ARTCRY is an artist-led fund to support work that can't be funded elsewhere.A fast turnaround fund created to support political work in the public realm that needs to happen NOW. You can apply in writing, via voice note, with drawings or via film.A panel of artists, activists and producers from across the UK will make decisions on what's funded every 7 days. This is a fast fund for political work that needs to happen fast to make its impact.

In 2021 I have the honour of being part of the panel of artists, activists and producers who are responsible for making decisions about which fast response, political art works in the public realm ARTCRY is able to fund. In astonishing times, we need to be able to respond more bravely and nimbly. Before the lockdown it was increasingly difficult for artists and organisations to take risks and make work responsively, now it's even harder. Artistic responses which cut through the noise are needed and we need to encourage and support each other to do it.

Creative Folkestone Triennial is the UK’s largest and most ambitious exhibition of newly commissioned art in the public realm. In it's 2025 iteration it is also partnering with Folkestone's levelling-up project, led by Folkestone & Hythe District Council. The artist commissions are yet to be announced but... I am supporting the realisation of a work linking back to end of the Ice Age, when humans first crossed the land bridge between Britain and Europe. It evokes the ancient geological and human migrations that shaped the region, connecting the past with the present. Since 2008, Folkestone Triennial has been one of the most influential and ambitious art festivals in the UK, attracting approximately 640,000 visitors with Folkestone Triennial 2021 welcoming more than 220,000 visitors alone. Folkestone Triennial has generated economic investment of more than 100 million pounds for the local area. Make sure you have a triennial weekend in your diary for the summer of 2025.

Creative, strategic and very human. We use creativity to connect people across chasms.We bring creative practice into strategic decision making.We create transformative events online and on land.AWE contributors work in different contexts, countries and continents. We work as artists, facilitators, creative agitators and long-distance collaborators to unpick and reimagine the ways we connect and create with each other. > We design creative interventions for a wide range of organisations and institutions in order to catalyse change processes and alternative leadership models.> We support emerging arts-led social change practices and projects by connecting artists locally, nationally and internationally.> We draw on multiple knowledge systems, ideas, perspectives and practices to facilitate high impact social change projects.> We are engaged in ongoing practice as research, exploring how to move beyond western-centred collaboration.

People United explores Care Centred Co-Design. With a focus on Futures of Care, People United facilitates collaborative, multi-arts programmes exploring radical care. Partnering with Creative Estuary, Kent Refugee Action Network (KRAN), Pie Factory Music, Dover Smart Project, The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge and others to co-design projects exploring what taking care of ourselves and each other means in today’s changing world.

Critical Friend, supporting organisational and/or artistic practice development by holding up mirrors to help re-see the hows and whys and ask the What Ifs. Critical Friendships are co-designed and manifest in a series of exchanges that provide strategic support. Sessions offer: a critical lens, high support and high challenge provocations drawing on coaching, action learning and creative facilitation tools to ask "what is the next, most elegant step we can take?" (adrienne maree brown)

ConnectUp is an international cultural initiative designed to counteract the process of increasing social and cultural division across Europe. Collaborating with a team of Theatre Mediators from schools, theatres and higher education institutes across Europe, we designed and facilitated an inclusive week of site-responsive devising hosted by Teatro O Bando, an hour south of Lisbon.The Youth Encounter brought 70 young people from 9 countries together to explore their responses to the idea of Tomorrowland. German, Austrian, Italian, Polish, Ukrainian, Portuguese, Croatian, Czech and UK based Young People collaborating, on a Portuguese hillside to create a theatre expression of how they understand their connected future. We were weavers and facilitators, finding pathways for every contributor to be heard and celebrators. The collective visioning done on that hillside has the power to shake capitalism and invite a whole new way of collaborating for Tomorrowland. What a privilege to be able to hold the space with Andrew "Sid" Siddall and work with the international Connect Up team.

