Still Dancing (Shirley May Special Edition) Windrush 75

In this special edition, short interview, I had the pleasure to talk again to Shirley May who featured in Season 3 which was dedicated to poetry and spoken word artists. Shirley May is an acclaimed poet, writer and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of literature. She is also CEO and Artistic Director of Young Identity, Manchester's premier spoken word collective in the UK. To complement her one hour episode, repeated in Season 4, see listing, She Wrote Her Own Eulogy, this special edition celebrates Windrush 75. We talk about the experience of her parents leaving Jamaica for Britain and Shirley shares stories not included in her book 'She Wrote Her Own Eulogy.' We talk about her mother's active, community work supporting citizenship administration and her father's resilience and response to racism. Find out who is 'still dancing' and why the commemorative events of Windrush 75 are so important. See additional links and Young Identity interviews below.

Season 4 features 7 Windrush specific interviews with world class and award winning artists, just look for titles with 'Windrush 75.'

You can hear more from the Young Identity poets in Season 3 too, who also share Caribbean and African heritage. See Season 3 listings:

'The Courage and Craft of Two Poets'

'Pain, Poetry and a Jamaican born Nigerian Princess'.

 

Discover Shirley May and Young Identity: www.youngidentity.org/

 

Find out more about #Justice4Windrush: www.justice4windrush.org/

 

Series Audio Editor - Courtesy of Joey Quan.

Series Music - Courtesy of Barry J. Gibb

Closed Captions are added to all interviews in this series. News and read only, text versions of every interview can also be found here: www.canartsaveus.com