Multi-disciplinary artist Chisara (Agor) is a musician, actor and theatre maker based in Peckham and Madrid.
The singer songwriter is self-taught at the guitar and ukulele. Their influences range from jazz to folk, soul and indie pop. Their work is eclectic, addressing contemporary themes and conflicts whilst commenting on the notion of the human spirit and vulnerability.
In 2021, Chisara performed a set as part of The Message We Bring, a weekend of creative interventions at The Palms, Peckham.
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Tilting the Mirror x The Palms was a three-week experience bringing together a soundscape and performance programme titled The Message We Bring with a focus on community representation.
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This three year initiative aims to establish a greater knowledge and understanding of community-led cultural activity.
The project takes its title from a conversation that Bennett had with an older friend. Speaking out of tone, the artist was met with the reply “Yuh Figet Yuhself!”. The statement was made in jest but served as a reminder that she had literally and figuratively forgotten herself.
This project celebrates the distinct dialogues of a multi-generational group of participants and mediums of ‘insistent archiving’ that preserve the wealth and variance of these narratives.
Harold Offeh is an artist working in a range of media including performance, video, photography, learning and social arts practice.
Sonia Boyce came to prominence in the early 1980s as a key figure in the burgeoning black British art-scene of that time – becoming one of the youngest artists of her generation to have her work purchased by the Tate Gallery, with paintings that spoke about racial identity and gender in Britain.
Ana Laura López de la Torre is an artist and writer based in Uruguay. Using the overlooked and the underrated as a starting point, her work creates visible and unexpected connections between things, people and places.
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