Korks Talks

Review: The Wonderful World of Dissocia at Stratford East

Review: Hallyu: The Korean Wave at the Victora & Albert Museum (V & A Museum)

Review: Winslow Homer: Force of Nature at the National Portrait Gallery

Review: Exclusive Premiere of Catherine Called Birdy (12A) at Barbican Centre

Directed by Monique Touko and produced by Dipo Baruwa-Etti.

Review: 'The Silent Twins' and Q+A with Letitia Wright, Tamara Lawrance, Cobbie Yates and Akua Gyamfi. Also a short review of Skepta's piece 'Mama Goes To The Market' at Sotheby's.

Review of 'Before Them, We' Poetry Reading chaired by Ruth Sutoyé featuring poets:  Hodan Yusuf, Tania Nwachukwu, Clementine Burnley and Gboyega Odubanjo. Also a review of 'Saturn Returns' live dance and song choreopoem by Sonny Nwachukwu.

Review: Black and Female with Tsitsi Dangaremgba (with Irenosen Okojie) at Southbank Centre with English Pen.

Review: An Evening with Edward Enninful (Interview with Michaela Coel)

Review of Picador's 50th anniversary event, with the Royal Society of Literature (200 Years), celebrating the re-publication of Jamaica Kincaid's works, hosted at the Black Cultural Archives (BCA).

Over the past week, I've watched 2 independent films: one at Southbank called My Old School which featured Alan Cumming; the other at Castle Cinema in Hackey featuring Nana Mensah who also wrote and directed the film. I also attended BrightLand Exhibition on Sunday afternoon. Here's my review!

Jam-packed review of 'Everything, Everywhere, All at Once' film; Ekow Eshun's curation of the 'In The Black Fantastic' at the Hayward Gallery at Southbank Centre; and Stuart Semple's 'Festival of Happiness' at Dulwich Picture/Art Gallery.

Good news and job offers and chasing new highs!

Too many topics.

Digital Activism and Online Communites

More book themes and a timeline of what I hope will happen for the book.

This episode is the second in the 'My Writing Process' diaries.

A review of the sold-out show "For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy" and is informed by the landmark 1976 theatre piece by Ntozake Shange "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf" https://blackballad.co.uk/views-voices/playwright-director-ryan-calais-cameron-for-black-boys-who-have-considered-suicide-when-the-hue-gets-too-heavy?listI...

A play written by babirye bukilwa and directed by Malakai Sargeant that evaluates themes of diet culture, antiBlackness, fatphobia and misogyny. Podcast with Stratford East: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4tkQAJQHgRCsojYrpLhBEk?si=0bd115fbac47488f Ruby Tandoh articles:  https://ruby-tandoh.medium.com/empire-of-seeds-ee4308a529c4 https://heated.medium.com/your-hands-are-your-greatest-kitchen...

How I write.

Review: Small Island at the Olivier Theatre at National Theatre

In this episode, I review the Waterstone Piccadilly event featuring Oliver Bullough in conversation with Serena Kutchinsky where he talks about his new book: 'Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals - drawing connections with the Suez Canal crisis as the origin of the financial industry which later came to become attractive for oligarc...

Review of exhibition of Caribbean-British art at Tate Britain, ending on April 3rd.

This episode is a mixture and politlcs, hopscotching a variety of shows I've watched and articles and books I've read, including but not limited to: Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy - BBCTwo - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0bncnd5/stanley-tucci-searching-for-italy-series-1-1-naples-and-the-amalfi-coast The Dropout - DisneyPlus - https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/series/the-dropout/5C0gjG...

Review of BBC drama: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/mar/01/mood-review-songs-sorrow-and-sex-work-in-nicole-leckys-bold-fresh-drama