November 11: Participant and Promoter. Freedom First. Jazz concert, featuring Death Row prisoner Keith LaMar. Toulouse Lautrec, London
November 7: Participant. Merseyside Pensioners’ Association Manifesto Launch, Liverpool
October 29. Participant, Knowsley Council BHM event. Huyton Library
October 23. Concert: Black Activist Song Cycle. St. George’s Hall, Liverpool.
October 17: Reading of extracts from new book at BHM event: The Persecution of the Black Community in Nazi Germany. London
October 11: Participant, Gaza Nights 3. Unity Theatre, Liverpool
Jul 4. Participant (reader/actor), New Views Festival, National Theatre, London.
June 6: Participant, 9th Annual Gary Mahoney Debate, Liverpool.
June 7: Participant, Charity Concert: A Wonderful Evening of Music, Liverpool
March 30. Preview presentation: Coleridge-Taylor of Freetown. Stanley Arts, London
March 7. Two Coleridge-Taylor songs at exhibition launch: Coleridge-Taylor and the Americans. Stanley Arts, London
March 1. Participant, Gaza Night Cabaret. The CASA, Liverpool
31 December: Participant, Peace Service and Fundraiser for Gaza, Ullet Road Unitarian Church, Liverpool.
The Madame Blanc Mysteries (TV) Series 3, Episode 1, Xmas Special
Now Streaming on Channel 5 and Acorn TV
10 November: Art As a Weapon – Some Pan-Africanist Examples. Yorkshire Festival of Story (online event)
29 October: Art As A Weapon – Some Pan-Africanist Examples. Faversham Guild Hall.
25 October: Words Behind 4Wings @10.Performance by 4Wings members and staff of writings by Tayo Aluko, inspired by stories shared by the women. St. George’s Hall, Liverpool.
26 October: Participant, Book Launch. Pastor Daniels Ekarte and the African Churches Mission. Liverpool, 1931-1964. Writing on the Wall BHM23
26 September: “Dodging Bullets” @ #BlackBoyJoyGone. Blackfest @ Unity Theatre, Liverpool
21 September: Coleridge-Taylor of Freetown (a reading/sharing) Liverpool Lighthouse, Anfield, Liverpool. Recorded Live on YouTube
17 June: Paul Robeson – The Giant, In a Nutshell. Birch Community Centre, Manchester
10 June: Participant, Strike Benefit Support Night, How We Win, Rich Mix, London
22 May (TV):Emmerdale
28 April: Headliner, Fundraising Concert for Asylum Link Merseyside
10 – 16 April: “Who Are the Children?” A Monologue written and performed as part of Freedom First Tour of Ohio & Illinois, USA, on behalf of Death Row Prisoner, Keith LaMar.
8 April: Paul Robeson – The Giant, In a Nutshell. The Carr Center, Detroit, MI, USA
25 Feb:Dodging Bullets. #BlackBoyJoyGone: REALISE @ Northern School for Contemporary Dance
Feb 7: Dodging Bullets @ #BlackBoyJoyGone, HOME, Manchester
2022
Dec 10: Art As a Weapon (Some Pan-African Examples). Storiel, Bangor, N. Wales
Nov 18: Talk: Art As A Weapon. (Some Pan-Africanist Examples). Edge Hill University
Nov 3: Talk: Art As A Weapon. (Some Pan-Africanist Examples) & Exploring “Greatness” Brighton University. flyer
Oct 25: Talk: Art As A Weapon. (Some Pan-Africanist Examples). Edge Hill University
Oct 8: Birmingham Clarion Singers’ 80th Anniversary Concert (Participant)
Oct 8: Birmingham Museums & Galleries:Family of Words (Participant)
4 July: Paul Robeson’s Love Song, WPFW FM.
4 July: The Amazing Life of Olaudah Equiano, BBC Radio 4 Docudrama
24 May: Olaudah Equiano in The Amazing Life of Olaudah Equiano, BBC Radio 4 Docudrama
22 March: Storytelling in Exile. Performance and Conversation with fellow African Diaspora artist Patrice Naiambana. Ashburton Arts Centre.
2021
October 27: Paul Robeson’s Love Song. Rotherham Black History Month Event
October 21: Exploring “Greatness” Sir John Thurson Community College, Burnley, UK. (via Zoom) in association with Burnley Youth Theatre.
October 16: Spirituals of Resistance. Resist Fest, Nottingham.
