ILKLEY Literature Festival has announced the Forward Prize-winning poet Ian Duhig as the festival’s 2021 Poet in Residence. Ian will be making a mark on this year’s festival, programming an online poetry showcase, taking part in a reading, running a writing workshop for adults, producing a commissioned piece, and judging the annual Walter Swan Poetry Prize. Ian became a full-time writer after working with homeless people for 15 years and has since published seven books of poetry. He has won the Forward Best Poem Prize once, the National Poetry Competition twice, and has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize four times. He is a Cholmondeley Award recipient, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and this year is one of the judges for the Costa Poetry Prize. His next collection, ‘New and Selected Poems’, will be published by Picador in December 2021. Ian also continues to work on projects for disadvantaged groups, locally with Leeds Irish Health and Homes and th
Burning Coal Theatre Company Presents EVITA and More This Summer
Burning Coal Theatre Company is roaring back with full education programming and three productions simultaneously.by BWW News Desk
Burning Coal Theatre Company is roaring back with full education programming and three productions simultaneously. The company is offers a variety of in-person and livestreamed opportunities to join including Evita (June 17-27, outdoors at Dorothea Dix Park), the KidsWrite! Festival (May 28-29, virtual live), and the Second Stage Series (June 10-27, hybrid in-person and virtual).
Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Burning Coal presents the beloved, rocking musical outdoors for in-person audiences.
Prominent arts figures front new Sightsavers film about trachoma
Prominent arts figures front new Sightsavers film about trachoma
Actors, poets and authors with African heritage are lending their support to the campaign
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The Queen Elizabeth Jubilee Trust/Julia Gunther
Prominent figures from the arts world are fronting a new Sightsavers campaign, which hopes to raise awareness of trachoma.
The two-minute film features actor and producer, Andrea Chika Chukwu-Ahern; editor and publisher, Ellah P Wakatama OBE; poet, author and hip-hop artist, Karl Nova; actor and Merlin star, ‘Tomiwa Edun, and playwright, filmmaker and poet, Zodwa Nyoni.
The film, which launched on 7 December, focuses on the first-hand experiences of people from several African countries where trachoma is still a public health problem.