Transmission 22.11.23
Bo Olawoye is a Nottingham-based independent creative producer and consultant who is dedicated to making innovative arts projects in collaboration with diverse communities, young people (13+), marginalised groups, artists and public partners. Bo’s work explores race, identity, place and social justice issues. Commissioners have included Beam Arts for people and places (North), INIVA (London), Edinburgh Art Festival, Lakeside Arts (Nottingham), Gods House Tower (Southampton), idle women (Lancashire), Mark Devereux Projects (Manchester). She has been awarded a 2023 Churchill Fellowship to research how diverse community led initiatives are using the arts to transform their neighbourhoods in Chicago (USA) and internationally (2024).
www.bosedaolawoye.com/
After Bo is introduced the theme of What now and what next is also introduced. Bo was born and raised in Essex London.
Raised by a foster family experienced racism, bullying, unemployment and imposter syndrome. Bo works with diverse people on community set programs.
Working with under-represented groups etc.
Bo then goes on about her past projects she has been involved in.
Bo worked with women’s groups and domestic violence survivor groups and created prompt cards and collages. Soap sculptures also played a part.
“Power” zine project
Broxtowe Womens Project.
4/8
National Justice Museum
March – November 2021
Co-producing a printed zine with Browtowe Women’s Project and Heya Nottingham (Arab women), through a series of interactive conversations. The printed zine captures the women’s creative responses to artwork made by people in the criminal justice system as featured in the “Power” exhibition. A collaboration with artist and curator Chiara Dellerba. Read a copy here.
Artwork from the school exhibition. Photo Jules Lister
7/10
Iniva, London.
2022 – 23
Producing You Can’t Ignore Us, a youth-led project created by young people from Castleford for CoLab Wakefield. We explored how museums and galleries don’t always represent their lives, passions and interests.
Students (aged 13 & 14) from Castleford Academy collaborated with Leeds based spoken word artist/writer Simone Yasmin and art therapist Will Jones to create an exhibition and zine. The group used collage, song lyrics, drawing, BSL sign language and more to express how they feel about the issues that matter to them. View the zine here
Sophie Ryder exhibition
Tour of Lakeside Arts & Djanogly Gallery.
9/11
A slap in the face
2022 – 23
Initiating and producing a creative consultation project & internal report about why Lakeside Arts does not engage and involve people of colour across Nottingham? Members of Inspire Urself Carnival Troupe (aged 20+) worked with artist Honey Williams to create their own zine to express their impressions, feedback and ideas for how the organisation should connect and collaborate with diverse communities.
I enjoyed this lecture and I appreciate community led projects that favour diversity and inclusion.
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