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Davina McCall at the Origins cultural and culinary event at Sucre London
Davina McCall showcases her gorgeous figure in a green leather jumpsuit as she puts on a love-up display with husband Michael Douglas
Simon and Yasmin Le Bon at the Sucre London event where guests were served Argentine Fillet Beef and Sea Bass Bilbaina
Dame Kelly Holmes at Sucre London's Origins event, a night of food and classical music
Martha and Jack Freud attend Origins, a culinary event with The London Chamber Orchestra at Sucre Soho
Chef Patron, Jack Godik at Sucre London

Davina McCall, Simon Le Bon and Dame Kelly Holmes lead the glamour at a cultural Night with the London Chamber Orchestra at Sucre Soho

Photography courtesy of Sucre London

Davina McCall in a gorgeous green leather jumpsuit with husband Michael Douglas

Simon and Yasmin Le Bon took their seats for a bespoke three-course menu that included Argentine Fillet Beef and Sea Bass Bilbaina

Dame Kelly Holmes teamed a chunky tie with a black suit. Throughout the evening guests were treated to performances by The London Chamber Orchestra

Artist Martha Freud and public relations specialist Jack Freud

Jack Godik, Chef Patron of Sucre London. Following the success of the one-off event with The London Chamber Orchestra, Sucre will be launching a 2026 program under the umbrella of “Origins at Sucre”

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The Arts Foundation announced the five recipients of its Futures Awards at a ceremony on Monday 2nd February at Kings Place, London. The Awards support the UK’s most promising artists and creatives at a pivotal moment in their career. It provides £115,000 in unconditional grant funding, awarding five transformative £20,000 fellowships. Sir Ben Okri made the welcome address. @the_arts_foundation

Winner of the Film fellowship is Dorothy Allen-Pickard. Allen-Pickard works across narrative, documentary and theatrical modes of filmmaking. She has a particular interest in blurring the line between performance and reality, and is a founding member of Breach Theatre, and an associate artist of Kestrel Theatre, who run theatre and film workshops in prisons. Her work has screened at festivals including London Film Festival, Hot Docs, Clermont Ferrand, Palm Springs, Doc NYC, and Sheffield DocFest, and on news and broadcast channels including PBS, Guardian Documentaries and BBC iPlayer.

Winner of the Visual Arts fellowship is Zein Majali. Majali is a Jordanian-Palestinian sound and visual artist whose work explores the collision of technology with a rapidly evolving political landscape, and an interest in a post-colonial and globalised Middle East. Her work has been presented at institutions including the V&A, Somerset House Studios, Showroom, Ibraaz, and the ICA. Majali completed an MA in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art in 2022 and holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Tufts University. Formerly an engineer, she turned to artistic practice out of an urgency to archive and examine accelerated cultural and political shifts in the Arab world.

Winner of the Music fellowship is William Marsey. A UK-based composer, his music has been commissioned and performed internationally, including by the LA Phil and BBC Arts, with performances by Royal Northern Sinfonia, The Hallé, and Thomas Adès. He was nominated for a British Composer Award in 2018 and an Ivor Novello Composers Award in 2023. He is currently showing a generative soundtrack as part of Cicadian Bloom at Seoul Museum of Art until 22 March. A full concert of his piano works will take place at London's 1901 Arts Club on 9th June. The award is sponsored by the David Collins Foundation. @thedavidcollinsfoundation

Winner of the Theatre fellowship is Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu. The British-Ghanaian theatre-maker was nominated for an Olivier in 2022 for his work on For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy by Ryan Calais Cameron. He has won several awards including the 2022 Black British Theatre Award for Best Director. In 2026, Tristan will direct the UK premiere of Deep Azure by late Academy Award and BAFTA-nominated actor and writer Chadwick Boseman, opening February 7th to 11th April at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe.

Winner of the Literature fellowship is Fahad Al-Amoudi. His work is published in POETRY, The Poetry Review, Wasafiri, The London Magazine, and Mizna. He is the winner of the White Review Poet’s Prize 2022 and has been shortlisted for the Brunel International African Poets Prize 2022. Al-Amoudi is an alumnus of the Obsidian Foundation and a graduate of the Writing Squad. His debut pamphlet, When the Flies Come (ignitionpress, 2023), was selected as a Poetry Book Society Winter Choice 2023 and was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award.