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