Coming soon: major body of speculative writing and poetry, We Hear You Now, for 5 year audio installation across the Seven Sisters and Sussex Coastal landscape, UK and online as part of my current Writing Residency with the South Downs National Park. Funded by Arts Council England. Launches June 24th, 2023. Preview five of our stories/poems on our partner’s site, WritersMosaic now. (a division of the Royal Literary Fund).
Recently performed at Brighton Festival 2023! On May 26th I hosted an event of performed readings, sound, video and song on stage for ‘We See You Now – Writing and Walking the Global Imaginary of the Seven Sisters’ at Attenborough Centre for the Arts, a first live preview of We Hear You Now.
I have just been awarded a major Arts Council Project Grant for We Hear You Now, a new three hour audio walk series for the landscape presenting contemporary speculative fiction, life-writing, poetry and myth by nine writers and poets of colour. Hosted and in partnership with South Downs National Park Authority, it will be live from June 24 across the Seven Sisters and Sussex Heritage Coast and online. Written by creatives from the We See You Now project (2020-22) as part of my writer residency, the series will act as a welcome, spark & resource for a series of live events, commissions, public & targeted workshops, & new broadcast work throughout the year, amplifying voices which explore and reclaim belonging & connection to the land, highlight the longstanding diversity of humans within this landscape, its processes of loss, change and renewal, its legacies of empire, and its global connections to climate justice. More here for the full line up of writers
On May 31st and June 21st, a selection of our We Hear You Now writing and audio will be previewed as part of a Guest Edition for WritersMosaic, a division of the Royal Literary Fund. WritersMosaic is an online magazine and developmental resource focused on UK writers of the global majority, reflecting the changing reality of contemporary Britain, from its past and into its future.
Glimpse: My first fiction story, The Beard, is now out. as part of Glimpse, the first anthology of Black British speculative fiction published by Inscribe/Peepal Tree Press, edited by Leone Ross. Order here.
After five years of writing, amazing support & belief from New Writing South & this year, a Chapter & Verse mentoring scholarship from Sable Lit/ TLC, I am just completing the manuscript of my artist memoir-plus, In the Skin of a Stranger.
Listen to my podcast, The Colour of Chalk here. Latest episode, Not So Far Apart, on a walk at Seaford Head, Sussex, with Dulani Kulasinghe, on poetry of the climate emergency and legacies of Empire across the landscape
Watch online now : If You Can Imagine on YouTube – a film of my creative response to an archeological report and findings following the Seaford Head cliff fall this year – a poetic meditation on deep time, climate emergency and heritage loss using stunning drone footage and a performance in the landscape. Part of the Seaford Head Archeology project and intersecting with my own current research and new writing along the coast for my project. Funded & supported by South Downs National Park, Archeology South East UCL, Historic England, Seaford Town Council.
Listen to: The Hidden Valley, my debut Radio commission as writer/presenter on Into the Wild, for Radio 3’s The Essay, produced by Novel Audio, one of five new pieces by writers/poets of urban/rural nature writing .
Listen to Care(free) a new piece of poetic prose I wrote during my time as Associate artist at Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality Studies Centre, exploring contemporary and mythical intersections between care, freedom and human rights.
Watch and make /reflect along with our vimeo workshop series on the emotional commons in times of crisis , Craft in Common, commissioned by Craftspace and now touring as part of We Are Commoners, (part of Crafting the Commons ). Craftspace and this project recently co-won the 2020 Achates Prize
Check out my sculpture on the cover of a new edition of Suffrage Plays by Methuen, edited by Naomi Paxton here.
Archived speaking events : Listen here to me talking with wordsmith and artist Omope Daiboku, on a new Podcast series ‘Life in a Time of Corona’, about the effect of the crisis on our creativity, and relationship to environment and daily life.
In conversation with Philosopher Sacha Golob (Kings College) as part of a series of Visual Arts and Philosophy Salons at Fernandez and Wells, Somerset House, London. Podcast here
In conversation at the Stuart Hall Library at INIVA with Dr Christine Checinska -Shaw. Listen here. (scroll to bottom for file)
On Radio 4 Midweek with Libby Purves, talking about gift, debt, art and birth alongside Satish Kumar, Brian Blessed and Mark Harris. Listen to the programme on Iplayer here.
Burning The Books : 30 min film documenting my collaborative performance project on debt across 9 cities, is online on vimeo – watch here. 2011-15 tour Funded by Arts Council England.
Follow me on twitter @AlinahAzadeh or instagram alinahazadeh
Glimpse: My first fiction story, The Beard, is now out. as part of Glimpse, the first anthology of Black British speculative fiction published by Inscribe/Peepal Tree Press, edited by Leone Ross. Order here.
After five years of writing, amazing support & belief from New Writing South & this year, a Chapter & Verse mentoring scholarship from Sable Lit/ TLC, I am just completing the manuscript of my artist memoir-plus, In the Skin of a Stranger.
Listen to my podcast, The Colour of Chalk here. Latest episode, Not So Far Apart, on a walk at Seaford Head, Sussex, with Dulani Kulasinghe, on poetry of the climate emergency and legacies of Empire across the landscape
Watch online now : If You Can Imagine on YouTube – a film of my creative response to an archeological report and findings following the Seaford Head cliff fall this year – a poetic meditation on deep time, climate emergency and heritage loss using stunning drone footage and a performance in the landscape. Part of the Seaford Head Archeology project and intersecting with my own current research and new writing along the coast for my project. Funded & supported by South Downs National Park, Archeology South East UCL, Historic England, Seaford Town Council.
Listen to: The Hidden Valley, my debut Radio commission as writer/presenter on Into the Wild, for Radio 3’s The Essay, produced by Novel Audio, one of five new pieces by writers/poets of urban/rural nature writing .
Listen to Care(free) a new piece of poetic prose I wrote during my time as Associate artist at Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality Studies Centre, exploring contemporary and mythical intersections between care, freedom and human rights.
Watch and make /reflect along with our vimeo workshop series on the emotional commons in times of crisis , Craft in Common, commissioned by Craftspace and now touring as part of We Are Commoners, (part of Crafting the Commons ). Craftspace and this project recently co-won the 2020 Achates Prize
Check out my sculpture on the cover of a new edition of Suffrage Plays by Methuen, edited by Naomi Paxton here.
Archived speaking events : Listen here to me talking with wordsmith and artist Omope Daiboku, on a new Podcast series ‘Life in a Time of Corona’, about the effect of the crisis on our creativity, and relationship to environment and daily life.
In conversation with Philosopher Sacha Golob (Kings College) as part of a series of Visual Arts and Philosophy Salons at Fernandez and Wells, Somerset House, London. Podcast here
In conversation at the Stuart Hall Library at INIVA with Dr Christine Checinska -Shaw. Listen here. (scroll to bottom for file)
On Radio 4 Midweek with Libby Purves, talking about gift, debt, art and birth alongside Satish Kumar, Brian Blessed and Mark Harris. Listen to the programme on Iplayer here.
Burning The Books : 30 min film documenting my collaborative performance project on debt across 9 cities, is online on vimeo – watch here. 2011-15 tour Funded by Arts Council England.
Follow me on twitter @AlinahAzadeh or instagram alinahazadeh.
