WritersMosaic grooves with Bullerengue
British Library, London
9 July 2024
WritersMosaic joined Bullerengue Circle at the British Library in a celebration of Afro Colombian culture, with a focus on conscious-lyric writing, drumming, singing and dancing.
The Forensic and the Fantastic
British Library, London
9 July 2024
Recently, WritersMosaic and the Poetry Translation Centre presented an evening of Latinx poetry with multimedia performances and Afro-Colombian music and dance. It was hosted by writer Amanda Vilanova the British Library.
Black British music’s good vibes
Southbank Centre, London
25 June 2024
‘One good thing about music’ sang Bob Marley is that ‘when it hits you, you feel no pain.’ WritersMosaic brought together Julian Marley, An Alien Called Harmony, Carol Leeming and Jeffrey Boakye to explore the extraordinary heterogeneity of black music.
Remember Me?
Bradford Literature Festival
29 June 2024
Just beneath the surface of modern life lies the unreliability of memory, denial, rage and the assertion of equivalence. WritersMosaic at the Bradford Literature Festival debates how, considering the flaws and biases of memory, the past is rendered in fiction and non fiction.
Paradise
Bloomsday Film Festival, Dublin
13 June 2024
WritersMosaic Films' 'Paradise' based on Roger Robinson’s tough but tender and ethereal poem is being screened at this year's Bloomsday Film Festival in Dublin.
WritersMosaic residency in Italy
Villa Lugara, Italy
May 2024
The inaugural month-long WritersMosaic writing retreat is coming to an end in Emilia-Romagna. Six writers, working across myriad genres, were awarded places at the residency in a new collaboration with the Hawthornden Foundation.
The Review
The Conduit Club, London
25 April 2024
WritersMosaic and the Jhalak Foundation launched The Review, a new literary magazine on 25 April. Focusing on writers of the global majority, The Review gives a platform to an exciting plurality of innovative voices, edited by Guy Gunaratne and designed by Michael Salu.
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.