Hoda Ali is a nurse and human-rights activist based in the United Kingdom, committed to ending female genital mutilation (FGM) and defending the rights of girls. She works as a Community Outreach Project Manager for Safeguarding at Perivale Primary School, one of the first schools in the UK to establish an outreach program addressing FGM.…
Isabela Jones is an Artistic Director / sound weaver / audio describer/ singer vocalist, socially engaged audience as makers, body voice interaction site specific-artist. She has been Salamanda Tandem co-founder & Director from 1989 – 2025 (current) Maker type:Artist, Educator, Facilitator, Organisation Maker discipline:Dance, Music, Site-specific Performance, Workshop
Open call for a LECTURER IN DANCE: UNIT LEADER (MA DANCE: PARTICIPATION, COMMUNITIES, ACTIVISM) at london contemporary dance school An exciting opportunity for a professional with an extensive community/activist dance practice in a country of the Global South to join the postgraduate faculty at London Contemporary Dance School. London Contemporary Dance School’s student body has a wide…
Adrian Jackson, MBE is an English theatre director, playwright, teacher and trainer. He was the founding director and executive director of the theatrical company Cardboard Citizens, founded in 1991, in which the majority of the members were homeless, refugees or asylum seekers, participating in the cycle of Nosaltres organised by the Teatre Lliure. In addition…
Cardboard Citizens is the UK’s leading Theatre of the Oppressed organisation founded by theatre director Adrian Jackson who is still the head of the organisation. Adrian was a student of Augusto Boal himself and the first interpreter of Boals books from Portuguese to English. Cardboard Citizens has been making life-changing theatre with and for homeless…
Dr. Sheila Preston is founder of Thriving Facilitators, a new initiative of support and wellbeing for practitioners who work as artists, educators and socially-engaged public workers in challenging settings who are experiencing difficulty. Thriving Facilitators offers a year-round programme of affordable coaching, professional development, and community support for practitioners who identify as heart-centred practitioners who…
Dance United combines high quality contemporary dance with social concerns. At the heart of their ambition is an unshakeable belief that every life should have meaning and purpose, combined with a wish to release the positive potential within people who find themselves marginalised or whose potential remains, for whatever reason, unrecognised or unfulfilled. Dance United…