Developed with Co-Director, Sade Banks, The What if Experiment...Creates social justice interventions in the creative and cultural sectors.Supporting people to question and discover how they might do things differently.In Jan 2022 we formalised a team of Associates who share our hunger for disrupting the power structures at play in our sector today and creating spaces to imagine and practice alternatives. We are facilitators, thinkers, innovators, artists, activists and community organisers. The What If Experiment is an evolution of Sour Lemons*, 2016-2021, created to disrupt decision making tables in the creative and cultural sectors with leaders who happened to be diverse. Strategic Partnerships include Young Vic, Royal Court, BFI - we invite you to bear witness to their progress and help hold them accountable for developing a sustainable anti racist practice.*Sour Lemons was funded by Arts Council England’s Transforming Leadership Fund, National Lottery Community Fund’s Leaders with Lived Experience Fund and Esmée Fairbairn’s Open Funding for organisations addressing systemic racism. Its legacy is being played out in The What If Experiment’s ongoing commitment to creating anti-racist and human centred practices.

PROJECT VEAR is a research mission. It is an exploration. It is searching for a way to harness the power of the collective voice.Collecting voices from across a city and distilling them into a voice extract that encapsulates the 'Essence de Voix'.Originally commissioned for Hull City Of Culture in 2017, Project VEAR has since evolved, with support from 101 outdoor Arts, Oxford Contemporary Music and Oxford City Council and is now a tourable installation and engagement project...Developed as a new collaboration with artist Thor McIntyre-Burnie under the banner of Aswarm - a transformative public arts company based in the UK, specialising in site-specific and immersive work, using sound and other sculptural & AV elements to subtly alter our experience of architecture, public space and performance. Our projects range from solo artist works to full production teams, drawing on a tight team of specialists and network of professionals.

Voices That Take You Places - is a bus stop takeover. Developed originally as part of a r&d process for Hull City of Culture 2017.It isa temporary installation which grows over 5 days.Day one - the bus stop sound is altered by secreted speakers and an options dial rigged on the central strut. People are invited to choose from a soundtrack of the trawler boats out at sea, Hull city Fayre sound track, the sound of a bus stop in their twinned town in Sierra Leone or original Rediffusion broadcasts from the 70's and 80's.Day two - a green sofa appears in place of the bus stop benchDay three the bus stop is turfed over night, appearing like an island oasis, separated the rest of the pavement.Day four - large sound horns burst through the ground and play poetry and fragments of historical speeches to passers buy. All the content is inspired by Change Makers from Hull - from Philip Larkin to Mary Wollstonecraft and William Wilberforce... people who have voiced dissent to champion change. The more renowned voices are joined by those of communities champions that we have gathered from across the city.Day five - a wood burning stove appears and assistants offer to make all bus stop users cups of fresh mint tea as they wait, connect with one another and share stories about what it is to be from Hull.

The Change Collective (TCC) is a growing collective of creative humans who work in complex and chaotic environments. Most of us are arts practitioners interested in social impact. Some of us are non-arts practitioners, working across civil society, who see the value of an arts based approach. ​TCC is a space to think about what we’re doing and how we’re doing it. It’s a space to look at whether we’re doing it in the right way. The majority of today’s social issues are complex, and to take them on effectively requires a collaborative approach - across sectors and through a variety of art forms.

TCC are currently part of the Create Syria programme, run in Partnership with the British Council and leading Syrian cultural institute Ettijahat . The programme, now in it’s second year, aims to increase the capacity of artists in the region to contribute to the development of stronger communities by designing and delivering arts-based initiatives. Running throughout 2018, TCC alongside British Council Syria, Ettijahat and a team of incredible Syrian trainers and facilitators, have developed the structure and content of the programme as well as supporting the delivery of a six-day training for five local arts organisations, to develop their technical and artistic skills and build a community of practice. Where nextAs part of Create Syria we're building a toolkit, primarily for artists working in fragile communities, and whilst it's very much rooted in the Syrian context, the toolkit won't be limited to that group. The ambition is that artists and arts organisations around the world pick it up and use it to support the work they’re doing. We’re also planning an event early 2019 which will bring together artists and cultural activists from the Arab region, along with funders and policy makers, to showcase what's come out of the Create Syria project on the one hand, but also to look more broadly at how the arts is being used in the region as a way of dealing with some of the recent history and instability.

