Projects

Being Human Festival

The Being Human festival of the humanities started life in 2014 as the first (and only) national festival dedicated entirely to humanities research. It offers a forum for people to engage with the humanities and encourages researchers across disciplines to find inspiring and fun ways to involve non-specialist audiences in their work.

I acted as Manager/ Curator of Being Human from 2014 – 2021. During that time the festival featured well over 1,000 events across the UK, as well as across the globe in places like Rome, Paris, Melbourne and Singapore. The festival continues to go from strength to strength as of 2022!

The Secret Diary of Bloomsbury

The Secret Diary of Bloomsbury was a multi-site installation for the Bloomsbury Festival 2017. The folklorist, artist and maker Elizabeth Dearnley and I installed twelve bird-boxes across Bloomsbury, each containing a ‘Secret Diary’. Some of the diaries are still in place, filling up with the stories, secrets and memories of this unique part of central London.

Sound and Fury: listening to the Second World War

Some images from a sound installation in Senate House led by Aleks Kolkowski and Dr James Mansell, University of Nottingham. Part of a programme of activities I curated for the 2016 Being Human festival.

Festival in a Box: Archives

One of the outputs from my AHRC-funded research project Bloomsbury Festival in a Box: Engaging Socially Isolated People with Dementia. In 2015 I was invited to display some of my work from this project at below at the Leeds College of Art (Sept-December 2015).