Deliberately informal, The Social includes presentations by photography/arts professionals, offering tips on chosen themes and encourages participants to join the conversation and share their own insights.
We'll hear a short talk by each invited speaker and leave time to discuss the theme as a group. The theme for this session is 'applying for grants' with Gabriela Cala-Lesina, Laila Majid and Louis Newby.
Speakers' Biogs
Gabriela Cala-Lesina (pronouns she/her) is a Relationship Manager in the London Visual Arts team at Arts Council England. This year she is hosting a radio show Gushing with Gabby on Montez Press Radio where she brings in and shows love to LGBTQIA+ artists, drag kings & things, curators, DJs, archivists, poets and party starters that have given her life and contributed to our queer evolution, education and enjoyment. Gabriela was previously at Whitechapel Gallery, Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, Haroon Mirza’s Studio and East London Fawcett. She has been on the Advisory Board of Mimosa House Gallery and a Trustee of A New Direction, and is member of a coven, Sisters of the Sanitary Cloth. She has commissioned research on the diversity of artists in London studio spaces as well as the impact of Covid on London’s queer nightlife.
Laila Majid and Louis Blue Newby are London based artists. Majid recently received an MSt in Film Aesthetics at the University of Oxford and also an MA at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2021. Newby received his MA from Slade school of Fine Art in 2022. Recent solo shows in Majid and Newby’s collaborative practice include SKINFLICKS (2022) at XXijra Hii, London; not yet (2022), San Mei Gallery, London and healthy pink (2020), springseason, London. Their work has also been featured in group exhibitions including City Entwined (2022), Paradise Row, London; I knock on Your Skin (2022), Set Woolwich, London; Sour Persimmons Chasm (2019) and Ex Baldessarre, curated by Andy Holden. They were awarded The CIRCA x Dazed Class of 2022. In 2021 they received the Omni Colour Artists Award (2021) and in 2020 were awarded funding for an ongoing video and print project by the Elephant Trust.
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