Category: Skin Deep Meets

Nkenna Akunna chats to filmmaker hajooj kuka about making his film aKasha and telling stories of joy, war, love and rebellion.

Jessica Ashman’s short film is an exploration of belonging and what it means to work in animation as a woman of colour. We chat to her about modes of survival and creating confessional art.

Yinka Esi Graves is a Black-British Flamenco dancer. She chats to Courtney Yusuf about her black identity and the tradition’s African roots.

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.

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.