This thought piece has been commissioned by the British Council to explore the links between UK arts and international development from a practitioner’s point of view. Recognising that there is an ongoing shift in both these sectors – from more traditional ways of presenting artistic practice or delivering development, to a more participatory and inclusive way of working – the British Council is currently exploring where the connections and synergies lie, and how we can make a contribution through a cultural relations approach to development.This paper sets out the changing landscape in the arts and development sectors and presents ways in which large-scale organisations can find new ways of working to shift the balance towards a more flexible, mutual and sustainable model. It complements a recent Culture and Development literature review that has been completed by JP Singh, Institute of Intercultural Relations, for the British Council. It also follows on from the Uncommon Ground Symposium on socially-engaged arts, held in the UK in March 2018.The British Council has commissioned The Change Collective for this piece of work, as they have extensive experience of working in the UK and internationally in a creative and collaborative way, with people from diverse backgrounds and contexts. They are also familiar with the British Council, particularly the work of Culture and Development and the Active Citizens global programme .We hope that this thought piece serves as a starting point for further discussions and collaboration with the arts and development sectors, both in the UK and internationally.

Brixton; 40 years from 1981.An opportunity to look back to inform how we move forwards together.To offer solidarity in a moment of easily won separatism and “othering”.To be part of a process that has been built slowly and carefully, ensuring that asmany voices and experiences as possible have informed its path.81 Acts of Exuberant Defiance is an ongoing project and radical reclaiming of heritage – created to imagine, experiment and create new futures. 81 Acts was conceived as an experiment in how we might work together, driven by curiosity to know more afterwards than we knew before. 4 years of listening, fostering a community steering group and generating a network of robust local creative, civic and community partners. The experiment is still live and creating Acts. Some you will walk over, past and through if you visit Brixton. Some you will have to seek out. Some you will never know about but they happened and they mattered. With support from Edge Fund, Arts Council England, Phoenix Fund and National Heritage Lottery Fund, in partnership with The Brixton Project, Ubele Initiative, LB Lambeth Council, Lambeth Archives and London Metropolitan Archives, 81 Acts of Exuberant Defiance is currently in a phase of Legacy Acts. After Launching on April 2022, these acts are governed by an inter-generational, Black Community Forum including people with lived experience of the Uprisings. Follow Lead Partners Ubele Initiative to keep up to date with the Exuberant Defiance.

Strategic project development support for BOSI's artistic programmeIncluding the development of new partnerships, managing multiple stakeholders and developing responsive community engagement plans.Projects Include:United Nations Bureau of Significant Inspiration and the Garden of A'muse'ments, a commission for Shakespeare's Birth Trust which has now been developed with multiple partners across the UK. Club Silly - supporting an alternative artist ecology for public realm mavericks who sit outside conventional venues and/or funding priorities.Peas Corp - In partnership with National Army Museum and Royal Borough of Chelsea and Kensington Play Service. A family based workshop designed to support intergenerational play in communities without existing play infrastructure.

As Director of Imagination my role is to keep an eye on the hows and the what ifs.At Sour Lemons we work in the knowledge that we are part of a movement, a shift in society that has long been overdue. We move with deep knowledge and understanding that we have a role to play in disrupting and dismantling the dinosaur systems that keep people out and down. We know that what we bring to this movement is grounded in both creativity and compassion, enabling us to take people on a journey from participation to transformation. We do this with a gentleness and generosity which believes everyone is capable of the change that’s needed. On the day to day I spend time developing creative strategies for engagement and experimenting with new creative tools that can deepen our impact. I hold us all accountable for ensuring that Sour Lemons’ programmes and internal working culture fuels our Radical Imagination - the ability to imagine the world, life, and social institutions not as they are but as they might otherwise be.

