Myrna Loy Shining A Light!

Posted on December 14, 2021December 14, 2021 by wordschoseme_sqwmtw

Black bright News Shining a Light on Luton’s Go-To People.

SHINE A LIGHT ON BLACK INFLUENCERS IN LUTON SERIES.

Shine a Light on black influencers in Luton, is the theme of this series, and Myrna Loy invited a few people to be interviewed.

It was such a privilege and honour to be asked. Myrna is a great host and has been a close friend for many years. I enjoy her work and her podcast very much and wanted to share some of her work with you.

Blackbright News

Shine a Light

Premiers from the 13-19 December 2021.

Starting at 9pm with X Factor’s Voices with Soul; on the 14th is Yvonne John; Wednesday it will be her daughter, Dionne Innerarity; Thursday it will be Selwyn Jean-Baptiste; Friday it will be Bob Baker, Saturday it will be Saundra Glenn and Sunday it will be Debra (Naz) Knight. Lawrence Palmer will be featured in the hard copy of Blackbright News along with these community entrepreneurs!

Shining a Light on Naz Knight

Naz Knight was born, raised and made in Luton and is first-generation British-born Caribbean.

Before writing biographical fiction, Naz founded the Queen’s award-winning NINE RED Presents…(CIC). That responds to the Luton community’s needs to bring about social change and positively impact people’s lives.

As a child, Naz said that “(she) Never chose to write, words chose me to be their writer,” describing herself as a word mechanic.

Naz is an interdisciplinary artist, whose practice comprises of the exploration of the contrasting yet interconnected elements of light, projection, sound and movement to transform and connect people and spaces, using poetry that delivers messages across all levels of awareness.

Discover her work at Books and Publications.

A Knight in the Museum - Naz Knight NINE RED Presents...(CIC)

Shining a Light on Myrna loy

Interviewed by her daughter.

Myrna Loy (aka Blackbright is a published author 8 books, including: ‘Lovers Rock (More than a Dance Floor), ‘Poetry’s Promise’, ‘Poetry’s Teacher’, ‘Poetry’s Therapist meets Poetry’s Teacher,’The Other Side of Tourism’, the ‘Spirit of Queens’

Shining a Light on

Saundra Glenn & Voices with Soul

Shining a Light on

Bob Baker & Yvonne John

Shining a Light on

Dionne Innerarity & Selwyn Jean-Baptiste

Love Never Fails

Posted on April 8, 2021April 8, 2021 by wordschoseme_sqwmtw

The Lord-Lieutenant of Bedfordshire Virtual Easter Service

“Love Never Fails” is one of my favourite ancient wisdoms, but one that I feel we need reminding of from time to time.

This Easter Service celebrated what is best about Bedfordshire; “Our people, diverse and beautiful”.

I had the privilege to read an excerpt from “The Hill We Climb”, the poem by Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history. A young, black female poet and activist whose work focuses on oppression, feminism, race, marginalisation, and the African diaspora. How could I not be inspired by her work?

When the Lord-Lieutenant asked me to read this poem for this service, she said to me, “It’s perfect for the moment”. How true that is. The service not only celebrated the great community spirit of Bedfordshire, but I felt it was underpinned by the love and gratitude of our Lord Lieutenant. Thanking each member of the Bedfordshire community for all that they have done to not only lift up others but also herself. What a beautiful soul and amazing human being?

I found this service was truly beautiful, so I am sharing it with you, and in celebration of our truly diverse nature, May I wish you Happy Easter, Happy Astarte, Happy Ostara, Happy Spring!

The Lord-Lieutenant of Bedfordshire Virtual Easter Service

Naz Knight reading Amanda Gorman "The Hill we Climb" at the Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire Easter service

The Lord-Lieutenant of Bedfordshire Virtual Easter Service

The Lord-ieutenant of Bedfordshire Virtual Easter Servi

Speak No Evil.

Posted on February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 by wordschoseme_sqwmtw

Speak No Evil.

