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Kisima Festival Kilifi, October 2025.
Just Futures. Joy as Resistance Residency, Science Gallery London.
Hey, Sis. Photo: Zoë Goodman
From January to July 2025, Zoë was the Just Futures Programme Manager for the ‘Joy as Resistance’ Residency at the Science Gallery London.
She supported the inspiring collective Hey, Sis. to use arts-based and embodied methods to explore how sisterhood and creativity can generate liberatory futures – especially for Gen Z womxn and girls with global majority roots in South London.
This Residency was part of an ESRC-funded project of the Visual & Embodied Methodologies Network at King’s College London.
Who cares? Improving the quality of healthcare through theatre.
Photo: Ali Mzee Hamisi
In 2025, Zoë collaborated with the Mombasa-based performing arts company Jukwaa Arts Productions, on a project that asked: how might theatre help us find solutions to enduring challenges in the health sector?
We used participatory theatre performances to explore experiences of care and carelessness in medical settings along the Kenyan coast. Our shows brought together healthcare professionals and ordinary people and created space for audiences to put forward concrete policy proposals.
The mental health of healthcare professionals emerged as a key concern for medics and laypeople alike and has led to the current focus on wellbeing at work for healthcare workers, see Live Projects.
This project was funded by UKRI’s Arts and Humanities Research Council and King’s College London.
University of Leicester, February 2025.
‘Embodying consent: With yourself, with others and during research’. Workshop offered to researchers, PhD students and community engagement officers at the Attenborough Arts Centre.
Thessaloniki, Greece, November 2024.
‘Connecting with yourself to deal with stress’. On the day after the polarizing US elections, Rebellious Care offered a workshop to US-based study abroad students.
Autumn 2024 workshops, King’s College London
This practical and experiential workshop series helped participants build bodily awareness, cultivate community and navigate the challenges of their degrees.
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These sessions made me feel part of King’s. I feel marginalized in my department, there’s very little effort to bring people together. In these sessions I feel supported, I know I’m welcome however I behave.
MASHA, 2024 participant
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Being involved in these workshops has, quite literally, changed my life and I feel able to move forward in ways that I couldn’t before. I now have tools which I have practiced, which are in my muscle memory, to lean on when I am dysregulated or overwhelmed. Having a space that pushed us a little then gave us space to use the tools we were learning was amazing. I think that practical element of a slight push towards a trigger then learning to use the tool was very, very effective.
DEE, 2024 participant
This workshops series was offered to UG and PG students at King’s College London, with facilitation support from Prof Andrea Cornwall and Dr Marianna Bacci Tamburlini.