Fri. September 3, 7pm, Concert (Guest): Dedication Prayer: Sacred Classics /Baroque/Romantic/Arias & Songs. w Nicole Bartos (soprano) and Emma Weeks (piano)
Ullet Road Unitarian Church, Liverpool.
June 8, ONLINE, 4:30pm BST: Presenter, Art & Activism Webinar Series, with UCLan
June 13: Just An Ordinary Lawyer @ Greenwich Theatre, London
June 16: An Afternoon With Tayo Aluko @ Lotherton Hall, Leeds
June 18: The Three /\/\/\/’s (Live performance) Liverpool Biennale @ Metropolitan Cathedral
ON AIR NOW. Participant in The Forum, BBC World Service programme. Discussion on the life of Paul Robeson.
June 6, ONLINE, Presenter: Artistic Weaponry: Some Pan-Africanist Examples. For Sunday International Solidarity.
June 5, ONLINE: Listen to That Voice! Presentation on Paul Robeson for the People’s Music Network
May 28, ONLINE: Paul Robeson’s Love Song (followed by Q&A) Writing on the Wall Festival
May 21, ONLINE: Participant in The Three /\/\/\/’s by Haroon Mirza, for Liverpool Biennial / Lightnight
May 21, ONLINE: New Poem, in WORD PLAY OPEN MIC for Lightnight, Liverpool Biennial, in association with WoWFest 2021
May 14, ONLINE: Exploring “Greatness” University of Central Lancashire.
May 15, ONLINE: Participant in “Meet the Krios” (short presentation on Samuel Coleridge-Taylor) with TheKrios.com and London Docklands Museum
April 25: Son of the Nile, by Afeif Ismail. Rehearsed reading, with Utopia Theatre
Contestant in Episode 2 of new series, This Is My House. Click image for programme information
Tayo Aluko in Moving On, BBC1 March 9, 2021 Click image for programme information
Feb 25: Participant, An A-Z of Dundonian Descent
Nov 29: Three Sisters: The End of the Project. Zoom Play reading
Oct 28: “On Board with Robeson” Outdoors at the Merseyside Maritime Museum.
Oct 22. Zoom Talk on Paul Robeson for Counterfire Liverpool.
Oct 22, 8pm, BST. Narrator, Th’forst munth is th’wurst iv awl, by Ben Lunn. for sound Scotland’s soundfestival 2020 (livestream)
Recording available here in due course.
Sept 22: Guest on Community Podcast on Condo Radio.
Sept 21: Moderator/Host: Locks: Prison Systems and Racial Profiling. BlackFest Digital 2020.
August 29. Participant in Zoom conversation with Llafur (People’s Welsh History Society). Paul Robeson and Wales
Aug 23: Participant, Transatlantic Song Swap, Hosted by People’s Music Network. Recorded here. My reading of “Greatness” In a Time of Covid comes in at 23:55
Aug 6: Participant, Hiroshima, Never Again. International Song Exchange Hosted by People’s Music Network. Recorded here. My singing of Little Girl of Hiroshima comes in at 1:06:06
May 29: Discussions with David. Livestreamed Interview with David Rovics
Feb 13: What Happens? Hofstra University, Long Island, NY
2019
Sept 23:Performance of HALF MOON, by Tayo Aluko. BlackFest, Unity Theatre, Liverpool
Sept 20: Participant, Museum of Colour – People of Letters, Oxford
Aug 15 – 18: Participant (singer), The Freedom of the City Lughnasa FrielFest, Derry, Northern Ireland
2018
Dec 29, 30: Short contribution, BBC World Service Music Extra Programme:
It Jus’ Keeps Rollin’: The History of Ol’ Man River
Oct 3: Talk. Weaponising the Black Future, with art @ Black To The Future, Fulwood Methodist Church, Preston, Lancashire
June 16: Participant, May Days. The Playground Theatre, London
June 1: Guest on Bolton Socialist Club’s “Desert Island Discs”
May 23: Talk: Following Robeson’s Footsteps on the Journey to Justice. Shire Hall, Dorchester, Dorset
Feb 21: From Black Africa to the White House. New Brunswick African Association, Fredericton, NB, Canada
Jan 14: Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, Trinity Baptist Church, Brooklyn, NY. 3.30pm (Participant with a few songs).
2017
Sept 13: Reading from Black German, by Theodor Michael, with translator Eve Rosenhaft. International Slavery Museum, Liverpool
May 2: Book Launch: Black German, by Theodor Michael, Liverpool University (Read extracts)
2016
July 4: Where R those WMDs? Merlin Theatre (Frome Festival) (Participant) Click here for trailer.
