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Adult Entertainment X MA Cites Central Saint Martins (2022)

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A poetry night themed around cities. In collaboration with Adult Entertainment (a cult London-based poetry club night, literary salon, and live event series founded and hosted by poet, DJ, MC, and performer James Massiah) and the MA Cities programme at Central Saint Martins. 

The poem read on the night by Sarah Osei was about the Heygate Estate in South London. 

Poem excerpt;

There were 1214 homes, 3000 people
All the same
But not equal

Denied a ballot to save em
So they erased them
Displaced them

And we forgot
Lost in the gentrification clot



Images: Jamie Johnson 


Information

SABO Works is a South London-based architectural and cultural practice founded by Sarah Osei, grounded in lived experiences, multiculturalism and social justice.

Sarah Osei is trained in Architecture and Spatial Practice, working at the intersections of ethnography, policy and architectures through methodologies of the diaspora. Her work is site-specific, amplifying the lesser-heard dialogues of the capital as a means towards celebrating them.  
‘SABO, pronounced [saa-boh], is derived from the Hausa language and means “something new.”

In this context, SABO also functions as an acronym, representing a lineage of names that not only reflects the methodologies of this architectural practice, but also acknowledges a duality of heritages, multicultural identities, and ongoing dialogues deeply rooted in the London periphery - where I was born and raised - but often journeying from beyond’ - Sarah, Amma/Adutwumwaa/Adams, Basoah, Osei.