World Café

Daniel Edmund is a speaker, entrepreneur and TEDxBristol alumnus. Branded “One of the most inspiring speakers” by TEDx Bristol, he has since spoken at Kensington Palace and joined the L’Oreal and Prince’s Trust #AllWorthIt campaign, alongside Dame Helen Mirren. He currently co-runs a men’s wellbeing and personal development organisation called Milk for Tea (milkfortea.com), where he works to help men find their truest identity, recognise their value and live out their purpose.

Euella Jackson is a young presenter and creative producer working in Bristol. Euella is an alumnus of Rife Magazine, an online magazine and development programme for young content creators, and now works with Rising Arts Agency – a social enterprise supporting young creatives 16-25 to fulfil their ambitions. She is most known for her work alongside Bristol Mayor, Marvin Rees, on the Bristol bid for the Channel 4 relocation. She is on the board of Encounters Short Film Festival and uses her platform to advocate for young people taking up positions in strategic decision-making in the creative industries and beyond.

Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley is a graduate from UWE where she studied International Relations and Journalism, with a focus on Mexico’s Zapatista movement and digital activism as a tool against neo-liberalism. She is now a broadcast journalist and presenter for the BBC and community radio stations Ujima Radio and 1020 Radio. As a Green and Black Ambassador for Bristol, Jasmine has worked on various research projects examining diversity in the environmental sector. Through her work on the radio and on panel discussions, she provokes dialogue around issues on diversity within the environmental movement.

Lois Keidan is the co-founder and Director of the Live Art Development Agency (LADA), London. Launched in 1999, LADA is a Centre for Live Art: a knowledge and research centre, a production centre for programmes and publications, and am online centre for digital representation and resources.  From 1992 to 1997 she was Director of Live Arts at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.  Prior to that she was responsible for national policy and provision for Performance Art and interdisciplinary practices at the Arts Council of Great Britain; performance producer for the National Review of Live Art/Midland Group, Nottingham; and programme co-ordinator at Theatre Workshop, Edinburgh.

Viki Browne is an independent performance artist, activist, facilitator and director. She is Artistic Director of Many Minds, a Bristol-based mental health and performance charity, founded in 2017 with Olivia Ware. Many Minds facilitates creative spaces and makes performances that put people with mental ill-health in the driver’s seat as a way to trigger generosity and equality.

Vivian Chinasa Ezugha is an interdisciplinary artist working in Live Art, film and drawing. Born in Nigeria, Enugu state in 1991, she makes work that connects her to her cultural heritage and to questions about her identity as a black woman living in England. Having graduated from Aberystwyth University, School of Art in 2014, she currently lives and works in Norwich. Vivian’s work has been shown in New York and Berlin, and she has performed in venues across the UK. She is the founder of LIVE Art in Wymondham, a new platform for artists working in Live Art.