Á Tea for Two with Luka Lesson

Á Tea For Two  is a place for the types of real chats that happen over a cuppa not all structured like a proper interview, just a place to let what is in the space between two creatives come up. The intimacy of a cuppa.... where the conversation can go anywhere?

I am honoured to have my friend, neighbour and fellow Vyva family member Luka Lesson join us this month for a real life Cuppa together in the bus and not just across the internet. Luka is an incredible poet, rapper, activist and god damn good human. We have got to know each other as neighbours in our small town. Although we were close in kilometres, the both of us have toured a lot and a lot overseas so ships passing in the night, and it took Covid to slow us down to really spend more time together. But then again in a small town, I suppose it was only a matter of time before our rebellious souls paths would have crossed anyways.

From the first show I saw of Lukas about 4 years ago until now, I have always been struck by how powerful Truth emanates from Luka. His words are powerful, but equally powerful is with conviction in which he holds himself in those words and truths on and off stage. Over our Cuppa we talk about these truths and how he got there. We talk about Barry's Tea and Greek Mountain Tea and Yogurt. We spoke about Greek Culture, Irish Culture, Museums and the stuff they steal, the power of the pen and author and who holds the pen and how both of us came to writing from the perspectives we write from. As well as some humorous things that have happened on and off stage. I know ye will love his way of putting words together and his powerful perspectives on many things which we learn came to him from an early age. He is poetry in motion. I love when a chat just naturally goes where it wants to go and this was one of those beautiful moments where some things wanted to be discussed in the space between Luka and I and it just emerged.

MORE ON LUKA LESSON:

WEBSITE for more info on Luka: https://www.lukalesson.com/

PATREON for Luka: https://www.patreon.com/lukalesson

Luka Lesson is a poet, rapper and educator of Greek heritage born in Meanjin/Brisbane. His work crosses between the history of his family homeland, the fiercely political and the vulnerably self-reflective. A former Australian Poetry Slam Champion (2011), Luka has featured at the mecca for slam poetry: the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe (NYC) multiple times, performed with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and toured with respected UK rappers Akala & Lowkey. Luka has released two collections of poetry independently: The Future Ancients (2013) & Antidote (2015) and two poetic rap albums: Please Resist Me (2012) & EXIT (2014).

Luka has always used poetry and rap writing workshops as a form of activism, helping young people to articulate and perform their work for the past 15 years in education centres worldwide, amplifying countless marginalised voices in the process. Luka's poems and rap verses are being studied on official school curriculums throughout Australia, and unofficially by rebellious educators worldwide.