LEADING INDEPENDENTLY
Tuesday, 14 June 2022 // 8:30 am - 9:30 am // FREE: REGISTER HERE
How are individuals exercising leadership without and beyond organisational labels and positions?
Hear from independent voices, Lora Krasteva, Vijay Patel, and Emma Blake Morsi, who are each demonstrating their unique modes of leadership, and making impact across the sector - affecting conditions not only for themselves, but for others, whilst building their careers and staying true to their values.
Hear them talk about their practice and let’s consider, together, ways in which we might restructure our view of leadership (both externally and internally) and build better support for new and diverse leadership models.
This session is led by Tracy Gentles, Creative Director/CEO at Something To Aim For, and Dr. Amit S. Rai, from the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London, drawing on collaborative research project Performing Leadership Differently.
CONTRIBUTORS ↘
VIJAY PATEL
Vijay Patel (he/they) is a performance artist, writer and neurodivergent access consultant. He crosses forms from live art, performance art and queer club/cabaret. The work they make predominantly surrounds cultural identity, making autobiographical/political work to shift perceptions and uplift marginalised, intersectional identities.
LORA KRASTEVA
Lora is an artist, cultural producer and activist. She is part of Global Voices Theatre, a female, non-binary and immigrant-led company introducing international work by historically marginalised creatives in the UK. Lora creates devised, socially engaged work with professionals and other community members alike and has worked with Arts & Homelessness International advocating for a place for creativity in homelessness provision. Lora is a steering group member of What Next? and a founding member of Migrants in Theatre, the movement advocating for a better representation of 1st generation immigrants. Lora currently lives in Sheffield where she sits on the board of the Sheffield Creative Guild. Her latest project, Becoming [...], is a series of creative residencies in four different countries interrogating national identities from the perspective of local migrant artists and communities.
For more info about Lora´s work visit www.lorakrasteva.com and follow on @lorakrasteva
EMMA BLAKE MORSI
Emma Blake Morsi is a multi award-winning multi-disciplinary producer, non-executive director of Rising Arts Agency and former Bristol City Council’s Culture Board member. A prolific visual storyteller, she predominantly works across photography, words, graphics, film, events and sound, and has been training as a creative intersectional environmentalist following years in STEM. Her research consisted of developing a sustainable circular system repurposing waste substances. Emma challenges approaches to inclusion and innovation in the spaces she works in, producing work that can be experienced by all but most importantly gives visibility to and engages those from marginalised groups.
