Join the members of BlackFest’s first ever Writers’ Room, led renowned local Liverpool writer, dramaturg Maurice Bessman, as they share extracts of their work in this rehearsed reading.
Working with professional actors and BlackFest Artistic Director Jubeda Khatun supported by Director Miriam Musa and Maurice, the writers have created original pieces based around the stories they want to tell and that are important to them. A number of the plays shared will be selected for further development and full production within ‘BlackFest Celebration of New Writers’ at the Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio.
BlackFest is a grassroots Black Arts festival piloted and founded in 2018 by Co-Founders, Artistic Director Jubeda Khatun and Daniel Sebuyange, freelance artist Blue Saint. The annual combined arts festival platforms, empowers and develops work by Black artists across community spaces and established venues running at the end of September.