My theatre work revolves around exploring mixed ethnicities, and what these can perform and do. My partner runs his own small business as a builder and we are parents to a fourteen year-old boy at secondary school. I previously worked in schools, community arts, social services and cultural activism. This includes being a youth theatre director with Asian women and disadvantaged young people in Br
istol, Yeovil, Plymouth, Belgium and Calcutta, and a support worker in both women’s' refuges and children's homes. Last June, I organised the nine minute kneel for George Floyd in Falmouth, ‘We Can’t Breathe’ with linked kneels in Camborne, St Just, Newlyn, Penzance and Mousehole, with 800 people safely attending and supported by Falmouth police. There is an appetite for change in Cornwall, against racism and I am working on it now, at the University and the local school, linking this regionally and nationally with other BAME officers and MP’s. I will link my local, regional and national working, to connect with others and create maximum pressure to make concrete changes happen. One other current example I am working on is a touring arts project which will be used for diversity
training in schools, universities, the NHS and police in Cornwall and further afield. Cornwall is full of independent thinkers and we can and must lead the change that is occurring, across the region and nation, to transform the UK into a dynamic society which works for all people.
