Welcome to SoapBox
On September 23rd 2024, we became SoapBox Spoken Word CIC (No.15971136) a legal non-profit company that uses spoken word as a tool to benefit people and communities. After many of years of hosting a wide variety of original live performance, we have decided to focus our efforts on our first love: words, stories and ideas – spoken aloud on a mic, in a room full of people.
Established in 2006, with the simple aim of creating an open-access event that really welcomes (not just tolerates) spoken word artists to the stage, our journey has been one of experimentation, education, and evolution. Over the past two decades we have created magical events across Suffolk and Norfolk, festival stages, sell-out shows in arts centres, open mics, and much more. Have a look at our Youtube channel for a glimpse into our rich history.
We are proud and honoured to have given hundreds of new and emerging artists their first experience on stage. We truly understand the bravery it takes to get up in public to speak your truth, so we create uniquely beautiful safe spaces to honour these extraordinary efforts. We work extremely hard to promote our events, with printed flyers, posters, and zines - distributed regionally - at the core of our efforts, along with supplementary digital activity on Instagram and Facebook.