I believe that participation in the creative process can contribute to raise awareness of ourselves and can help us breaking patterns and expand our identities. Beyond individual change, I also believe in the power of arts to bring about social change by creating a platform for political issues to be raised and discussed. 
I have been working as a facilitator with a variety of community groups and age groups for the past 20 years, here is a selection of projects.

Facilitator/Project Director
​Pan Intercultural Arts
Since 2011 I have been working for Pan Intercultural Arts. Pan is a London based arts charity dedicated to the exploration of cultural diversity through the arts and how such work can inspire and implement social change. Pan work with refugees, asylum seekers, survivors of human trafficking and young people who are marginalised and at risk of social exclusion. We use performance, dance, music and film to increase participants' confidence, reduce their isolation and imagine new futures for themselves. 
Since 2014 I am the Project Director of Future, a weekly group for unaccompanied minors asylum seekers and refugees funded by BBC Children in Need. 

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Action/Reflection Events on Arts and Refugees
Goldsmiths College, Theatre and Performance Department
A space for reflections, contributions, dialogues and workshops oganised by Sue Mayo, Mita Pujara, Sharon Kanolik and myself. Supported by the Migration Research Network. 

2016 When Words Fail
Together with Mita Pujara we created an installation called Make/Shift that collected the contemplations (art work, objects, soundscapes, spoken word, film) from 18 volunteers that went to work in the unofficial refugee camp in Calais known as the Jungle. This work was subsequently displayed at the Horniman Museum and at the Jungle Symposium at the University of Leicester. 

 2017 Welcome is a Radical Act
​For this event together with Mita Pujara, we produced a video: My Radical Act of Welcome, a collection of acts of welcome towards  refugees from across the UK, with the aim of counteracting the hate speech that is so prominent on the news and social media.

2019 That's not my name 
 https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=12612

​What do you Sea?
2017/18 Horniman Museum, Refugee Youth, Pan Intercultural Arts 

Inspired by the new display of Anthropology of the Horniman Museum that features a portion of Boat 195 rescued between Lybia and Italy, a group of young people from different backgrounds came together to think about the Mediterranean and what it means to different people. They created poems and delivered a workshop engaging museum audiences during Crossing Borders Event 2018.
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Listen to the soundscape they created.

Facilitator/Researcher - Fondazione VERSO
Since 2017 I am a collaborator of VERSO,
a foundation that promotes educational and training projects that encourage the harmonious development of the personality, and of the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of the person within their community. VERSO is inspired by the approach on education offered by Psychosynthesis.
In the words of its founder Roberto Assagioli:
“To educate does not mean to fill minds with extraneous material, but to kindle the inner fire present in everyone”.

​Proyecto Los Quinchos - Nicaragua 2018
In March 2018 I assisted psychotherapist and educator Andrea Bocconi in the delivery of a training for educators of the organisation Los Quinchos. This organisation created and run a series of homes for the rescue and support of street children fleeing domestic abuse and drug addiction. VERSO supports the project with funding and by offering training opportunities to the staff.