Panel Discussions
How to be more entrepreneurial about where you find funds as a Producer, organised by Producer Top-Up and Producer Gathering. I along with Salome Wagaine, Grace Okereke & Dahna Borojevic gave tangible, practical advice regarding where to look for new funds, who to approach and how to find confidence to apply. (Sept 24)
Dr Zhu and colleagues presented some of the preliminary findings of their The University of Manchester Social Responsibility funded project on bottom-up cultural diplomacy in the age of Covid and Brexit. I joined the roundtable discussion to present the findings following the RESHAPE network project a collaborative, bottom-up research process that proposes instruments for transition towards an alternative, fairer, and unified arts ecosystem across Europe and the Southern Mediterranean (July 2022).
Toxic gender politics in South Korea has been on the rise and was a key theme in the recent elections. I chaired a panel discussion on the 17th June at The Place as part of the Korean Dance Festival to explore how are female Korean choreographers navigating their careers in this landscape and whether it is influencing the art they create. Panellists included choreographers; Bora Kim, Sung Im Her and Yeji Kim. (June 22)
The Stage’s Future of Theatre conference brings theatre professionals from across the world together and provides a platform to have vital conversations, reflect, share ideas and challenge the way things have previously been done in order to build a stronger theatre sector. I joined Low Kee Hong ( West Kowloon Cultural District) and Jo Crowley (1927) on the panel to discuss ‘How international touring changed due to Covid and Brexit’. (April 22)
Dance Umbrella: Joining Malik Nashad Sharpe and Suzy Willson on the panel for Making sh*t happen: Bypassing/Challenging structures, hosted and curated by Valerie Ebuwa. Together we discussed policy, structures and barriers within the independent national and international dance scene; as well as sharing tools on navigating making and presenting work amidst enhanced precarity. You can now download a resource pack that the panelists put together (October 21).
The Place: I chaired a panel discussion focusing on the Future of International touring, looking at how the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic have reconfigured artists/producers/organisations thinking around what international touring looks like, and how it might be considered against a backdrop of Brexit and the climate emergency. The panel included choreographer/performer Sung Im Her, Company SIGA's Hyuk Kwon, independent producer Grace Okereke, independent director and producer Suhye Jang, and Ahram Gwaw, Team Leader of Programming & Production, Korean National Contemporary Dance Company. The discussion was presented as part of A Festival of Korean Dance 2021.
Evaluation panelist for DutchCulture's “Artists in Conversation” series which features creatives from Egypt, Hungary, Australia and the Netherlands.(June 21)