3rd International Arts and Homelessness Summit

The programme for our 3rd International Arts and Homelessness Summit has been co-created by our community around the world. We are excited to be part of the One Roof Festival so those attending the Summit in person may also attend the Festival (where the programme is free). More details on the One Roof Festival will be published here. Lunch and refreshments will also be provided. For those attending online, the programme involves the sessions below only. Please note, some sessions will also be translated online (to be announced). Speakers will also be announced soon.

10-11am What Makes a Good Quality Arts and Homelessness project? Facilitated workshop

12-1pm Street Papers and Arts and Creativity – Mike Findlay (International Network of Street Papers – Chair), Maria Portilla (Mi Valedor, Mexico), Andre Rostant, (Big Issue, UK), Sara Winter, (Surprise, Switzerland), Juliana Valentim, Traços, Brazil

2-3pm Arts and Homelessness Projects in the Global Majority including a Poetic Manifesto on Silence – Gbenga Yusuf, (Seeing Through the Arts, Nigeria), Daniela Camozzi, (No Tan Distintes, Argentina), Abdelfattah Abusrour, (Alrowwad, Palestine), Lisa Ogun’ (Arts & Homelessness Int Associate Alumni, writer and producer – Chair)

3-4pm Additional in person workshop on co-creating guidelines for photographic representation in arts and homelessness

4-5pm Photographic Representation in Arts and Homelessness – Rey Trombetta (Streetwise Opera, UK), Ollie Bream, (People of the Streets, UK), Owen Clayton, (University of Lincoln, UK), Anthony Luvera, photographer and writer (UK), Bengy Speer, (Arts & Homelessness International Associate Alumni, UK), Mark Horvath, (Invisible People, USA), Samra Said (Arts & Homelessness International)

5-6pm Networking Hour

10-11am Financial Inclusion in Arts and Homelessness including Unconditional Income – John Organ, (Our Agency, UK – Chair), Matt Kidd, (Our Agency, UK), Cathy Stancer, (Lankelly Chase, UK), Surfing Sofas, (poet and Arts & Homelessness International Associate Alumni), David Tovey (Arts & Homelessness International, UK)

12-1pm Trauma and Arts and Homelessness – Jess Turtle, Museum of Homelessness, Nell Hardy, Response Ability Theatre and Arts & Homelessness International Associate Alumni, UK), Nailah Muhammad, Kreatives Talk and Arts & Homelessness International Associate Alumni, UK), Christina Cooper (Northumbria University)

2-3pm The ‘Homelessness Friendly’ Cultural Space – Sarah Hiscock, (Factory International, UK), Claire Rivers, (Old Diorama Arts Centre, UK), Evelyn Lauro, Museu da Língua Portuguesa, Brazil), Matt Turtle, Museum of Homelessness, Simon Leroux, (Manchester Street Poem, UK), Katie Langford(Arts & Homelessness International – Chair)

3-4pm Additional performance by Lisa ‘Ogun – ‘Immigrants to Venice’- From overseas to On the Seas – stories in a Verbatim theatre performance

4-5pm Artist Training and Support for Artists – Kate Richards Geller (Urban Voices Project, USA), Jade Fearnley (Making Things Up, UK), Farah Wardani (Laban, Lebanon), Jodie Cole (Arts & Homelessness International Associate, UK – Chair)

5-6pm Networking Hour

10-11am Women and Arts and Homelessness – Belinda Mason (Museum of Understanding Through Tolerance and Inclusion, Australia), Nell Hardy, Response Ability Theatre and Arts & Homelessness International Associate Alumni, UK), Sarah Hough, (Arts & Homelessness International Associate Alumni, UK), Alex Smith, (Homeless Link, UK), Katie Langford (Arts & Homelessness International – Chair)

12-1pm Homelessness and Arts and the Environment – Yvette Waweru, architect, researcher, Adetunwase Adenle, (Slum Art, Nigeria), Diamantina Arcoiris, Amor Real, Colombia, Alex Bax(Pathway, UK), Katie Langford (Arts & Homelessness International – Chair)

2-3pm Funding for Arts and Homelessness – Innovative Approaches – Sulu LeoNimm, (Theatre of the Oppressed NYC, USA), Mark Horvath, (Invisible People, USA), Samra Said (Arts & Homelessness International – Chair)

4-5pm Arts and Homelessness and Academic Research – Christina Cooper, (Northumbria University, UK), Diana Margot Rosenthal, (New York University, USA), Natasha Boardman-Steer, (Open University, UK), Milena Sapey (Buenos Aires University, Argentina), Samra Said (Arts & Homelessness International – Chair)

5-6pm Networking Hour

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Old Diorama Arts Centre, 201 Drummond Street, London, United Kingdom