December 15, 2020 10:00 am
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As part of Marie Claire’s #savethearts campaign, poet, writer, performer and playwright Sabrina Mahfouz – one of the nation’s most prolific creative talents – writes about how she’s coped this year, and why she’s supporting Black artists disproportionally affected
Whilst there have been huge disappointments in terms of cancelled and postponed shows and projects, I’m so grateful to have been able to use those ‘lost’ chunks of time and the frustrated creative energy to start writing my debut non-fiction book,
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Marie Claire is shining a spotlight on the creative industries impacted by months of lockdown with our Save The Arts campaign (#savethearts) which brings together talented creatives to share their heartfelt stories from 2020, fronted by Royal Ballet principal dancer Francesca Hayward
The pandemic has hit us all hard and reshaped many working lives. We clapped the NHS heroes working tirelessly to keep us healthy, we smiled behind our masks at the frontline workers stocking our supermarkets, we left ‘Thank you. Stay safe’ notes for our refuse collectors. While many professions had no choice but to rise to the challenges of a global plague, other equally viable careers were left fighting to survive as the coronavirus locked down the country not once but twice.