At Sour Lemons, Chloe supports the capture and interrogation of our learnings and impact; sharing insights with our alumni, advocates, partners and funders. She co-designs interruptions that ensure we always have an eye on innovation elsewhere and embeds creativity at the heart of our company culture and working practices.Sour Lemons is working towards change using three strategies:- Nurturing Young Leaders So more people from underrepresented backgrounds can share their creativity and lived experience in the arts and culture sector and disrupt decision-making tables.- Dismantling Systemic RacismWe run evolving programmes that challenge existing arts environments, identify barriers, make plans, measure impact and make a lasting change. Together.- Agitators assemble An invitation to join the Sour Lemons Tribe in important discussions, agitating the norm and activating ideas. A space to get involved and share learnings.

Supporting CEO Sade Banks and the team at Sour Lemons to capture insights, share learning, measure impact of the programmes being delivered and articulate the core values and underlying philosophy with which they travel. - Providing Critical Friendship from the inception of the pilot interaction of Making Lemonade to the current, scaled up version supported by Arts Council England's Transforming Leadership Programme.- Supporting Alumni to develop a Measuring Impact Framework to ensure that the organisation is able to evolve according to the needs of its Young Leaders, Staff and Partners.- Collaborating on strategic vision for the organisation in changing conditions- Supporting the evolution of new programmes to challenge/support the sector to take accountability for the systemic racism and injustices that it upholds

Supporting the team at Culture Mile to design and facilitate a collective decision making process for their new Imagine Fund micro commissions. Wanting to support their community to create projects that will benefit the area and the lives of the people in it, they offered ten micro-grants supporting local people to develop new ideas – creative, cultural or community. The applications were then selected in two stages by a community panel, representing residents and workers within the Culture Mile, using a process that they designed collaboratively.List of all successful applications announced here: https://www.culturemile.london/news/imagine-fund-projects ... updates via the Culture Mile website post April 2021.

Supporting the Disrupt producing partners to move towards a democratic programming model for the festival. Drawing on the expertise of a panel gathered across difference - representing different art mediums, socially engaged practices and geographical locations to make collective decisions on where innovation and discovery is sitting in the relationship between Communities, Art and the Pandemic.DISRUPT is a brand new digital arts festival taking place 8-9 July 2021. The event will explore how the performing arts has supported communities during the pandemic and how a year of uncertainty and change has encouraged new and radical ways of working. It’s time to unlearn, rethink and restructure.

Bespoke content and online workshop exploring cultural leadership & contemporary contexts of arts and schools and creative learning through a Service Design Thinking lens

Creative Producer for the 2020 Humour Commission which sought to engage the communities surrounding Compton Verney in the creation of a new site specific work of art in the grounds of Compton Verney.The work was to respond directly to the experiences shared by community members in the Laughter Cafe- facilitated by Janice Connolly (AKA Barbara Nice). The Laughter Cafe was an inclusive digital workshop for sharing stories about how laughter was being used in households across the West Midlands as a strategy for surviving/thriving in socially distanced conditions.Supporting Compton Verney to reach out to a broad range of artists in the commissioning process gave rise to the unlikely but beautifully generative partnership with Foka Wolf - West Midlands Based, Balaclava toting genius Street Artist. As Creative Producer, my role was to nurture the ideas and support the manifestation of Foka Wolf's response to the Laughter Cafe content. On Saturday 26 September 2020, The Open Arms, a brand new outdoor art trail created by Foka Wolf opened at Compton Verney.Foka Wolf’s most recognisable artworks before this commission have been joke adverts with a serious message. With this project Foka Wolf created signs that fuse that previous interest with inspiration from Compton Verney’s British Folk Art collection. The resulting artworks feel completely at home in the ‘Capability Brown’ landscape, while also creating a surprise for visitors who ‘come across’ the signs and discover their witty content and clever placement.

