Anne Peaker Lecture 2022: The power of words
Join authors, poets and artists for a celebration of the power of words to build us up, to tear us down, to heal and to effect positive change.
Unchained Nights: poetry and music
Poet Lady Unchained returns to host an evening of live music and poetry by artists with lived experience of the criminal justice system.
Humane Justice: new book explores role of kindness in criminal justice
A new book funded by the Monument Trust and compiled by Khulisa explores the role of kindness in the criminal justice system and is now available to order and read [...]
The Forgotten People: Film Screening & Q&A
Join poet Lady Unchained and filmmaker Tracy Kiryango for a Q&A and screening of their new short film The Forgotten People, about racial inequality in UK prisons.
Locked in the Pen screening and spoken word night
Screening of three films and live spoken word from a creative writing and film-making programme developed with probation service users in Lambeth.
Hear her: women’s voices through poetry
Last month National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance chair, Alison Frater, attended the launch of a new London centre for women who have been through the criminal justice system or experienced […]
Unchained Nights #3
Poet Lady Unchained hosts another edition of Unchained Nights – an artistic platform for artists with lived experience of the criminal justice system – at Artsadmin’s Toynbee Studios.
The Night Alphabet
The Poetry Society host screenings of three short poetry-prose films, a live gig, and reading from Joelle Taylor’s new collection of short stories, The Night Alphabet.
Voices from the row exhibition
During July 2018, Voices from the Row, an exhibition of poetry and artwork by prisoners incarcerated on death row San Quentin, was held at the Poetry Café in London. It was well [...]
Voices from the Row
Voices from the Row, curated by Nicola White, presents a collection of poetry written and read by prisoners incarcerated on death row at San Quentin state prison in the USA.