Events
Upcoming book events:
May 20th, 8pm - Brighton Festival
May 26th, 6pm - Aye Write! festival Glasgow
May 31st, 6pm - SOAS
June 1st, 7pm - Rye Books, Peckham
June 3rd - Stoke Newington Lit fest
June 8th - Gloucester Road books, Bristol
June 10th - Museum of the home, Shoreditch
June 14th, 6pm - University of Westminster
July 29th - Primadonna festival
Sept 1st - End of the Road festival
Sept 14th - Inside Housing conference, St Pauls
I host and curate a lot of events, here’s some recent ones that I’ve particularly enjoyed:
All The Houses I’ve Ever Lived In, In conversation with Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, WOW Festival, 2023
Navigating the Housing Crisis, Fora Space, 2021, Host
Nicer Tuesdays, (March, April, May, June), Oval Space, 2022, Host
In conversation with Elijah, RA Exchange, AVA London, 2022, Host
In conversation with Symeon Brown, Sophia Galer Smith, Primadonna festival, 2022, Host
In conversation with Benjamin Zephaniah, Black Cultural Archives, 2021, Host
The Skin You’re in, Polyester Zine live podcast, 2021, Panellist
In conversation with Brian Eno and David Mitchell, British Library, 2020, Host
Awate Presents: The Unearthed Odyssey - A look through the British Library sound archive, British Library, 2020, Host
Who Polices the Police? A conversation with Marcia Rigg and Ken Fero, BFI, 2020, Host
Britishness and Power, WOW Festival, 2020, Panellist
In Conversation with Riz Ahmed, Soho House, 2020, Host
International Womxn’s Day with Polyester Zine, 2020, Panellist
WOW festival and the BBC present: Arts in Quarantine, 2020, Host
Are our journalists being pigeonholed?, Burnt Roti Festival, 2020, Panellist
Coded Language, Red Bull Music Festival , 2019, Host
Sheffield Doc Fest: Breaking the Class Ceiling, 2019, Panellist
Archipelago Festival Music Media Conference Panel, Indonesia, 2019, Panellist
Migration and Magic: In Conversation with Riz Ahmed and Mohsin Hamid, London Literature Festival, Royal Festival Hall, 2019, Host
V&A East, 2019, Host
Top Boy Academy, Netflix x NTS, 2019, Host
The Estate We’re In: The Past, Present and Future of Council Housing, Bristol Architecture Centre, 2019, Panellist
The Future of Media & Storytelling, C4 Future Skills, 2020, Host
V&A Friday Lates: Don’t Copy Me, 2019, Host
Violet Nights: Lady of the Mics, Southbank Centre, 2019, Host
Web Summit, 2019, Host
Youth and Individuality, Reprezent x Napapijri, 2019, Panellist
V&A Friday lates: Nature, V&A, 2019, Host
Decolonise Architecture, RIBA, 2019, Host
Inner City Pressure: In Conversation with Dan Hancox, Rough Trade East, 2018, Host
In Conversation with Gaika, The Curtain x British Council, 2018, Host
In Conversation of Nabihah Iqbal, Ninjatune podcast, 2018, Host
V&A Friday Late: Threads - Speaking of Inheritance, 2018, Panellist
Print! Tearing it up, Somerset House Exhibition, 2018, Panellist