Anna is a management professional with an extensive range of experience in events, partnerships, marketing, PR, communications and corporate partnership development. She is Senior Digital Communications Manager for the Gambling Commission and was previously Income Generation & Corporate Relationships Manager (Head of Fundraising) for Birmingham & Solihull Women’s Aid.

Indy is the founder of Kala Phool and is a cultural consultant, mentor for global majority practitioners from all sectors, CEDIA industry member and Cultural & Creative Programming Lead for the National Trust (Midlands & East of England). Indy is a value driven individual who thrives to support ‘community’ for the wider good. She has delivered impactful and sustainable creative projects throughout her working life, often in male-dominated spaces, and works collaboratively across the arts, creative industries, heritage, academia and global ecosystems.

Katy produces projects that build connections between art and people’s lives as they are lived. She has over 20 years experience in the arts sector, working in contemporary art spaces, cultural organisations and community settings. She has worked as a visual artist, in artists’ development and commissioning, exhibition production, gallery and museum education, arts and health, participation, and public engagement. Co-founder of Feminists Work For Change, she produced cross-art form projects focused on domestic abuse recovery and awareness raising. Motivated by the collective power of collaborative working to address gender based abuse, and the transformative work with women by fellow artists in the country, she set up Rae.

Nafeesa is a Brum-Kashmiri poet, educator, playwright, multi-disciplinary artist, performer and director. Her intersectional practice encompasses community-building, interfaith work, female health advocacy and preserving dying languages. Nafeesa’s poetry collection Besharam is published by Verve Poetry Press, and her work is featured in publications including Forward Poems of the Decade 2011-2020. She has performed in the UK and internationally at events, literary festivals and on Radio 4.

Nilupa is an artist, educator and lecturer working with a primarily lens-based practice. She explores the principles of art and craft, the expanded materiality within photography, and is interested in the notion of culture, self-identity, and anthropology in her work. An element of her practice focuses on socially engaged photography, working collaboratively with communities to produce and curate works of art. She shows in the UK and internationally, and has work in public and private art collections.

Sarah Taylor Silverwood is an artist based in Birmingham, originally from The Forest of Dean. Sarah’s drawing practice works across animation, textiles, ceramics, sculpture and print. Combining her interests in making, storytelling and working with other people, she creates artwork for exhibitions, the public realm and the home. She is continually researching making techniques and experimenting with materials, developing the practical application of drawing in response to the ideas she is working with.

Tereza is a Czech-born multi-disciplinary artist. Her projects celebrate and reinterpret long established customs with performance, print and video. Tereza’s work deals with craft, tradition and rituals, which she reinvents with collaborators and local communities, exploring other cultures’ customs and universal ideas of motherhood and community. Her projects have been exhibited, performed and screened in the UK and internationally, and her work is in public and private art collections.