I was the Lead Artist for the 2023 Metroland Young Associates. It’s a paid alternative education programme for 18-24 year olds in Brent. This year’s programme – Collective Rhythms – focussed on the politics of sound. Read more here. Over 4 months, I designed and led workshops on things like: oral history, recording and editing […]
Boldface is a platform that works with community groups to produce audio, art and film. I founded and run Boldface with artist Izzy Yon. Recent Projects: Fear of Missing OutA documentary series presented by young people living in the UK, about the bits of British History that people aren’t talking about enough. Read more here. […]
Listen to FOMO! Fear of Missing Out is a documentary series presented by 16-25 year olds living in the UK, exploring the history they wish they’d learnt at school. Over 6 episodes, FOMO delves into the history of British colonialism, media representation of queer communities, The Police, segregated education in the North of Ireland, 1980s […]
Down the Rabbit Hole is an audio storytelling project that I designed, facilitated and produced in collaboration with Women in Prison, The Empathy Museum and National Prison Radio working with three incredible women – Rita, Elizabeth and Angel – who access services at The Beth Centre in Lambeth. This was a project I ran through […]
VENT is an award winning podcasting collaboration between VICE UK and Brent 2020, London Borough of culture. Across 1 year, 2 streams, and just under 100 podcasts in total, VENT saw VICE handing over the megaphone of its global platform to the local young people of a single London borough, who tell the stories they […]
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