Audio Extract- I Am Collateral Beauty

speak no evil

Extract from I Am Collateral Beauty by Naz Knight

We approach the subway that leads under the road; this is the only way out of this section and the only way to join the others. Deja is skipping ahead; she is such a happy little girl, so resilient, nothing phases her.

I, on the other hand, am frightened. As we approach the opening, I grab Deja by the hand, it’s dark inside, and the tunnel appears to bend up ahead. It’s only 50 meters, but I cannot see what is on the other side from here. However, I can start to see the familiar racist graffiti so often displayed on subway walls. I want to turn back, but the only way out is through.

As we reach the entrance, a man is leaning against a wall smoking. Deja smiles and waves; the man smiles back and mutters, “Monkey” under his breathe. Deja continues to skip by and stops just inside the tunnel. I run to catch her up and grab hold of her hand. “You ok?” I ask.

“I don’t mind it when they call me “Monkey,” Deja said. Swinging my hand as she skips along beside me. Preoccupied with trying to find the torch on my phone, I think I must have misheard her.

“What’s that, Sweetie?” I ask. I stop to look around me, to get my bearings a bit before we get too deep into the tunnel.

“I don’t mind it when they call me “Monkey,” she said. Looking up at me with her deep black eyes, shimmering in the torchlight. “I know they are trying to insult me, but I don’t see it that way.”

I’m curious and a little annoyed that she can brush it off so lightly; how can she not feel insulted? How can she not feel the impact of being called that? How does she look so calm, so peaceful, so filled with joy? Does she not understand?

I replied to her with perhaps more aggression than I should have to an eight-year-old child, and I said. “Why doesn’t racism bother you?”

“That’s not what I said!” Deja replied. “I said ‘I don’t mind it when they call me “Monkey,”’ that ‘I know they are trying to insult me, but I don’t see it that way.’”

Why? I asked gently. I am a little taken aback that she mirrored my level of aggression. I also realise that I want to argue with an eight-year-old child because I am angry at her for being at peace when someone just called her “Monkey.”

She looked deep into my eyes as she spoke. “My parents have friends from all different backgrounds and all different ages, all kinds of people.” She paused for a moment as if to catch her thoughts, then she continued. “We visit them often at their homes and offices; there is always some kind of event or occasion.” A flicker of light flashed across her eyes as if she remembered something that made her feel happy. She paused to enjoy the memory for a second, and then she smiled as she continued. “In their homes or offices, whatever the place, there would be on a wall, or a bookshelf; a postcard, a poster, a carving, a mug, a plate, or a statue of Mizaru, Kikazaru, Iwazaru: The Three Wise Monkeys.” She gestures as she speaks, first covering her mouth, then her ears, and finally her eyes. “One speaks no evil, one hears no evil, and one sees no evil.” She quickly removes her hands from her eyes, just like in the game Peek-a-Boo, as she says, “I am the one that speaks no evil.”

speak no evil

Poetry E.motion – Poetry Collection

Posted on February 22, 2021February 21, 2021 by wordschoseme_sqwmtw

Poetry E.motion:

Collateral Beauty Collection

Part of the Collateral Beauty Series (CBS) “Poetry E.motion: Collateral Beauty” is CBS’s prose and poetry with journey guide. It’s called Poetry E.motion, with the “E” standing for energy in emotion and exploring the importance of intuition and intellect and encourages the audience to “Own Your Own Mind”.

Description

Available in paperback.

“Poetry E.motion: Collateral Beauty Collection” part of The Collateral Beauty Series (CBS), explores Libby’s story, a young, black, woman from Luton. CBS investigates what it is like for her to grow up in a post-war, post-industrial, working-class town; as she tries to become all she wants to become. Pursue a changeless sense of who she is, where she has come from and seeks to reach the place she wants to go.

