Lucy Ansa-Addo (Tottenham-based multidisciplinary creative)

Lucy is a singer-songwriter, published fashion stylist and founder of LAOXA Ltd, a purpose-driven food and arts brand. Alongside her community-led creative work, Lucy has performed as a recording artist at festivals including Glastonbury and Wireless Festival. She has also worked on celebrity styling and red carpet projects, including styling talent for national television appearances and assisting on projects involving cast members from the Harry Potter film series. Through LAOXA’s Creative Ground - the immersive and interactive events series under LAOXA Ltd. Lucy curates community-led experiences bringing together art, music, food and culture while championing creatives, musicians and independent businesses. She also facilitates rug tufting workshops that encourage hands-on creativity, participation and learning through making.

Lavendhri Arumugam (deputy director of a London-based arts charity)

Lavendhri has over a decade of experience in the arts. From founding an experimental, artist-led gallery and funding project in Johannesburg, to her more recent position as deputy director of a London-based arts charity, Lavendhri has extensive experience that spans both curatorial and operational practices. She is currently a recipient of the 2026/27 Jerwood Arvon writing residency and is working on her first book.

Grace Atkinson (award-winning poet and facilitator)

Grace completed an MFA in Poetry at Manchester Writing School in 2019, and has read alongside poets such as former UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Hera Lindsay Bird. Her work has appeared in Stand, The Rialto, Bath Magg, The North, Spoonfeed, Poetry Salzburg Review, Leslie, t’ART, among others, and she was interviewed by Dazed Magazine. In 2026 she received the Derby Poetry Festival Poetry Prize. In 2021, she was awarded a prize in the Streetcake Experimental Writing Prize, and she was longlisted for the Out-Spoken Prize in 2023. She recently completed a residency with the University of Sheffield, exploring the influence of sports culture in Tottenham. In 2024, she was invited by her local station, South Tottenham, to write a poem marking the opening of the new Suffragette Overground line.

Louise Beamont (documentary maker)

Louise's films have won or been nominated for Grierson, BAFTA and RTS awards. She was most recently developing documentary ideas for Ridley Scott's unscripted division. Prior to this, she was an award-winning professional comedian for 5 years.

Ollie Chase (freelance producer)

Ollie creates arts, culture, music, history and sports content for major broadcasters, production companies, rights holders and streamers. He spent more than a decade as a BBC staff producer, successfully working across radio, television and digital.
Ollie's freelance work includes documentary and factual productions for the BBC, ITV, Sky and Netflix. He's also worked on FIFA World Cup host broadcasts, the Olympic Games and UEFA competitions, as well as producing sports content for IMG, BBC Sport and ITN.

Jo Clarke (Director of Blackhorse Workshop, a space for making and culture in Walthamstow)

Jo is an artist with 20 years’ experience in the non-profit sector, leading creative community based programming, mainly in East London. She has worked in social enterprise and cooperative development, and is the founder of London Green Wood CIC, and is also a Trustee at Rosetta Arts.

Manu Ekanayake (freelance journalist and copywriter)

Manu has written about music and culture for over twenty years. Over this period he’s also covered matters of race, politics, licensing, local government, food, film and television. His career has taken him from the Sunday Times Good Hospital Guide 2002 to the Guardian, the i Paper and Time Out London on occasion. But he’s more generally been published in the music press in the likes of Mixmag, DJ Mag, Red Bull Music and The Quietus. He’s lived in Haringey for 16 years, so near Seven Sisters station he’s resigned himself to never being so well situated again. He has two housemates and an aging ginger tomcat called Vince, who still escapes occasionally so as to keep them both honest.

Rose Grover (artist and producer)

Rose's work is rooted in sensory engagement and the belief that creativity allows us to practise new ways of being in relation to each other. Rose performs at live events and arts spaces across the city and coordinate arts programmes with young people and communities.

Sarah H (visual artist)

Sarah is a neurodivergent visual artist and holds an MA in Fine Art. She has experience providing Access Support and is currently a trainee access auditor and inclusive designer, with a focus on built environments. Sarah is also a member of The Cloud Club.

