New artistic lead at Bernie Grant Arts Centre

Curator, author and journalist HANNAH AZIEB POOL will be joining the Bernie Grant Arts Centre as Artistic Director in February next year. A trustee of the London International Festival of Theatre and a patron of the SI Leeds Prize, the biannual award for unpublished fiction by UK Black and Asian women, she was recently Senior Programmer for Contemporary Culture at the Southbank Centre and was a programmer of the WOW Women of the World festival.