CBS is one story explored in three ways:- Poetry, Play and Prose. “I Am Collateral Beauty” a suspense/thriller novel. “I Can See What The Dark Looks Like” is an immersive, digital, poetry, theatre play created using multimedia performance. “Poetry Emotion: Collateral Beauty” is CBS’s prose and poetry, with journey guide. Similar to Naz’s earlier poetry book “Butterfly Drinks Crocodile Tears”. However, this is a three-part book based upon Mazza’s multidimensional poetry therapy practice model.

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Authors Bio

Naz Knight was born, raised and made in Luton and is first-generation British-born Caribbean. Before writing biographical fiction, Naz founded the Queen’s award-winning NINE RED Presents…(CIC) that responds to the Luton community’s needs to bring about social change and positively impact people’s lives.

Naz published her first book in 2016 “Butterfly Drinks Crocodile Tears” a collection of Art, Prose and Poetry with a forward written by Dr Shaun Wallace; Barrister and a “chaser” on ITV’s “The Chase”. As a child, Naz said that “(she) Never chose to write, words chose me to be their writer,” describing herself as a word mechanic.

Find out more about Naz Knight at wordschoseme.com and Nine Red at nineredpresents.org.uk

About Deb-Ra

Why This Book?

Part of the Collateral Beauty Series (CBS) “Poetry E.motion: Collateral Beauty” is CBS’s prose and poetry with journey guide.

It’s called Poetry E.motion, with the “E” standing for energy in emotion and exploring the importance of intuition and intellect and encourages the audience to “Own Your Own Mind”.

We are Beauty because we are compassion, joy, love, empathy, understanding, patience, and tolerance. Our beauty we own, it’s the damage that is collateral.

There is a saying of unknown origins which states, “Butterflies can’t see their wings. They can’t see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well”.

It is not just how they look at themselves but also how they view the events and circumstances they find themselves in.

The idea is that love is at the centre of suffering, pain and loss and this at its core is collateral beauty.

Author Q&A

Poetry E.motion:Collateral Beauty Collection Audio extract

Poetry E.motion: Collateral Beauty Collection. Book Cover & Sell Sheets.

Poetry E.motion: Collateral Beauty Collection Trailer

Publisher: NINE RED Presents… (CIC)
ISBN: 9780995633216
Number of pages: 150
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 30 mm

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I Can See What The Dark Looks Like – Theatre Play

Posted on February 22, 2021February 21, 2021 by wordschoseme_sqwmtw

“I Can See What The Dark Looks Like”

“Sometimes a Flame Needs Darkness to Ignite”

“I Can See What The Dark Looks Like” is an immersive, digital, poetry, theatre play by Naz Knight.

Exploring what it is to be human and transformative of both people and spaces. The play connects the audience to each other and the space, not by specific experience, but by the emotional reaction the experience produces.

Description

Available in paperback and live performance (Spring 2022).

The multidimensional nature of “I Can See What The Dark Looks Like” emphasizes healing and transforms both people and space. The play creates feeling spaces and explores what it is to be human. Going beyond superficial differences and artificial labels such as colour, race, religion, gender, age, ability, etc. instead focusing on compassion, empathy, appreciation and joy, from which healing naturally occurs.

“I Can See What The Dark Looks Like” part of The Collateral Beauty Series (CBS), explores Libby’s story, a young, black, woman from Luton. CBS investigates what it is like for her to grow up in a post-war, post-industrial, working-class town; as she tries to become all she wants to become. Pursue a changeless sense of who she is, where she has come from and seeks to reach the place she wants to go.

Buy The Book!

Authors Bio

Find out more about Naz Knight at wordschoseme.com and Nine Red at nineredpresents.org.uk

About Deb-Ra

Why This Book?

Exploring what it is to be human and transformative of both people and spaces.

The play connects the audience to each other and the space, not by specific experience, but by the emotional reaction the experience produces.

We are Beauty because we are compassion, joy, love, empathy, understanding, patience, and tolerance. Our beauty we own, it’s the damage that is collateral.

