Nominating Kwame Asafo-Adjei for the Arts Foundation Futures award, Robert Hylton interviews the now winner on cultural identity, dance and the influences he draws from.
Category: Skin Deep Meets
Skin Deep meets Palestinian singer, songwriter and rapper Maysa Daw
Haifa-born singer, songwriter, rapper, and musician Maysa Daw is a member of Palestinian hip-hop group DAM. Courtney Yusuf caught up with Maysa ahead of the release of their new album, ‘Ben Haana wa Maana’.
In conversation with Yara Rodrigues Fowler on her debut novel: Stubborn Archivist
Novelist Yara Rodrigues Fowler on archiving, longing, and how to put yourself back together again having been completely shattered.
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Skin Deep meets Hanif Abdurraqib
Nkenna Akunna talks to Hanif Abdurraqib about his book ‘They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us,’ a stunning interrogation of the United States through music.
Chant Down Babylon: we chat to curators Tobi Kyeremanteng & Ruthie Osterman
In a celebration of Black and Brown lives and experiences, Skin Deep’s Nkenna Akunna chats to Tobi and Ruthie on the creation of Babylon Festival.
Representing the Black Diaspora: Aml Ameen and Shantol Jackson on the importance of Idris Elba’s ‘Yardie’
Nkenna Akunna meets with Aml Ameen and Shantol Jackson to talk about their roles in Idris Elba’s directorial debut, ‘Yardie’.
Skin Deep meets creator of Deportation Discs: Luke De Noronha
How do we imagine a future outside of the racist capitalistic global structure we live in? Edna Mohamed speaks to Luke De Noronha about Deportation Discs, racist immigration policies, and mobilising for a future without deportations.
Skin Deep meets Attab Haddad, an oud-player with a passion for flamenco
Courtney Yusuf speaks to Iraqi-British oud-player and composer Attab Haddad.
Breakin’ shit down and workin’ shit out: a dissection of anti-black racism, action and protest in ‘ear for eye’
Nkenna Akunna meets Kayla Meikle to talk about her role in debbie tucker green’s latest production ‘ear for eye’ at the Royal Court, London.
The Object of My Gaze
Marcia Michael’s recent project ‘I Am Now You – Mother’ visualises matrilineage through the body of her mother as a way of telling our own stories.