Artist CampusWith Amyra Leon
Talks & Workshops > Artist Campus > With Amyra LeonIn the second of our Artist Campus series, we were joined by musician, playwright, author & activist, Amyra Leon.
ABOUT THE SESSION.
In conversation with Aliyah Hasinah, MAIA Partnerships Lead, Amyra shared poignant insights from her artistic journey to help inspire our own.
“The answer is in the exhale”
- Amyra Leon
SESSION INSIGHTS.
Take yourself seriously.
Your sadness is not a thing to rush.
Answer your own questions before you ask someone else for answers.
It isn’t just when the sun rises that things get to be new.
Creative Documentation
#ArtbyJaeTallawah
“I didn't ask to be an artist, I was called to be one. If I'd have waited to be ready, I would have never known what I was ready for.”
- Amyra Leon
@Twitter | @Instagram | amyraleon.com
About the Artist
Amyra is a musician, playwright, author and activist. Her work fuses music and poetry through powerfully transparent performances focusing on social inequalities and communal healing whilst celebrating love, blackness, and womanhood.
She has performed throughout the United States and Europe, collaborating with the likes of The Apollo, BAM, BBC, Roundhouse, Amnesty International and more.
She is the inaugural recipient of the Battersea Arts Centre Phoenix Award which led to the 2019 London premiere of her debut play VASELINE.
Amyra is the author of Concrete Kids (Penguin 2020), Freedom We Sing (Flying Eye Books 2020) and Darling (Walker, Candlewick 2022). Her musical debut, Something Melancholy, led to sharing stages with Common, Robert Glasper, Nikki Giovanni and more.
About the Series:
Artist Campus
In our Artist Campus series, artists from across the world share big ideas and reflections on matters of interest to their practice.
