50 years of partnership
We're pleased and proud to be able to share with you the wonderful array of partner organisations who will be present with us this year at our 50th anniversary gathering in various ways. Here's a...
First name terms: initial 2023 lineup announcements
Our Creative Director Paul Northup has penned a blog about what's in store this year, for those of you who want to know what we're particularly excited about. Don't forget you can also use our...
Suntou Susso
Suntou Susso is a multi-instrumentalist: Kora player, percussionist, singer and composer from The Gambia. Born a Griot in a 700-year old tradition, the Kora - harp-lute with 22 strings - is unique...
TC & The Groove Family
TC & The Groove Family are a 10-piece collective whose music celebrates the coming together of cultures, and the community that music can provide for everyone. Originally formed in Leeds, their sound...
The Chosen Haram presented by Sadiq Ali
The Chosen Haram presented by Sadiq Ali produced by Turtle Key Arts Expect a heady mix of love, drugs and Islam. This unique and complex take on circus, performed on two Chinese poles, is...
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown was exiled from her birthplace, Uganda, in 1972 is a journalist, broadcaster, and author. She is a weekly columnist for the I newspaper and has written for the Daily Mirror,...
Ru Callender
Ru Callender is author of the recent book What Remains: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking. He was moved to become an undertaker through his experience of bereavement and its aftermath. He...
Sunetra Gupta
Sunetra Gupta is a novelist and Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at the University of Oxford with an interest in infectious disease agents that are responsible for malaria, HIV, influenza and...
Sorority Grrrls
Sorority Grrrls is a Riot Grrrl band, founded in Newcastle Upon Tyne in early 2022. They are inspired by the sounds of bands like Sleater-Kinney and Bikini Kill and are fueled by political and...
Milton Jones
Milton Jones was regularly on Mock the Week (BBC2) and has also appeared on Live at the Apollo, and Michael McIntyre's Roadshow. He is currently working his 15th series for Radio 4, as well as...
Oh My God! It’s the Church
The Lord works in mysterious ways. Or so the saying goes, but there is nothing mysterious about the rise of the fabulously original entertainment phenomenon that is - Oh My God! It's The Church....
Rianne Downey
Bursting through the dark clouds and finding rainbow-hued pop music's salvation, is Rianne Downey. A deep-reaching, up-tempo study on life, the ups, downs, break ups with others and make-ups with...
Stefania Maurizi with Ewen MacAskill
Stefania Maurizi is an Italian investigative journalist working for the daily Il Fatto Quotidiano, having previously reported for La Repubblica and l'Espresso. She began working with Julian Assange...
Micha Frazer-Carroll
Micha Frazer-Carroll is a columnist at the Independent. She has previously edited for gal-dem, the Guardian and Blueprint, a mental health magazine that she founded. Micha has also written for Vogue,...
Muna Nassar
Muna Nassar is A Palestinian Christian woman from Bethlehem. She has been a long-term advocate for the justice of the Palestinian people through her education and her work. She has previously worked...