Lemn Sissay

Saturday, 14 September 2024

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Jon Dasilva Interview: “Acid house has never gone away, it keeps evolving”

Skiddle 04 Sep 2024

Gabriel Arnold ...  . . What can we expect from your set at Northenden Fringe? ... . ... ... Buy tickets. ... I think the last time I did a gig there was at the Wythenshawe Forum, and that was about 30 years ago with Lemn Sissay. .

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The week in audio: Policing Protest; Dream Space; Sing It Pink; Prom 21; Hip-Hop Is History – review

The Observer 11 Aug 2024

(BBC Radio 4) . BBC Sounds. Factory+. Aunt Nell. (BBC Radio 3) . BBC Sounds. Questlove ... (You know it ... Season one featured artists such as Es Devlin, Lemn Sissay and Maxine Peake; this one starts with the celebrated Mancunian DJ, DJ Paulette ... Photograph ... Share.

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Art Matters, review: Melvyn Bragg’s plea to save British culture before it’s too late

AOL 24 Jul 2024

Their suggestions were simple – Kanneh-Mason wants every schoolchild to have music lessons, the poet Lemn Sissay talked about the power of reading – yet successive governments have treated culture as ...

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Come on in – the water’s full of sewage

The Observer 30 Jun 2024

Not many readers will have failed to notice the irony of the front page of last week’s Observer ... “20,000 ... London N22 ... Seattle, US ... Lemn Sissay wrote about children in the care system as needing the very best of care by the state, not the worst ... Belfast ... .

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African and Asian artists condemn ‘humiliating’ UK and EU visa refusals

AOL 25 Jun 2024

Lemn Sissay, a British poet and broadcaster, said that disproportionate UK and EU visa rejections for African and Asian visitors were part of a campaign of “delegitimising or shaming” people of colour.

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My childhood in care: ‘I didn’t get why I kept being thrown away’

The Times/The Sunday Times 08 Jun 2024

I can’t remember anyone before Joyce, although my records mention an emergency foster family I was placed with at about the age of two ... They, whoever they are, say that one way of coping with childhood trauma is by forgetting ... I refused ... UK ... Lemn Sissay.

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D-Day 80th anniversary commemorations continue tonight in awe-inspiring scenes in Normandy

The Daily Mail 05 Jun 2024

Commemorations celebrating the 80th anniversary of D-Day have continued tonight in awe-inspiring scenes taking place in Normandy ... Poet Lemn Sissay reads a his poem during the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Great Vigil ... .

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Lemn Sissay inspires crowds during Addis tour

Capital Ethiopia 14 May 2024

Lemn Sissay, a celebrated poet hailing from Britain, captivated audiences during his recent tour in Addis Ababa, drawing enthusiastic crowds, particularly among the youth who eagerly attended events held at various locations.

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Open-air gallery featuring Lemn Sissay, Rob Rinder and Jeanette Winterson to launch as part of ...

Manchester Evening News 07 May 2024

The exhibition marks the run up to the much anticipated Universally Manchester Festival ... .

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Where to start with: Franz Kafka

The Observer 05 May 2024

Burnout, motherhood, race, war, pandemic, dictatorship, Brexit – The Metamorphosis has been rewritten and adapted in countless ways by Lemn Sissay, Rachel Yoder, A Igoni Barrett, Haruki Murakami, ...

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The latest Venice Biennale is ideologically and aesthetically bankrupt

The Spectator 25 Apr 2024

Last week’s opening of the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale marks a watershed for the art world ... The slogan is a familiar old trick ... Curated by the poet Lemn Sissay, the show deploys old ethnographic tropes to at once critique and profit from them ... .

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Katy Hessel's guide to the 2024 Venice Biennale

Harpers Bazaar 22 Apr 2024

The Venice Biennale is the art world Olympics ... This year, it’s Adriano Pedrosa with Foreigners Everywhere ... I was also taken by Poet Lemn Sissay’s curation of Ethiopia, featuring kaleidoscopic figurative works by Tesfaye Urgessa ... Bazaar Art ... Yoko Ono ... .

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The Guide: Cúirt, Samara Joy, Take That and other events to see, shows to book, and ones to catch before they end

The Irish Times 20 Apr 2024

Reading from their work are many well-known authors, including Elaine Feeney, Patrick deWitt, Lucy Caldwell, Lemn Sissay, Mark O’Connell, Raheef Ziadah, Sinéad Gleeson, John Banville and Edel Coffey, ...

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