People & Partners

LET US PLAY

University of Birmingham
Residency developing the ‘Let Us Play’ project
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Professor Peter Kraftl
Plastic Childhood’s Commission / project adviser
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Department for Education UoB
CAKE Event
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Meriden Adventure Playground
Oral history interviewee’s / archive showcase
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Ark Tindal Academy Balsall Heath
Christchurch Primary School Sparkbrook
St Anne’s Primary School Chelmsley Wood
Oral history training programme & interviewer’s
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Interviewee’s
Val Hart
Haqi Ali
Ray Wills
Geoff Gaisford
Dave Swingle
Haki Kapasi
Deby Morgan
Jo Bowen
Ali Wood
Ellen Delaney
Simon Rix
Sharon Dunbar
Sarah Hulbert
Rohan Brown
Derek Horton
Lucie Bennett
Lewis Hill
Rebecca Prescott
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THE ENDLESS VILLAGE

Eastside Projects
Aspex Gallery
Exhibition venues
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Narthex Centre, Sparkbrook
Oral history interviewee’s from Thursday lunch club
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St Johns Primary School Sparkbrook
Oral history training programme / interviewers
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Oli Clark
Filming & production of The Endless Village
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Joscha Eickel
Sound design of The Endless Village
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Frankley Drumming Group
Calvert Lawson
Film soundtrack development
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Frankley Women’s Sewing Group
Developed props for film
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Helen Lloyd
Oral Historian
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Actors
Nicken Kotak, Collene Webb, Heather Rome, Larry Rew, Nicola Gardner, Phil Hemming, Maggie Turner, Georgia Neath
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HANDSWORTH CURRENCY COMPETITION

Soho House / Birmingham Museums Trust
Residency / Exhibition
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Mykal Brown / Wassifa
Merrise Crooks-Bishton
Nishkam Centre
‘Heads’ for the new Handsworth coins / archives showcased in exhibition
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Holyhead School
Grove Primary School
Future First School
St Theresa’s Catholic Primary School
‘Tails’ designs for the new Handsworth coins
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Howard Brothers (Engravers)
Thomas Ball LTD, Matthew Boulton Industrial Estate
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THE BALSALL HEATH BIENNALE 

Balsall Heath Forum
Balsall Heath Residents Groups
Balsall Heath Carnival
Cristina Piñero Maese / Cleanascene
Eastwood Road residents
Balsall Heath Church Centre
Community partners / event hosts
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Dr Stephen Forcer
Barry Griffiths, Kate Thompson, Stephen & Anna Blower
Surreal House Competition Judge & Winners
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Dr Saskia Warren
Derek Horton
Critical writing
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David Sherry
Raqs Media Collective
Juneau Projects
Andy Holden
Brian Cleaver
Commissioned artists / colouring in posters
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Nelson Mandela School
Clifton School
Ark Tindal School
Schools Programme / Colouring in posters competition
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HEATHLAND FESTIVAL

Kings Heath Library
Balsall Heath Library
Druids Heath Library
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Bangladeshi Women’s Association, Small Heath
Writing collaboration with Elizabeth Charis
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Emma Bowen & Caleb Steer
Festival workshop team
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Catherine O’Flynn
Elizabeth Charis
Commissioned writers for the Heathland Festival Children’s Book
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1125 children who took part & contributed to the final storybook
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Robert Grose
The man behind the L’Internationnale Ice Cream Van
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Andrew Moffat / The ‘No Outsiders’ Project
Festival sessions
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Taz the Ice Cream Man
Free ice cream in exchange for poetry
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Performers, Writers, Poets
Jake Evans
Dreadlockalien
Matt Windle
Cath Edwards
JC Niala
Pyn Stockman
Kerima Mohideen
Peter Chand
Sharon Wu-Carr
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THE HOP PROJECT

mac Birmingham
The Hive
The Courtyard Centre for the Arts
Exhibition Venues
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Bromyard Local History Society & Hereford Museum Archive
Featured archives
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Nozstock Festival
Printing Station & Multi-Cultural Pickle venue
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Tipton Library
Oldbury Library
Wednesbury Library
West Bromwich Library
Haden Hill House
Ross on Wye Library
Leominster Library 
Bromyard Theatre
Kidderminster Library
Droitwich Library
Tenbury Library
Herefordshire, Worcestershire & Sandwell Libraries +community spaces – touring exhibition venues
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Cradley, Mathon and Storridge Art Group
West Bromwich Model Railway Society
Crystal Quilters & Kidderminster Forest Quilters
Hereford Wargamers
The Bennett’s – Romany Travellers
Development of touring exhibition content: fictional feminist ale quilts, models, paintings, benches, maps.
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Bosbury Primary School
Grove Primary School, Handsworth
School exchange programme
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Angela Kingston
Dr David Storey
Professor Margaret Grieco
Hop Project essays / critical writing
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Elizabeth Charis
Sound Community Music
Caleb Steer
Tee Lyrical
V3rd the Great
The Hip Hop Pickers Ball: Commissioned writing, videos, music and performances
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Alicja Rogalska
Daniel Baker
Touring exhibition artwork
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Joe Weldon
Design & build of touring display system
(additional paint work by Newso)
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