Production, Events, and Outreach

SPACE4 Events and Partnerships

I work part-time curating and delivering events around progressive economics, tech-for-good, and social change for SPACE4, a community co-working space in Finsbury Park.

I really love this role – I love building relationships and bringing people together to network around important and interesting contemporary issues. I particularly like SPACE4 because it’s an informal and casual setting which, not only suits my personality, but also enables authentic conversation and connection. If you want to come see me in action you’re welcome to join us. I’m usually hosting or facilitating.

Check out the SPACE4 event listings

Mecca2Medina: The Birth of British-Islamic Hip-Hop

I am working as a development producer for a music documentary project with poet, faith leader, and educator, Rakin Fetuga, who founded the first British-Islamic hip-hop group Mecca2Medina in the 1990s. Alongside his wife, and filmmaker, Eliot Gelberg-Wilson, we are working towards realising a feature-length film.

• Check out the event we hosted at SOAS
• Sign up to the mailing list
• Contact me because you want to help us!

SOAS Event series 2022

In 2021 I started an MA in Global Creative & Cultural Industries at SOAS, University of London. Towards the end of my degree I organised an in-person series of events alongside another student, Philipp Schütz. We invited researchers and practitioners in the Cultural Industries to share their practical experiences and applied expertise.

• Event 1: Panel Discussion with Anamik Saha & Oli Mould chaired by Caspar Melville
• Event 2: In Conversation with Creative Programmer and Cultural Strategist Adem Holness
• Event 3: In Conversation with Addis Fine Art founder, Rakeb Sile

Cartoon Museum Exhibition & Events 2021

In the summer of 2021 my comics were exhibited at the London Cartoon Museum and I organised a series of events to go alongside it.

• Take a peek behind the scenes
• Read about the events I organised with Jenny Robins, Rob Bidder and Rachael House or watch the film
• Relive the closing event with me

House of Illustration Residency 2021

From February to May 2021 I was the School Illustrator in Residence for the House of Illustration. I delivered a 10-week comic book project with 2 year 3 student classes at Bell Lane Primary School in North London.

Read more here.

Rumi’s Cave Art Club 2021

I have received Arts Council Funding for an art club at a Community Centre near me in London called Rumi’s Cave. From January to July 2021 I will be planning and delivering a programme of arts education for young people aged 5-10.

Read more here.

‘No Man is an Island’ Exhibition 2019

I spent a year doing an Art & Design course in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. When I was leaving Edinburgh, a friend of mine suggested I start making daily audio recordings just for fun. He said start them like this:

Day 1. North Uist. Population 1000. Now, 1001.

So I did.

Every day I recorded approximately 3 minutes (sometimes more) of my thoughts.

In 2019 when I left the Island, I decided to put on an exhibition of these recordings, alongside some animations and zines, at an independent feminist craft shop called. Ladyboss Collective.

Read more about it here.

Pages of the Sea

To commemorate the centenary of WWI Danny Boyle orchestrated a nationwide community art project alongside 14-18 NOW on 36 beaches in Great Britain. Under the umbrella of The National Theatre of Scotland I co-facilitated the project on the island of North Uist in Scotland.

Over 2 months we facilitated workshops and organised an event where people watched local volunteers create a large sand portrait of a local soldier who died during the war. Onlookers were invited to create stand stencils of fallen soldiers as well as recite  a Carol Ann Duffy Poem ‘The Wound in Time’ written specifically for the occasion.

The sand was then washed away by the tide at sunset while a young local Scottish piper played the bagpipes.