Becka Hudson (researcher)

Becka is from Haringey and undertakes research into mental health and imprisonment. She has run culture-based campaigns like the Fck Boris campaign, bringing artists together to hold a festival outside 10 Downing Street attended by 8,000 people. Becka regularly works with young artists and community organisations, including FerArts, Cardboard Citizens, and has supported campaigns for artistic expression with Index on Censorship and Liberty.

Tash Hyman (theatre-maker, organiser and educator)

Tash is Artistic Director of no more superheroes, who make new work for the stage exploring socialist archives, including most recently, a research and development in collaboration with the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and Northampton Royal and Derogate to create a new play exploring the life and legacy of revolutionary campaigner Rosa Luxemburg. They co-founded Jewish Artists UK in 2025 and co-authored ‘Courage and Care: Guidelines on Confronting Antisemitism and Censorship in the Arts’. They are an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins on BA Performance Design and Practice, and coordinate communities and schools programmes at Hackney School of Food.

Lucia Iachetti (creative director and producer)

An art historian by training, as well as an aspiring weaver, Lucia works across culture, craft and design. She collaborates with artists, makers, creative studios and cultural institutions on projects that bring people together, follow ideas in unexpected directions, and give overlooked stories and the people behind them a wider audience.

Sam Johnson (Head of Collection Care for the Arts Council Collection)

Sam has previously worked at V&A, Tate and National Portrait Gallery. Since making Haringey her home in 2013, she has been immersed in the borough's rich and diverse cultural fabric.

Toyin Laketu (Creative Business Consultant and Senior Lecturer at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London)

With over 14 years of international business development experience, Toyin specialises in supporting fashion, retail, beauty, lifestyle, and creative businesses to scale confidently in the UK and global markets. As the founder of Onwards and Up, a London-based creative business consultancy, Toyin delivers hands-on strategic support where traditional consultancies fall short.

Ciarán Mac Domhnaill (Irish curator of art and design)

Ciarán’s practice engages with broadly defined political and societal issues that cover a range of topics, such as queerness, neurodiversity, social structures, empathic design and accessibility.

Kate Newman (theatre maker, writer, neo-burlesque artist, cabaret host and creative producer)

Kate's work is community focused, intersectional, and draws on her experience of being part of, and organising with the queer community. As an artist she has performed at The Barbican, Battersea Arts Centre, The Arcola Theatre and Shoreditch Town Hall and as a writer she made her debut short film Dance, then as part of BFINETWORK. Kate has been the Arts Coordinator for The World Transformed festival; a radical arts, politics and music festival, helping produce and programme their annual events in Brighton and Liverpool. She is the creative producer and host of cabaret night Like a Virgin which has been described as “nothing short of an extraordinary community feat … an essential space for joy, creativity and grassroots performance”. The concept has grown through collaboration, experimentation and consideration of how we can deconstruct nightlife and artistic practice to welcome more people into the arena and strengthen our artistic communities.

Nadine Nour el Din (curator, writer, and art historian)

Nadine has curated exhibitions at the Grand Egyptian Museum, the Institut Français d'Égypte, and the Kamel Lazaar Foundation, and has worked with institutions including Tate, the Barjeel Art Foundation, and the Venice Biennale.

Storm Patterson (cultural practitioner specialising in film heritage, audiovisual archives, exhibition production and digital innovation)

Storm has over a decade of experience across cultural institutions and the screen industries. She currently works at London’s Screen Archives at Film London, supporting a network of 50+ organisations and leading projects focused on access, sustainability and inclusive practice. Her work spans community-led archiving, curatorial practice, immersive exhibitions, film festivals and digital transformation projects. She has previously held roles at the BFI National Archive and across major UK film festivals, with a practice grounded in collaboration, ethical engagement and widening access to culture and screen heritage.

Clare O’Driscoll (jewellery designer)

Clare has a background working with local voluntary organisations, as well as creative businesses including her own jewellery brand. She has a good understanding of small creative organisations, and has both assessed and written grant applications. She is from North London and has lived in Tottenham for the past 12 years.

