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
Ellie Dobing’s cultural highlights
The audio producer on Brecon Beacons beckons, platters of gyros, an English Amazon, a flautist father, and a shapeshifting boy
What We Leave We Carry
Gabriela Raluco Andriesei
Gabriela Raluco Andriesi recalls leaving Romania, finding the freedom to be with her partner in Scotland and joining the police force
Guest Edition
A strategic retreat
Edited by Colin Grant
Six writers recall the experience of the first WritersMosaic retreat at Villa Lugara, in partnership with the Hawthornden Foundation
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.