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'Christmas day was a painful reminder of the family I don’t have'

A brunch for philanthropists raises £75K for our appeal — and becomes unexpectedly emotional

Evening Standard

Danny Boyle turns Southbank Centre into a playground for its 75th birthday

London’s cultural landmark goes full technicolour... and everyone is invited to the party

Evening Standard

The week in audio: The Good Whale; Fashion Neurosis With Bella Freud; Archive on 4: A Child’s Christmas – review

The true story of Keiko, the orca star of Free Willy, makes for a moving new Serial tale; the fashionista follows in her grandfather’s footsteps. Plus, writers on child’s-eye-view Christmas wonder

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Sky Arts Awards: Mr Bates v Post Office and comedian Fern Brady among winners at inaugural event

Audiences were treated to performances by The Darkness and Lemn Sissay

The Independent UK

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

‘Unfair’ rejection rates of up to 70% harm cultural diversity and create a ‘global apartheid’, say promoters and musicians

The Guardian - UK

Lemn Sissay: ‘brilliant’ plans to improve child social care ignored by ministers

Poet says government has rejected some 2022 MacAlister recommendations because reforming system is not a vote winner

The Guardian - UK

25 of the best poetry books to read in 2025

Delve into the hypnotic world of lyrical literature

Evening Standard

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Surge of interest in Ethiopian culture boosts case for return of treasures, says Sissay

Poet who is curating country’s first Venice Biennale pavilion says ‘part of the heart’ of the country was looted and is being held in museums

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: The Hills of California; Metamorphosis; Candace Bushnell: True Tales of Sex, Success and Sex in the City – review

Dreams of fame trap and inspire in Jez Butterworth’s female-centred, Blackpool-set new play; Lemn Sissay takes a personal approach to Kafka; and the Sex and the City creator is full of unsurprises

The Guardian - UK

Metamorphosis at the Lyric Hammersmith review: it's a bug's life in Lemn Sissay's meandering take on Kafka

The production fosters a potent sense of unease, but the mood is relentless and unvarying

Evening Standard

Sarah Weir obituary

Head of Arts Council England provision for London, the Design Council and arts and cultural strategy at the 2012 Olympics

The Guardian - UK

Let the Light Pour In by Lemn Sissay audiobook review – salutations to the dawn

Every day for 10 years, Lemn Sissay rose to write a poem to the break of day, a witty and profound collection recited here with his customary verve

The Guardian - UK

Caroline Aherne: Queen of Comedy review – an unforgettable celebration of comedy brilliance

Craig Cash and other friends and collaborators look back at the phenomenal, but sadly all-too short, career of a woman who insisted comedy didn’t need jokes, only people

The Guardian - UK

‘I’d never seen anything like it’: How Caroline Aherne changed comedy

A new BBC Arena film exploring the work of the co-creator and star of ‘The Royle Family’ will air on Christmas Day, seven years after her death. Katie Rosseinsky speaks to the filmmakers about her comedy legacy

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Fatima Whitbread supporting new fostering campaign, as research finds ‘misconceptions put people off’

The Olympic legend wants to help tackle misleading assumptions around fostering.

The Independent UK

Consider fostering, urge Sissay and Whitbread as ‘misconceptions put people off’

A new recruitment campaign has been launched as research suggested some felt being single or disabled were automatic barriers to fostering.

The Guardian - UK

Metamorphosis review – Lemn Sissay adaptation is more poetic than dramatic

This staging of Kafka’s story is physically exciting, even tireless, but it hits an early peak of terror then has nowhere to go for two hours

The Guardian - UK

‘This family is being devoured’: Lemn Sissay on why Kafka’s Metamorphosis is a tale for our times

The poet has teamed up with Frantic Assembly to bring the novella, about a man who turns into an insect, to the stage. He explains why this story of family meltdown is all about modern life

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Manchester Evening News

“This experience could be life-changing for these young people” - the Manchester International Festival opera that’s making waves

Noah’s Flood at Depot Mayfield stars Lemn Sissay at the voice of God, 180 school children as an army of animals and a world-class musical ensemble

Manchester Evening News

The long forgotten images from 1971 of a night out at Manchester's lost landmark pub

Michael Kay was studying in Manchester when he spent one evening at the old Birch Villa pub which was demolished last week

Manchester Evening News

The Mancunian Way: A sensible theory

The battle for clean air PLUS 'embarrassing' streets AND the M60

Manchester Evening News

The landmark poem on the side of a pub that's been lost forever

For almost 30 years Lemn Sissay's poem Hardy's Well was displayed on the gable end of the pub of the same name

Manchester Evening News

Landmark Manchester pub is being demolished TODAY after blaze ripped through building

The Hardy's Well pub has been derelict since it closed in 2016

The Guardian - UK

‘She brought me out of my lonely bubble’: tributes to our other mothers – connected not by blood but love

As the UK prepares to celebrate Mother’s Day, three writers talk about the women who filled a mum-shaped hole in their lives

The Guardian - UK

Lemn Sissay accuses children’s commissioner for England of failing children in care

Poet and broadcaster says Rachel de Souza should be pushing ministers to do much more

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