9/16ths Cast Member Chia Phoenix: building a society that will catch us when we fall: health is how we all become humane…

Welcome to 9/16ths ensemble member Chia Phoenix: the expression of rebirth, always the possibility of a better version of yourself….this is who I am. Have a think, we are our ancestors wildest dreams….we are their dream. 9/16ths performer Chia Phoenix ‘I was born to be an activist…every school report mentioned me standing up for injustice…the […]

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9/16ths Movement Director/Performer Pauline Mayers: “I define art as a means of being able to see the world in a different way, to explore the world through different doors…

Featured image Pauline Mayers at work Pauline Mayers is a chameleon of a dancer, Rambert trained, experientially working to reclaim history confront the harms of colonialism with the Audience/audience: I remember the power of her work What if I Told You at the Leeds Playhouse where Pauline uses her own reception of the way racialisation, gender, power […]

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9/16ths Julienne Doko: To Liberate Yourself You Must Reconcile Your Body, Heart And Feet: As a Teacher I Work With The Release Of The Back: My Goal Is Not The Perfection of Steps: I’m Happy When Students Feel Happy To Take The Space

Featured Image Julienne Doko prior to the performance of 9/16ths: below: Worth Of My Body (W.O.M.B) At East Street Arts Julienne Doko: Jazz/Hiphop/Alvin Ailey -’to liberate yourself you must reconcile your body, heart and your feet: (as a teacher) my goal is not the perfection of steps: No, I want to see you! I always […]

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Endy McKay: It’s Increasingly Hard to Hold the Beauty Of The World Alongside The Horror: Can Art Break The Cycles?

Featured Image: Endy Mckay below Malcolm X Endy shares a May 17th birthday with him Sharing a birthday with Malcolm X (May 17th) made Endy feel she had to do something with value and meaning: she’s an amazing actor (see her show reel)  Endy McKay actor member of the 9/16ths ensemble cast: Maker, Writer, Teacher, […]

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Director Emily Aboud: Theatre is Always A Live Exchange: Paula Varjack’s 2026 9/16ths Is A Reclamation of Time

Theatre Director Emily Aboud is a theatre director, a film director and writer of mixed heritage, born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, based in London. Trinidad although always under pressure to remain oil and gas focussed is also a research hub into the future of solar wind, green hydrogen and water power, They’ve just […]

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Paula Varjack’s 9/16ths: Understanding The Community Around The Production

The enormous energy, networking, accounting and development work that goes into making a production that travels the country in 2026 should never be underestimated. 9/16ths https://brixtonhouse.co.uk/shows/nine-sixteenths/ Paula Varjack’s ensemblehttps://howlround.com/influence-and-impact-negro-ensemble- company will have completed twenty nine performances when it completes its run at Brixton House Theatre on 30th May 2026. Looking at the cast, creative team […]

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Trinidad March 2026: Land, Sea, People Capacity, Energy, Courage: Future Energetic Economy

Featured image: Postcard from Trinidad Trinidad (and its twin, Tobago) grew out of the southern Caribbean sea seven miles north of Venezuela Famous for turning the order of things upside down with carnival: re reading tradition the present, the future: the University of the West Indies research cluster looking again, reflecting back onthe story of the caribbean bringing to light the history […]

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Traitors at the BBC or BBC Traitors: who knows, who knew…

Featured Image: BBC Comedy Whose Line Is It Anyway 1988 that evolved out of the post Second World War 1950’s CBS US programme What’s My Line… Disgrace! Strictly reputational yet so unrepresentational: as any ordinary person from any ordinary background knows to get a job in the BBC you have to mask, deracinate be an imposter: because […]

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Jan 25 Just Thinking about the ‘future cost’ of privatisations/outsources: Make Britain Well Again: 3

Featured image: Skegness is SO Bracing: Newcastle Poster Company We need to build a culture of trust between people. To do this we need to look closely at the crimes, social and health harms that have been caused under the ideology of ‘the value of privatising things and outsourcing‘ that seem to have done far […]

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Thursday Nov 28th Nov 2024: M&S a great place to work+shop thanks to everyone who worked on this across supply chains!

Above: M&S Veg ( Seasonal Vegetables and Salad) beautifully presented in the refurbished M&S Albert Road West Bridgford 9am 28th November 2024 Hooray for everyone who, through their workplace, supply chain, shopping loyalty are ‘willing’ M&S to improve things across the supply chains: (20 year contract with Wates Construction due for renewal, Harper Adams, collaborative […]

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