Written by Zainab Mehdi, a British-Iraqi journalist and Features Associate Editor at The New Arab. From Kobani to Mardin, Syrian photographer Serbest Salih is helping children heal through photography

By Take A Seat, On a sweltering afternoon in Hackney Wick’s old Bath House, strangers gather in a circle to talk about death. Between slices of cake and quiet confessions, the Death Café becomes a space where grief is shared, love is remembered, and loss is carried forward. Writer Karla Lategan, owner of Take a Seat takes us inside the room where life and death meet.

Yellow Is the New Black is the latest solo exhibition from Nigerian-born, London-based multidisciplinary artist Ken Nwadiogbu, whose practice spans painting, sculpture, installation, and video. Presenting 13 works alongside a large-scale installation, the show explores memory, migration, identity, and the emotional charge of colour.

As part of her ongoing project Take a Seat, Karla Lategan sits down with “Mr. Dog Face,” a masked poet whose surreal performances give way to candid reflections on grief, cults, cinema, and the search for meaning beyond normality.