Artists

Piers Haslam

Piers Haslam is an 18-year old London based guitarist/singer who has been attending folk festivals since he was small. His songs reflect a love of traditional folk as well as modern popular music.

Jay Griffiths

Jay Griffiths is an award-winning author of more than six critically acclaimed books.

Raju Rage

Raju Rage is proactive about using art, education and activism to forge creative survival.

Lisa Mattocks

Lisa has been documenting, recording, facilitating and making visual art, digital art and performance for just over a decade.

Michael Symmons Roberts

Michael Symmons Roberts' poetry has won the Forward Prize, the Costa Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award, and been shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize and the T.S.

Jeannette Ehlers

Jeannette Ehlers is a Copenhagen-based artist of Danish and Trinidadian descent whose practice takes shape experimentally across photography, video, installation, sculpture and performance.

Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen

The Trad Academy Sea Shanty Choir is a non-audition community choir based in London, celebrating traditional maritime work songs as well as contemporary songs of the sea.

Amina Atiq

Amina Atiq is a Yemeni- Scouse writer, a performance artist, facilitator and activist.

Matthew Worley

Matthew Worley is a Professor of Modern History based at the University of Reading. He has written widely on British politics and, more recently, British youth cultures in the 1970's and 1980's.

Laura Daly

Laura Daly is a multi-award-winning artist who creates site-specific and site-related artworks that range significantly in scale.

Simon Scott

Simon Scott is a sound ecologist and multi-instrumentalist from Cambridge, England. His albums 'Insomni' (Ash International) and 'Below Sea Level' (12k/TouchLine) are out now (see above).

Jem Finer

Jem Finer is a UK-based artist, musician and composer.

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