Jenni Lewin-Turner | arts management | fundraising | marketing & pr | research | audience development | community outreach | programming | peer mentoring | artist professional development | educational workshops | organisational development | production management | monitoring & evaluation | strategic planning |

Jenni is urbanflo's founding Director and a highly experienced project manager and creative consultant, specialising in producing, programming and promoting artists of all disciplines. Jenni has a passionate and extensive history in arts management, arts marketing, audience development, and theatre/venue management. Her exceptional leadership and organisational skills have enabled her to successfully deliver a wide variety of arts related and business development projects. She has been responsible for devising events of every description from conception through to production and evaluation, in roles that combine strategic planning, programming and production management for challenging and inclusive projects.

Jenni’s core work involves producing a range of creative activities focussed on promoting social inclusion within the arts sector – making the transition from mere ideology into action and aligning grassroots communities with high quality creative products. Her more recent transition into the international arts arena has enabled her to combine her academic and professional careers, to research and develop a collaborative interdisciplinary project to connect disparate artists and communities in the Caribbean, South Africa, USA, South America, Canada, Australia and of course the UK.

Jenni holds a Masters degree in Cultural Leadership, and is on the board of Creative Future and KALAPHOOL – both cultural agencies with a core vision to align grassroots communities with high quality arts activity. She is also co-vice Chair of Sustained Theatre – an artist-led national initiative developing a space for creative connections, conversations and collaborations. Jenni appears in the Cultural Leadership Programme's top 50 Women To Watch list, which features female leaders, directors, producers and curators from across the UK. Current projects in her eclectic portfolio include:

• mentoring MA students at City University, London
• delivering an artists’ consultation programme on behalf of Sustained Theatre
• developing a continuing professional development (CPD) programme for creative practitioners in the Caribbean
• researching an inter-disciplinary creative exchange programme to take place in the UK, Caribbean, Canada, Australia, Argentina, USA and South Africa
• producing a new writers programme for South African writers
• producing a symposium and creative showcase
• strategic planning, fundraising and organisational development for several arts agencies

Natasha Ba-Adullah | arts management | production & event management | strategic planning |

Natasha has several years experience in the Arts, focussing on visual arts for the last 4 years.  She has worked on 17 major exhibitions including 4 international festivals. She has extensive experience in Volunteer and Exhibition Management, creating and implementing frameworks to market, recruit, train and develop volunteers, working on both small and large scale, indoor and outdoor events.  In her role as Exhibition Space Manager and Volunteer Co-ordinator at Fabrica Art Gallery, she managed the gallery space; engaged with the public; recruited, trained and developed volunteers; coordinated and supervised huge teams of volunteers; and assisted Project Managers on installing a diverse range of newly commissioned site specific installations and pre-existing pieces. She has worked with Artists such as Thomas Hirschorn, Alfredo Jaar, Brain Eno, Anish Kapoor, Martin Parr and Tina Gonzalez.

Natasha has worked on two Brighton Festivals as a Freelance Volunteer Co-ordinator. In 2009 she co-ordinated the Guest Directed Anish Kapoor Festival, supervising two Volunteer Managers and recruited 160 volunteers to assist on the five, indoor and outdoor sites for Kapoors site specific sculptures. In 2010 managing the Guest Directed Brian Eno Festival, sited at both Fabrica Art Gallery and the Grade 1 listed Marlborough House exhibition. Audiences for the Brian Eno and Anish Kapoor exhibitions exceeded 30,000 and 80,000 respectively.

Natasha worked on Brighton and Hove City Councils’ Children’s Festival as Volunteer Manager, which involved coordinating a large team for the week long multi-sited festival for children aged 0-11 years.  For Same Sky’s annual ‘Burning of the Clocks’ outdoor spectacle she worked on the production management team.  Natasha was also the Project Manager for the Brighton Photo Fringe ‘Fringe Focus Space’ exhibition, writing and implementing the Fire, Health and safety and volunteer coordination, for the former Co-op department store exhibition. She was Site Manager for the entire building which housed both Brighton Photo Fringes exhibition and Brighton Photo Biennial’s Martin Parr exhibition.

As Senior Project Consultant for Urbanflo Creative Consultancy, Natasha assisted with the research and development programme for the 6° International Creative Programme, working with partners in the UK, Barbados, South Africa, Argentina, Miami and Martinique.  Natasha has been involved in high level negotiations and strategic planning, with government bodies, statutory agencies, academic institutes and conservation organisations whilst in Barbados.  She is currently developing the funding strategy for a 3-year cultural programme and a project for International Women’s Day.

Natasha is passionate about working with both emerging and established artists to create and develop new artwork and to engage with people to cultivate their creative outlet.

Nikki Froneman |arts management |strategic planning | community outreach | programming | peer mentoring | artist professional development | educational workshops | production management | www.proyecto34s.com

Nikki Froneman is a South African arts producer and occasional theatre director. She holds an Honours degree in Drama from the University of Cape Town and a Marketing and Business Management Diploma from Damelin College. Nikki has been living in Latin America since April 2006 and currently lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She founded Proyecto 34ºS in early 2008 and is responsible for the overall artistic direction and running of the organization and its projects.

