Speaky Spokey

19/06/2025

Frantz Fanon, the revolutionary psychiatrist. What does his analysis say today about the pathology of colonialism and Western powers dehumanising of those they deem inferior and not quite human. Join Writers Mosaic at British Library on Thurs 3 July. Tix here: https://events.bl.uk/events/writersmosaic-franz-fanon-the-freedom-fighter

27/10/2024

Latest episode of What We Leave We Carry on Writers Mosaic with the fab Sonia Bell who was interviewed by Suzanne Harrington

Sonia Bell reflects on how experience of moving to the UK differed between her and her mother.

16/10/2024

One of my favourite pieces of writing this year by one of my favourite people

The journalist on an Indian book market, a 1920s cameraman, Byron's timelessness, an interactive app, a Sicilian art hotel, and the inimitable Vangelis

15/10/2024

Well, it won't last long, so catch it while you can: I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be, for the extortionate amount of 99 pence. Vulgar, I know but hey ho...

13/10/2024

Riffing on the doc about the intrepid & itinerant poet Jamaican poet Claude McKay with Burt Caesar, Jason Allen-Paisant & Hannah Lowe at the BFI

The Jamaican poet and novelist Claude McKay was a leading light of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance. He was a restless figure who travelled widely and as the recent documentary Claude McKay: from Harlem to Marseille shows, he struggled to live by his pen. McKay’s defiant poem, ‘If We Must Die’, be...

30/09/2024

A Writers Mosaic night at British Library chopping it up with Angeline Morrison Music Corinne Fowler John Siddique Hannah Lowe Roger Robinson & J***y Pitts about how all-a-we reach the coast and countryside now

Black and brown Britons take to the countryside

30/09/2024

Angeline Morrison Music, one of the stars of an arresting Writers Mosaic evening at the British Library with Roger Robinson Hannah Lowe John Siddique J***y Pitts & Corinne Fowler on how all-a-we is walkin' good in this green and pleasant land

Black and brown Britons take to the countryside

29/09/2024

Just one more day. Click on the site if you want to vote for Jazz Grant

Discover the CIRCA PRIZE 2024 ➵ a global initiative that platforms and awards £40,000 to the next generation of creative visionaries.

23/09/2024

BBC Radio 4 (extra) are repeating Homecoming this week. Praise Jah!

The voices of the Windrush generation tell their own stories.

23/09/2024

Toby Cato with the band Clayfoot at The Jazz Cafe on Thurs 26 Sep. I'll be there with Jo Alderson Jazz Grant Maya Yaya & Dominic Joseph Martlew - come on down & say hi. It's going to be a blast!

Bradley Zero and London’s hottest record label return to our home for a highly awaited RnB and hip-hop showcase.The slick singer-songwriter dreamcastmoe from Washing DC has released some of the most hotly-tipped and underground RnB, funk, soul, jazz, and hip-hop.The German-Moroccan singer, Douniah...

19/09/2024

This Writers Mosaic/ Speaky Spokey night with Raymond Antrobus Sea Sharp at the launch of Green Ray Gallery was a blast

A SpeakySpokey cabaret on making manifest the visual through story-telling hosted by WritersMosaic's Colin Grant

14/09/2024

Thanks to all of the SpeakySpokeyites who came to see the show on Thursday. The Green Ray Gallery space showing A Picture That Never Fades - with animations and the mood board wall (below), paintings and wall of eyes - is open to the public for one more day. Worth taking a look if you have the chance.

Address: The Lighthouse, New England House (entrance on Elder Place) Brighton BN1 4GH

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