Speakeasy offers spoken-word, hip-hop, prose and poetry - and open mic night with full house band, hosted by RJ Hunter!

📢OCTOBER HEADLINER ANNOUNCEMENT📢

We are thrilled to announce that SpeakEasy’s October headliner will be...

Katie Ailes 🎉💃🎉

Dr. Katie Ailes is a poet, educator, producer, and dancer based in Edinburgh. She serves as the Education and Access Director for I Am Loud CIC, Scotland’s premiere spoken word organisation, and has delivered hundreds of events, workshops, and digital materials with them since 2015. She has performed and published her poetry across the UK and internationally; her poem “Outwith” was recognised in the Scottish Poetry Library’s ‘Best of the Best Scottish Poems’ list (2019) and in 2023 she featured as the Glastonbury Festival Poet in Residence.

We will be back on the 8th October at Adrian’s Bar for Katie’s incredible headline performance, more beautiful words from our open micers, and of course, creative chaos from your favourite house band🫡