Janin Pineda / Bushbby (London-born Colombian DJ, event producer and curator)

Bushbby was born with a deep connection to both Latin America and the UK club scene. Since her DJing inception in 2019, she has become a respected and unapologetic Latinx voice in London’s club scene. As well as igniting stages at leading festivals such as Glastonbury, We Out Here, Lost Village, Boomtown and Outlook, she has performed extensively throughout Europe and Latin America, and has spotlighted many upcoming Latinx artists through regularly curated radio shows and club nights. Community is at the heart of Bushbby’s contribution to music, intensifying the unique UK-Latinx presence across the map whilst enabling the reconnecting of diasporas in a celebration of roots and rave culture.

Lydia Rose (socially engaged interdisciplinary artist, organiser and creative health specialist)

Lydia's practice spans artistic mediums such as poetry, painting and mosaics, alongside community facilitation and cultural production. She is a co-founder of Allie's Art Club, a grassroots community arts cooperative providing inclusive opportunities for creative expression, collective care and cultural empowerment.

Sonja Scantlebury-Camara (creative community facilitator)

Sonja is dedicated to empowering people through arts, crafts, and sustainable practices. She uses recycled and environmentally friendly materials to deliver engaging cultural arts programmes that inspire creativity, wellbeing, and social connection. Passionate about inclusion, Sonja supports individuals living with long-term health conditions, providing accessible opportunities for self-expression, confidence building, and skill development. Her work brings together diverse communities, celebrating cultural heritage while encouraging environmental awareness. Through workshops, collaborative projects, and community engagement initiatives, Sonja creates welcoming spaces where people of all backgrounds can learn, connect, and thrive through the transformative power of creativity.

Lucy Shanahan (curator)

Lucy has over 25 years of experience developing major exhibitions and artists' commissions. She has worked with several prominent institutions including Tate Britain, Tate Modern, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), and the Wellcome Collection. Following a period as an independent curator between 2017 and 2022, Lucy became Exhibitions Curator at the Foundling Museum in 2023. She is also currently studying garden design in order to weave environmental thinking more directly into her creative process.

Sumru Temur (interpreter, volunteer, creative facilitator, outreach worker and welfare adviser)

Sumru has lived in Haringey for over 20 years and has spent the past decade working with local communities. Through both her work and personal experience, she has seen how creativity, nature and community can foster wellbeing, connection and a sense of belonging. Sumru is excited to learn more about the range of creative work happening across Haringey and to support projects that enrich people’s lives and the cultural life of the borough.

Haylee Venus (community organiser, events specialist and creative entrepreneur)

Haylee's work combines creativity, leadership, and community engagement to inspire young people and social change. She has experience in international youth development and policy.

Austin Williams (musician/songwriter)

Originally from Birmingham, Austin now resides in Bowes Park. Over the years he's been able to use his platform in music to help causes he is passionate about - such as co-organising 'Bands For Refugees' who put on fundraising concerts and a 'supergroup' performance at Brixton academy. Austin also recorded a song for the compilation album 'Songs For The National Health Service' - which reached no.1 and raised money for the NHS during Covid. Over his years in music he has been made very aware of the importance of grassroots venues and spaces for communities to thrive, and art to survive. So he is very passionate about giving and creating space for people to create and be artists, and for these spaces to be inclusive and diverse to represent the beautiful borough and country he lives in.

Michael Woodward (Head of Music at The Urswick School in Hackney)

Michael has over 15 years’ experience using music to create opportunities for young people and strengthen communities. Having successfully secured grant funding for community arts projects, including a recent Windrush Generation Music project in Hackney, and through his role on a Memorial Scholarship Board, Michael brings first-hand experience of both applying for and assessing funding. He is passionate about celebrating Haringey’s diversity, heritage and creativity, and the role arts and culture can play in bringing communities together. A Tottenham resident, Michael enjoys spending time with his wife and two young children exploring Haringey’s green spaces and cultural life.

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