Art Form: Music

Profiles

Organisation

Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra

Southfields

Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra is one of the UK's leading youth orchestras. Founded in 1944 and now based in Southfields, our 170 members rehearse on Sunday afternoons during term time and put on 3 concerts a…

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Liza Bec

Roehampton

Liza is an award winning, innovative contemporary performer, composer, producer, lyricist and multimedia narrative author. After being awarded the cross disciplinary boundary breaking Fusion Fund by Help Musicians UK to create a narrative audiovisual work,…

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Jigsaw Performing Arts Balham

Balham

Jigsaw Performing Arts Balham has been running in the heart of the community on a Saturday morning for 21 years. Providing dance, drama and singing classes for young people aged 3-18, we aim to offer…

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Charlie Wiseman

Battersea

In community under lock down I have found more locals than I ever expected with enormous talents and wiser than I dreamed of - from South Iran to Morocco and I am dreaming that real…

Project

Charlie Ryder (Ubuntu into Grief)

Tooting

Charlie Ryder is a Puppeteer, Filmmaker, Creative Producer and Collaborator. Charlie first creative experience was playing Scrooge at Broadwater school in 1981 and then M Darling in 1987 as part of Ernest Bevins production of…

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Oily Cart

Tooting

Based in Tooting, Oily Cart reimagines theatre to include all young people. We create interactive, sensory shows that tour across the UK and internationally. Performances use sounds, smells, touch, lights, music and movement, and can…

Group

NEBLINA

Battersea

Neblina.org is a voluntary organisation founded by disabled artists whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and appreciation of visual and performing arts, through workshops, education, exhibitions and debate. We work in Battersea, yet…

Organisation

Wells Projects

Battersea

Wells Projects started as a DIY exhibition space. Making use of the unusual surroundings, a group of artists and live-in guardians held loose group shows and performances working mainly with local graduates. During 2018 and…

Group

GAFA arts Collective

Battersea

Art breathed in London, birthed of Samoa.

Innovative opera, dance, music theatre, plays and film influenced by Samoa and the wider pacific. GAFA exists to speak, sing, see, sway, and strut as a movement for…

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SANI MULIAUMASEALI’I

Battersea

Sani Muliaumaseali'i is a Battersea-based Layered Art Exponent. He has appeared in Opera and most forms of music theatre in many parts of the world. He studied singing at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Australia,…

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Black Heroes Foundation

Battersea

Black Heroes Foundation brings joy, using the arts to celebrate and tell the stories of our Heroes, educating, celebrating and empowering our audiences. Black Lives Matter.

Our aim is to eradicate ignorance of Black Heritage…

Group

Guyana SPEAKS

Tooting

Established in January 2017 as an initiative to bring together the Guyanese diaspora, Guyana SPEAKS runs a programme of events at the Classic in Tooting Bec (nearly always) on the last Sunday of each month.

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Steven Chandler

Battersea

Steven Chandler is an award-winning fine art photographer living in Battersea. His work explores the fantastic in the everyday, using photography as a trigger to probe wider issues. He is also a musician/composer of avant…

Project

Estate Art Roehampton

Roehampton

Estate Art was set up as a voluntary project to help Roehampton residents express themselves through art and have an outlet from the mentally exhausting repercussions that the coronavirus pandemic is having on individuals' mental…

Organisation

Bounce Theatre

Earlsfield

Bounce makes original, imaginative, and brave work.

Bounce makes space for children and young people to be heard and to hear themselves. Together, they find new ways to see the world and everyone's potential within…

Organisation

ArtLacuna

Battersea

ArtLacuna is an artist-led space established in early 2013 by Chris Cawkwell, Amelia Critchlow, Jane Harris and Alex March. Located in an old coroner's office near Clapham Junction, we accommodate artist studios, a residency and…

Artist / Individual

Miriam Catherine Gonzalez

Tooting

Miriam González is self-taught artist who uses her art primarily as therapy for her epilepsy and anxiety disorder, although she has been commissioned for a number of pieces by private individuals.

She was born and…

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Victoria Nathanson

Putney

Victoria Nathanson is a Putney-based painter and illustrator of the natural world, often depicting animals and significant objects often set within a landscape. She also paints clock faces. She works in oil, acrylic, watercolour, pen…

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Karan Kalha

Wandsworth Town

Karan Kalha finds creative expression through drawing, illustration, painting and music. He does not have a medium of choice and often uses mixed media in his work.

Karan would like his work to serve as…

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Christopher Michael ‘Mike’ Hawthorne

Putney

Mike Hawthorne is a 66-year-old artist, draughtsman, painter, printmaker, journalist and writer.

After a childhood spent in West Africa, he graduated in English Literature at Kent University in 1975, where he published a book of…