Our work is about foregrounding voices that are less typically heard.
Its not about us - we just carve out the air space and provide the bellows.
Natasha Freedman
Creative Director
Natasha has over twenty-five years of experience developing programmes that nourish critical and creative thinking, particularly around health, social justice and the environment. She has built a reputation for nurturing collaborations across disciplines and sectors to challenge dominant narratives and ways of knowing, and open up space to reimagine.
She established and directed the programme of performing arts in Chelsea & Westminster Hospital and the arts charity Streetwise Opera in the 1990s, co-led the culture/climate organisation Cape Farewell and arts/environment charity Honeyscribe, and reimagined and directed the learning programmes for Complicite theatre company and English National Opera.
She has collaborated with academics, actors, animators, architects, artists, athletes, composers, cooks, dancers, designers, ecologists, foragers, jugglers, makers, mathematicians, medics, musicians, scientists and writers, developing projects that use creative practice to explore our humanity and our place in wider ecosystems.
She was until recently, Chair of the Board of Trustees of Improbable Theatre and on the Board of Fevered Sleep.
She is Producer for AKO Storytelling Institute at University of the Arts London, Creative Producer of Cavendish Arts Science at the University of Cambridge, and a practicing artist and facilitator.
Rhuti Carr
Creative Producer
Rhuti is a creative producer with extensive experience of bringing together marginalized communities and professional artists to create innovative work and provide a platform for under-represented voices to be heard.
Throughout her career she has produced work with primary, secondary and SEND schools, early years and families, community groups and teachers as well as managing training programmes for professional musicians and educators.
She is currently Head of Producing and Participation at Streetwise Opera, overseeing the national programme of activity with people who have lived experience of homelessness and previously led the learning programme at the London Sinfonietta, devising and developing the award-winning Composition Challenges for schools and commissioning multiple new works. A strong advocate for the importance of increasing diversity and inclusivity within the arts, Rhuti has also worked with the National Theatre (Speak Up), ENO Baylis and Music Masters as well as being a practising musician and founder of multi-art form collective Painting Music.
