Come and join us for an interdisciplinary look at leadership in the arts in 2024. With leaders in music and theatre coming together to chat about the cultural landscape, how we’re navigating it and where we hope we’re headed, like some kind of cultural satnav.
Hosted by Rastarella Falade and Beccy D’Souza
Panel includes:
Bea Udeh
Carol Leeming
Carmen Flores
Tara Lopez
Who is this event for?
Global Ethnic Majority* Women** who are involved in creative arts, including but not limited to, DJs, musicians, poets, creative workshop facilitators, writers, dancers, comedians, actors, directors, vloggers singers, and artists. Also, women** who are in creative leadership roles within their own community or professional organisations.
*We use ‘Global Ethnic Majority’ here as a collective term that refers to people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual / multiple heritage, indigenous to the global south and / or have been racialised as ethnic minorities.
**We use ‘women’ here as an inclusive term that encapsulates anyone who has lived experience of womanhood.
About the Facilitators
Rastarella Falade is the founder of Cultural Vibrations (Unity Through Music) established in 2009 and Nottingham Global Roots Festival (2015).
Rastarella is a grassroots event manager & predominantly a Global Ethnic Majority music promoter. She is also a radio presenter on 97.5 Kemet Fm, a creative marketing consultant and an empowerment speaker.
Rastarella is the current Global Roots Music Programmer at Nottingham Trent University.
Beccy D’Souza is the current Artist Development Producer at Nottingham Playhouse.
With 20 years experience working in theatre, primarily as a freelance actor and producer, Beccy joined Nottingham Playhouse in 2023, managing and curating artist development opportunities through Amplify, Nottingham Playhouse’s professional artist network for theatre makers with a connection to the Midlands. She was a founder member of The Party Somewhere Else Collective. She was also part of the Freelance Task Force in 2020, is an alumni of Birmingham School of Acting, Stage One’s Bridge The Gap and Edinburgh Fringe’s Emerging Producers and is currently taking part in Transforming Governance, a governance training programme with New Art Exchange.