Bespoke course content including Adaptive Practice, Radical Self Care for Stretched Creatives, Making a case for Cultural Investment

Alongside 4 other Fellows, appointed by Executive Director Stella Kanu to support the rebranding and relocation of Oval House Theatre> Brixton House. This process involved the design of a public realm participation and community engagement strategy to ensure that the theatre felt part of the local creative ecology and of service to the local community when it opened in Brixton. The strategic fellowships were conceptualised as ongoing provocation to the new programming strategy, each fellow bringing their own artistic practice, experience and creative networks to the process- deep listening, questioning, imagining and then putting words, creative frameworks and delivery plans to what was growing and being called for in the Brixton communities we were connecting to.

Responding to the ideas generated by 48 young producers from Stoke, Peterborough, Dewsbury, Medway and Swale and in partnership with regional project partners, Emergency Exit Arts, Brick Box and The Peace Museum - Blink: See Peace Differently is coming!It will land in town centres in November 2019 and will act as a Call to Action for our fractured communities at a time of the most bitter and divisive politics that Britain has faced for over 50 years. Exploring the definition of Peace as established by the father of modern Peace Studies, Johan Galtung -'Positive peace is filled with positive content such as restoration of relationships, the creation of social systems that serve the needs of the whole population and the constructive resolution of conflict'.Blink is designed to ask questions and to provide space to explore possible ways forward...Currently we are plotting the final design, working with incredible designers Rūta Irbite and Nina Dunn, we are creating something that will house many many voices and inspire many ways forward....

Building on the learnings from The Only Way Is Ethics, 5 year programme exploring a rights, focussed approach to engaging 18-25 year olds in heritage collections and routes into the sector (with Emergency Exit Arts, Bishopsgate Institute , Museum of London) and Canvas(s) (developed by Autograph ABP, Migrant Rights Network and Counterpoint Arts) - This is a programme which seeks to provide cultural organisations across the UK with ways in to engaging a more diverse group of young people who can inform, challenge and reform their practices to ensure that they re representative of the communities in which they are working.The TOWIEthics methodology is adapted here to respond to both national and local peace heritage, creating three core phases - Training in Heritage skills and event producing, a paid commission and the embedding of these skills via access to a cross sector professional and peer support network.

Working with Jess and Matt at to design a co-creation process in which a creative cohort from St Martin In The Fields explored the Museum's archive, exploring their personal responses to items that felt resonant / powerful / useful in the movement forwards. These responses then formed a curatorial process to create an exhibition with which experimented with multiple interpretation "tags", enabling people to explore the collection through different lenses, with agency to navigate the many responses without judgement or hierarchy in the Crypt.

The Tate Year 3 Project was conceptualised by artist Steve McQueen in partnership with Tate, Art Angel, A New Direction, BBC London and Into Film.They invited every Year 3 class across London to take part in the largest group portrait ever made. It will be an epic picture of our city’s pupils and our rich civic diversity in a unique programme for London’s seven and eight-year-olds to explore their hopes and futures in an entirely free to access programme focussed on identity, belonging, inclusion and citizenship.To augment the experience of featuring in this photographic exhibition, 12 artists from across London were invited to design a series of workshops to accompany the work. These workshops explored identity, aspirations and community - enabling year 3 pupils to use a variety of different arts-led approaches to explore their personal and collective experience of being a 7or 8 year old in contemporary London.

Creative Citizens with the Barbican and the London Borough of Waltham ForestThe Creative Citizen Fellowship is supporting a cohort of ten individuals from the local arts and community sector to develop their own creativity while also helping them to develop opportunities for others to be creative too. The Creative Citizen Fellowship builds on the Barbican and LBWF’s pioneering partnership model between a leading international arts centre, a local authority and a local community. It is developed in conjunction with the jointly produced Walthamstow Garden Party and takes inspiration from both the Walthamstow Garden Party programme and the ideas and writings of its celebrated host, the late textile designer William Morris.

