Having been in therapy for several years now, I am no stranger to the question, “What would you say to your inner child?” I am never prepared to answer it, though. In the small room that hosts Legendary, we are greeted by this question, beamed onto a backdrop from an old school projector. Yellow balloons hover along the edges of the stage and an ethereal character – loose hair, clad in a long white lace dress – stands amongst the audience, gently welcoming those that walk in.

What do we choose to listen to every day? A year has passed since I stopped taking headphones with me when I leave the house, since I cancelled my Spotify subscription due to the company’s complicity with Israel’s genocidal campaign in Palestine. The music streaming platform’s founder, Daniel Ek, pumped millions of dollars stolen from artists into the German AI military company Helsing, which has active contracts with international arms companies supplying Israel.

Teenage Beldina Odenyo's face fills the screen. "I suppose if anything ever happens to me,” she says, “it would be good if somebody found this and basically understood how I was feeling." Watching the opening of the feature film Bel, I felt like a witness to a prophecy: Odenyo ended her life just as her star was about to shoot.

Arcana is a poetic, music-led hero's quest by the French Cameroonian musician, performer, director and educator, Fay Guiffo. I see the theatre piece on the day it opens at the Assembly Roxy on Roxburgh Place. Outside, rainclouds ride low over the converted church. Inside, it’s dim. A few faint lights pick out a slim, still figure, who seems pressed down by the height of vaulted ceilings.

I have always been interested in memory. In my writing practice, I cannot divest memory from culture and inheritance. Obvious personal entry points are the iconography of La Virgen de Guadalupe whose portrait hangs in the house of all my elder family members, or the distinct food culture of my maternal northern México…

Xandra Sunglim Burns responds to Charlene Kaye’s show ‘Tiger Daughter or: How I Brought My Immigrant Mother Ultimate Shame’, on music, mothers, and breaking the generational curse of assimilation and propriety.

Arusa Qureshi

Beyond the constructs and confines of gender, the divine feminine exists deep within us all. It’s the energy that allows for compassion, nurturing and devotion; an embracing of softness and stillness in all its varying guises. In Danny Bailey’s short film Soft Bwoi, the notion of the divine feminine is beautifully encapsulated through the use of folklore and imagery from Caribbean carnival culture and queerness.

Asyia Iftikhar responds to Space 2: We’ve Come A Long Way, a music and visual experience by Paix and a Fringe of Colour 2021 Commission.

Andrés N Ordorica responds 5 WAYS 2 RUN, a Jasmine Kahlia Multidisciplinary Installation Piece featuring original electrifying music, spoken word and striking citscapes.

Elete N-F responds to CLUB, a vibrant exploration of queer black women forging space for themselves against the landscape of London's nightlife, by Esme Allman.