Having begun in Collective Encounters’ educational pathway a few years ago, the team has empowered Wendy to progress and upskill to become Collective Encounters’ new Executive Director, where she looks forward to continue to work alongside a fantastic team of creatives and a wonderful board of Trustees.
For Collective Encounters Annette leads on strategy, organisational development and fundraising and has also co-authored research reports for Culture Liverpool, Public Health and Liverpool City Region Theatre Network.
She is a neurodivergent facilitator, writer, director, performer, and activist who has been working in community arts for over 35 years across several continents. She loves working with people and thinks that everyone has a story that need to be told and heard and theatre has the capacity to change. She currently lives in Toxteth with her son and cat, she loves performing at festivals and dancing to ABBA in her kitchen.
Prior to the Pandemic, his work focussed on creative and collective music and performance making, taking inspiration from world-wide cultural movements, and the history, identity and undocumented stories of particular communities and environments. He has worked with Collective Encounters since 2012 on projects relating to mental health (‘Other Ways Of Telling’), homelessness, and with veterans (‘Out Of Service’). He has more than 30 years’ experience as an artist and an activist.
In recent years her work has concentrated on working through arts-based practice, supporting individuals and groups to explore issues and enrich their lives by developing life skills and insight through creative engagement. Michelle’s role within Collective Encounters is an Associate Lead Artist.
She is now back at Collective Encounters and is excited to be running all things digital marketing for the organisation.
In the future, I want to travel around different cultures and people to learn and expand my knowledge of the world. My career goal is to be able to have a successful job in a field I enjoy.
Other interests include football, graphic design, history, modern media, animation and games design.
We also employ a wide range of associate artists, technicians and project staff on a project-by-project basis.
Collective Encounters is supported by a fabulous team of trustees who give up their free time to help us achieve our mission and support the delivery team.
Our Trustees are:
- Jamie Beddard (Chair)
- Kelly Bewers
- Terri Heldt
- June Hudson
- Dr. Madeleine Irwin
- Dr. Valeria Guarneros-Meza
- Fabio Negro
- Anya Winful
All can be contacted through admin@collective-encounters.org.uk