My Creative School is a joint initiative of A New Direction, London’s flagship cultural education agency, working in partnership with The Education Commission and is fully funded by The Paul Hamlyn Foundation.It is a three-year programme which will expand the creative and cultural offer in participating schools and evidence how arts engagement can help schools meet their core objectives. The programme will develop and evidence models of excellent partnership between schools and artists, investigating how best to support the delivery of creative activity in schools, led by school needs. Working alongside creative practitioners, schools will have the opportunity to develop and design activities and schemes of work which will help them achieve targets from their School Development and/ or Ofsted Action Plans. My Creative School aims to: * Support the delivery of curriculum relevant creative activity * Enable students to access and participate in arts-based learning activities * Provide professional development opportunities for teachers to develop their creative skills * Support schools to work towards achieving ‘Artsmark’, Arts Council England's flagship programme which enables schools and other organisations to evaluate, strengthen and celebrate their arts and cultural provision * Enable creative practitioners to further develop their skills and understanding of the curriculum relevance of their work through lesson planning and collaborative activity with teachers * Support creative practitioners to increase their knowledge, skills and experience of working in school settings

BeautifulMess…Surprises people with theatre in unexpected places -our work happens in the everyday spaces that you walk through, meet in and accidentally stumble across.

The self titled, #Dustkickers, were recruited from across the UK as Heritage Ambassadors to support HLF's £10m grant pilot programme- Kick the Dust, aiming to help heritage organisations re-evaluate the experiences they provide for young people under 25 and test new ways of working with them. Cultural organisations were asked to submit applications by December 2016, which a HLF panel, assisted by the Dustkickers chose from. Any successful new ideas for engaging young people which were garnered by the KtD projects were then to be embedded in heritage organisations and also shared with other cultural organisations across the UK.The project supported a group of 16-25 year olds from different regions across the UK to come together and share their personal experiences and insights to help inform how future decisions were made within the heritage sector to benefit young people.The process involved collaborative learning, research and interpretation workshops hosted in heritage venues across the UK (including but not limited to Geffrye Museum, Woodberry Wetlands, British Museum, Birmingham Museum, Houses of Parliament, Edinburgh Botanical Gardens). .The culmination of their 18 months of work came with a co-designed public event hosted by Hoxton Hall called Heritage Soapbox. This was designed to a)profile some of the most radical and dynamic work that they had encountered during the process; b) provide a platform for people to share their thoughts and ideas about how to improve youth-led practice in the sector; c) create opportunities for young people looking to find diverse routes into the sector to encounter multiple roles and ways of operating professionally within heritage spaces.The #Dustkickers have since become embedded in HLF's wider decision making processes and have been highly influential in evaluating the success of Kick the Dust grant recipricantt across the country.

[ROAM] is a group of local residents, businesses & schools working together to create dynamic & accessible creative & cultural programming for Roehampton. Ethos: We work to provide an open and welcoming space within which interested people can work together to affect positive creative and cultural change in the area.We believe that the collective power of the group will help us to effect greater change.Recent ROAM initiatives have included #DinoDay in which we turned the Library Green into an Ancient playground- complete with giant animatronic dinosaur and #CreativeEncounter in which we brought the madness of the Brooklyn Healer and Sound Art of Aswarm.com to the Alton Estate.

Canvas(s) is a year-long project formed around a diverse group of arts and migrant rights organisations: Autograph ABP, Counterpoint Arts, Migrant Rights Network, Asylum Aid, British Red Cross and the National Gallery. Together these partner organisations will be working with young adults from refugee backgrounds to help them explore access to cultural spaces for young audiences, using in this instance the National Gallery. In preparation for this, young adult participants will be recruited to participate in a skills training programme during the autumn. Following on, their explorations will next take the form of a paid commission (as yet unspecified) offered by the National Gallery to take place in May 2017. Canvas(s) is funded through Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s ‘Explore & Test’ initiative, with some additional financial support from partners.

Co-commissioned by Newington Big Local and People United to celebrate their 10th anniversary. Working in collaboration with artists Thor Macintyre-Burnie and Kati Francis, we designed an interactive public sculpture tracking the sensory experiences of kindness within the community of Newington. Taking the form of a giant, graspable neural network, the Kindness Investigation Sensory System [KISS] enabled people to experience and exchange the sensory experiences of other communities. It also supported people to make new, playful connections between one another whilst 'practicing' hugging and strengthening the neural pathways that are formed through new connections and positive physical connections.

