Are you a young poet looking to take the next step in your career? Do you want to start hosting or facilitating, but don't know how? The Take Over is here for you!

The Take Over is looking for ambitious young poets 16-26 to join our summer development programme. Through weekly workshops from July to September, you will design and host your own unique live poetry event at The White House, Dagenham, developing key skills and contacts every modern poet needs. The Take Over is free and open to young poets at all levels of experience.

Workshops are every Friday 5-8pm at The White House, Dagenham - come along at any point in the project and you will be welcome, we want to hear what all of you have to say!

The Take Over is supported by the Mayor of London's Culture Seeds.

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The Take Over is hosted by Aislinn Evans & Dauda Ladejobi.

Aislinn is a poet, printmaker, and cartoonist from Romford. A former UK slam champion and World Slam finalist, Aislinn founded of The Sofa Slam - Dagenham's fist and only poetry slam - in 2018.

Dauda is a rapper, actor and spoken word artist. He grew up in Barking and Dagenham and takes a lot of his influence from hiphop, grime and soul. Dauda runs a monthly open mic night at the Barking Broadway called Spoken not Stirred.