Festivals and Conferences:
August 2018
- Performing Welsh Identity
RSG Annual conference, Cardiff University
(Speaker) Presentation title: Welsh Voices
August 2018
- Racialised Welsh Identity
RSG Annual conference, Cardiff University
(Key Note Speaker)
August 2018
- National Eisteddfod Opening
In collaboration with Butetown Carnival
(Contributor)
May 2017
- Power, Performance and Play: An International Conference on Caribbean Carnival Cultures
Leeds Beckett University
(Speaker) Paper title: Mas’: A Journey towards a definition
March 2017
- Bodies and Borders Free public lectures
School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University
(Speaker) Paper title: Performing Trinidad in Butetown: Carnival, Community and Belonging
September 2016
- Free public lectures in Contemporary Art
Contemporary Art Society for Wales at Cardiff University
(Speaker) Paper title: The Art of Carnival: Trinidad and the Caribbean
August 2016
- Persistent Racial Problems: Political, Cultural and Religious Responses, University of the West Indies, Trinidad
(Co-presenter) Presentation title: Invocations of Mas’ in exile: a performative presentation.
June 2016
- Caribbean and Diasporic Dialogues at the University, Goldsmiths University of London
(Speaker) Paper title: Play Yuhself: Carnival, ritual and diasporic bodies.
June 2016
- Representation, The Artist and Community: Collective Conversations, Old Library Cardiff
(Coordinator as part of Fellowship (Re)presenting ‘Butetown’)
April 2016
- FUSE – Knowledge Exchange in Public Health Conference, Newastle-Gateshead
(Co-speaker) Paper title: The creative turn in evidence for public health: community and arts based methodologies.
October 2015
- Blackness in Britain 2015 conference, Birmingham City University, UK
(Speaker) Paper title: Butetown through the looking glass: A critical reflection of engagement pathways and methodological approaches and preoccupations of photographers depicting Butetown
September 2015
- RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, University of Exeter
(Co-speaker) Paper title: Being more than Livable: At the limits of representation?
May 2014
- Cultural Politics of Memory PG Conference, Cardiff University, Wales
(Speaker) Paper title: Re-call and Response
October 2013
- Rex Nettleford Arts Conference Edna Manley College, Jamaica
(Speaker) Paper title: Transformation- Mas’ Bodies
June 2013
- AHRC Collaborative Skills Development Project, BHAC Wales
Travellers’ Tales: Migration and Settlement Stories from Butetown and Beyond. (Project researcher and workshop leader)
October 2011
- Re-Constructing Multiculturalism Reading Group Cardiff University, Wales
Photo exhibition and lunchtime talks (researcher/organizer)
July 2011
- Transformation PG conference Cardiff University, Wales
(Speaker) Paper title: Transformation- Mas’ Bodies
May 2008
- Displacement Postgraduate Symposium University of Glasgow, Scotland
(Speaker) Paper title: Making (ah) Mas’
March 2008
- Montage video dance festival in partnership with FNB Dance Umbrella 2008
Johannesburg, South Africa
(Video artist)
2nd Feb-13th March 2008
- Xtend Dance Festival South Hill Park Arts Centre, Atrium Bar. Bracknell UK
(Video artist)
