Enjoy the magic of poetry with Midsummer evening Literature lounge

ANJAN SAHA: Creative Director
Anjan Saha is a London writer, lecturer and cultural commentator. He has performed across the globe from the Jazz Cafe in the Czech Republic to Mumbai, India. As the director of London Literature Lounge he runs events at the Poetry Cafe, Covent Garden and other venues. His work has featured in Pulse Magazine, Kin (Renaissance One), A Storm Between Fingers anthology.
ROBERT HOKUM has been gigging on the British Blues Circuit for several years now. The main band for his creative out-pouring is THE GUV'NORS, a seven piece band who play a sonic collision of hard funk, Latin and the blues (with a touch of hip hop added). In 2006 they released a new album 'Kickin'It Back' and played several Festivals including The Brecon Jazz Festival and the Ealing Blues Party (London's biggest Blues gig). gig with the ROBERT HOKUM BLUES BAND www.myspace.com/roberthokum

TAALIS (drums & percussion)

Taalis is a drummer & percussionist bridging the rhythmical worlds of India and the West.
Raised with Western drumming in Austria he has studied the Indian rhythm tradition with tablamaster, Suresh Talwalkar and percussion legend Trilok Gurtu and combines these influences to an organic drumming style. He is a progressive rhythm visionary right at the forefront of modern Indian music working with innovators like Talvin Singh, Niladri Kumar and Susheela Raman.

Adam Levin (Defcee)
Adam is a Hip-Hop artist and published poet originally from River Forest, Illinois, and now based in Madison, Wisconsin, where he attends the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a member of the First Wave Spoken Word and Urban Arts Learning Community. As a performer, Defcee has shared the stage with Saul Williams, Brother Ali, DJ Kool Herc, Little Brother, The Cool Kids, Danny Hoch, and Marc Bamuthi Joseph, performing at George Washington University, the Ann Arbor Book Festival, and competed in Louder Than A Bomb, the city-wide Chicago poetry slam, and the College Union Poetry Slam Invitational, the national collegiate poetry slam, as well as performed at Brave New Voices, the national youth poetry slam.
As an educator, Adam leads a weekly workshop at a high school in Madison, WI, and has led various workshops throughout Chicago's public school system. He is capable of leading workshops based on writing, movement, or both- meaning he can work on the craft of writing and performance, and the transition between the two.