Isabella Pearce, Author at Shado Magazine

No Direction Home: the comedy collective bringing laughter to your living room

No Direction Home is a comedy collective made up of aspiring stand-ups from refugee and migrant backgrounds. Created by Counterpoints Arts, Camden People’s Theatre and Tom Parry in 2018, the initiative runs free workshops and stand-up gigs for comics who are injecting humour into tired stereotypes of displacement. This September,...

Isabella Pearce & Image: Hannah Robathan

From Compton Cowboys to Rosebud rappers: how Charlie Buhler is defying stereotypes of BIPOC communities

You only need to meet Charlie Buhler once to understand her work: the stories she has documented and the communities she has worked with speak to an extraordinary level of trust between filmmaker and subject. From kid cowboys in Compton, to Indigenous hip hop artists in Rosebud, South Dakota, it...

Isabella Pearce, Hannah Robathan & Image: Charlie Buhler

Community Comfort: the cookbook fighting COVID-19’s racial inequalities

The beginning of lockdown seemed to create a new generation of keen amateur chefs, with people of all abilities forging new connections with food. Banana bread and first-time sourdough makers were taking over Instagram; countless people recorded videos of themselves replicating Ixta Belfrage’s infamous Biang Biang noodles; fans dipped into...

Hannah Robathan & Image: Isabella Pearce

Lockdown Listening with Atlantis Gandhi

In an attempt to provide some relief during these uncertain times, shado has launched the Lockdown Listening series, where we will be releasing a weekly playlist in collaboration with some of our contributors and musicians, hearing about how they are coping and what they are currently listening to in lockdown....

Hannah Robathan, Isabella Pearce & Image: Karis Beaumont

“I am glad about the renewed gratitude for healthcare professionals…I just hope that it continues long after this crisis is over.”

With the UK’s death toll rapidly rising and NHS healthcare workers speaking out against working conditions and the lack of PPE in hospitals over the UK, it is more important than ever to hear from those putting their lives on the line within the structure of a massively overstretched and...

Isabella Pearce, Hannah Robathan & Image: Javie Huxley

Ramadan in lockdown: Basma Khalifa on staying connected in times of COVID-19

Like so many religious celebrations whose dates have fallen during the Lockdown period, millions of families across the world are having to adapt to social distancing rules for Ramadan this year. For the first time, Mecca – Islam’s holiest city and the birthplace of Prophet Muhammed – is closed, a...

Isabella Pearce & Image: Hannah Robathan

Visa or not, immigrant healthcare workers are taking on as much risk as anyone else

With the UK’s death toll rapidly increasing and NHS healthcare workers speaking out against working conditions and the lack of PPE in hospitals over the UK, it is more important than ever to hear from those putting their lives on the line within the structure of a massively overstretched and...

Isabella Pearce, Javie Huxley & Image: Hannah Robathan

Lockdown Listening with Sports Team

In an attempt to provide some relief during these uncertain times, shado has launched the Lockdown Listening series, where we will be releasing a weekly playlist in collaboration with some of our contributors and musicians, hearing about how they are coping and what they are currently listening to in lockdown....

Isabella Pearce & Image: Hannah Robathan

“We need to normalise the idea that it’s okay if you’re only just coping.”

In February 2020, shado hosted Build Love, Break Walls, a two-week residency in celebration of LGBT History Month. As part of the exhibition, we spotlighted 12 of London’s LGBTQI+ changemakers. shado’s co-directors Hannah Robathan and Isabella Pearce sat down with one of these changemakers, Alex Leon, to find out more....

Hannah Robathan & Image: Isabella Pearce

“It is typical of Conservative governments to ignore both long-term and scientific concerns, but their dithering, lying and demonisation of key workers is unprecedented and is costing lives.”

With the UK’s death toll rapidly increasing and NHS healthcare workers speaking out against working conditions and the lack of PPE in hospitals over the UK, it is more important than ever to hear from those putting their lives on the line within the structure of a massively overstretched and...

Isabella Pearce, Hannah Robathan & Image: Javie Huxley

Lockdown Listening with Ranald Macdonald

In an attempt to provide some relief during these uncertain times, shado has launched the Lockdown Listening series, where we will be releasing a weekly playlist in collaboration with some of our contributors and musicians, hearing about how they are coping and what they are currently listening to in lockdown. Our first playlist...

Isabella Pearce, Erin Cobby & Image: Hannah Robathan

From Aleppo to Kent: Waad al-Kateab’s coverage of COVID-19

Waad al-Kateab is a Syrian journalist and filmmaker known for her groundbreaking directorial debut For Sama, a documentary charting the situation in Syria from its initial conflict in 2011. Last week, Waad stepped into the reality of the pandemic and spent eight days filming inside a COVID-19 ward in Kent...

Isabella Pearce & Image: Hannah Robathan

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