Onome Edgeworth & Stephanie Turner

Jerome St Louis Award Winners 2007

The overall winners of the Rise Londonwide Youth Slam Championships has been on this year by the verbal acrobatics and lyrical gymnastics of free verse poets Onome Edgeworth and Stephanie Turner. Representing Kori Arts for the North of London, Onome and Stephanie have secured a 12 month mentoring deal with Joelle Taylor along with a professional development contract. The award allows them to work intensively on their poetry and their performance of it, at booking gigs, at learning how to facilitate workshops based on their own writing as well as looking at publishing and recording possibilities. They also won a home entertainment system donated by Paramount Picitres who have just released Freedom Writers, a copy of which was also given to all the slam finalists.

Stephanie Turner

Stephanie turner is multi-talented, hardworking and passionately creative. With an eager to learn positive attitude Stephanie is bringing a tropical blend of flavours to the scene, she incorporates song, beat-box and drama into her performance poetry, touching upon any subject area and inspired by life.

 

Barely eighteen she has already experienced working with young people (at Haverstock School and Camden Crossroads), four A-levels (Music Technology, Applied Business, Media Studies and Psychology) many creative workshops and classes (KORI arts, The Roundhouse and WAC weekend arts college) as well as an increasing portfolio of poetry and musical performance.

 

Some of the places she has shared her art include The Royal Albert Hall, Trafalgar Square, Carling Academy, The National Portrait Gallery and the Transatlantic Slavery Museum in Liverpool. Stephanie has also performed in schools/colleges, at showcases, restaurants and cabarets, she has participated in projects and master classes with established poets, musicians and performers including Kat François, Jacob Sam La Rose, Shortman, Tugstar, Nii Parkes, Crisis, Cleveland Watkiss and more.

 

Stephanie has created a short film documentary focusing on poetry, spoken word and rap featuring interviews with Kat François and Shortman and also has a healthy interest in graffiti art, typography and graphics. Recently designed and spayed stencils in one of the studios for a project in The Roundhouse, she designs flyers for KORI Arts and has begun experimenting with stencil graffiti on clothes. Watch this space.