Voiced
The Festival for Endangered Languages

Hear new voices at this festival celebrating artists making work in endangered languages and dialects.
Through poetry, performance, talks, live events and visual art, the festival brings together a remarkable line-up of artists whose work marks the vast impact art has on language and language has on art.
This is the first UK creative festival to celebrate the linguistic vitality of countries around the world, as well as the endangered languages and dialects that continue to thrive within the UK.
Co-curated by Sam Winston, an artist whose interdisciplinary practice explores language not only as a carrier of messages but also as a visual form in and of itself, and Chris McCabe, a poet, novelist, artist and librarian at the National Poetry Library, the festival promises to introduce audiences to new ways of thinking about and engaging with language.
Lead artwork credit: Silent words that bounce around the mind bumping into organs, synthesisers, guitar chords, breaths-breathing, montenegrofisher, 2024.
Voiced: The Creative Voice Hub
Leading poets, artists and writers explore how we say the things most important to us in this free exhibition on Level G.
Workshops Programme
Dive deeper into the shapes and forms of languages in these hands-on workshops.
Live Literature Programme
Experience music, poetry, performance, talks and live events with a remarkable line-up of artists whose work explores the profound influence of art on language and of language on art.
More to discover
Explore vanishing voices, endangered texts, newly commissioned poems and unique visual scripts in intimate spaces across the Centre.