Kamitan Arts - Non-Profit Community Company in London

Kamitan Arts are advocating for more local representation from diverse professional artists (with a focus on Poets) & for long-standing grassroots performing arts organisations within RBKC to be well-funded & programmed as precedence in the Kensington & Chelsea Festival. Our pilot event 'Poetry On The Steps' is to raise awareness of our cause and will take place on the steps of Opera Holland Park on Wed 16th Aug 1pm where you will witness an array of eclectic multi-cultural and bi-lingual local poets and live musicians from the Kamitan Arts inter-generational family. We warmly welcome you to come along with family, friends, arts, culture and poetry enthusiasts as well as anyone passionate in using the arts to bring about social change!

'Art Is Change' poem which was written as part of Kensington and Chelsea Art's Week's theme for 2023 and recited at the Saatchi Gallery for our 6th Grenfell Anniversary commemoration in collaboration with SPID Theatre's 'Our Story of Hope': 'Art Is Change' by Princess Emmanuelle

This piece 'Ismi' اسمي by our inspirational female poetess whom @KamitanArts KA's EmpresS *1 had the pleasure to meet and share the same stage with at the Poetry Cafe all the way back in 2001! Suheir Hammad ( سهير حماد ), is one of the authentic diverse female poets that we chose to share with the Kensington Aldridge Academy 's (KAA) students at the start of the week for their 'Lit Fest 2023'. Kamitan Arts (KA) had much joy in introducing our culturally diverse students to a poetess that they connected with and had never heard of before we shared this simple yet empowering piece by her, touching upon identity, perceptions, misconceptions and cultural appropriation. The theme of the Lit Fest is #Embrace and we are very pleased that the KAA students began to share and 'embrace' their identity, feeling proud of who they are and where they come from as well as experimenting with their bi-lingual tongues, that we at KA always encourage!