Category: Art

Activism,
Art,
People,
Sonic Transmissions
Sonic Transmissions: Cassie Kinoshi
Sonic Transmissions: Cassie Kinoshi
Cassie shares her process, influences, politics and the narratives that she's are inspired to tell.

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Art,
People
Diasporic Growing Pains & the Sudan Revolution
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.
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
Skin Deep meets Rebekah Murrell
Culture Editor Nkenna Akunna caught up with friend of the Skin Deep fam, Rebekah Murrell.

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People,
Skin Deep Meets
Skin Deep meets Alfie Enoch
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
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 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.

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People,
Skin Deep Meets
Skin Deep Meets Comedian and Actor Travis Jay
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: 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: 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.

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Policy,
Skin Deep Meets
How do we map ‘invisible’ cities, and put the lived experiences of the residents at the heart?
How do we map ‘invisible’ cities, and put the lived experiences of the residents at the heart?
Whenever I said that I was from Casablanca people would say ‘Oh, that’s so romantic!’ There is nothing romantic! Every image that exists in the collective imagination about this city comes from the Michael Curtis movie that was not even shot here!

Activism,
Art
Jay Bernard’s Surge, the process of documenting overlooked Black British history, and the struggles we are yet to overcome
Jay Bernard’s Surge, the process of documenting overlooked Black British history, and the struggles we are yet to overcome
Paying homage to the victims of the New Cross fire in 1981.