Author: Rebecca Ladbury

After a thorough and tough selection process, we’re excited to announce the longlist of 20 outstanding applicants!

WritersMosaic and the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation have launched UK Global Majority Poets on Film 2025, a new short film series expanding the reach of four award-winning, global majority poets.

Over the past few months award-winning music charity The Music Works has teamed up with a host of music industry leaders to provide outstanding opportunities for young people in Gloucestershire hoping to break into the music industry.

Undershed, Bristol’s groundbreaking new immersive art gallery from Watershed, has just opened its next exhibition – FRAMERATE: Pulse of the Earth created by award-winning artists ScanLAB Projects. The exhibition is generously supported by Arts Council England and will run until 13 July 2025.

Image Credit: Adam Docker WritersMosaic is proud to be part of the first Benjamin Zephaniah Day, a day festival taking place on Saturday 12 April to celebrate the life and legacy of the much-loved poet, hosted by Brunel University and Qian Zephaniah. Performing at the festival’s Liberation Stage, WritersMosaic will showcase the work of three UK global majority poets,…

The Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority, CIISA, has launched ‘The CIISA Standards’, which set out the minimum standards of behaviour expected across the UK’s creative industries to enable safe and inclusive working environments.

Academy Award Nominated Director Nisha Pahuja, collaborating with NGOs Equality Now, Equimundo, and MenEngage Alliance, has launched global gender justice campaign #StandWithHer, inspired by Pahuja’s Oscar® nominated 2024 documentary, To Kill a Tiger.

A compelling video produced by SVRI brings together prominent experts to explore what the field needs to deliver evidence-based solutions that respond to local needs and that have the greatest potential to create lasting change.

Time’s Up UK and US-based diversity and inclusion platform Black Beauty Roster (BBR) have joined forces to celebrate and champion hair and makeup equity on set at an inaugural salon event held across BAFTA weekend at Claridges, London with a host of British talent and industry leaders including: Adjoa Andoh, Barbara Broccoli, Emma Naomi, Fola Evans-Akingbola, Dame Heather Rabbatts, Naomie Harris, Maude Okrah-Hunter, Sam McKnight, Samuel Adewunmi & Vernon François.

“If you’re black you were born in jail,” said Malcolm X, the Black nationalist leader whose spirit of resistance spoke to people worldwide. Reviled by white America during the Civil Rights era, after his assassination in 1965, many viewed him as a prophetic revolutionary. This year marks one hundred years from his birth, and his global legacy…

The short film festival committed to addressing violence against women returns for its seventh edition from Nov 25 – Dec 10th   (London, UK, Wednesday 21st November 2024) – 16 DAYS 16 FILMS today announces its jury line-up for this year’s short film festival. The Jury includes actress/writer Zawe Ashton , Tabitha Morton (Executive Director at…

First Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children in Bogotá, Colombia sets a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for the most countries represented at a childhood violence summit