There is a saying of unknown origins which states;

“Butterflies can’t see their wings. They can’t see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well”.

It is not just how they look at themselves but also how they view the events and circumstances they find themselves in.

The idea is that love is at the centre of suffering, pain and loss and this at its core is collateral beauty.

Author Q&A

VIEW trailers

Buy Book

I Can See What The Dark Looks Like Trailer

What The Dark Looks Like” is an immersive, digital, poetry, theatre play. Exploring what it is to be human and transformative of both people and spaces. The play connects the audience to each other and the space, not by specific experience, but by the emotional reaction the experience produces.

Publisher: NINE RED Presents… (CIC)
ISBN: 9780995633223
Number of pages: 300
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 30 mm

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I Can See What The Dark Looks Like Book Cover & Sell Sheets.

Eve Ov Luton

Posted on February 22, 2021February 21, 2021 by wordschoseme_sqwmtw

Eve Ov Luton (EVOLUTION)

Spelt Evolution but pronounced Eve Ov Luton. Is a collection of poetry that explores Womanhood, Society and Evolution.

Books & Publications

L-Town Mind

This is my version of Alicia Keyes’s “Empire State of Mind”. A tribute to my favourite artist and city, with love to my home town

Eve Ov Luton (EVe’s LUTON)

Spelt Evolution but pronounced Eve’s Luton. Is a collection of poetry that reflects the Luton Naz sees.

Luton is a town with an enormous and overwhelming sense of community togetherness. Luton is a community that rises to face adversity, we support each other, we stand together and we fight for each other.

No matter the issue, the cause or the challenge; it’s guaranteed within Luton, there will be a community group or individual, grassroots or otherwise that will be there to lead the charge in providing support or helping gain justice.

We are the voices of those misunderstood as angry, uncompromising and obstreperous; for our voices can just as easily be understood as the passionate cry bore out of frustration of powerless people whose voices remain unheard. Eve Ov Luton explores the hidden voices of our society.

I Am That I Am

Posted on February 21, 2021February 21, 2021 by wordschoseme_sqwmtw

I Am Collateral Beauty – Trailer

Libby is a young black woman from Luton, an athlete and trainee barrister with aspirations of becoming a writer. However, everything is not as it seems. One day she ends up lost in a maze, where she meets eight strangers; all unsure of how they got there, all they know is that the labyrinth has an ominous message.

“Nine will enter, one will leave”.

I Am Collateral Beauty – Book Trailer & Excerpt

Posted on February 10, 2021February 21, 2021 by wordschoseme_sqwmtw

I Am Collateral Beauty – Book Trailer & Excerpt

“Nine will enter, one will leave”.

Excerpt from I Am Collateral Beauty.

I Am Collateral Beauty – Novel

Posted on February 10, 2021February 21, 2021 by wordschoseme_sqwmtw

I am Collateral Beauty

“Nine will enter, one will leave”.

Description

Available in paperback, e-book and audiobook.

“I Am Collateral Beauty” part of The Collateral Beauty Series (CBS), explores Libby’s story, a young, black, woman from Luton. CBS investigates what it is like for her to grow up in a post-war, post-industrial, working-class town; as she tries to become all she wants to become. Pursue a changeless sense of who she is, where she has come from and seeks to reach the place she wants to go.

Buy The Book!

Authors Bio

Find out more about Naz Knight at wordschoseme.com and Nine Red at nineredpresents.org.uk

About Deb-Ra

Why This Book?

Because I want to remind people that there is still love in the world.

Negativity flies at us daily, in a world that seems so dark and bleak and a society that feels broken.

It’s important to highlight the light that is within us all. To know that light will shine no matter how dark it gets.

We are Beauty because we are compassion, joy, love, empathy, understanding, patience, and tolerance. Our beauty we own, it’s the damage that is collateral.

There is a saying of unknown origins which states, “Butterflies can’t see their wings. They can’t see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well”.

