Board Membership

Trustee - Transform Festival Transform is an international festival which additionally has year-round programme to create, present and support experimental and socially-conscious performance to the Leeds City Region and beyond.

Advisory Board Member - Lagos Fringe , Abuja Fringe both open access multidisciplinary arts festivals committed to providing a platform for new voices in the Nigerian creative industry.

Chair - Action Hero Gemma Paintin & James Stenhouse work under the moniker Action Hero. Together, they create artworks that explore what is it to be human now.  James & Gemma’s long-form, shape-shifting collaboration spans performance, installation, sound, events & social practice. Since 2005, the work Action Hero has created has toured to more than 40 countries across 5 continents; from the smallest DIY and artist-led spaces to some of the world’s most prestigious art institutions, galleries and festivals.

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a global community of “innovators, entrepreneurs and changemakers, working together to take collective action to solve the challenges of our time”.