Traveller Writers
British Library, London
9 April 2024
Blood & Belonging: a celebration of Gypsy, Romany & Traveller culture at the British Library hosted by Louise Doughty with filmmaker Jake Bowers, poet Jo Clement, writer Damian Le Bas and those virtuoso Roma musicians The Romany Diamonds.
James Baldwin
British Library, London
27 February 2024
What's so great about the boy-preacher, public intellectual, writer and activist a hundred years after his birth? WritersMosaic writers and the singer-songwriter Angeline Morrison praised Baldwin at a Speaky Spokey cabaret at the British Library.
You’re being watched
Burgh House, London
16 November 2023
The Guardian journalist Amelia Gentleman, author of The Windrush Betrayal, and Colin Grant, author of I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be, discuss whether black people in the UK develop a heightened sense of paranoia.
The Empress
Lyric Theatre, London
18 October 2023
Tanika Gupta reflects on her play The Empress, ten years on from its first production.
Abolition: Or, the Art of Forgetting
British Library, London
17 October 2023
A WritersMosaic audience joined writers Bonnie Greer, Gabriel Gbadamosi and S.I. Martin to reflect on Britain's willful amnesia about its role in the Atlantic Slave Trade in our live literature SpeakySpokey production at the British Library.
Your local Arena: from Brixton to Barbados
Nightingale Room, Brighton
19 October 2023
A rare screening of the 1981 BBC Arena documentary featuring Linton Kwesi Johnson, which was followed by a panel discussion and poetry performance.
Caine Prize writers
House of St Barnabas, London
29 September 2023
A spoken word celebration with Caine Prize writers and WritersMosaic.
Blood and Fire: Passion and Lyricism
British Library, London
12 September 2023
In the first of a series of collaborations with the British Library, Colin Grant hosted a WMLive event with Salena Godden, Jacqueline Crooks, Phoebe McIntosh and CATO.