Peace, Positivity and Poetry
Love Poetry Hate Racism
Celebrating Diversity through the Spoken Word across the Spoken World
April 18th, 19th and 20th 2008
Love Poetry Hate Racism is an organisation that exists to promote cultural diversity and harmony through poetry and spoken word. Each year we ask poets across the world (YOU!) to put themselves forward to volunteer to hold events on one weekend in April. If you would like to be involved please let us know what kind of an event you’d like to hold, where you will hold it and send us your publicity material and we will list those details on this page. Please check our blog for FAQs
We are now getting ready for LPHR 2008! If you'd like to be involved please message us. Events take place all over the world and if there isn't an event organiser close to you why not do it yourself? Information on how to get invloved is in our blog posts.
In Belfast over the past few years there has been a substantial rise in racist attacks on our growing ethnic minority population. We know, through travelling, that ours is not the only city where the scourge of racism has risen sharply over the last few years, whether against Aboriginal people and ethnic minorities (particularly Muslims) in Australia, or the abuse suffered by people from Africa or Eastern Europe in Ireland.
We have always made it a point in our performances and in our promotional material, that we are opposed to discrimination against anyone on the basis of their ethnic origins, the colour of their skin or the religion they choose to adhere to.
We are putting out this call to make international the cry from writers and poets that we must combat racism and celebrate diversity. Following from a hugely successful international connection in 2007 in which fifty events took place in four continents we are now preparing for the 2008 event which will take place on the weekend of Friday April 18th to Sunday April 20th 2008.
If you would like to be part of this global celebration of diversity we need you to be able to get a group of people together to put on a poetry reading, slam contest, open mic night or whatever form you most prefer and let us know about it.
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