InSight

Shakira Alleyne

The musician Shakira Alleyne performs at the Nightingale Room in Brighton, a collaboration between WritersMosaic and Speaking Volumes.

Margaret Busby

The actor Burt Caesar talks to the writer, editor, broadcaster and publisher Margaret Busby CBE about her beautiful career

Love Supreme in Life and Art

Dawn Cameron hosts a discussion of the importance of love in art, with Shamshad Khan, John Siddique and Colin Grant at the Ilkley Festival, 2021.

Sonic Vibrations

Michael McMillan reflects on the cultural importance of the West Indian Front Room, an updated version of the Victorian parlour. McMillan’s The Front Room, a reflection on a certain kind of kitsch aesthetic and a profound political statement of belonging, is now exhibited at the Museum of the Home.

Maame Blue

Maame Blue reads from her short story 'Prodigal', from her contribution to the anthology, Not Quite Right For Us, at the Nightingale Room in Brighton. The spoken word evening was a collaboration between Speaking Volumes and WritersMosaic, hosted by Colin Grant.

Cheryl Martin

Cheryl Martin sings and reads from her contribution to the anthology, Not Quite Right For Us, at the Nightingale Room in Brighton. The spoken word evening was a collaboration between Speaking Volumes and WritersMosaic, hosted by Colin Grant.

Empathy and the new-cross cultural voices of Wales

WritersMosaic launches in Cardiff with its founding editor Gabriel Gbadamosi, the Welsh-Guyanese writer, Charlotte Williams OBE, and Eric Ngalle Charles, a Cameroon-born poet whose journey as a refugee took him to Wales, with a discussion of the meaning of empathy in the context of Welsh nationalism and multiculturalism.

Partition: Scottish independence and the Bengali experience

WritersMosaic launches in Glasgow with an exploration of the Bengali experience of Partition as it impacted writers now living in Scotland. Crime writer Abir Mukherjee, literary critic Sourit Bhattacharya and poet and Tagore scholar Bashabi Fraser relate their family stories to contemporary debates on Scottish independence.

Diggers and Builders

How might writers also work as community activists? Are the two compatible? For WritersMosaic the playwright Linda Brogan, crime writer Peter Kalu, poet Shamshad Khan and screenwriter Jonny Wright join forces to resist the idea of ‘community’ as amateur, less good and low budget.

Find Your Own Voice

Find your own voice. Be distrustful of labels; look to your own soul, and don’t be burdened. Write to transform labels, to find out the story people don’t know, the one that opens a space for you to talk. Contributors: John Siddique, Hannah Lowe, Bonnie Greer and Daljit Nagra