Spoken Futurism Live Presents: The Genesis Path, Before The Map Was Made
The Multiverse awaits… a live Afrofuturistic space of poetry, music, visuals, and RPG storytelling.
On 2nd–4th October 2025, the Door to the Sanctum of Stories will open at Bathway Theatre, Woolwich.
This bold new production invites audiences to step through the door into The Sanctum of Stories, a living poetic multiverse where spoken word, music, visual art, and roleplay converge. The project is co-created by acclaimed spoken word artists Miss Yankey (Esi Yankey) and SoloMan The Wizard (Kai Larasi), who together have built the foundation of a visionary poetic multiverse. Part live performance, part research experiment, and part open invitation to dream, Spoken Futurism Live is both a creative spectacle and a blueprint for the future of multidisciplinary storytelling.
This is no ordinary show. 'The Genesis Path, Before The Map Was Made' is the first expedition.
🎟️ Choose Your Path
We recommend most travellers take the leap into the Interstellar Creative or Cosmic Voyager paths.
✨ Three ways to travel:
🚀 Cosmic Voyager – RPG player + printed: live show, printed & digital Traveller’s Journal, first edition printed Collector’s Cards, Passport Pathway early access, 2 months free Patreon.
🌠 Interstellar Creative – RPG player + digital: live show, digital Journal, digital Collector’s Cards, Passport Pathway early access.
✨ Intergalactic Tourist – Just watch: live show only.
👉 Tickets are limited, choose your path and book now.
🌍 Why Choose Interstellar or Cosmic?
With an Interstellar or Cosmic ticket, you’re not just watching, you’re playing. Take a 5-minute Role Path Quiz, get a creative mission, and join weekly mini-missions through our Cosmic Dispatch.
It’s fun, simple, and open to all, whether you respond with a poem, a sketch, a sound, or even just a single word. Every contribution becomes part of our living archive of the multiverse.
👉 [Take the Role Path Quiz] | 👉 [Subscribe to Cosmic Dispatch]Our Afrofuturistic RPG , with role path quiz, creative missions, and weekly transmissions, is free and open to everyone.
What your ticket funds is something bigger:
- The growth of Spoken Futurism Live as a revolutionary poetic theatre project
- The expansion of Black imagination through poetry, music, and visual art
- Exclusive first-edition artefacts (journals, collector’s cards, and first-in-line access to the Passport Pathway) that root you in this multiverse
By choosing Interstellar or Cosmic, you become part of the ecosystem shaping the story.
🎭 The Creatives Behind the Multiverse
Featuring a stellar team of poets, musicians, and visual artists, Spoken Futurism Live is not only a performance but also the launchpad for a wider creative ecosystem. Powered by a constellation of 12 Black and Global Majority creatives working across four disciplines including Creative Directors Miss Yankey (award-winning poet and international slam champion) and SoloMan The Wizard (visionary poet with commissions for Sadler’s Wells, and the Tower of London) lead the project, supported by visual artists Vince Fraser (currently exhibiting at Outernet, Tottenham Court Road), RCL Graham (BFI NETWORK-awarded filmmaker, Channel 4), and Emeka Malbert (London-born concept artist and 3D generalist). The music team brings together Kayncee (soundscape explorer), Kadey James (multi-genre producer and rhythmic storyteller), and Kunfused (producer, musician, DJ). Guest poets Yaw Osafo Kantanka Kyeremateng (2025 World Poetry Slam Champion) and Watusi (HipHop Shaman and facilitator) contribute original monologues, while stage direction is led by Jim Osman, whose practice spans sci-fi theatre, opera, sound art, and puppetry.
Together, they weave words, sound, and vision into an immersive world that will unfold around you for the very first time.
📅 Show Details
✨ Arrive early to explore the exhibition, immerse yourself in RPG challenges, and settle in before the performance begins.
