Nadia Yahalom
Heritage Project Lead

Nadia is an artist, curator and visual anthropologist, whose work is focused on participatory, community-led projects, hidden stories and marginalised perspectives. She is the co-founder of Sarha Collective, an experimental platform for artists from the SWANA region, working across theatre, film, visual arts and music. Nadia studied at Cambridge University and Goldsmiths and is currently a AHRC-funded PhD student at CREAM Westminster, using film, drawing, sound and installations to explore the topic of haunting and the supernatural in Palestine.

Professor Nadia Valman
Heritage Interpreter

Professor Nadia Valman is a scholar of nineteenth and twentieth century urban culture with special interests in religion, gender and migrancy. She has published widely on Victorian-Anglo-Jewish literature, has co-edited three books on the representation of Jews in British and European culture, and is author of The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture. She is currently the Principal Investigator of the AHRC funded project Making andRemaking the Jewish East End.

Roberto Nigro
Heritage Interpreter

Roberto is a historian focusing on the study of masculinities, identities, and nationalism within martial sports in the Georgian period. His research explore migrant histories, tracing a community’s long struggle to gain acceptance in Britain. It also considers pugilism (boxing) not only as a sport, but also a national symbol of strength and identity.

Virginia Orr
Photographer / Co-curator

The thread that runs through Virginia’s life is creativity, whether it’s collaborating with creatives, managing creatives, facilitating creativity, or making work herself.

She works as a business mentor supporting creative led companies and is an ICF accredited life coach working with artists, actors, musicians and other creative practitioners. She co-founded Donut Films in 2019 and has produced several award winning short films. She has curated many exhibitions, most recently as Volunteer Exhibition Curator at St Margaret’s House.

Holly Sonabend
Choreographer / Film Director

Holly is Scottish-Jewish actor, writer and movement coach, who trained at LISPA and Drama Centre London.

Voicebox with Cici Garcia, D’Relle West, Annie Chadwick and Benji Teare

Workshop Facilitators

The Voicebox team enable participants to practically explore the role of masculinity and gender stereotypes in difficult topics such as consent, gender-based violence, misogyny, relationships and mental health - with all genders, for all genders.

Kazuko Hohki
Artist / Heritage Interpreter

Kazuko Hohki is a London based artist, singer, musician, animator, director, performer, storyteller and theatre maker. Originally from Japan, Kazuko moved to London in 1978 and founded the pop performance group Frank Chickens in 1982, which released 5 albums, toured worldwide and still continues to perform with more than 20 members. Since 2016, the group has been organising an annual festival, Ura Matsuri, to celebrate the hybrid cultures of East Asian communities in the UK. For past three decades, Kazuko has been making theatre work, creating several full-length award-winning shows which toured and received international acclaim.

Milou Stella
Artist / Heritage Interpreter (set and costume)

Milou Stella’s artistic practice explores the tension between the individual and the collective, with a specific interest in gendered/queer identities and in exploring folklore and storytelling through painting, digital technology, animation, performance and sound. She was the main visual artist in The Molly’s Masquerade (2020-21) in partnership with St Margaret’s House and Heads Bodies Legs Theatre, a year long queer community and participatory project.

Mo’min Swaitat
Choreographer / Film Director

Mo’min is a London-based Palestinian Bedouin artist whose practice spans music, theatre, film and audio-visual installations. He trained as a theatre performer, writer and director, in Palestine (Freedom Theatre Jenin) and London (LISPA). He is the founder of Majazz Project, the only Palestinian-led record label reissuing music from the Arab archive and the Palestine Sound Archive, a monthly NTS Radio show and archival project. He is the recipient of the Jerwood Arts Live Work Fund (2020) and New Work Fund (2022).