TESTING GROUND - open mic poetry and performance

Join Testing Ground on the 4th November for another night of poetry and music.

Everyone's welcome for a night of poetry, music and performance which includes an open mic where audience members can sign up to show their stuff too! Testing Ground is a night to try out new things - whether it's your first open-mic, or you're a seasoned pro, it's a welcoming, supportive audience who want you to succeed as much as you do. Open-mic slots are sign up at the door and assigned on a lottery basis.

Cia Magnat is a writer and zinemaker from London. Her work has been published in fourteen poems, gal-dem, Propel, and bath magg, and has been broadcast by the BBC. She founded and edited Zindabad, a zine for people in diasporas worldwide, facilitates writing and zine-making workshop, and was selected for the 2026 Mayday Rooms & PageMasters Print Residency. Her debut pamphlet Lobe…