Deliverance is the title of our brand new documentary about women. It'll be broadcast on on BBC radio 3 - Feb 28th. This is how it came about. Some years ago the artist Kate Daudy captivated me Read more [...]
Deliverance is the title of our brand new documentary about women. It'll be broadcast on on BBC radio 3 - Feb 28th. This is how it came about. Some years ago the artist Kate Daudy captivated me Read more [...]
Common Ground in the Undercroft: Tonight: Minutes before the launch of Southbank Towers People and Places exhibition by world famous New York based photographer Steve McCurry the Undercroft Read more [...]
Sara Myers ( or Sar'z Myers) has petitioned to ban Exhibit-B from The Barbican because, she says, it is “an exercise in white racial privilege”. At time of writing Myers has 15,000 press-to-send-protestors: Read more [...]
Dear Mayor Boris Johnson We've met a couple of times. I hear your're supporting the skateboarders in the campaign to maintain the undercroft and the new development of The Festival Wing at Southbank Read more [...]
I have a brand new piece of work commissioned by Denys Baptiste for his critically acclaimed "Now Is The Time...Let Freedom Ring" tour. The photo below was taken last month at The Queen Elizabeth Read more [...]
I’ve been Doctor Lemn Sissay since 2009 awarded from University of Huddersfield by Chancellor Patrick Stewart. The Vice Chancellor Professor Bob Cryan grew up on a council estate which he can see Read more [...]
The match girls and women of Bow in East London took strike action and marched into Trade Union History 125 years ago to the day. They were mainly Irish immigrants. The first Matchgirls Festival Read more [...]
This is a run down of my week. I bump in to Jude Kelly and Jan Younghusband with my friend Lisa Dwan an international PR for The Onesie at Southbank centre. Jude takes us up – as ever – to A Room Read more [...]