Speakers
Azieb Pool
Azieb Pool is Artistic Director & CEO of the Bernie Grant Arts Centre and founder of the Tottenham Literature Festival. Azieb was previously the Senior Programmer for Contemporary Culture at the Southbank Centre, where she curated the Africa Utopia Festival and was a lead programmer of the WOW Women of the World festival, which included taking WOW to Somaliland, Nigeria and Baltimore USA.
A Guardian journalist for over a decade, Azieb has written for many international publications and sits on the Mayor of London's Cultural Advisory group for the annual Black on the Square event in Trafalgar Square.
Kelechi Okafor
Kelechi Okafor is a storyteller. Whether it’s through her podcasts or books as well as informative video essays - Kelechi explores and challenges what it means to navigate modern society based on what we remember of our histories.
The spiritual is political and this is why Kelechi’s Tarot, astrology Yoruba cosmology offerings are instrumental to her understanding of liberation, on an individual and collective level.
Mamela Nyamza
Mamela Nyamza is a dancer, choreographer, director, and performing artist who has been trained in ballet, modern and African dance styles. She has won many accolades for her activism-focused creations. HATCHED ENSEMBLE, which runs in our theatre from 9—12 Oct, continues her work which unapologetically demystifies and deconstructs the history of dance, interrogating the accepted norms of the classics.
Find out more about Mamela Nyamza's HATCHED ENSEMBLE.
