Image Credit: Photograph of Daisy Fancourt outside the Royal Albert Hall. Professor Daisy Fancourt began her creative life inside music. Growing up torn between the arts and science, she once imagined becoming a professional musician before a university placement with…
Image Credit: Photo of Jude Kelly, hosting WOW. Jude Kelly has spent a lifetime creating spaces where people come together to listen, challenge one another and imagine a better future. Long before she founded WOW – Women of the World,…
Image Credit: Justine Simons OBE. Photographed by Shaun James Cox, British Fashion Council. shaunjamescox.com Justine Simons OBE is London’s Deputy Mayor for Culture and the Creative Industries and has played a major role transforming the capital’s cultural landscape. She was…
Image Credit: Teniqua Crawford, 2024 Fragment Horizon, “We are born through pleasure and desire realised, in this moment of connection, life is created.” – Teniqua Crawford. teniquacrawford.com Suhair Khan is a cultural thinker, design strategist, and entrepreneur working at the…
Image credit: #Londonmaxxing – the term coined by London entrepreneur Charlie Ward londonmaxxing.com Sarah Drinkwater has spent the past two decades moving between journalism, technology, startups and culture – building communities long before “community” became a buzzword. Before joining Google,…
Image Credit: Rachel Millward, Green Party Deputy Leader and Spokesperson for culture, sport & digital inclusion. Rachel Millward is Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales and the party’s spokesperson for culture, sport & digital inclusion –…
Image Credit: Titled ‘Bust of a Young Boy’ by Antonio Roberts. Emerging from the Southbank Centre’s talent development programme, SORI Collective is a new generation of nine curators and cultural programmers aged between 21 and 32 – self-starting voices carving…
Image Credit: Dawn Farrow, founder of On Sale Live and GIEM. Dawn Farrow’s story begins on stage. Trained as a ballet dancer, she arrived in London with a performer’s instinct for emotion, discipline, and audience connection – before pairing it…
Image Credit: Photo of Ted Hodgkinson by Pete Woodhead. Image courtesy the Southbank Centre. Ted is Head of Literature and Spoken Word at the Southbank Centre. Celebrating independent publishers and books that defy the ordinary, Indie Night arrives at the…
Image credit: Photo of Josephine Burton For two decades, Josephine Burton has shaped Dash Arts into one of London’s most inquisitive, boundary-expanding cultural forces – a home for work that folds together languages, communities and lived experience with rare honesty…