Climate Home
A sustainable, inclusive and accessible outdoor performance space, built and run by and for, young people.Climate Home was created by by SOUNDS LiKE CHAOS and the Albany, in partnership with Youth First in a bid to find new creative explorative ways to tackle, debate and bring awareness to the climate injustice we as humanity face at the current moment.
During Climate Home local young creatives were given the chance to not only take part in activities but were also invited to assist with planning meetings, managing as well as programing. The creatives involved were given the space and freedom to curate and create their own performances, lead their own workshops, upskill and learn from their peers as well as having the chance to gain experience events assisting.Local young people from Lewisham borough took part in actually building the space, including a stage piece by piece from the ground up; for performances had the opportunity to program into Climate Home. These performances included theatre productions, poetry/spoken word, music, a fashion show and lots more.
Reach For Speech
During my occupation at The Albany as Youth & Community Arts Producer I’m proud to say I was awarded The Outstanding Leader Award by the Jack Petchey Foundation - part of the award included a small fund which I use to produce a brand new creative development programme in turn birthed Reach For Speech poetry collective.
For the project I enlisted the support of the late and great award winning poet Gboyega Odubanjo who led the workshops while I facilitated. The outcome of this project was to create 5 poems over the weeks of participating that explore the use of different poetry techniques through different themes and stimuli
Do You Mind?
A short piece of theatre devised from scratch with Sounds Like Chaos’s Young Company with Lead direction from Faruq Adigun & Assistance from Indi Max.
Do you mind was a play that followed the journey of two athletes on one running team, exploring the different pressures they face and how they learn to deal with it.
The themes explored mental health, exclusion and community explored through physical theatre and poetry. The piece was performed during “We Are Lewisham” are yearlong cultural programme led by Lewisham council and the Albany post Lewisham being awarded London’s borough of culture 2022.