Dates: 2nd, 3rd, 4th October 2025
Venue: Bathway Theatre, University of Greenwich, Woolwich, London SE18 6QX
Closest Stations: Woolwich Arsenal (DLR & National Rail), Woolwich (Elizabeth Line)
Thursday 2nd October
Doors open: 6:30pm
Show: 7:30pm – 9:30pm (including interval)
Drinks & networking after
Friday 3rd October *Black History Month Celebration
Doors open: 6:00pm
Show: 7:00pm – 9:00pm (including interval)
Followed by panel & Q&A on Black imagination hosted by Marai Larasi
Saturday 4th October
Doors open: 6:30pm
Show: 7:30pm – 9:30pm (including interval)
Drinks & networking after
Running Time: approx. 2 hours (including interval)
Latecomers: admitted only at set intervals, or may be denied entry
♿ Accessibility
- The venue is street-level and wheelchair accessible. Reserved seating available on request.
- A quiet room/space will be available for those who need it.
- This is a multi-sensory show with layers of spoken word, music, and visuals. At times these move at a fast pace. We share this so those with sensory needs can feel prepared and supported.
- Spoken Futurism Live is an inclusive space for all, rooted in Black and Global Majority imagination. Everyone is welcome to witness and contribute.
🌠 Black History Month Celebration: Friday 3 October
On Friday 3 October, Spoken Futurism Live becomes our official Black History Month celebration, with a dedicated panel and Q&A on Black imagination following the show.
This evening will be hosted by Marai Larasi, cultural activist, feminist advocate, recognised among the 100 Great Black Britons (2020) and the World’s 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy (2019).
Marai has a special guest role within the performance itself, and brings a deep understanding of the importance of Black imagination and creating decolonised spaces for creative freedom.
Together we will explore:
- Black imagination as resistance to erasure
- The labour of imagination: energy, politics, and power
- Nature in Arboterra: how the earth itself imagines
- The balance between ancestral memory and Afrofuturist projection
- The role of collaboration and co-creation in sustaining imagination
- How imagination transforms material reality: policy, tech, community, art
✨ This conversation is the beginning of a series of deeper dives into these themes, led by Marai in future gatherings.
⚡ Tickets for this night are in high demand, book early to secure your place.
🎁 Pay It Forward
Want to support someone else’s journey into the multiverse? Choose a Pay It Forward ticket. Your gift helps us provide entry for a community member, young person, or grassroots creative who would otherwise be unable to attend.
By paying it forward, you’re not only opening the Door to the Sanctum of Stories for someone else , you’re also helping us keep this project inclusive, accessible, and expansive. 🌱
🌌 The Premise
When the Door to the Sanctum of Stories opens, travellers are invited into a living multiverse where poetry becomes portal. Words, rhythm, music, and visuals converge in an afrofuturistic act of imagination. This first expedition traces legacy, survival, and resistance, calling travellers to witness, to remember, and to choose how deeply they wish to journey.
🎮 Afrofuturistic RPG Storytelling
Our Afrofuturistic Role-Play Framework (RPF) invites you to step beyond the audience and become part of the story. It’s fun, creative, and accessible to all — no gaming experience needed.
Here’s how it works:
- Take the Role Path Quiz – discover your archetype (Cartographer, Dreamsmith, Soundcaller, and more).
- Receive a Core Creative Mission – a simple prompt to respond to in any way you like: a poem, a thought, a sketch, a sound, a song, a video.
- Weekly Mini-Missions – delivered via our Cosmic Dispatch newsletter to keep your imagination sparking.
Even the smallest contribution, a single word, a line of poetry, a fragment of sound, becomes part of the living archive that expands with every expedition.
👉 [Take the Role Path Quiz]
👉 [Subscribe to Cosmic Dispatch]
The system grows from The First Expedition, a global digital residency connecting Black and Global Majority creatives globally, already generating over 100 new works of poetry, music, and visual art.
🌠 Stay Connected
The story doesn’t end on stage. Each week, we share transmissions from the multiverse: truths, lore, and creative missions, through our Cosmic Dispatch.
👉 Sign up here: Subscribe to the Cosmic Dispatch
🙏 With Gratitude
Made possible with thanks to:
🌍 Why Your Ticket Matters
Every ticket is more than admission, it is fuel for a revolution in poetry. You are supporting:
- The growth of Spoken Futurism as a new frontier of poetic theatre
- The expansion of Black imagination in poetry, music, visual art & storytelling
- A collective of award-winning creatives bringing this vision to life
This is the first expedition. Those who join us now will always be remembered as the first travellers.
