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If Trees Could Talk 

Internationale Art Biennale 2026 (online)

*Sijelo Collective (Member). We created a short film responding to the question “If trees could talk, what would they say?” featuring memories, stories and art shaped by displacement, heritage and climate justice. Watch here.

 

*Sijelo Collective (Member) 

'Arts of Noticing' Symposium 

Meanwood Valley Farm, Leeds

23 July 2026

Facilitating the 'art of noticing things' inviting participants to walk, stand or sit and spend time wandering, looking and using their senses to explore the farm. ​

 

(Dis)location Artists Exchange 

Flamm 2026 X Counterpoints Arts 

A series of online conversations with artist Katie Etheridge sharing our socially engaged practice, ideas and interests before the start of Flamm Festival, Cornwall. Listen to the Making Friends podcast to find out more about the project. 

 

Climate Justice & Displacement Part 2

Counterpoints Arts x B-Side Arts Festival

Isle of Portland

6 - 8 September 2024

Panel member
The Art Persists: Live Podcast By Bosla Arts

Yorkton Workshops, London.
22 June 2024 

 

Guest speaker 
Transmission:What Now, What Next

Sheffield Hallam University

22 November 2023

Climate Justice & Displacement Retreat

Counterpoints Arts 

Hawkwood College

3 - 4 November 2023
Invited to the first gathering of womxn artists, producers & activists developing work addressing social justice issues. 

Guest speaker (online)

Diversity & Inclusion in Public Art 

Presenting my report Building an equitable public art sector commissioned by Beam.

2 October 2023

Edinburgh Art Festival

10 - 13 April 2023

Co-facilitating a meeting with the Community Wellbeing Collective creating a carnival inspired project for their after school club.  Mentoring local socially engaged artist & producer Khadea Kuchenmeister.

 

Guest host (onine) 

Futures Forum 2: the good, the bad and the ugly

God's House Tower, Southampton.

5 May 2022

Guest speaker

Social Practice Social

Primary

8 December 2021

Guest speaker

Black Creatives Network

New Art Exchange, Nottingham.

6 February 2020

Guest speaker & facilitator

Inclusivity & Audiences Symposium

Arts Marketing Association

Birmingham

11 February 2019

Guest speaker 

Community & cultural activism

Nottingham Contemporary

28 July 2018

Visiting students from University of Texas at Austin (USA) 

The Budapest Seminar

Evans Foundation

5 - 7 November 2018

One of 30 invited practitioners from around the world experimenting with radical approaches to art education as a critical practice.

Guest speaker

Arts & Place Regional Conversation

Primary, Nottingham. 

6 March 2018

Facilitator

Empowering young people through creativity 
The Mighty Creatives & UK Young Artists
University of Derby

8 January 2018

Guest speaker 
MA Arts Policy & Management 

Birkbeck University of London
30 November 2017

Guest speaker & facilitator

STUDIOBOOK artists development programme 
Mark Deveraux Projects, Manchester
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2016 - 2017

Co-hosting with curator Cindy Sissokho 

Radical Black Arts Working Convention - REVISITED

Nottingham Contemporary
17 – 19 March 2017

 

Co-curator, "Moving Diversity Forward"

Collider Conversation Programme 2016/17

East & West Midlands

We Are Threshold 

A series of open collaborative public talks and panel discussions about the chronic lack of diversity and inclusion within the arts, cultural and higher education sectors. Listen here

Guest speaker

Politics+social justice+community activism +creativity = Me
Idle women:Shifting Loyalties
Pendle, Lancashire.
8 – 12 December 2016

Unspeakable Things Unspoken
Transatlantic Slavery – A Public Conversation

Chairing the discussion, slavery and community history
Nottingham Contemporary

12 -13 October 2016

Guest speaker

“In an ideal world, we wouldn’t be having this conversation…”
OPEN16: Decolonising the Campus & Arts
Lancaster Arts, Lancaster University

12 May 2016

Visiting lecturer

MA Participatory & Community Arts Course

Goldsmiths University, London

5 December 2012

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