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Freelance Cultural Consultant •Audience Dev. Producer • Arts • Media • Communities | BBC |ITV| CH4 | CH5.|Voiceovers |Project Manager Exec.Facilitator

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hello hello. This year started on a very happy note for us as we became the recipient of Manchester Cultural Portfolio, and Our Manchester Voluntary Community Sector Funding.

The initiative that started as an experimental project now has wings to fly and we cannot be more proud of our wins. They might be small in the sector but for us they are massive.

In the background, we have been slowly working to build our board and we are happy to announce that a brilliant set of people who have been working in the communities and the sector are with us.

Samina Ali, Elmi Ali, and Jessica El-Mal.

We started small, with very little, and a lot of belief in what Longsight could become. Having people of this calibre choose to build that with us tells us we are heading somewhere good.

Welcome to the board. We are so glad you are here.

About the new Board Members:

🌼 Samina Ali - Chair
An award-winning radio presenter and producer with decades of experience across the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV. Samina’s work spans community consultancy and audience development, including shaping national strategy for the UK’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout among minority communities.

🌸 Elmi Ali - Co-Chair

Elmi Ali is a North-West-based creative whose practice spans writing, directing, facilitating, translation, performance, and education. A graduate of Manchester Metropolitan University (Undergraduate in English Literature & Creative Writing; Post-Graduate in Contemporary Literature, Film & Theory), his work interrogates the intersection of language, form, and creative resistance within global postcolonial narratives under late-stage capitalism.

🌻 Jessica El-Mal
A British-Moroccan curator and PhD candidate at Leeds University, whose practice centres on care, ecology and migration. Jessica is co-director of A.MAL Projects, an art and research initiative working between North Africa and Europe, and has exhibited across the UK and Europe including Manchester Museum and MAMA Rotterdam. She runs community arts programmes in nature for people with experience of migration.

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My Boxing Day has definitely been good for my soul 🫶🏻 I did my 22 mile run... shaved a minute off last year's time which means by 2089 I should be running a sub 4hr marathon ✌🏻

And then had a looooovely catch up with @southasiancreative who always inspires and energises me with all the wonderful work she does to make the world a better and kinder place 💕 You can see all the brilliant stuff she works on at @inarrative 💪🏻🙌🏻👏🏻

The Christmas hols are to do whatever you love and can manage, but it's fine to do nothing at all too... The greyhounds certainly haven't done anything and that's absolutely fine 🙊 So however you've spent it, I've hope you've managed to be kind to yourself 🤍

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