Anna Chen performs poetry for the YW8 launch at The Proud Archivist in east London tomorrow. I’ll be doing some of the funnier poetry. It’s a new arts centre on the Regents Canal just off Kingland Road, near where I was born and raised, a po’ Chinese Brit gurl in deepest Hackney. Although the gig […]
My poetry gig at YW8, The Proud Archivist, tomorrow at 8.30pm Read More »
BRITISH EAST ASIAN ARTISTS PRESS RELEASE 23RD APRIL 2014 British East Asian Artists congratulate Somi Guha for winning an apology from the BBC over racism Doubts remain about contradictory BBC statement The British East Asian Artists group (BEAA) are supporting actor Somi Guha’s formal complaint to the BBC for the broadcast of racist material and
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Bessie Smith, “Empress of the Blues” Today live at 5pm on Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge, Resonance 104.4FM, Charles Shaar Murray concludes his Guide to the Blues with Part 3, The Women of the Blues. Presented by Anna Chen with Charles Shaar Murray. Guest: Sarah Gillespie. Today’s final Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge of the series wraps
Women of the Blues on today’s final Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge, Resonance 104.4FM, 5pm Read More »
“Just be advised, boys … You’ll want to watch your step, ’cause what I am is, is like a small-diameter pearl of the Orient rolling around the floor of late capitalism — lowlifes of all income levels may step on me now and then but if they do it’ll be them who slip and fall
Oriental Pearl in late capitalism: warning Read More »
Tomorrow live at 5pm on Resonance 104.4FM, Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge looks at China’s cultural and scientific contributions and inventions. Guests: Elizabeth Lawrence and Paul Anderson. Presented by Anna Chen. Charles Shaar Murray rides shotgun. Tomorrow’s Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge is themed around China’s cultural and scientific contributions to the west from inventions such as
Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) artists demand representation that reflects British Society Last February, the British East Asian Artists wrote an open letter to broadcasters and culture minister Ed Vaizey about the pitiful almost non-existent representation of east Asians in the media despite being the third largest minority in Britain. Vaizey, who had been
British East Asian Artists and Diaspora music take the diversity debate into Parliament Read More »
