WritersMosaic Presents: Cybernetics And Ghosts Tickets and Dates

This is an in person only event in the British Library Theatre

A performative cabaret of digital artists and writers from WritersMosaic, as Tice Cin, Vanessa Onwuemezi and Iphgenia Baal join the Nigerian artist Michael Salu on stage for an evening of Cybernetics & Ghosts. New technologies and writing in the digital age are unravelling before our eyes. The evening also features London musician and writer Shakira Alleyne. Amanda Vilanova is the host.

Half price tickets available for British Library Members, students, under 26s and other concession groups.

Doors and Bar open at 18:00.

Michael Salu is a British-born Nigerian writer, artist, scholar, editor and creative strategist with a strongly interdisciplinary practice. His written work has appeared in literary journals, magazines, art and academic publications, and as an artist, he has exhibited internationally. He runs House of Thought, an artistic research practice and consultancy focusing on bridging creative, critical thinking and technology and is part of Planetary Portals, a research collective. His book Red Earth was published by Calamari Press in October 2023.

Iphgenia Baal is the author of fiction titles including Compliances with photographer Ben Graville (Toothgrinder, 2022), Man Hating Psycho (Influx Press, 2021), Death & Facebook (WHYLB, USA, 2018), Merced Es Benz (Book Works, UK, 2017); Gentle Art (Trolley, 2012) and The Hardy Tree (Trolley Books, 2011). She has written for Nervemeter, Schizm Magazine, International Times and The White Review. She is co-founder of the annual short film festival Santa Cruz Short. 

Tice Cin is a poet, writer and interdisciplinary artist. A London Writers Award-winner, her work has been published by Extra Teeth and Skin Deep and commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre and St Paul’s Cathedral. An alumnus of Barbican Young Poets, she now creates digital art as part of Design Yourself – a collective based at the Barbican Centre – exploring what it means to be human. As a producer and DJ she released an EP, Keeping the House, to accompany her debut novel of the same name. 

Vanessa Onwuemezi is a writer and poet. She won The White Review short story prize 2019 and her work has appeared in Granta, Frieze and Prototype. Her debut short story collection, Dark Neighbourhood (Fitzcarraldo Editions 2021) was named one of The Guardian’s best books of 2021. It was shortlisted for both the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the Edge Hill Prize. The short story Green Afternoon was shortlisted for the 2022 BBC National Short Story Award. 

Shakira Alleyne is a thoughtful writer and musician from London. Her focus as an artist is to reconnect people with raw emotions and encourage critical questioning in a time where she feels there is an ever-growing sense of detachment. She achieves this through her poetically driven lyrics, atmospheric sounds and sometimes sinister vocals.

Amanda Vilanova is a Puerto Rican writer, actor, and translator based in London. She holds a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Puerto Rico and an MA in Acting from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She writes fiction and drama in English and Spanish, and is interested in bilingualism and the migrant experience.

WritersMosaic is a division of the Royal Literary Fund. 

If you’re attending in person, please arrive no later than 15 minutes before the start time of this event.