CREATIVE ENGAGEMENT
The (Future) Wales Coast Path - Alison Neighbour
Production Manager
National Theatre Wales
The (Future) Wales Coast Path is an exploration of sea level rise and its impacts on communities living near the coast. Conceived by artist and scenographer Alison Neighbour, it is a multi-faceted project that invites conversation around adaptation and responsibility, and aims to include the voices of the land and the tides as part of that conversation
Diwali
Producer
Wales Tamil Sangam and the Wales Millennium Centre
Promising its usual electric atmosphere and warm welcome, the festival of lights took over the foyer at the Wales Millennium Centre with a full lineup of music and dance, plus eye-catching rangoli floor art and plenty of creative family craft workshops in partnership with the Wales Tamil Sangam
The Talking Shop - Yvonne Murphy
Production Manager
Omidaze Productions
The Talking Shop is at two location, one in the Castle Arcade in Cardiff and one in Friars Walk in Newport. It is a space for the public and creatives to collide, converse, connect, collude and create. It is a public R&D space which encourages and promotes cultural and democratic participation.
Bute Town Carnival
Producer
BACA (Bute Town Arts and Culture Association) and the Wales Millennium Centre
Working in partnership with Bute Town Carnival I supported the centre to platform artists from the docks and beyond, showcasing the best of Bute Town’s rich, diverse community alongside international artists such as Horace Andy and N’famady Kouyate in a celebration to culture and colour.
2021/22: Senior Community Engagement Producer: Wales Millennium Centre
For 2021/2022 I will be joining the team at the Wales Millennium Centre for nine months on a job share as the Senior Community Engagement Producer.
Responsibilities will include: Carnival across the centre, community performances across the centre, participatory budgeting and public art commissioning.
The Bloomsbury Festival: Patterns of Light
This will be an arts focused project linking diverse communities partnering with museums and collections in Bloomsbury, including the British Library, to create new visual outdoor and digital artworks developed by local and international artists working with local resident groups, inspired by collections relating to their culture.
2021: Lead Creative Schools
Creative Practitioner
Arts Council Wales, Ygol Gynradd y Bont Faen
Collaborating in a period of co-creation with a year 4 class to create a performative, live art, binaural sound designed walking tour of the beach at Kenfig, South Wales on the theme of sustainability.
The Pumpkin storytelling tent
Creative Producer
Story Museum Oxford
The Festival of Light lantern parade, Newbury
Project co-ordinator and facilitator, 2014,2015,2016
Crossing Lines
Engagment lead - Newbury
Creative Europe, PAN.OPTIKUM, 101 Outdoor Arts Creation Space, Pikene på Broen, Kirkenes, Temudas Festival, Las Pamas de Gran Canaria,Bytomskiego Centrum Kultury, Bytom, Teatrul National “Radu Stanca” Sibiu, Tête-à-tête Festival, Rastatt, Passage Festival, Helsingør, Creative foundation, Folkestone and the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau.
The Colour of Time
Community Director
Cie. Artonik, Newbury Corn Exchange,101 Outdoor Arts Creation Space
The Colour of Time was an explosion of colour, happiness and good wishes in a choreographed parade. The show was inspired in the Holi Festival held in India and invited the audience to participate in a very special walk to share a bath of Gulal powders.
2019: Lead Creative Schools Wales
Creative Practitioner
Arts Council Wales, Ysgol Herbert Thompson,
The Lead Creative Schools Scheme provides the opportunity to explore creative approaches to teaching and learning with the support of creative agents and practitioners, focusing on developing the creativity of teachers and learners across the curriculum
The People’s Tower
Project co-ordinator, facilitator, participant recruitment
101 Outdoor Arts Creation Space, Olivier Grosstête
Working with artist Olivier Grossetête on a box building project, we created a monumental cardboard structure inspired by Donnington Castle. Over 1,000 boxes were used to make a 20m-high masterpiece with the public helping to assemble the building blocks of this giant tower throughout the week, before then toppled it over in the market square on the Sunday.
Shakespeare Schools Foundation
Eight years as a venue director/cast workshop facilitator
The Winter Giant
Co-devisor/ Launchpad engagement lead.
Beautiful Creatures, Launchpad Homeless Charity, Reading Council, Arts Council England, 101 Outdoor Arts Creation Space
The 24 Hour Plays
Project lead, facilitator
We brought together creative communities across West Berkshire to produce plays and musicals that were written, rehearsed, and performed in 24 hours, before being performed at the Newbury Corn Exchange as part of a gala performance evening.
Creative Links
Project co-ordinator, facilitator
The Learning and Participation team at the Newbury Corn Exchange delivered this scheme, working over twelve months to develop several specific bespoke projects with a schools in W.Berks to support pupils with confidence issues, boys with anger issues, young people with autism and vulnerable pupils during transition from primary to secondary.
SANDBOX
Guest speaker - Large scale spectacle theatre and working with communities
Lecturing at higher education
As an associate tutor at Sussex University, Winchester University, Bath Spa, Northampton University, Identity School of Acting, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama