Media coverage of women both here and abroad is increasingly taking a turn for the worse. To make sense of this worrying trend, Words of Colour will examine this important issue with a range of leading women in their fields and will explore how journalism can better reflect the diversity of women’s voices. In this… Continue reading Not in black and white

Book: After My Own Heart Author: Sophia Blackwell Publisher: Limehouse Books Review by Andrea Enisuoh Evie Day believes her life is near perfect. An out and proud lesbian, she has a settled job in PR, a great flat and a steady girlfriend. By night she pursues her real passion as a singer/guitarist and performs at… Continue reading After My Own Heart

Our writer-in-waiting has been on the Royal Court Theatre’s Critical Mass Programme, Invitation and Super Groups and has been informally attached to the Clean Break Theatre. She has had rehearsed readings of her plays at the Royal Court Theatre, Soho Theatre, Young Vic, Young Actors Theatre and Tristan Bates Theatre.

In the shadows: Paul Knight (Lawrence), Lee Thomas (Gary) Roberta Mair (Sophie) Antoinette Boateng (Jess). Picture by Cory Roberts Play: The Waiting Room Theatre: Lost Theatre Playwright: Serge Rashidi-Zakuani Review by Mesha McNeil The Waiting Room, Serge Rashidi-Zakuani’s latest play, may sound uninspiring but in reality the setting is far removed from what we understand… Continue reading The Waiting Room

This film captures the journey of six girls from Mulberry School for Girls in Tower Hamlets, London, when they visited Bosnia to explore its turbulent history. To understand the justice process, against Bosnia’s recent history of war and genocide, the students also visited the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague. Date: 26 September 2012… Continue reading Justice in Action

Award winning writer, director and producer Serge Rashidi-Zakuani’s latest offering is an intriguing, surreal and thought-provoking new play that looks into the heart of what it means to live every moment as if it’s your last. Six strangers meet in a hospital waiting room as they wait to hear news about their loved ones. As… Continue reading The Waiting Room

The Literary Platform launches this informal networking event, designed to offer affordable practical advice and take-away information for published and self-published writers, as well as small and medium-sized publishers, looking to find out more about digital publishing, social media and developing online reader audiences. Words of Colour Productions will be among a range of industry… Continue reading The Writing Platform

Created by and starring the legendary trumpeter and composer Hugh Masekela with Sigongile Khumalo, this is musical tribute to Masekela’s home country South Africa. Featuring songs from Miriam Makeba, Joseph Shabalala, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Fela Kuti, this musical extravaganza moves from South Africa to the cotton fields of Mississippi to Nigeria ending back in… Continue reading Songs of Migration

Poet and academic Rowyda Amin has lived quite a nomadic life. Born in Canada and bought up in Saudi Arabia, Amin lived in London for 12 years before moving to the States in 2011. After years of hiding her poetry under a bushel, she decided to go public, and it paid dividends. She was one… Continue reading Interview with Rowyda Amin

Tommie Smith is still passionate about human rights/Picture by Lee Townsend At 6ft 3ins Tommie Smith is hard to ignore. Looking decades younger than his 68 years, he has an easy smile and looks like a retired businessman. In reality, Smith is an Olympic legend. In 1968, at the summer Olympics in Mexico City, Smith… Continue reading Interview with Tommie Smith