Happy New Year darlings. Let’s get into reading season. Our very special, very staple offering begins next month.
Share this post, choose your title(s) and come through. Invite your fam, siblings & partners to come join us in reading works by Black authors. Every month we’ll bring you something fab to think about.
Link in bio for more info.
Mad love,
PRIM
Reading Essentials, A PRIM Fashion Film
Watch the film now on www.prim.black
Credits:
Creative Director: K Bailey Obazee @drybabe Director: Valon Ballabani @vaballabani Stylist: Justin Hamilton @justinplz DOP: Elliot Holbrow @elliotholbrow 1st AC: Billy Gadd @billygadd Gaffer: Jack Cullis Spark: Wesley Kanu Photographer: Stephen Akinyemi @bare_clips
Creative Producer: Valon Ballabani @vaballabani Producer: Rianna Joseph seph__ria
Casting Director: K Bailey Obazee @drybabe Cast: Sienna King @siennawho Cast: Victor Kunda @victorkunda Production Designer: Alice Nutley @anutley Production Design Assistant: Liberty Arnold-White Sound Recordist: Joshua Woolford @jshwlfrd Sound Record Assistant: Gina Bell @the_bumblegee Music & Mix: Baby @babyssound Editor: Raquel Couceiro @raquel_couceiro_ Colour: Studio RM @studio__rm Colourist: Myles Bevan @m.y.l.e.s Asst. Colourist: Zach Maller Colour EP: Mike Coly @mikecoley_culkin Colour Producer: Paloma Bido
With special thanks to: Bottega Veneta @newbottega KNWLS @knwlslondon
We're excited to announce two upcoming evenings of performance with Gushing to Perform: TRU DA VEIL and IF I MAY at ICA ✨
Founded by Gabriela Cala-Lesina (@gacalales ), Gushing to Perform is a platform that supports LGBTQIA+ artists experimenting with performance. Across June and July, these special evenings are curated by TRIBE (@tribe_incorporated ) and PRIM (@prim.black ) respectively 🌙
The first event will feature Chloe Filani (@1.chloe.f ), The Prodigy Sisters (@_munya99 & @sakeemathecrook ), faith/agency (@faithandagency ), and TRIBE.
📍 25 June curated by TRIBE & 29 July curated by PRIM
🔗 Find out more and book via @icalondon
Images: Christa Holka (@christaholkastudio ); TRIBE; The Prodigy Sisters; faith/agency.
#GushingtoPerform #Gushing #TRUDAVEIL #IFIMAY #PerformanceArt #LivePerformance #ICA #London #LGBTQIAArtists
PRIM x TATE MODERN led by @drybabe . On Saturday, Drybabe took 25 of her family and friends of PRIM to visit the Nigerian Modernism exhibition.
A great moment to connect to over art, history and our collective ancestry. Thank you to those who join us, we can’t wait to keep hosting more moments like this. We love a group peruse of a gallery lol!
Special thanks to @tatecollective 🔗❤️
Drybabe brings together a team of ELITE ballers for PRIM BLACK FC @primballers !!
“Excited to be a part of this season of Nike and Palace’s @manor.place invitational. It’s been incredible so far, big up every team but yeah, it’s coming home!!!!”
Every Wednesday 6pm - 9pm come shake the cage for us!
📸: @bare_clips
Excited to share we’ll be taking a few of our PRIM F+F to see @tatecollective Nigerian Modernism exhibition in its final week.
You’re welcome to join too, just grab a ticket via Tate’s website and we’ll see you there.
You should be reading this one already…☕️
Join us on May 7th at OKHA to discuss Cursed Daughters by @oyinbraithwaite followed by a tour of the @vam_east museum with @drybabe .
“No man will call your house his home. And if they try, they will not have peace... So goes the family curse, handed down from generation to generation, ruining families and breaking hearts as it goes. And now it’s calm, rational Eniiyi’s turn - who, due to her uncanny resemblance to her dead aunt, Monife, and her family’s insistence that she must be a reincarnation, has long been used to some strange familial beliefs.
Still, when she falls in love with the handsome boy she saves from drowning, she can no longer run from her family’s history. Is she destined to live out the habitual story of love and heartbreak, or can she escape the family curse and the mysterious fate that befell her aunt?”
Cursed Daughters available on our website now 🔗
The V&A East Museum, opened in April 2026, a place to make new discoveries, explore untold stories and share ideas - with half a million works, it’s a sourcebook for your creativity. We look forward to walking you through this incredible space.
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May 7
Book Club - V&A East Storehouse, E20 3AX
7pm
V&A East Museum tour facilitated by @drybabe
8pm
PRIM INVITES: Exploring erotics with artist and PRIM member Joshua Woolford for the Barbican (@barbicancentre ) Dirty Weekend. Curated by Susanna Davies-Crook (@susanna_idc )
Merging PRIMs (@prim.black ) renowned Erotic Reading Nights with my performance and facilitation practice, I shared readings, music and a closing writing exercises exploring understandings of and relations to the erotic.
Reading and listening:
Claim it. Klein
Dhalgren. Samuel Delany
Want More. Shy Girl
Unutterable Visions, Perishable Breath. Otamere Guobadia
Fever. Tereza Delzz
I Put A Spell On You. Alice Smith
All About Love. bell hooks
Altar, Desree
Really Love. D’Angelo‘Round Midnight. Hazel Scott
📹 @drybabe 😘
We held our 2nd OKHA Book club of the year this week.
We discussed deeply So Long A Letter by Mariama Ba and the problem of certain men, dishonesty, cultural and religious customs that stifle young women and girls and also the bravery of Mariama Ba and all the women who challenge the injustice and the bonds between friends that really really does give us strength when we need it. Overall consensus - this is a great book!
You can still get the book on our website, we definitely recommend.
Next up: Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite - link in bio to RSVP
Join us on April 9th at OKHA to discuss So Long A Letter by Mariama Ba followed by a tour of the @vam_east with @drybabe .
So Long A Letter is a semi-autobiographical epistolary novel originally written originally in French by Senegalese writer Mariama Bâ. It focuses on the condition of women in Western African society, the novel opens with Ramatoulaye Fall beginning a letter to her lifelong friend Aissatou Bâ, from here it details her struggle with betrayal, widowhood, and restrictive traditions. It was her first novel.
So Long A Letter available on our website now 🔗
The V&A East Storehouse, opened in May 2025, a place to make new discoveries, explore untold stories and share ideas - with half a million works, it’s a sourcebook for your creativity. We look forward to walking you through this incredible space.
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April 9
V&A East Storehouse, E20 3AX
6-9pm
Book club and V&A tour facilitated by @drybabe