It is not just how they look at themselves but also how they view the events and circumstances they find themselves in.

The idea is that love is at the centre of suffering, pain and loss and this at its core is collateral beauty.

Author Q&A

I Am Collateral Beauty Audio extract.

I Am Collateral Beauty Book Cover & Sell Sheets.

I Am Collateral Beauty Trailer

“I Am Collateral Beauty” is part of The Collateral Beauty Series (CBS), which explores Libby’s story. CBS investigates what it is like for her to grow up in a post-war, post-industrial, working-class town; as she tries to become all she wants to become. Pursue a changeless sense of who she is, where she has come from and seeks to reach the place she wants to go.

Publisher: NINE RED Presents… (CIC)
ISBN: 9780995633247
Number of pages: 333
Weight: 300 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 30 mm

Buy The Book

VIEW trailers

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A Love Story To Luton…

Posted on February 9, 2021February 21, 2021 by wordschoseme_sqwmtw

A Love Story To Luton…

…Because Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder.

Naz Knight was born, raised and made in Luton and is first-generation British-born Caribbean. The Collateral Beauty Series launches in May 2021 and is one story explored in three ways:- Poetry, Play and Prose, available in Paperback, E-Book & Audiobook (all major platforms).

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Buy Book

collateral beauty series

The Collateral Beauty Series (CBS) explores Libby’s story, a young black woman from Luton. Investigating what it is like for her to grow up in a post-war, post-industrial, working-class town as she tries to become all she wants to become. Pursue a changeless sense of who she is, where she has come from and seeks to reach the place she wants to go.

The CBS Collection: “I Am Collateral Beauty” – A suspense novel. “Poetry Emotion: Collateral Beauty Collection” – Poetry & Prose. “I Can See What The Dark Looks Like” – Theatre Play. All paperbacks are available to pre-order from Waterstones.com. The E-Book & Audiobook versions of “I Am Collateral Beauty” are available for pre-order early autumn 2021. The play will be in theatres from Spring 2022.

CBS: Play

Sometimes A Flame Needs Darkness to Ignite.

Multimedia Poetry Theatre Play.

A Love Story To Luton – Naz Knight Media Kit 2021

CBS: Poetry

CBS’s prose and poetry with journey guide.

Own Your Own Mind.

A Love Story To Luton – Naz Knight Media Kit 2021

CBS: Prose

I Am That I Am

Biographical Fiction Suspense Novel.

A Love Story To Luton – Naz Knight Media Kit 2021

AUTHOR BIO

About Naz

Naz Knight was born, raised and made in Luton and is first-generation British-born Caribbean.

Before writing biographical fiction, Naz founded the Queen’s award-winning NINE RED Presents…(CIC) that responds to the Luton community’s needs to bring about social change and positively impact people’s lives.

As a child, Naz said that “(she) Never chose to write, words chose me to be their writer,” describing herself as a word mechanic.

Find out more about Naz Knight at wordschoseme.com and Nine Red at nineredpresents.org.uk

PRESS RELEASE

Embargoed for Release until Monday, 7 June 2021, at 7am.

Debra Knight LL.B (Hons)

NINE RED Presents…(CIC)

07881705719

NRP@artundefined.com

Nineredpresents.org.uk

A Love Story To Luton

(Because Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder.)

LUTON, BEDFORDSHIRE, 29 January 2021. Naz Knight was born, raised and made in Luton and is first-generation British-born Caribbean. The Collateral Beauty Series launches in May 2021 and is one story explored in three ways:- Poetry, Play and Prose, available in Paperback, E-Book & Audiobook (all major platforms).

“This is my scream of the butterfly, letting the world see the beauty I see in the place I call home. I guess you could call it a love story to Luton.” Naz Knight.

Before writing biographical fiction, Naz founded the Queen’s award-winning NINE RED Presents…(CIC). That responds to the Luton community’s needs to bring about social change and positively impact people’s lives.

For book trailers and other details see wordschoseme.com

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