Blog - Page 2 of 7 - Jeda Pearl

Old drawing of the North Bridge Edinburgh put through a filter which splits and overlaps red, green and blue colours.

Bridging Time

Oct 2024 – Apr 2025 | Creative writing workshops + an anthology inspired by the North Bridge from 22 Edinburgh writers.

Photograph of the Writers Museum, Edinburgh - a building built in 1622.

Disrupting the Narrative Exhibition

Until 23 Aug 2025 | Poetry reflecting on Edinburgh’s role in transatlantic slavery and colonialism, exhibited at The Writers’ Museum, Museum of Childhood, Museum of Edinburgh.

six raised fists in different skin tones, on a yellow-blue gradient background

Black History Month 2024 – Blackness as Resistance

Blog, Past Events / By jedapearl

16 Oct 2024 | Performances from and conversation with Jay Bernard, Jasmine Mans, Tawona Sitholé, and Jeda Pearl, organised by Dr Malica S Willie. Free!

A photo of a thistle overlaid and blended with a photo of a bird of paradise.

Black History Month 2024 – Co-curating with care

Blog, Past Events / By jedapearl

3 Oct 2024 I Co-curating with care: Exhibiting Caribbean experiences of Edinburgh – the Respect! Project. Free!

Illustration of hand drum and sound waves on a dark brown background.

Time Calls Upon Itself – Robert Wedderburn @200

Blog, Past Events / By jedapearl

28 Sep 2024 | An evening of drumming, spoken word, celebrating resistance, resilience and liberation. Free!

Photo of lots of beetles pinned to card with labels, as in a museum.

Hunter’s Voices

Blog, Books, Past Events, Poetry / By jedapearl

26 Sep 2024 | Hunter’s Voices, an anthology of poetry inspired by the Hunterian, with images of museum art and artifacts, edited by Professor Alan Riach.

Close up of a blue graphic of a lighthouse, light beams gulls

To The Forest – Nova Scotia Vol 2 (Luna Press)

Anthology, Blog, Books, Fiction / By jedapearl

Award-winning anthology of Scottish speculative fiction (SFF)

Black an white landscape scenic photo of the Scottish Highlands, looking across several hills and valleys, a loch, and an expanse of sky.

Guardian Poem of the Week: Highland Daunder

Blog, Poetry, Reading / By jedapearl

Honoured to have ‘Highland Daunder’, from my debut poetry collection (Time Cleaves Itself) in the Guardian newspaper, selected by Carol Rumens, as poem on the week!!

Graphic: Purple curving shapes on a pink gradient background.

In conversation with Dean Atta

Blog, Past Events / By jedapearl

Join Dean Atta and me at Portobello Bookshop on 12th July!

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