The Bunker, 53A Southwark Street London SE1 1RU Monday 5th – Sunday 25th August 2019 Opening The Bunker’s Autumn Season the curated festival This is Black will premiere theatre productions by four new and exciting Black British writers across an alternating double-bill. Exploring identity, family relationships and universal struggles, the festival will showcase All the…
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After months of inconsistent weather, it’s safe to say that summer has officially started this July. Better late than never. Brits + Pieces have found a great selection of events running this month in London to help you make the most of this tropical weather before it goes back to being British again. Somerset House…
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YouTube is to video watching what Google is to search. Having been acquired by the infamous search engine giant in 2006, YouTube’s momentum as a ubiquitous social media platform has grown since its very first video was uploaded in 2005. From raw footage to seamless production, the website plays host to a wealth of content…
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Written by Yasmin Joseph, directed by Rebekah Murrell and brought to life by an outstanding team of black women and non-binary people, _J’ouvert_ is a play you’ll love watching. The story is honest, fun, warm, witty, heartfelt, and the perfect warm-up for Carnival. We sat down with Yasmin to find out the story behind the…
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Photos by Bianca Stella Written by Tom Wainwright who was inspired by the banned Migrant Media documentary Injustice, directed by Gbemisola Ikumelo and based on creator Urban Wolf’s personal experiences, Custody follows a Black British family as they experience all the different stages of grief after losing someone to police brutality. January has seen…
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Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams was published in March of this year but buzz around the story built up well before its release. This is partly due to it being a contemporary fiction novel where an everyday Black British woman takes centre stage. It’s being hailed as the ‘black Bridget Jones’ (it’s not). I find it…
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J’ouvert is an honest, fun, warm and witty story and the perfect warm-up for Carnival!
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The ability for collective, selective amnesia in the service of easing a nation’s cognitive dissonance is nowhere better exemplified than in the manner that much of Britain has chosen to remember transatlantic slavery…and the British Empire I have a lot of respect for Akala. He is a hip hop artist who has won at the…
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We live in an age where wellness and optimal health are constantly on the agenda, but unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to be the case when it comes to cervical screening attendance. Cervical cancer screenings for women between the ages of 25 and 64 are at a 20-year low according to Public Health England. So much…
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When I think of the Windrush I think of the infamous 3 words ‘No blacks! No Whites! No Irish!’ Words that were plastered on many establishments warning the thousands that had left their homes in answer to Britain’s call for work that they were not welcome here. As a proud Nigerian I decided to sit…
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