Our panel explore how the arts and heritage can go hand in hand, how we can explore our cultural identities and the benefits of integrating the heritage and arts worlds. The panel will be highlighting some of their creative projects and other organisations which incorporate these themes in their work.
Resources
- Kingston Council's Youtube with Culture in Kingston Podcast
- Kingston Heritage website
- About Creative Youth's Young Creative panel
Featuring panellists:
Vincente Canas
Vincente is a Heritage Apprentice with Kingston Heritage Service. Vincente is also part of Kingston Museum Young Person’s Collective, a group of young people in Kingston, who work together on different Heritage projects to do with Kingston. Vincente's interests are History, Geography and Conservation.
Graeme Daniel Baker
Graeme is a member of the Youth Board for Kingston Museum. Graeme is a graduate of University of Kent, with a Bachelor’s Degree in War Studies and a Masters in Modern History. Graeme has organised and participated in a number of volunteer heritage projects around Kingston upon Thames, from Sounds of Kingston through the centuries, to walks around historic areas of Kingston.
Robin Moran
Robin works for Kingston Heritage Service at Kingston Council as the Development and Promotions Officer for Kingston Museum and Kingston History Centre. Her role is constantly evolving but includes responsibilities such as project management, events programming, partnership development, marketing, and income generation. Robin is an artist and creative freelancer alongside her regular position previously working with cultural arts charities such as the Southbank Centre and B-side as well as in a spectrum of industries such as travel, fashion, festivals and more.
Ruth Odewale
Ruth is 16-year-old BFI alumni and one of the members of Creative Youth's Young Creatives panel. Since the age of three, Ruth has been acting and dancing and even won the British Arts Awards for best acting duet. From the age of ten, Ruth had the privilege to work with performers such as Linda Gray, Verne Troyer, Matthew Kelly, Arlene Philips, Wayne Sleep, Jo Brand, Tim vine and the dance group Flawless during four years of pantomime at The New Wimbledon Theatre. Which included; Aladdin (2014), Cinderella (2015), Peter Pan (2016) and Dick Whittington (2017).
Kathryn Woodvine
Kathryn has worked in a variety of creative environments in the design, communication and publishing industries and latterly as an arts commissioner within local government. She is committed to supporting the development of a thriving arts and culture sector working with individuals, communities, funders and policy makers to develop creative opportunities with meaningful outcomes for all ages and abilities.
Molly Freeman
Molly is one of the co-artistic directors of award-winning puppetry and visual theatre company, Smoking Apples. They create innovative shows about complex subject matter and their work often has a research or heritage element to it. Previous examples of this include The Death of King Cholera at Seething Wells in Surbiton and their new show, Kinder, which is about the Czech Kindertransport trains. Molly also has extensive experience as a creative producer/project manager and has worked with Creative Youth to create and deliver a number of heritage projects that bring art and heritage together. This includes Kingston RPM, a music heritage project.
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