Surely more eloquent words could be found for what I’m feeling led to pursue during this New Year. I almost wish it were a more glamorous prayer. These are the two words rattling about in my brain today. These are the words I wrote in my prayer journal… So, I prayed this simple prayer: Unsettle me. My stomach would soon be overstuffed and my resolve worn quite thin.īut that year I just couldn’t bring myself to write the list again. Yadda, yadda, yadda.īut each year around January 7, I’d get invited to a party where treats were plentiful and motivation scarce. I started out with great gusto to eat less, move more, make this a healthy lifestyle, and live in victory. After all, my list from one year to the next could have simply been a photocopy from the year before. I didn’t write a long list of resolutions as I had in previous years. That year, the year I finally got my eating issues under control, I started with a very simple New Year’s prayer. So when I lost 25 pounds a few years ago and kept it off for the first time in my life, it was a huge victory. I wanted to stop crying when I walked into my closet to get dressed in the morning. I wanted to be naturally thin like my sister. I wanted to stop calling myself awful names I’d never let another person call me. I wanted something to instantly fix my issues. My soul was rubbed raw from years of trying and failing. The step-free routes remain the same.For most of my life, I’ve struggled with my weight and committing to a healthy lifestyle. Please bear with us while we update our access map to reflect the refurbishment of the Royal Festival Hall’s Level 2 foyer spaces. They can arrange priority entry for you as soon as the doors open. Talk to a member of staff at the auditorium entrance if you have a disability that means you can’t queue, or you need extra time to take your seat. You can also use the external lift near the Artists' Entrance on Southbank Centre Square to reach Mandela Walk, Level 2.įor access to the Queen Elizabeth Hall auditorium seating rows A to C and wheelchair spaces in the Front Stalls, please enter via the Artists' Entrance in the Queen Elizabeth Hall Slip Road (Level 1). Turn right to find the Queen Elizabeth Hall main entrance. Take the JCB Glass Lift to Level 2 and exit to the Riverside Terrace. To reach this entrance, enter the Royal Festival Hall via the Southbank Centre Square Doors. WOW celebrates women, girls and non-binary people, takes a frank look at the obstacles they face and discusses solutions for change.įor step-free access from the Queen Elizabeth Hall Slip Road off Belvedere Road to the Queen Elizabeth Hall auditorium seating (excluding rows A to C) and wheelchair spaces in the Rear Stalls, plus Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer and the Purcell Room, please use the Queen Elizabeth Hall main entrance. Part of WOW – Women of the World festival. The collection from one of our most exciting contemporary poets promises that each reader – and everyone who joins this event – comes away changed. This is fragrant life, full of blood and perfume and shisha smoke and jasmine and incense. This is noisy life, full of music and weeping and surahs and sirens and birds. In Shire’s hands, lives spring into fullness. In this event, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head is brought to life by Shire and Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo. This electrifying collection features poems of migration, womanhood, trauma and resilience drawing on Shire’s own life, pop culture and news headlines. Shire is the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé’s Lemonade and Black Is King, and London’s first ever Young Poet Laureate. 'The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts,' says writer Roxane Gay.
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