Pushin Pee 2.0

Breaking Boundaries, Building New Forms

Pushin Pee 2.0 is where poetry gets weird, wild, and wonderfully innovative. This platform pushes against the boundaries of conventional spoken word, encouraging artists to experiment with form, format, and fusion. It's a laboratory for poetic innovation where traditional rules are questioned, genre lines are blurred, and new possibilities emerge.

The vision behind Pushin Pee 2.0 is to expand what poetry can be and do. Beyond the standard open mic format, the platform explores multimedia integration, collaborative creation, audience participation, and cross-disciplinary experimentation. Poets work alongside visual artists, musicians, dancers, and digital creators to produce performances that challenge expectations and create memorable artistic experiences.

Sessions feature experimental performances, collaborative art-making, improvisational poetry, and thematic explorations that venture into uncharted creative territory. The platform has hosted groundbreaking work including projection-mapped poetry, live-scored performances, audience co-created pieces, and hybrid digital-physical presentations. Pushin Pee 2.0 celebrates risk-taking, rewards innovation, and provides artists with a safe space to fail, learn, and evolve.

The platform also serves as a testing ground for new ideas that later influence broader poetry programming. Many successful formats and techniques pioneered at Pushin Pee 2.0 have been adapted for other platforms, demonstrating its role as an incubator for creative innovation in Nigeria's poetry scene.

Outcomes:

Pioneering experimental poetry formats, expanded artistic possibilities, platform for interdisciplinary collaboration, and cultivated community of innovative artists pushing Nigerian poetry forward.