I have worked for more than 10 years with schools, charities, museums, and galleries as Programme Manager and Creative Producer. I am passionate about making the arts and culture accessible and relevant to all, and working in the above roles has given me an incredible opportunity to advocate for the importance of creativity as integral to learning and wellbeing. Although I have worked with audiences of all ages and backgrounds, I specialise in working with children and their families, including SEND.
Below you can have a look at some of my previous and current projects.
Arts Award Creative Producer
I have been working with the Cambridge University Hospitals Arts team, based at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, to develop a bespoke Arts Award resource for long-term paediatric patients. This work included producing all aspects of the design and printing of the resource, organising multiple creative opportunities for the paediatric wards for artists to share their work with the families, and working closely with hospital staff. This has been an amazing and rewarding project to be part of.
Fenland Films
Working with Gorilla Circus on this project was such a dream come true! In my role of Creative Producer & Outreach Coordinator I brokered new relationships with organisations in Fenlands and created participation instances for young people and elderly adults to perform in two movement films. One is about about a historic building in, and the other about young people’s concerns around the climate crisis. You can watch the films here.
Families Programme Manager
Since 2023 I have been part-time programme managing the Families programme at the Fitzwilliam Museum. In my role I design and deliver art activities for children 0 to 12 years old and their families, working closely with curators and artists, Cambridge University researchers and the local authority council to bring engaging and accessible activities to local and visiting families.
Library of Sanctuary
I had the pleasure of working in a collaboration between Kettle’s Yard, Arbury Court Library of Sanctuary, artist Issam Kourbaj, and local residents. The work was to developed artwork for 5 acoustic panels that now hang in the library, using images of community participants holding different objects that represented home to them, accompanied by a set of postcards and a soundscape with their touching oral histories of what home means to them. I worked on all organisational aspects of this project, as well as running community sessions to take the photographs and record the oral histories. As an immigrant in the UK, working in this project, with several participants with lived experience of displacement, was very powerful.
It’s the debt that you owe: Colonialism - Debt - Resistance
I curated and produced this exhibition with Debt Justice. We comissioned new work by contemporary artists working in various disciplines, who addressed the issue of debt and colonialism from personal experience and their unique creative practices. As someone who grew up in a country crippled by external debt, this was a really important project for me to be part of.
I project managed and facilitated this participatory project in 2021, where I worked with North Cambridge residents to research and creatively re-interpret a colonial object in the Museum of Cambridge. With the participants, we co-produced an online resource page about the project, a new onsite display, and gave talks on the learning and outcomes, all of which you can see here.
Arbury Carnival Exhibition
A freelance project where I worked closely with Arbury Carnival to develop and produce the Arbury Carnival Exhibition, in summer of 2022. This included researching the topic, designing the exhibition, as well as coordinating and facilitating two community workshops to make a bunting artwork to be displayed in the exhibiton at Museum of Cambridge.
I am very proud of having taken part in this touching project in 2020, in the role of co-curator and producer. In tandem with artist Rebecca Lindum Green, we developed an online exhibition about people with lived experience of the Criminal Justice System, which was explored through their own art and words. I also hosted a series of live online talks where participants shared their journeys and discussed with other artists and professionals working in the field.
Groundwork London: fuel poverty programme
I worked closely with underserved communities at risk of fuel poverty, to coordiante and deliver a programme of Fuel Poverty Awareness sessions, chatting with people about how to save and manage their bills, how to stay safe during winter, listening to concerns, and signposting to other services.