Category: Art | Skin Deep

Skin Deep meets performance artist, theatre maker, poet and writer Travis Alabanza

What I long for is a place where we can opt-in or opt-out, choose to be invisible if want to, choose to be visible if we want to.

Art, People

Shingai releases

Shingai, the legendary front woman and bassist from Noisettes introduces the 'Ancient Futures' short film co-written and produced by Kakembo and Shingai to complement the EP.

Activism, Art, People

Sonic Transmissions: Cassie Kinoshi

Cassie shares her process, influences, politics and the narratives that she's are inspired to tell.

Activism, Art, People

Diasporic Growing Pains & the Sudan Revolution

Amuna Wagner reflects on her evolving relationship with diaspora, transnational solidarity, and revolutionary upheaval.

Art

Enjoying the sweet fruits of musical collaboration, Sierra Leone-style.

OSUSU, a 12 part album arranged to connect the stars of the local scene to a constellation of international musicians, producers, and technicians.

Art, People, Skin Deep Meets

Skin Deep meets Rebekah Murrell

Culture Editor Nkenna Akunna caught up with friend of the Skin Deep fam, Rebekah Murrell.

People, Skin Deep Meets

Skin Deep meets Alfie Enoch

Towards the end of his run in Tree at the Young Vic, Skin Deep caught up with Alfie Enoch to talk about the importance of Black British storytelling.

Art, Skin Deep Meets

Skin Deep meets rising Sierra Leonean rap star Drizilik

Courtney Yusuf chats to Drizilik about the power of memory and listening in writing, losing a family to gain everything, and his slick new Creole album, Shukubly.

Art

BBZ BLK BK: Alternative Graduate Show 2019

BBZ’s Alternative Graduate show opened at the Copeland Gallery in Peckham last Wednesday, featuring ten early career artists practising in a range of mediums.

Art, People, Skin Deep Meets

Skin Deep Meets Comedian and Actor Travis Jay

Travis Jay on fatherhood, how to write jokes about social injustices and getting the recognition he deserves.

Art, Skin Deep Meets

Skin Deep Meets: Small Island

Skin Deep Meets the cast of Small Island to talk about the importance of representing the Windrush generation on stage, and why they think art and creativity remains significant in moments of immense political and social threat.

Art, Skin Deep Meets

Bronx Gothic: An exploration of freedom, trauma, and the limits of black girlhood

Bronx Gothic is turbulent, vulnerable, and its structural lines do not slot tidily in the mental spaces we are used to making as audience members.