Radical Citizenship explored the ethics of citizenship and democracy in the Uk from 1950's to today. Co-developed with 18-25 year olds from across London, this project offered training to 20 young people who then designed and delivered a dynamic programme of workshops and events inspired by Radical Citizenship and the Mondcivitan Republic archive at Bishopsgate Institute.Working with LSE Library, Autograph ABP, Parliament Week & South Bank Centre

Programme Development, Participation Strategy, Partnership Management, Fundraising, Youth Panel Facilitation, Project Design, Arts Consultation, Artist Development, Community Engagement, Youth Arts Engagement, Developing Progression Routes into the Outdoor Arts Sector, Street Arts Producerhttp://eea.org.uk

Representing ourselves, reflecting on our practice and safeguarding the diversity of London's cultural offer.On 12th December, 13 of London's participatory arts organisations, including five Arts Council NPOs, met to discuss the challenges we face as arts educationalists in a fast-moving social and economic environment.Developed from Independent Theatre Council's (ITC) Education Managers’ Forum, Participatory Arts London was formed to give a collective voice to people that design, produce and facilitate participatory arts in London. We are concerned about the lack of representation in our sector and are keen to start a wider conversation with creative practitioners and strategic and cultural organisations.We invite anyone working in Participatory Arts to join the conversation in order to ensure that the diversity of our Industry is truly being represented and considered in high-level decision-making Please get in touch if you would like to find out more or attend the next meeting

Supporting the Participation and Engagement Strategy for the companies new touring work.

Working with Greenwich University and Avery Hill Winter Garden to develop creative community and schools consultation around the restoration of the Winter Gardens. Research into current use of the building, community ownership and expectations resulting in a series of trial events supporting the development of the University's HLF capital bid which, if successful, will support the restoration of the buildings, catalyse and sustain community resource and develop a year round education and learning programme for local schools and families.

Designing sustainable programmes of engagement for communities across London and the UK. Using Outdoor Arts as a vehicle for people to explore their relationship to their built and community environments. Specialising in Participatory Arts Programmes for Children and Young People, Facilitation of EEA's Youth Panel: 24 young people from across London, to ensure that our projects are relevant, responsive and youth-led.Building partnerships with schools, heritage partners, community groups and other stakeholders to ensure high impact programmes delivered by highly skilled EEA Creative Practitioners.Exploring creative pedagogy and striving towards best practice through an ongoing dialogue with participants, creative practitioners, stakeholders, partners and clients.Developing and managing The Street Arts Academy, an engagement programme for 13-19 year olds with progression routes into work experience and the outdoor arts sector.Promoting artistic collaboration between artists and facilitators from different artistic disciplines to support the development of innovative and risk taking new participation work to engage hard to reach communities.Educator for Platform 11+, European Theatre Network designed to develop new and innovative work for 12-15 year olds across 13 European countries.Developing a creative activism programme designed to inspire young people to develop their political voice and believe that they can make positive changes in their local and global communities.

Working for a variety of Arts Companies across London including Southwark Playhouse, Eclectic Productions, Studio 3 Arts, Freeform Arts, Discover, Make Believe Arts, The Space, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Lewisham Youth Theatre, A New Direction, Torch Theatre.Design and Facilitation of bespoke participatory arts project for formal and informal education settings, community and public spaces. Specialising in collaborative multi-art form projects in the public realm and Youth - Led creative processes, this was a period of time in which I was investigating the ethics, strategies and tools being used in participatory art settings and how equitable collaboration can work in different conditions and contexts.Developing youth-led practice by working with Children's Forums, Youth Panels and School Council's to ensure projects were responsive and that the outcomes were relevant and beneficial for all participants.Co-founded a theatre company which created interactive story telling events and site specific performances in transitory places between Lancaster, Pembrokeshire and London (storage containers, basements, door steps, attics, sheds, in baths and on cliff sides)