We chat to London-based saxophonist Nubya Garcia about building on musical legacies, shaping her sound, and the meaning of hype.
Category: Skin Deep Meets
Cultivating the everyday #BlackGirlMagic: The Year of the Rooster Monk at the Pleasance Theatre
Nkenna Akunna sits down with Giselle Gant and Nathalie Adlam to chat about The Year of the Rooster Monk at the Pleasance Theatre.
Loss, laughter and resisting the black universal: Nine Night at the National Theatre
Skin Deep’s Nkenna Akunna meets Roy Alexander Weise to talk about his play Nine Night, currently on at the National Theatre, London.
Skin Deep meets Rahill Jamalifard
Iranian-American lead singer of Habibi, Rahill Jamalifard, chats earthquakes, Shirazi poetry, and the internet.
Skin Deep meets Julia Cheng
We talk to Julia Cheng about creating an all-female powerhouse that cultivates honest expression through dance and music.
Skin Deep meets 47Soul
We chatted to 47Soul about dancehall, borders and creating music of resistance in diaspora.
Skin Deep meets Young, Gifted and Black
We spoke to the creators of ‘Young, Gifted and Black’ – their love letter to the next generation of change-makers
Skin Deep meets poet Selina Nwulu
We talk climate justice, building cross continental solidarity movements, how we can make good eating accessible to everyone, and her role in all this as a poet.
Bontoc Eulogy: Encountering the Philippines at the St Louis World’s Fair
An Interview with filmmaker Marlon Fuentes, on how he has used film made to serve American imperialists to tell the story of those they colonised.
Skin Deep meets Marwa al-Sabouni
How recent architectural and urban planning practices contributed to the collapse of the social fabric in Syria.