The Multiverse awaits… a live Afrofuturistic space of poetry, music, visuals, and RPG storytelling.
On 2nd–4th October 2025, the Door to the Sanctum of Stories will open at Bathway Theatre, Woolwich.
This bold new production invites audiences to step through the door into The Sanctum of Stories, a living poetic multiverse where spoken word, music, visual art, and roleplay converge. The project is co-created by acclaimed spoken word artists Miss Yankey (Esi Yankey) and SoloMan The Wizard (Kai Larasi), who together have built the foundation of a visionary poetic multiverse. Part live performance, part research experiment, and part open invitation to dream, Spoken Futurism Live is both a creative spectacle and a blueprint for the future of multidisciplinary storytelling.
This is no ordinary show. 'The Genesis Path, Before The Map Was Made' is the first expedition.
🎟️ Choose Your Path
We recommend most travellers take the leap into the Interstellar Creative or Cosmic Voyager paths.
✨ Three ways to travel:
🚀 Cosmic Voyager – RPG player + printed: live show, printed & digital Traveller’s Journal, first edition printed Collector’s Cards, Passport Pathway early access, 2 months free Patreon.
🌠 Interstellar Creative – RPG player + digital: live show, digital Journal, digital Collector’s Cards, Passport Pathway early access.
✨ Intergalactic Tourist – Just watch: live show only.
👉 Tickets are limited, choose your path and book now.
🌍 Why Choose Interstellar or Cosmic?
With an Interstellar or Cosmic ticket, you’re not just watching, you’re playing. Take a 5-minute Role Path Quiz, get a creative mission, and join weekly mini-missions through our Cosmic Dispatch.
It’s fun, simple, and open to all, whether you respond with a poem, a sketch, a sound, or even just a single word. Every contribution becomes part of our living archive of the multiverse.
👉 [Take the Role Path Quiz] | 👉 [Subscribe to Cosmic Dispatch]Our Afrofuturistic RPG , with role path quiz, creative missions, and weekly transmissions, is free and open to everyone.
What your ticket funds is something bigger:
- The growth of Spoken Futurism Live as a revolutionary poetic theatre project
- The expansion of Black imagination through poetry, music, and visual art
- Exclusive first-edition artefacts (journals, collector’s cards, and first-in-line access to the Passport Pathway) that root you in this multiverse
By choosing Interstellar or Cosmic, you become part of the ecosystem shaping the story.
🎭 The Creatives Behind the Multiverse
Featuring a stellar team of poets, musicians, and visual artists, Spoken Futurism Live is not only a performance but also the launchpad for a wider creative ecosystem. Powered by a constellation of 12 Black and Global Majority creatives working across four disciplines including Creative Directors Miss Yankey (award-winning poet and international slam champion) and SoloMan The Wizard (visionary poet with commissions for Sadler’s Wells, and the Tower of London) lead the project, supported by visual artists Vince Fraser (currently exhibiting at Outernet, Tottenham Court Road), RCL Graham (BFI NETWORK-awarded filmmaker, Channel 4), and Emeka Malbert (London-born concept artist and 3D generalist). The music team brings together Kayncee (soundscape explorer), Kadey James (multi-genre producer and rhythmic storyteller), and Kunfused (producer, musician, DJ). Guest poets Yaw Osafo Kantanka Kyeremateng (2025 World Poetry Slam Champion) and Watusi (HipHop Shaman and facilitator) contribute original monologues, while stage direction is led by Jim Osman, whose practice spans sci-fi theatre, opera, sound art, and puppetry.
Together, they weave words, sound, and vision into an immersive world that will unfold around you for the very first time.
📅 Show Details
✨ Arrive early to explore the exhibition, immerse yourself in RPG challenges, and settle in before the performance begins.
