London, England, United Kingdom
Development and delivery of Wandsworth Council's London Borough of Culture programme, ensuring children, young people and families are engaged in both the creation of the programme and a wide variety of activity throughout the year. Key programmes have included: - Our Beautiful Neighbourhood: a collaborative schools art project working with over 50 classes from primary, secondary and SEND settings culminating in a multi site public exhibition. In partnership with Royal College of Art - LBOC Schools Poetry Festival: a celebration of poetry working with Apples & Snakes to bring professional poets to schools and provide a performance platform for young peoples voices - LBOC Author Events series: Large scale author events in partnership with Waterstones to inspire a love of reading, working with celebrated authors such as Joseph Coelho, Chris Riddell, Angie Thomas and Cressida Cowell - LBOC showcases: providing dance, music, theatre and spoken word performance opportunities for young people in collaboration with professional local partners including Royal Academy of Dance, London Children's Ballet, Group 64, Bounce Theatre, Wandsworth Music and Pointe Black - Targeted place based commissioning for families: Secondhand Dance, Jellyfish Theatre, Under 5's Music Programme, Brainfools Circus - Schools and youth clubs micro grant programme to enable creative and cultural activity
Management of the Wandsworth Arts & Culture Service borough wide programme of activity for schools and young people including commissioning of projects, programming events and leadership of the Creative Wandsworth Cultural Education Partnership. Recent and ongoing projects / activity include: - Developer projects (Osiers Road, Randall Place, Higgins) - Creative CPD Programme for Wandsworth teachers - Wandsworth Arts Fringe Schools Projects and Showcase - Creative Careers workshop programme - ongoing brokerage between schools and cultural partners - WAF Young Reviewers - Creative responses to the Climate Emergency (Plant Power, Climate Rhymes, A Greener Picture, Single Use Planet) - Collaborative Schools Art Exhibition (A Place to Call Home, Single Use Planet) - Creative Youth Voice - Wandsworth Creatives Film Series @CEP_Wandsworth
Assistant Duty Manager, London Coliseum, from April 2023 Previously Level Supervisor and Team Member
Cultivate was Enable Leisure and Culture’s arts education programme working with primary and secondary schools to inspire, involve and educate young people about the creative opportunities in Wandsworth, including creative careers and future skills. It commissioned and delivered a range of creative projects including Cultivate Routes, a creative careers workshop series in which creative practitioners, freelancers or representatives of creative businesses visit schools to deliver hands on inspiration sessions for students. The programme started in 2015 and since its inception worked with over 2,600 young people.
Management, administration and reporting of 1 project per term taking musician teams into Care settings to work with those affected by Dementia. Liaison with care homes, management of musician teams, session management & monitoring and evaluation. https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/learning/music-for-life
Freelance Project Management on a project by project basis. All associated planning, coordination, administration, budgeting, event management, monitoring and evaluation. Employers included: English National Opera: Projects including ENO: Opera Squad - taking the ENO Orchestra and soloists to secondary schools (March 2014); ENO: Summer Celebration - 3 day festival of work at The Bloomsbury Theatre (June 2011); Know the Show singing events for up to 160 adult non-professional singers (multiple dates) Music & Dance Scheme (DCSF): Project Coordination of Sound Moves (2010), a 2 day festival of Music & Dance at Southbank Centre celebrating the work of the specialist Music & Dance Centres in London and the South East (17 partners) including live performance, film & workshops Southbank Centre (Learning & Participation): Project Management of Takeover (2009), a large scale performance in the Royal Festival Hall with 170 performers including a Community Choir, youth groups and an orchestra assembled from members of resident orchestras and Music Colleges Mousetrap Theatre Projects I SOLT I Masterclass: Project Management of Theatrecraft (2009, 2010 & 2011), a behind the scenes interactive careers event for up to 1200 young people age 17-25 with pan-industry representation