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Skin Deep Meets Flamenco dancer Yinka Esi Graves
Yinka Esi Graves is a Black-British Flamenco dancer. She chats to Courtney Yusuf about her black identity and the tradition’s African roots.
Skin Deep meets Arinzé Kene
Nkenna Akunna meets Arinzé Kene, the second Black British playwright in history to have a West End open. They chat Misty, telling truthful stories of Black masculinity, and how he is exploding conventional methods of theatre-making.
Skin Deep meets Lilian Nejatpour
Lilian Nejatpour is a British-Iranian multidisciplinary artist whose latest piece, ‘Choreophobia’, explores the politicisation of male sensuality and the dislocation of dealing with multiple identities. She talks dance, bass, and doing the dishes with Courtney Yusuf.
Simi Agbaje is highlighting the minds behind the music
The Producers Edit, an early evening foray into the musical minds of some of the UK’s most talented producers.
“What they know about a black woman soul?” Reflections on Winsome Pinnock’s ‘Leave Taking’
Nkenna Akunna on finding herself in Pinnock’s play Leave Taking, and what it means to be seen in a world built to erase you.
Returning to the London stage, ‘Umuada’ voices unspoken hurt in British Nigerian homes
On writing a play that confronts the nuances of mental health, migration and motherhood in the urban African diaspora.
In conversation with Last Yearz Interesting Negro
Our Skin Deep resident reviewer Nkenna Akunna spoke to performance artist Jamila Johnson Small.
Rolling Hills: brand new video from South London duo Sawa-Manga
The premier a visual feast, the debut music video from Sawa-Manga, blurring the line between the realm of visions and the waking day.
Skin Deep meets Nubya Garcia
We chat to London-based saxophonist Nubya Garcia about building on musical legacies, shaping her sound, and the meaning of hype.