Dates: 2nd, 3rd, 4th October 2025
Venue: Bathway Theatre, University of Greenwich, Woolwich, London SE18 6QX
Closest Stations: Woolwich Arsenal (DLR & National Rail), Woolwich (Elizabeth Line)
Thursday 2nd October
Doors open: 6:30pm
Show: 7:30pm – 9:30pm (including interval)
Drinks & networking after
Friday 3rd October *Black History Month Celebration
Doors open: 6:00pm
Show: 7:00pm – 9:00pm (including interval)
Followed by panel & Q&A on Black imagination hosted by Marai Larasi
Saturday 4th October
Doors open: 6:30pm
Show: 7:30pm – 9:30pm (including interval)
Drinks & networking after
Running Time: approx. 2 hours (including interval)
Latecomers: admitted only at set intervals, or may be denied entry
♿ Accessibility
- The venue is street-level and wheelchair accessible. Reserved seating available on request.
- A quiet room/space will be available for those who need it.
- This is a multi-sensory show with layers of spoken word, music, and visuals. At times these move at a fast pace. We share this so those with sensory needs can feel prepared and supported.
- Spoken Futurism Live is an inclusive space for all, rooted in Black and Global Majority imagination. Everyone is welcome to witness and contribute.
🌠 Black History Month Celebration: Friday 3 October
On Friday 3 October, Spoken Futurism Live becomes our official Black History Month celebration, with a dedicated panel and Q&A on Black imagination following the show.
This evening will be hosted by Marai Larasi, cultural activist, feminist advocate, recognised among the 100 Great Black Britons (2020) and the World’s 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy (2019).
Marai has a special guest role within the performance itself, and brings a deep understanding of the importance of Black imagination and creating decolonised spaces for creative freedom.
Together we will explore:
- Black imagination as resistance to erasure
- The labour of imagination: energy, politics, and power
- Nature in Arboterra: how the earth itself imagines
- The balance between ancestral memory and Afrofuturist projection
- The role of collaboration and co-creation in sustaining imagination
- How imagination transforms material reality: policy, tech, community, art
✨ This conversation is the beginning of a series of deeper dives into these themes, led by Marai in future gatherings.
⚡ Tickets for this night are in high demand, book early to secure your place.
🎁 Pay It Forward
Want to support someone else’s journey into the multiverse? Choose a Pay It Forward ticket. Your gift helps us provide entry for a community member, young person, or grassroots creative who would otherwise be unable to attend.
By paying it forward, you’re not only opening the Door to the Sanctum of Stories for someone else , you’re also helping us keep this project inclusive, accessible, and expansive. 🌱
🌌 The Premise
When the Door to the Sanctum of Stories opens, travellers are invited into a living multiverse where poetry becomes portal. Words, rhythm, music, and visuals converge in an afrofuturistic act of imagination. This first expedition traces legacy, survival, and resistance, calling travellers to witness, to remember, and to choose how deeply they wish to journey.
🎮 Afrofuturistic RPG Storytelling
Our Afrofuturistic Role-Play Framework (RPF) invites you to step beyond the audience and become part of the story. It’s fun, creative, and accessible to all — no gaming experience needed.
Here’s how it works:
- Take the Role Path Quiz – discover your archetype (Cartographer, Dreamsmith, Soundcaller, and more).
- Receive a Core Creative Mission – a simple prompt to respond to in any way you like: a poem, a thought, a sketch, a sound, a song, a video.
- Weekly Mini-Missions – delivered via our Cosmic Dispatch newsletter to keep your imagination sparking.
Even the smallest contribution, a single word, a line of poetry, a fragment of sound, becomes part of the living archive that expands with every expedition.
👉 [Take the Role Path Quiz]
👉 [Subscribe to Cosmic Dispatch]
The system grows from The First Expedition, a global digital residency connecting Black and Global Majority creatives globally, already generating over 100 new works of poetry, music, and visual art.
🌠 Stay Connected
The story doesn’t end on stage. Each week, we share transmissions from the multiverse: truths, lore, and creative missions, through our Cosmic Dispatch.
👉 Sign up here: Subscribe to the Cosmic Dispatch
🙏 With Gratitude
Made possible with thanks to:
🌍 Why Your Ticket Matters
Every ticket is more than admission, it is fuel for a revolution in poetry. You are supporting:
- The growth of Spoken Futurism as a new frontier of poetic theatre
- The expansion of Black imagination in poetry, music, visual art & storytelling
- A collective of award-winning creatives bringing this vision to life
This is the first expedition. Those who join us now will always be remembered as the first travellers.