I have experience developing, organising, and facilitating all types of arts events and projects. Visit my news page for more in-depth updates about what I’ve been upto.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Saturday Art Club
From 2017 to 2018 I was an Art Tutor at the Saturday Art Club at Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Art Centre in North Uist, Scotland. Alongside another local artist I planned and delivered weekly art classes for children aged 5-12 that were linked to ongoing exhibitions.