Artists are generous. By its nature creativity comes from a generous place of sensitivity to the world around us. But without wellness, we have nothing. It is not unusual to get caught up in situations and circumstances where it really is too much…and then the workplace becomes a dangerous place to be. A very important […]
Wainwright & Cummins LLP is the legal practice I have joined as an employment law consultant. Wainwright & Cummins LLP is a London law practice, providing legal services to its community for over 30 years. With an established practice in Criminal, Prison, Family, Wills & Probate, Housing, Property and Immigration law, I join them offering a […]
Afro Archives Episode Two: “What Things Do People Say About Your Hair?” My hair looks like a Brillo pad?!!! Afro Archives Episode Two is a bit of bonding over the horrors of the experience of having other people comment on our hair. There is no question that the Afro-Caribbean woman has been the victim of verbal abuse […]
Twelve Episodes of Actors Chatting Hair – different topics, ideas & views. Episode One: True or False? Your Hair Represents Who You Are Our hair. We are born with it, and there is absolutely nothing we can do to change our natural hair texture. In an article dated 24th January 2014 “The Changing Business of […]
For the last few months I’ve been setting up a new project and finally it’s here…Afro Archives – exploring the experience of women with afro type hair With Afro Archives I’m talking to EVERYONE, no gender barrier, no race no culture barrier – open discussions on hair and being in the performing world to look […]
In November at The Southwark Playhouse we performed our play about the changes happening in Brixton London “Where Will We Live?” The Southwark Playhouse is a lovely theatre venue in Elephant and Castle. There are two theatre spaces, “The Large” and “The Little”. We were in The Little, feeling large because with just over one […]
The provision of social housing. The term “gentrification”. Rising housing prices? Everyone is affected, “rich” and “poor”. When an area has been neglected, degraded, set on fire… then rises – the renaissance of Brixton! When the ones who helped to re-build the area can no longer afford to live there…what will Brixton become? I’ve found […]
It’s been an interesting experience performing as part of HIV Voices, creating a piece but only performing it for an evening then having weeks and months in between performing it again. Keeping going. An event like HIV Voices, it hasn’t exploded, like the HIV being talked about when I was younger, that surrounded Freddy Mercury’s […]
An amazing last few months! Shooting my second feature film with Tony Oldham and Blackstone Valentine, discovering Notting Hill Carnival. Freedom, Jumping Up with Mas With A Difference and the Eclipse Band, costumes beautifully made by Flora Nabena. So much pride and love in these two Carnival days. And rum (spot the flasks). Ayesha […]
Brixton – a changing face. It’s good, it’s bad. I was born in South London, Battersea started out school in Soho but we later moved to Kent (slightly different, less red lights). I returned to London after uni and lived all around finally ending up back in South London, Brixton. It’s felt like home but recently […]
