We spoke with Olivia Martin-Snowsill, a visual artist whose work is a dialogue with the past. Drawing from archival materials, Olivia’s practice explores Black history, identity, and heritage, transforming research into paintings that honour resilience, power, and the stories often overlooked. Each piece is both an act of learning and listening — a way to uncover the layers of history that continue to shape who we are today. By bridging the past with the present, Olivia uses

In Nairobi, a quiet revolution is taking shape, one where good music, community, and connection take centre stage over cocktails. Nani’s Café Party is part of this cultural shift, championing the art of intentional gathering through Africa's first sober party experience. Founded by Zanelle Wanja , Sendey Lenaonla , and Sean Mwerebi , Nani’s Café Party invites people to choose coffee over cocktails and conversation over chaos, proving that joy and connection don’t need to be

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Over the past year, conversations around nightlife safety and wellbeing have become impossible to ignore, and rightly so. Parties has always been a space of freedom, connection, and creativity, but it’s also one that’s had to face up to deeper issues: harm, exclusion, and burnout among the very communities that keep it alive. At ourppls , we’ve seen this shift firsthand. Earlier this year, we began offering wellbeing services within festival and party environments , from SLS

We caught up with Hillarynx  following the release of her latest music video and film screening, The 3rd . A London-based artist, writer, and vocalist, Hillarynx’s practice moves fluidly across music, film, and political storytelling. The 3rd  is a striking and poetic visual work, inspired by Ousmane Sembène’s seminal 1966 film Black Girl . The music video was unveiled at a sold-out screening at South London Gallery , as part of Black British Hood Feminism: Building Creativ

"My work is always an attempt to translate feeling into form - to hold space for the intersections of art, anthropology, sociology, material culture and lived experience. It’s where research meets intuition, and storytelling becomes a way of remembering." Meet Theresia Kyalo (TK) a multidisciplinary artist and designer whose practice moves fluidly between jewelry, film, performance, and visual art. If you are familiar with those at the helm of African jewelry-making, then yo

In an age of technology, it seems near impossible to turn our brains off and relax. Even in a deep slumber, our dreams remind us of never ending to do lists. We go to sleep with our smartphones and wake up with them. We carry our laptops into every crevice of our homes so that we can send emails while cooking or join google meets while braiding our hair (maybe I am the only one guilty of that). In an ever changing world,our individual worlds can only mirror its speed. Every w

October’s opportunity board is here filled with open calls, grants, and gigs to keep your energy flowing through the cozy season.