Kat François has been performing for over seven years both nationally and internationally, and is a fixture on the London Poetry scene.
Her slam wins include the BBC3 TV poetry slam in 2004 and the World poetry slam in 2005. She is the Resident Poet at The Theatre Royal, London, where she hosts and organises monthly poetry and music nights, Word4Word and Word-Up.
Kat Francois is also an educator, using performance poetry and creative writing to tackle social issues with children and adults.
Kat has released a spoken word CD entitled Blessed By Words and her first written collection of poetry Rhyme and Reason was released in February.
From humble beginnings as a Hip-Hop DJ, Mister Gee honed his spoken word skills as the host of the renowned performance poetry club Brix-tongue and is now one of the stars of the UK poetry scene. He has performed at the New York Nuyorican Poets Café and the Black Lily night in Philadelphia (home to Jill Scott and the Roots), as well as at the Edinburgh Festival. He runs workshops in schools and his album Poetry in the Key of Gee was released to critical acclaim.
Mister Gee is a co-winner of a Sony Gold Award for Radio as the resident poet on the Russell Brand Show on BBC Radio 2, and is the resident poet of the hit West-End musical Into The Hoods.
From humble beginnings as a Hip-Hop DJ, Mister Gee honed his spoken word skills as the host of the renowned performance poetry club Brix-tongue and is now one of the stars of the UK poetry scene. He has performed at the New York Nuyorican Poets Café and the Black Lily night in Philadelphia (home to Jill Scott and the Roots), as well as at the Edinburgh Festival. He runs workshops in schools and his album Poetry in the Key of Gee was released to critical acclaim.