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Camille Dawson is a critically acclaimed comedy writer, performer and director. She is founder and Artistic Director of Frisky Arts. Camille has a multi art, anarchic and comedic style.  The War Inside is inspired by her experience of struggling with autoimmune disease. The show shines a light on invisible illness, and takes the audience on a wild ride, inside the body.  Alongside the show, The Tapestry of Imperfections is a collaboration with the public.  This community artwork is a celebration of the growth and strength we develop by going through the imperfect moments of life.
https://www.camilledawson.com/
https://www.friskyarts.com/
Cristina Ottonello is a large-scale installation artist with a developed skillset in participatory projects with communities of interest and young people. She specialises in outdoor art and in the creation of large-scale temporary installations with a strong visual impact and wide-reaching public involvement. Her work is inspired by and replicating objects found in nature and science – fun, playful, animated and atmospheric works, often exhibited as part of outdoor festivals and light trails within heritage, cultural and garden sites and exhibited in many iconic sites throughout the UK and in Italy.  Cristina was the designer for The War Inside, and the co facilitator of The Tapestry of Imperfections, the participatory work that runs alongside the show.
http://www.cristinaottonello.art 
Insta: @cristina.otto.art






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Maria Amidu is a visual artist and PhD Candidate in the School of Arts & Humanities at the Royal College of Art. Her artistic concerns are influenced by the complexities of the relational – between people and between people and place. Through writing as artistic practice she tries to substantiate what might be going on in collective situations, paying specific attention to what is hidden, obscured or unspoken. She privileges fault lines and weak spots as essential components in her artworks – fragility, fracture, instability, dissolve, impermanence, residue, mess, breaks, risk. 
Maria Amidu
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Lee is the founder of Positive Carrickfergus and co-founder of Repair Cafe Belfast and Carrick Greengrocers. She has lived in Carrickfergus for most of her life apart from a few years in England and Italy like so many of her generation brought up in Northern Ireland. Lee has worked in the voluntary and community sector for around 25 years mostly in grant making and decided about 6 years ago to try to work out how to make more of a useful contribution to her town and NI. She is terrible at switching off but finds that knitting socks helps. 
https://positivecarrickfergus.org/ 
https://www.instagram.com/repaircafebelfast/?hl=en
https://carrickgreengrocers.org/
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Amahra Spence lives in the UK and works globally. Her practice is one of poetic pragmatism, exploring transformation and iterating change oriented towards liberation. In particular, Amahra engages this through spatial reclamation and social justice, design, performance and storytelling. 
In all aspects of her work, Amahra contends with Black Imagination as a framework and the starting point for change. 
As Founding Director of MAIA (2013) and Organiser of The Black Land & Spatial Justice Project (2020), Amahra brings a critical analysis of systemic injustice and power, committing to infrastructure building, resource redistribution and platforming radical imagination.
Outside of self-initiated projects, Amahra works to reimagine the governance, models, spaces, systems and practices of organisations across the cultural, public, Built Environment and philanthropic sectors. In this context, she has worked with a wide range of organisations, including Birmingham Museums Trust, muf architecture/art, Clore Leadership, Ten Years Time, Iniva, The National Lottery Community Fund, East Street Arts, Arts Council England and many more.
https://www.maiagroup.co/
https://www.amahraspence.com/



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Madeline Tanoto is a designer-maker & teacher with a 20 year career in fashion & teaching across all things textiles. She is a qualified Mental Health First Aider & combines these skills with her textiles experience to explore the craft of mending within a supportive & inclusive environment. She is the founding Director of Mads do & Mend CIC whose aim is to teach people to mend what they own, creating connections with each other, be creative, and consider the global impact mending can have on the world and the communities who live in it.
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Sally Jaquet is an Edinburgh-based community musician who believes music is for everyone - a human right that helps us connect, care and cherish each other and ourselves. Her projects include vocal and songwriting teaching; choir leading; music & wellbeing workshops for school groups, businesses; and music research and arts projects evaluation. As well as group music facilitation, Sally is a performing musician within a range of styles - Jazz, Blues, Scottish and Appalachian folk, Electronic funk, and Indie Soul. She currently works for Love Music, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Royal Conservatoire of Music, Hear Me Out as well as a range of individual projects.
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