Poets bid farewell to beloved spoken word night as Aberystwyth rum bar closes

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00:00I'm not aware of another space that has such regular confluence of the marginalised communities

00:09coming together and just listening to each other's stories.

00:12I'm very thankful that this place exists because I've developed such a confidence from getting

00:18up in front of people every month and just pouring my heart out.

00:24If a language dies and there's no one left alive who gives a shit, does it ever make a sound at all?

00:29Every time I apologise, it still comes out in English.

00:32The diverse nature of the group has been a particularly important thing for me.

00:37It seems that kind of almost accidentally the group's kind of let 50% LGBTQ...

00:42I'd say more than 50%.

00:44Yeah, yeah.

00:45This night is an important night because of what these guys have built.

00:50We listen to everybody who comes and has a story to tell.

00:54The feeling of sort of being judged or...

00:57It is such a judgement-free environment.

01:00Yeah.

01:01Very young people, the students who come, who endured lockdown and all of a sudden are now published.

01:07They're confident.

01:09Thank you everyone for teaching me what poetry actually is.

01:13Whether it's ethnic diversity, whether it's gender diversity, whether it's sexuality diversity,

01:19whether it's class diversity, whether it's age diversity, it doesn't matter.

01:23And that community is going to exist even after IRIES closes.

01:28Thank you, everybody.

01:29Representative, please.

01:30Thank you for having me to check my house on this comfy place and think that I am

01:33really good at it.

01:35That is our people's mascots, so I hope she's going to be back to school.

01:36And that was a polite meal by the way that I feel 50 or 50 a hour ago although they

01:53can say, here are they also one of our?,