Nkenna Akunna chats to filmmaker hajooj kuka about making his film aKasha and telling stories of joy, war, love and rebellion.
The Moon Is A Meme
Part of Freeword’s THIS IS PRIVATE series, ‘The Moon Is A Meme’ explores the notion of privacy in an era of surveillance from the perspective of a young British-Asian Muslim man.
I Dont Protest, I Just Dance In My Shadow: Skin Deep Meets Jessica Ashman
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.
Issue 8: Movements
Our latest print issue has finally landed…
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.