Artists

Sinead Emery

Sinead Emery

Lead Artist (Right Here festival)

Sinead is an Applied Theatre Practitioner, with over 15 years’ experience of designing, delivering and managing arts and theatre focused initiatives, within educational, custodial and community settings. Find out more here 

She worked with Creative Crawley on the Right Here Festival in 20/21.

Woodzy

Woodzy

Poet & Rapper

Award winning 26 year old Flo Poet, as seen on Sky Arts TV show “Life And Rhymes”.

Former Brit school student and Winner of UK unsigned spoken Word category 2019.

From being on BBC1xtra and channel aka to moving more into the spoken word scene and reaching a million views on his 90s baby poem, Woodzy is looking to captivate audiences with his wordplay and relatable poems. Woodzy featured all over the L.A scene in February 2020 trying to help bridge the gap between the U.K and the U.S scene.

Woodzy on Spotify

Woodzy on YouTube

Woodzy on Instagram

Woodzy first worked with us on the Right Here festival in 20/21 and since then he has run workshops and performed as part of the Creative Crawley programme on a regular basis including being part of Crawley Creatives.

 

Rachel Cowell

Rachel Cowell

Visual artist

Graduating from Middlesex University with BA in Three- Dimensional Design, Rachel’s work has evolved between 3D and 2D. Her current work is expressed in the form of paintings, drawings and print which take inspiration from colour, the human form, landscape and the natural world.

Find out more here.

Rachel worked on the Right Here Festival in 20/21.

Neel Ravat

Neel Ravat

DJ

Neel is the founder of Tons of Sound and has proudly worked with numerous community organizations since 2010, providing a variety of tailored DJ workshops both locally and nationally.

Tons of Sound not only gives students a great insight into the music industry, but allows each person to feel what it’s like behind the decks and being in control of the music/environment by giving them a real understanding into what it takes to be a successful DJ.

Find out more here.

Tons of Sound first worked with Creative Crawley as part of the Right Here festival in 20/21 and has worked with us regularly since delivering workshops and DJing at events.

Saaj Raja

Saaj Raja

Actor and Dancer

Saaj Raja is a professional actor, writer and dancer with international experience. He has performed in the Britain’s Got Talent Semi-Finals and is the founder of the popular “Bollywood on Hollywood” dance class series.

Find out more about Saaj HERE

Saaj first worked with us as part of the Right Here Festival in 20/21 and has worked with Creative Crawley regularly since offering workshops and contributing to Crawley Creatives. 

Sebastian Livingstone

Sebastian Livingstone

Drag Artist

Seb worked with us on the Right Here festival.

Seb is a Drag Artist working in Crawley who recently set up a new Drag Night at Bar 7 in town.

Watch Seb’s interview as part of the Right Here festival here.

Anna Jefferson

Anna Jefferson

Writer

Anna worked with us on the Right Here festival.

Anna Jefferson is a fiction writer and playwright. Anna has written for stage and screen since 2005. Her most recent novel Winging It has just been published by Orion Books.

Find out more here.

Sarah Maple

Sarah Maple

Visual Artist

Sarah Maple is an award winning visual artist known for her bold, brave, mischievous and occasionally controversial artworks that challenge notions of identity, religion and the status quo. Much of Maple’s inspiration originates from her mixed religious and cultural upbringing.

Find out more here.

Sarah first worked with us on the Right Here festival in 20/21 and since then has been part of setting up the Crawley Creatives.

Crawley Film Institute

Crawley Film Institute

Film and Photography

Callum Johnston, filmmaker set up the Crawley Film Institute to support young photographers and film makers in Crawley.  We worked with Callum and editor Mark Kipling and photographer Jacob Punter on the Right Here festival in 20/21 and since then has taken photographs and shot films of Creative Crawley’s other work.

Annie Bowden

Annie Bowden

Annie is co-founder of The Posh Club which was invented in Crawley for her Mum who was in her 80s and feeling a bit lonely. Find out more here.

Watch her interview as part of the Right Here festival here.

Grace Saif

Grace Saif

Actor

We worked with Grace on the Right Here festival. You can see her interview with Laura Beecham here.

Grace is a Crawley born actor and most recently starred in the Netflix series ‘13 Reasons Why’.

Iffat Rahman

Iffat Rahman

Poet

Iffat Rahman is a local poet and we worked with her as part of the Right Here festival in 20/21 and then as part of Aura’s Odyssey in 2022. You can watch her poem at our launch event here (around 16:30 in) and at the final here (around 41:05 in).

Quiet Boy

Quiet Boy

Sound artist

We worked with Quiet Boy on the Right Here Festival

Gaz Tomlinson also known by artist name ‘Quiet Boy’, is an alternative theatre composer, songwriter, sound designer, theatre maker, singer and performer who resides in Margate.

You can find out more about him HERE.

Same Sky

Same Sky

We worked with Same Sky as part of the Right Here Festival in 20/21.

Same Sky is an award-winning community arts charity. Since 1987 they have been creating magical, out-of-this-world events: luminous night-time parades, fantastical puppets and floats, large-sky fire shows and staggeringly imaginative costumes and concepts.

You can find out more about them HERE.