Each collaboration is unique. Here's what happens when art, ritual, and community come together.
Wellbeing programme
Past and Future Selves
Challenge
Black women carrying trauma and seeking creative outlets beyond traditional therapy.
What We Designed
A reflective writing and art programme inspiring participants to unlock memories and hopes.
Impact
Participants contributed to an anthology, began new creative projects, and reported renewed confidence.
"After three sessions with Birungi I feel my creative side beginning to blossom... I'm finding new talents and confidence to share poetry and perform at open mic sessions."
- Dawn
Artist in residence, nubian life resource center
Playshop Programmed & Art Commission
Challenge
Black and Asian elders seeking meaningful creative engagement and cultural connection.
What We Designed
13 playshops using African materials, sensory engagement, and collaborative art-making.
Impact
"I can't knit anymore but I'm enjoying my creativity with raffia and being with others instead of home alone." - Iris
Research collaboration, uganda
Cultivating Rhythms of Care
Challenge
Exploring how African ancestral healing practices can be documented and shared through contemporary art.
What We Designed
An artist residency and research project exploring rest, care, and community healing through fibre art installation and critique of sexiest cultural folklore, Njabala with Rebecca Khamala.
Impact
Reinterpreting the Njabala story helped visitors envision thriving feminist futures where we resist living counter to the cycles of nature and mestruation.
COMMISSION & ARTIST TALK
A Space for Resistance and Renewal
Challenge
Creating an immersive public installation exploring liberatory rest.
What We Designed
An immersive installation with bark cloth tents and living plants, plus an artist talk with curator Lison-Sabrina Musset.
Impact
Engaged public audience in experiencing rest as a radical, embodied practice through art.
LIBERATION RESEARCH
Future Selves
Challenge
Marginalised business students needing tools for self-belief and future envisioning.
What We Designed
Future-self portraiture and writing sessions integrated into university curriculum.
Impact
Improved hopefulness, self-belief, and connection among participants.
"You helped me get to know my students and see how they are connecting with each other and themselves!".
- Professor Sukanya Sen Gupta
wellbeing programme & collaborative artwork
Weaving Interdependence
Challenge
Community members needing tools to explore health at personal, community, and systemic levels.
What We Designed
Six-part workshop using quilt making and fibre arts.
Impact
Participants created a collaborative artwork exploring interconnected wellbeing.
PLAYSHOP
Embroidery Doodles
Challenge
Black women and non-binary ADHD'ers seeking creative release and selft-direction.
What We Designed
Emergent textile art workshop supporting free-form expression.
Impact
Participants explored new forms of creative self-expression and community connection
PLAYSHOP
Protecting Play
Challenge
A global majority group exploring personal boundaries and protection.
What We Designed
Shield-making playshop inspired by East African designs.
Impact
Participants created personal shields embodying their values and boundaries.
"A massive thank you for your brilliance - what you created was very special and meaningful."
- Anna-Maria Nabiryre
Every collaboration begins with a conversation. Let's design
something meaningful for your team or community.
Every collaboration begins with a conversation. Let's design something meaningful for your team or community.
Wellbeing and liberation artist-researcher, facilitator and cultural custodian. Translating healing, ancestry, and imagination into creative rituals.
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