January 2024
Role: Performer
Hosting events to celebrate Burns Night: dancing, games, poetry.
Role: Games Designer
Road-testing a conversational card game ‘Extra Ordinary Human Animals’.
Role: Writer
Writing a book chapter for Palgrave on how to address the Earth Crisis in Higher Education.
Role: Lecturer
Delivering lectures at Goldsmiths College to combine research skills with education on climate crisis.
Role: Trainer
Training teachers from ambassador schools on Climate Museum UK’s newly developed ‘Wild World’ educational resources.
Role: Creative facilitator
Hosting music / songwriting workshops at Napier Barracks, Kent for asylum seekers and refugees who are being held there.
Role: Listener
Listening volunteer at the Samaritans
Role: Student
Learning swing dance and taking a mime course.
December 2023
Role: Performer
Monsieur Bon Bon’s Christmas Soiree in Cosy Cafe, Hay-on-Wye and The Pumphouse, Hastings.
Role: Performer
Hosting Festive ceilidhs with The Fun Fed, Nick Hart & Tom Moore, Fitty Gomash and Jamie Colston.
Role: Lecturer
Leading seminars on Goldsmiths College’s new ‘Connected Curriculum’ for interdisciplinary study around critical analysis and emotional wellbeing
November 2023
Role: Performer
Performing Traitors Live as Claudia Winklemanwoman to the BASE TV Awards in Camden Roundhouse with Twisted Time Machine
Role: Creative Facilitator/Coach
Coaching employees of PwC and Lockton around attitudes to leadership by learning to play the ukulele and write songs, with Tabitha Bevan and Sarah Weiler’s Power of Uke workshops.
Role: Lecturer
Leading seminars on Goldsmiths College’s new ‘Connected Curriculum’ for interdisciplinary study around critical analysis and emotional wellbeing.
Role: Games Facilitator
Leading workshops for teachers in Helsinki to use movement and play in their educational practice.
Role: Creative Facilitator
Leading group Singing for Wellbeing with Breathe Arts & Health Research for paediatric doctors at St Thomas & Guy’s Hospital.
Role: Lecturer
Guest lecturer at Festival of Neurodiversity and Play at University of East London.
Role: 40 year old human
Co-celebrating my 40th birthday with Loose Baker and many dear friends at the Alfred Hitchcock hotel, London including the ‘Holding the Light’ ceremony on the common.
October 2023
Role: Lecturer
Designing a new form of podcast assessment for Educational Studies students at Goldsmiths College, London
Role: 40 year old human
Giving a speech at a 30 year reunion of my former gymnastics club.
Role: Writer
Together with colleagues at Bournemouth University, co-writing a scoping review of research into interventions to support children and young people (CYP) at risk of gambling-related harm.
Role: Educational Consultant
Consulting as associate of Climate Museum UK with South Downs National Park, developing resources and supporting teachers to integrate the environmental crisis in their classrooms.
September 2023
Role: Presenter
Presenting a session at Greenwich Maritime Museum ‘Play and Our Changing World’ with Anna Bruder of A Line Arts and Louisa Bartlett-Pestell of Arts Depot
Role: Performer
Performing as Monsieur Bon Bon with Loose Baker and Alison Parry at Abergavenny Food Festival.
Role: Presenter
Being filmed for The Happy Confident Company for their educational resources on emotional wellbeing for teachers and children.
Role: Presenter
Designing and delivering an interactive presentation on ‘productive discomfort’ for franchisees of WOW World Group.
Role: Teacher
Teaching a games and movement lesson with Beehive Hub educational project, Brighton
Role: Creative Facilitator
Running ‘Crash test the ukulele’ and games sessions with Fun Fed
Role: Writer
Attending a writing retreat with Arvon
August 2023
Role: Performer
Performing with Village Circus as Monsieur Bon Bon at Wilderness Festival, Shambala, and Green Man, alongside Robin Clyfan, Josh Ward,
Role: Celebrant
Hosting ceremonies at weddings over the summer.
Role: Creative Facilitator
Facilitating a session for practitioners of Dad’s Rock, an early music programme for dads.
July 2023
Role: Writer
Together with colleagues at Bournemouth University, co-writing a scoping review of research into interventions to support children and young people (CYP) at risk of gambling-related harm.
Role: Performer
Performing Traitors Live! as Claudia Winklemanwoman with Confetti at Secret Garden Party.
Role: Lecturer
Presenting for Goldsmiths College’s ‘Ecologies in Practice’ Conference on creative responses to Earth Crisis with young people.
Role: Singing Leader
Leading group Singing for Wellbeing with Breathe Arts & Health Research for employees of St Thomas & Guy’s Hospital.
June 2023
Role: Creative facilitator
Writing project website for Goldsmiths College ‘Ecologies in Practice’ AHRC-funded project, with associates from Climate Museum UK.
Role: Performer
Hosting for Twisted Time Machine at Glastonbury Festival.
Role: Presenter
Being filmed for The Happy Confident Company for their educational resources on emotional wellbeing for teachers and children.
Role: Presenter
Designing and delivering an interactive presentation on ‘productive discomfort’ for franchisees of WOW World Group.
May 2023
Role: Celebrant
Working with couples to design their wedding ceremonies.
Role: Educational Consultant
Online sessions coaching Steiner-Waldorf teachers in The Philippines on games, movement and play in developmental learning.
Role: Games enthusiast
Playing Daybreak at Games Transformed Unconference.
Role: Educational Consultant
Coaching physical education teacher at St Paul’s Steiner School
Role: Singing Leader
Leading group Singing for Wellbeing with Breathe Arts & Health Research for employees of St Thomas & Guy’s Hospital.
Role: Lecturer
Guest lecturer at Festival of Neurodiversity and Play at University of East London.
April 2023
Role: Creative Facilitator/Coach
Coaching employees of PwC around attitudes to leadership by learning to play the ukulele and write songs, with Sarah Weiler’s Power of Uke workshops.
Role: Trainer
Leading workshops into a developmental approach towards movement, games and play for teachers at the Waldorf Modern Teacher Training programme.
Role: Performer
Hosting games and ceilidh at the Shambala production crew weekend, and with DJ Max Galactic at The Globe in Hay-on-Wye
Role: Games Facilitator
Hosting Easter games for the Fun Fed.
Role: Trainer
Shadowing Bridget McKenzie on a training session on developing sustainable policies for Disability Arts Action group.
March 2023
Role: Creative facilitator
As part of Goldsmiths College ‘Ecologies in Practice’ AHRC-funded project, sharing sound journeys on silent disco headphones with 14 year old students to inspire creative responses to research into the environmental crisis.
Role: Trainer
Leading workshops into a developmental approach towards movement, games and play for teachers at the Waldorf Modern Teacher Training programme.
Role: Lecturer
Lecturing on the Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education at Goldsmiths College on creative forms of assessment.
Role: Creative Facilitator
Leading co-design sessions with families to create street playgrounds for A Line Art.
February 2023
Role: Lecturer
Marking films produced by Goldsmiths BA Educational Studies students
January 2023
Role: Traveller
Travelling around India