Events
Events
Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story
A new documentary paints a fascinating portrait of the pioneering singer and author Pauline Black who, with the band The Selecter, was central in the late 1970s to the rise of 2-tone music and the revival of Ska. As the film is released she talks with Gabriel Gbadamosi about her career and bearing witness to historical and contemporary British racial politics.
My Hit List
Jonny Wright’s cultural highlights
The writer on the expense of poverty, having a yolo good time, Sunset Boulevard in Brixton, South African queer photography, meeting your maker at a BBQ
What We Leave We Carry
Neethu Sathnayatha
Neethu Sathyanathan reflects on leaving Kerala in India to come to the UK, and taking to the stage, after five years, to try and make English people laugh.
Guest Edition
Portholes
Edited by Sunila Galappatti
Five writers from Afghanistan share days from their journals of exile. This edition is a collaboration with Untold Narratives.
The Outrun
The film based on Amy Liptrot's memoir of recovery from alcoholism
Mr Loverman
Elderly closeted Caribbean men rekindle their love affair
The Ferry
Fragments of a Dream. The first of our Fiction series
Writing Parables Into Reality
Octavia E. Butler’s Parable Duology
Spotlight
The Apprentice
Prior to the US election, a film depicting rise of the 45th President of the US infuriated Donald Trump. Isabelle Dupuy reviewed The Apprentice and was later joined by American expats in the UK, giving their verdict on the biopic that tells the foundation story of Donald Trump along with his mentor, the infamous lawyer Roy M. Cohn.
InSight
Alford Dalrymple Gardner: remembered
Alford Dalrymple Gardner, a Windrush generation pioneer, died last week. In 2023, he visited the Edinburgh International Book Festival to discuss his memoir, Finding Home, with his son, Howard, Lisa Williams and Colin Grant. This film is courtesy of the EIBF archive.
Walk good: in Britain’s colonial countryside
WritersMosaic explores questions of migrants' and their descendants' relationship with the British countryside.