When does humour stop being funny and morph into racism? By actress Lucy Sheen I have a sense of humour. A pretty good one, sometimes it goes a little dark. Hell I loved Nighty Nighty the deeply dark and disturbing comedy by Julia Davis. I even ended up in the second series! Other times it […]
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Art Everywhere, the UK’s largest art project and most accessible art campaign wants your participation. Coming back into its’ second year following a successful launch in 2013, Art Everywhere is back, and since June 3, the public have had a few weeks to co-curate the exhibition and vote for their favourite pieces of art from
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Hackney-born Chinese British punk Anna Chen kicks up. Pic by Bob Carlos Clarke Act For Change Conference, Young Vic Theatre 30th June 2014 Chair: Shami Chakrabarti Panel: Julie Crampsie, BBC casting director; Steve November, Head Of ITV programming; writer Stephen Poliakoff; film producer Allison Owen; and Ewan Marshall, former artistic director of Graeae Theatre Company.
A reminder about Liverpool tomorrow. I’m looking forward to giving my China Diaspora in Britain talk plus a poetry reading from Reaching for my Gnu at the Il Forno Restaurant in Duke Street, Liverpool, tomorrow at 4pm. My dad lived in Liverpool from the 1920s before he moved to London. It’s the International Festival of
Originally posted along with the BBC robo-letter, British East Asian FAQ for the BBC, casting directors, the media and anyone working in areas where diversity is an issue gets its own page here. FAQ about BEAs for the benefit of the BBC, casting directors and reviewers. Q: Is it true that East Asians can only
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Intrepid tweeting British East Asian (BEA) Bess Chan (AKA Katherine Chan) wrote to me attaching a letter she’d received from BBC about lack of BEA representation on the airwaves. She and her friends had been wondering why it was that American East Asians (Asian Americans) are seen as American, whereas BEAs (East Asian Brits) are
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