Production, Events & Outreach

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.