All the Houses I’ve Ever Lived In: The Poetry and Politics of ‘Home’

Eats & Beats is coming to Museum of the Home! Following the success of their sold-out events and national campaign with GoDaddy, they’re returning with more fresh flavours courtesy of an award-winning chef and a scorching lineup of some of London’s most exciting rising stars. The night is a celebration of our love of good food, drink and live music.

This event is part of our Campaign for Change programming and directly supports our partner Hackney Foodbank. There will also be opportunities to support the campaign for Food Equality on the night.

About Kieran Yates

Kieran Yates is a London-based journalist, broadcaster and editor who has been writing about culture, technology and politics for over 10 years. She’s written for The Guardian, FADER, VICE, The Independent and beyond.

Yates contributed to the award-winning book of essays, ‘The Good Immigrant’ in 2017 about immigrant stories in the UK, where she wrote about ‘Going Home’. In 2015 she started a fanzine called ‘British Values’, a political satire and culture magazine that celebrates immigrant communities in the UK. She is the co-author of ‘Generation Vexed: What the English riots didn’t tell us about your nation’s youth’ published by Random House in 2011, and was part of The Guardian’s ‘My Favourite Album’ eBook in 2011.

Her latest book, “All The Houses I’ve Ever Lived In”, charts an intimate look at the meaning and making of home – and takes us through the material cultures of pebbledash and net curtains, to the many houses she has lived in, and how we build home under the shadow of our housing crisis.

Yates is also a regular host and has hosted discussions at the Southbank’s legendary WOW festival discussing race, interviewing Mohsin Hamid and Riz Ahmed at the London Literature Festival, as well as hosting a discussion on decolonising architecture for RIBA.

About Jacob Wu

Jacob Wu is a Theatre designer and Technical Specialist at UAL. He is passionate about integrating technology into his creative process and has a background in performing arts. Jacob had a residency at Theatre Companys where he later pursued an MFA in Scenography at the RCSSD with a scholarship in 2020. His work delves into the interaction between diaspora groups and their living spaces. Jacob is based in London and Hong Kong and continues to explore the intersections between his cultural background and assimilation to the United Kingdom.