A space for conversations about community arts & culture and breaking down barriers to getting creative. The 4th Wall's Too Tall...and I'm scared of heights!
'Humanity Shouldn't Belong to Any Political Party': Comedy, Community and Migrant Theatre with LegalAliens Theatre
Jessie talks to Lara, co-founder of LegalAliens Theatre, a migrant-led ensemble and Theatre of Sanctuary based in Haringey. We talk about physical theatre and comedy as tools for building ownership, art in the face of antimigrant rhetoric and genuine co-curation. Ft. the wrong translator and who wants to be a millionaire?
https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/ali-in-wonderengland/#book
https://legalalienstheatre.com/
10 Apr 2025
'All of us are shaping history': Art workshops, archives and illustration with Fiona
Jessie chats with participatory artist Fiona who runs workshops in a range of public settings from museums to festivals. We talk about actually making theory accessible, the importance of asking questions and capturing the everyday as moments of history. Ft. telling our mixed-race-identity-fascination to chill sometimes.
21 Mar 2025
What happened to £1 Fish???
Jessie talks about the newer entertainment venues modelled on street markets and the gentrification at play there. Who gets to visit? What about the vibrant, subversive history of street markets? Ft. The £1 Fish Song
Victoria Kelly 'The streets for the people: London’s street markets 1850–1939'
https://friendsofqueensmarket.org.uk/history-of-queens-market/ (https://friendsofqueensmarket.org.uk/history-of-queens-market/)https://wardscorner.org/ourhistory (https://wardscorner.org/ourhistory)
‘Pushed to the Margins: A Quantitative Analysis of Gentrification in London in the 2010s’ - Adam Almedia, Runnymede and CLASS report, June 2021.
Christopher Adan, https://journal.urbantranscripts.org/article/the-street-market-as-animated-space-an-ethnographic-exercise-christopher-adan/ (https://journal.urbantranscripts.org/article/the-street-market-as-animated-space-an-ethnographic-exercise-christopher-adan/)
Patricia Hill Collins, ‘Shifting the Center: Race, Class and Feminist Theorizing about Motherhood’.Ida Daneweid, ‘The Fire This Time: Grenfell, Racial Capitalism and the Urbanisation of Empire’.
27 Feb 2025
'If We're Educated Right': Accessibility Arts with DK
Jessie speaks to DK, founder of AccessAbility Arts, a multi-form arts collective promoting underrepresented voices and advocating for creatives with disabilities. We talk about digital spaces, the influence of hip-hop on DK's poetry and addressing barriers faced by disabled people in arts & culture. Ft. it's not all about 'highbrow' art
Instagram: @accessabilityarts
Text to speech app used: Proloquo4Text
13 Feb 2025
'The beat of our own drum': Rap & a record company with Nine Levels
Jessie chats with Nine Levels, an Edmonton based rapper and founder of independent record company, Comu Records. We talk about defining success as an independent artist, global and community influences on music, and navigating the music industry. Ft. being a haterrrr
Contains the odd bit of ~ explicit language ~
https://www.comurecords.com/
Insta: @ninelevels
Stream Parts Unknown now!
30 Jan 2025
'It's ok to rest!': Creative wellbeing & community art with Mas
Jessie speaks to Mas, a multi-disciplinary community artist. We get into the importance of rest, art in hospitals and the importance of actually being part of a community when doing community art. Ft. drawing a cheese-grater.
- 'A Burst of Light', Audre Lorde
-'Don't Touch my Hair' Emma Dabiri
-https://otcreativespace.co.uk/
16 Jan 2025
Let me SIT!! Art Gallery edition
Jessie explores her response to The Whitechapel Gallery's exhibition placing Lygia Clark & Sonia Boyce's participatory work in dialogue. Both artists' work is deeply concerned with involving audiences and facilitating participation. Tune in for some thoughts on how galleries can subvert the usual object-label-viewer format.
2 Jan 2025
'Because they're doing it themselves': Participatory theatre with Chloe
Jessie speaks to Chloe, a theatre practitioner and engagement facilitator. We chat about community theatre, subverting teacher/student dynamics and what makes meaningful participatory projects. Ft. how learning is like an onion.
12 Dec 2024
'Creativity's a Joyful thing': Queer writing group with Eddie
Jessie speaks to Eddie, founder of The Queer Fantasy Collective in Manchester. We talk about the importance of social creative communities, probing outreach and queer spaces. Ft. maybe making friends as an adult isn't a scam...
Check out @queerspeclit on Instagram.
'Taking Up Space: The Black Girl's Manifesto for Change' by
Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi explores navigating exclusive institutions as Black women and outlines ways to resist racist and sexist establishments.
26 Nov 2024
'A Party? Because there's rice in the fridge': Local Stories with Serene
Jessie talks to filmmaker, dresser & designer Serene about working together on an exhibition on Tottenham's Caribbean community. We talk creative goals, wrestling with funding limits and using silence to speak. Ft the joys of leftover rice.
17 Nov 2024
Welcome!
Welcome! In this intro episode Jessie begins by breaking the 4th wall & giving an insight into what you can expect from this pod. Ft some thinking about 'local' spaces, made up phrases and a music rec.
'Black Goose' - Priya Ragu
Avtar Brah 'Diaspora, border and transnational identities' in Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities (1996) Routledge: London & New York
Paul Gilroy 'A London Sumting Dis...' (1999) Critical Quarterly, 41: 57-69.
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