Resisting Through Rest – Black Indies and the Pandemic
When a farmer prepares their land for the coming agricultural season, there are years when they will plough the soil and stop at that. No seeds are sown, no crops are harvested — they simply let the land lie fallow. Onyx Magazine’s discussion will be based around incorporating rest into organisational structures and the concept […]
Activate Your Creativity – Words of Colour
Explore your relationship to creativity and self expression through breathwork, visualisation, meditation, free writing, reading and guided discussion. Led by creative wellbeing practitioner and writing coach Patsy Isles and creative entrepreneur and Words of Colour’s executive director Joy Francis, this two-hour interactive session is for people who don’t ‘believe’ they are creative but want to […]
Beyond the Rebel Nazrul Islam
This show for families and young people will explore the life of Nazrul Islam (Kazi Nuzrul Islam) who was born 24th May 1899 in Asansol, India. He was a prolific writer, poet, musician (often referred to as The Rebel) whose collection of 4,000 songs, poetries and writings form what is considered the embodiment of Bengali […]
From Thoughts to Paper – Writers Workshop
Join an intimate writing workshop with experienced professionals from various writing backgrounds. An open space to ask questions, participate in group and solo activities, alongside connecting with other writers.
Words and Deeds – Natalie Harper & Alex Pearson
Words and Deeds is a selection of three short plays and two monologues of suffrage pieces, which were contemporary to the time of Women’s Suffrage in Britain. A selection of Suffrage Plays written when women had to fight to speak their minds about the inequality of society, and linking across time to the women of […]
Words and Deeds – Natalie Harper & Alex Pearson
Words and Deeds is a selection of three short plays and two monologues of suffrage pieces, which were contemporary to the time of Women’s Suffrage in Britain. A selection of Suffrage Plays written when women had to fight to speak their minds about the inequality of society, and linking across time to the women of […]
Fragile Filters
Fiona Larkin and Kate Noakes explore the poet’s breath, its free flow, its disruptions and distresses, reading new and recently published poems focused on tuberculosis, asthma and other breathings. Fiona Larkin will read from her recent pamphlet Vital Capacity (Broken Sleep, 2022), which looks at the world through the fragile filter of the lung. She […]
The Haunted Landscape: Folklore, Monsters and Ghosts
The Haunted Landscape calls again with demons in the landscape, kings sleeping beneath the ground and the ghosts that have followed us through all of human history. Join the London Fortean Society at Conway Hall for a day of talks and short films on the folklore of Britain and beyond. Irving Finkel – The First […]
PJ Harvey with Frank Skinner – Orlam: A Conversation
In this spoken-word, non-music event, PJ Harvey will recite poems from her new book, and joins in conversation with the renowned English comic and writer Frank Skinner. Orlam reveals PJ Harvey as a gifted poet – whose formal skill, transforming eye and ear for the lyric line has produced a strange and moving poem like no other. Orlam is not only […]