Maggie Rose

I am a children’s playwright, poet and community creative writing facilitator. With fifteen years experience working in the sector, I have had multiple plays for primary school age children to perform published and have had works for children and families commissioned from theatres and arts organisations. My playwrighting focus is on inclusive history that is curriculum-adjacent or locally relevant and I’m particularly passionate about amplifying the stories of marginalised women and girls from the past. I work with schools and in the community delivering a range of bespoke workshops to young people, families and to those living with dementia and their carers.

Helena Yasmin is a multidisciplinary artist, singer, actor, and founder of Healing for Artists. She is the creator of Hot Girls Have Trauma, a genre-blending musical exploring healing, identity, and survival through pop-R&B, movement, and storytelling. Her work spans music, visual art, performance, and essays, building emotionally rich worlds rooted in softness, transformation, and contemporary culture. Based in BCP and open to collaborations, particularly interested in exchanges with curators, galleries, spaces, festivals across visual arts, music, theatre and film.

Katt is an artist-researcher-practitioner creating strange, playful work shaped by mischief, memory and nature, where reality and fiction blur through mythology and self-reflection. She is undertaking an AHRC-funded CDP PhD at the University of Portsmouth with Portsmouth Natural History Museum, exploring how regional museums can reimagine interactions with natural history collections through participatory creative methods and research-through-design, using emerging technologies within an attunement-led approach. Influenced by poetry, folklore and speculative practice, she brings stories to life through found, stolen and fabricated artefacts, prototypes and sensory encounters, and is drawn to the unreliable narrator as a form of mischief.