Join us on Saturday night at Peckham24 for In at Least One Dream!—a poetry night featuring four artists performing works that connect with photography, each with distinct perspectives and encounters with image-making.
The line-up includes award winning poet Roger Robinson, whose collaboration with artist Johny Pitts on Home Is Not a Place saw them travel across the UK reflecting on Black Britishness. Also performing are Charlie Fitz & Oscar Vinter whose collaborative, interdisciplinary practice is rooted in themes of care, memory and illness.
They are joined by Siddharth Khajuria, an artist working across photography and writing to explore social assimilation and resistance, and Mitchell Robertson, whose poetry examines class and masculinity through storytelling.
Following the performances we will continue the night together in true Peckham24 spirit, with drinks and the opportunity to browse photobooks, including P5, Photoworks’ new photo-poetry pamphlet series.
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Roger Robinson won the T.S. Eliot Prize (2019), the RSL Ondaatje Prize (2020) and the Cholmondeley Award (2024). He is a Royal Society of Literature Fellow and has been shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, the OCM Bocas Poetry Prize, the Oxford Brookes Poetry Prize, and the European Prize for Freedom. His collection A Portable Paradise was named a New Statesman Book of the Year. His book Home Is Not a Place, created in collaboration with Johny Pitts, was a Guardian Poetry Book of the Year and shortlisted for the British Book Awards.
Insta: @rogerrobinsononline
Website: rogerrobinsononline.com
Partners in art and life, Charlie Fitz (She/They) and Oscar Vinter (He/They) currently live in Devon, the UK with their dog Stanley. Together they create work that explores relationships of care, memory, illness and embodiment in a range of mediums from photography, music and the moving image. Fitz is a self-taught artist, writer and medical humanities researcher. She is a founding member of Resting Up Collective and a co-director of the remote artist studio TRIAD³. Her work is rooted in expressing and exploring her embodied experience of living whilst sick and disabled. Vinter is an Afropean, neurodivergent multimedia artist, filmmaker, composer and audio-visual researcher. Their work is interested in blending the mythic and the personal in various mediums from photography, writing to music and film.
Mitchell Robertson is an actor, writer and filmmaker from Cumbernauld in Scotland. Carried by a narrative driven style, Mitchell’s written work explores class and masculinity, with a strong focus on story in an attempt to delineate where things often begin and where they end. Some of his poetry performance credits include; The Roundhouse and La Poste Rodier in Paris. On Screen you can see him most recently in the new HBO/BBC drama Half Man.
Siddharth Khajuria is a British-Indian artist and producer, based in suburban London. He uses photography and writing to make images, books, zines and objects. His work traces the tension between assimilation and resistance in our social and natural habitats.
Recent projects include a series of painted photographs, Your Careful Facades, and the book I’m Just Making Noise Really, a communal portrait built from the words of friends. Earlier this year, he also co-produced A Map of the Moon, a documentary for BBC Radio 4 about human imaginations for the moon.
He’s the co-founder and Director of Grand Plan, a charity that awards £1,000 grants to UK-based artists of colour, and was previously Senior Producer at the Barbican, and Director of Science Gallery London.
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Accessibility
This event is taking place at Sunset Studios in Studio One inside the Bussey Building. You can access Sunset Studios using the Red Stairs entrance which you will find midway along the Bussey Alley. The entrance to Red Stairs is painted red with two large doors and a sign above. These doors will be wide open on your arrival and there will be sign posting to Studio One.
A site map can be seen here.
Studio One is located on the 2nd floor. There are stairs via the right and lift access via the left (the lift is grey). As this is an industrial building, the lift is a goods lift and has no windows.
The nearest fully accessible toilets are on the ground floor of the Bussey Building, next to the DG Studios, or across the yard at the Social and at Copeland Gallery.