Nima Poovaya-Smith

Mar 12, 2024 | sadaa.co.uk | Romesh Gunesekera |Bhajan Hunjan |Rahila Gupta |Nima Poovaya-Smith

We had not imagined the breadth of the material and memories that would land in our inbox when we commissioned nine writers, artists, and supporters of SADAA, to reflect on their lives, their influences, their thinking, and their work, in the UK over 25 years. As well as prose, we have an original painting, poetry, and a play. Each story of arrival is different – distinct – as are the living experiences and artistic leanings and learnings.  We hope you will enjoy the pieces as much as we have.

Oct 31, 2023 | museumsassociation.org | Nima Poovaya-Smith

Paul Lawson who died, on 8 September 2023 after a protracted illness, was a dynamo of a man. In his heyday, as principal keeper and then head of Bradford Museums, Galleries and Libraries for well over two decades from the 1970s onwards, he electrified the cultural landscape of the city. His restless, fierce intellect created a force field around him, crackling with energy, where everything seemed to accelerate.