Her experience includes: the coordination of the 2005 University of Cape Town Res4Res theatre festival; production management and co-ordination of various international photo shoots for DMP Productions and the tour management of Riverside Theatre Company (2002). She participated as an invited speaker on the topic of South African theatre at the Second International Theatre Festival of La Plata, Argentina (2007) and the second Pirologias International Festival of Independent Theatre in the province of Buenos Aires (2008) and has presented various workshops, including at the National Arts Festival, South Africa. In 2009, she participated by invitation in the Professionals Program on South-South Exchange at the Oerol festival in the Netherlands.

Sarah Pickthall | arts management | fundraising | community outreach | research | audience development | artist professional development | training workshops | organisational development | www.cuspinc.org

Sarah is Director of Cusp inc and is a highly respected consultant, trainer, coach and arts practitioner. She has an extensive track record working in the arts with arts organisations, disability organisations and funders and in education and television. Central to Sarah's approach is the exploration of how we put up barriers and how we might develop strategic and striking ways to remove them together to realise a more inclusive society. Sarah is passionate about people, about challenging inequalities and transforming how people feel about their lives. Sarah strongly believes that arts and culture should be accessible to all. She works with a collective of artists and inspirational people to infuse the delivery of her programmes of work.

Judith Palmer | arts management | fundraising | community outreach | research | audience development | peer mentoring | artist professional development | educational workshops | organisational development |

Judith's career in Arts Administration started in 1984 when she co-founded and ran African Kalubash Dance Company, Nottingham 1984-1987. By 1986, she joined Adzido Pan-African Dance Ensemble as an Administrative Assistant, where she assisted in the co-ordination of the Youth Opportunities scheme run by the organisation; in 1987 she joined the performance side of the company and stayed until 1996. Since then, Judith has taught dance both nationally and internationally and was associate lecturer in African dance on the Dance and Culture BA (Hons) degree programme at the University of Surrey, Guildford from 1996-98. Judith is the currently the Administration Manager for IRIE! Dance Theatre. She holds a PG Diploma in Dance Studies and was an African Dance lecturer on the UK's first accredited dance training programmes in African and Caribbean dance. Judith continues to freelance/Mentor as an Arts Administrator for semi-professional companies and individuals, and is a member of the Board of the Association of Dance of the African Diaspora [ADAD].

Dominique De-Light | writer | project manager | teacher | mentor | photographer | carnival artist | www.dominiquedelight.com

Dominique is a published writer, working in the industry for the last ten years. She is a qualified adult education teacher and LAPIDUS mentor. She was writer in residence at the First Base Day Centre, a place of safety for homeless and vulnerable adults in Brighton from 2003-2008 where she established the First Base Arts Project.   Dominique also established the charity Creative Future with partner Simon Powell to bridge the gap between the community arts and the professional arts sectors in the South East. Creative Future provides talented marginalised artists and writers opportunities to earn income from their creative work. The organisation gives those excluded by society the chance to reintegrate through their own talents by providing training, support, exhibiting and publishing opportunities, selling & promoting their work at the highest levels. Creative Future also raises the profile of individual artists/writers and the organisations they access, whilst challenging public stereotypes of marginalised people.

Camilla Brown | photography specialist | writer | photography award panelist | curator | www.camillaebrown.co.uk

Camilla Brown gained her MA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. In 2008 she graduated with a Postgraduate diploma from City University in Cultural Leadership. She is currently an independent curator, writer and lecturer. From 2000 to 2010 she was Senior Curator at The Photographers’ Gallery where she has worked since 2000 and was previously Exhibitions curator at Tate Liverpool. She regularly contributes essays to books on photography and writes for specialist magazines, and sits on photography awards and juries. In 2010 she was a nominator for the International Centre of Photography’s Infinity Awards and in 2011 she has been for the third year on the jury for Amnesty International Photojournalism award. Recent published texts include Cast on Dryden Goodwin’s work published in a monograph by Steidl 2009; and Sally Mann: the Family and the Land for the exhibition catalogue Sally Mann published by The Photographers’ Gallery 2010. She is a member of IKT (international curatorial network) and the Visual Art and Gallery’s Association, UK.

Sasha Dees | curator | producer | www.sashadees.com

Sasha Dees is an independent consultant curator/producer who lives and works between Amsterdam, New York and the Caribbean. She has been involved in an extensive array of cultural projects including: Chinese Whispers I, II en III (Chelsea Art Walk / New Museum New York / Frascati Amsterdam 2000-2002); Interdisciplinary dance/video projects (Danzaisa/Burnt Sugar Arkastra): YeYe (PS122, 2001), Ri-T-es (Summerstage, 2001), Americana/Immi-G (E-Moves, 2002) and Dominata (DTW, 2004); Crossing Waters and Borders down Memory Lane (Triskell, Cork Ireland, 2005); District Q, exhibitions part 3, 4 & 5 (Locus11 Rotterdam / W139, Amsterdam, 2006-2008); Project 7002 (Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam 2007); Miss T - My American Dream (USA 2010-2012), is the curator for the Artist in Residence Open Ateliers in Amsterdam
(since 2010) and co-curator with Shantrelle P. Lewis for Negotiating Identities exhibition on Dutch Caribbean Art (CCCADI, NYC 2014).

"I want to provide a platform for emerging artists who push limits, cross borders and break down barriers. Art for me is about communication, confronting people without imposing, and creating a dialogue that offers a different perspective. I am interested in the collaboration between different cultures, traditions, genders and the various art disciplines. All art disciplines are equally important to me -theater, visual art, dance, music, spoken word and film. I work with artists who experiment with the classical art forms, who mix them up and break them down- not to destroy, but to analyze and re-use and build something new."

 

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