A one-afternoon poetry exhibition on 24 October 2026 Nigerian-born, London-based poet Michelle Nnanyelugo presents Pink Onions, a poetry exhibition subtitled The Pickled Bodies of Dizzy Daughters, at The Rotunda Theatre, Beckton Globe Library, on Saturday 24 October 2026, from 1:30pm to 4:30pm. The exhibition explores the layered mishmash of girlhood and womanhood: its abrupt transitions, its contradictions, its pain and its peculiar demands. Pink Onions treats poetry as something to be entered as well as heard. Its visual world, a stack of retro computer monitors, each screen showing a woman cooking, cleaning, ironing or serving, sets the terms: the daughter…

A Dazzling Reimagining of Jazz Legacy Through Sound, Soul, and Contemporary Black Performance On Sunday, May 10, 2026, London audiences will witness an extraordinary evening of music, memory, and artistic transcendence as KWITEE headlines Night and Day: The Louis Armstrong Experience at Soul Mama. Conceived as a living conversation with the timeless genius of Louis Armstrong, Night and Day places KWITEE at the forefront of a bold contemporary interpretation of jazz tradition. Far beyond tribute, the performance seeks to resurrect the emotional architecture of Armstrong’s artistry — the tenderness, swing, rebellion, wit, and spiritual depth that transformed jazz into a…

The Mega Story Hunt: Turn Your Story into an all-expense paid trip to Paris. The Mega Story Hunt is a storytelling competition inspired by An Escape to Paris, inviting  people to share captivating stories from their travel experiences whether local or international.  Participants are encouraged to tell a memorable story from a trip they’ve taken: funny,  emotional, life changing, unexpected, or deeply personal while featuring a photo of the book  in their submission. Entries can be shared as written posts or videos across social media using  the hashtags #AETPMegaStoryHunt and #AnEscapeToParisBook.  To qualify, participants must follow Lawretta Egba across all…

LONDON, UK — Poet and writer Taiwo Michael Oloyede has been longlisted for the 2025 Creative Future Writers’ Award, a UK-based prize celebrating underrepresented writers across poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. In a notification issued by the Award’s Deputy Director, Matt Freidson of Creative Future, Oloyede’s submission was selected from over 1,600 entries received for this year’s competition. While the organisation does not publicly release its longlist due to the volume of submissions, the selection places Oloyede among a significant cohort of writers recognised for the quality of their work. Freidson noted that the decision reflected the strength of the…

by Taiwo Michael Oloyede In the framework of storytelling, drama does not unfold solely in what characters say, but in how they move, what they inhabit, and the weight their bodies bear through space and time. The dramatic movement of descriptive movement—gestures, posture, pace, stillness—extends beyond stage directions. It belongs deeply to characterization and to the unspoken grammar of conflict. Together, movement and description form the unsung music of drama: they render atmosphere kinetic, transform language into action, and make characters legible even in their silence. Characterization, in its richest dramatic sense, is not a function of monologue alone. As…