Sasha Biloshisky

I’m an experienced Events Coordinator and Music Programmer based in Hampshire, with a degree in Music Promotion. Through my career at Hampshire Cultural Trust, I’ve led on music and beer festivals, community events like the Give it a Go Festival, and supported outdoor theatre and partnership work around the county. I’ve run The Arc’s popular monthly music night, Acoustic Café, for over 3 years, welcoming more than 100 musicians and launched a new music programme at Gosport Museum. Additionally, I program the live music and stage manage Rag City, a grassroots music festival in the New Forest. I am well-networked across Hampshire and I’m keen to connect with creatives and new cultural projects. I’m open to freelance opportunities, Let’s Chat!

I am a multi-disciplinary artist, and freelance illustrator and designer specialising in arts education, book arts, stop-frame animation, model making, and graphic design. I am a part-time lecturer on the BA Illustration course at the University of Portsmouth in the School of Architecture, Art and Design. I run my small-press publishing platform, Micro Library Books, exhibiting at illustration fairs in the UK and internationally, and since 2001 I have co-run an arts education partnership, Borbonesa, founded with fellow artists. The arts education projects I work on often focus on wellbeing and community, such as Stories in Transit, which aims to establish the right of displaced individuals to cultural expression.

I am an audio-artist that uses music hardware (no laptop) to create music which I adapt live- effectively remixing my own music in real time. I tend towards the techno genre but relish the challenge of creating site-specific music such as I did as part of the Q121 project- playing music live in the historic wind tunnel in Farnborough to a paying audience. I also like to create unique sounding instruments or sound sources using contact microphones or by “circuit-bending” older electronic toys. By creating unique instruments this way- old, unwanted toys can be sustainably given new leases of life and become both sonically and artistically pleasing or interesting. I like to collaborate with other artists.