Ayse Balko

An hour and twenty minutes spoken word with music performance and audio book / album, Come To Tower is  A goodbye letter and a fresh new journey.    Ayse has a unique poetic style through her combined accents and bilingual thought process and your ears recognize the sound of something that’s remarkably different, and entirely inviting, daring, exciting, and artistic in all the right ways that stand out.  Brilliantly performed in spoken-word, everything from the accent in the vocals to the slick & smooth sound of the music that comes along with it. It is interesting & enticing, and with its clever lyricism & inspiring. Ayse Balkos's first poetry book, Come To Tower, is the poetry collection of a fresh voice of a renegade woman, angry, hopeful, strong, confused, clear and vulnerable. The poems are accompanied by Ash Gray’s beautiful tones of Hummingbird Gibson acoustic guitar, dazzlingly honest, unpretentious and real journey of a soul. Her voice is elegant, unique and or

The review Hub - Jacob Bush  " In   Canine Teeth, writer and performer Ayse Balkos shares her stories, most true and some slightly dramatised, of growing up as a Turkish woman. The show explores gender expectations in Turkish culture through its examination of the experiences of Balkos, her mother and her grandmother as single women. Ayse Balkos is clearly an excellent writer. She intersperses different parts of different stories well, and includes a moment of spoken word poetry. She has moments where she is fully engaging, especially in moments where she brings to life vivid characters other than herself. There are moments where one can see this piece has the potential to be something in the realm of Fleabag , using humour, emotion and caricatures to create a show that has something clear to say about the struggles of today’s society." The show details a young Turkish woman's awakening to her female power after a devastating day. It is about exploring the woman's ro