Hear Art brought Shaping Tomorrow to the London Podcast Festival, featuring Troi Lee MBE and Chloe Straw. The live show inspired audiences with Troi’s journey as a deaf DJ and his advocacy for the deaf community, while exploring accessibility and inclusion in podcasting. The engaging conversation highlighted the power of video podcasts to amplify unheard voices. We’re thrilled to be invited back next year, with hopes to run workshops and continue pushing for representation.

This year I was honoured to join the judging panel at It Takes a Village Film Festival in Brixton, founded by Tsion Martin of Bridge the Gap. The weekend celebrated the brilliance of young Black filmmakers, whose bold, powerful stories lit up the screen. More than a festival, ITAV honours underrepresented creatives and the ‘villages’ who support them, building a vibrant, diverse community for the future of film.

Shaping Tomorrow becomes the first deaf-led video podcast featured at a UK podcast festival live at London Podcast Festival 2025.

I was invited by It’s Nice That to present to Adobe about Shine Camera Club, a grassroots photography project for young children in Mitcham. Nervous about my first presentation and unsure how it would be received, I was touched when the team embraced the project and felt inspired by the children’s work. The kind messages I later received from Adobe staff reminded me that creativity truly knows no boundaries.

Excited to be hosting for the first time at this year’s Wimbledon BookFest, in conversation with two poets I deeply admire, Raymond Antrobus and James Massiah. It’s an honour to be part of a festival I have long enjoyed and to work with Fiona Razvi and her brilliant team.

Here Comes The Girls 2025 I was recently invited by Lisa Stepanovic OBE, founder of the social enterprise Social Ark, to lead a workshop...

This year’s Shine exhibition, Community Trailblazers, showcasing portraits taken by children aged 8–10 from Mitcham. It celebrates local change-makers across Merton and is currently on display at Elys, Wimbledon with support from The Wimbledon Championships Learning Programme.

This summer, I worked with The Green Arts Centre in Mitcham on Stories of Our Street, a community arts project supported by Arts Council England. I led a photography workshop with local children, asking them: What does your street mean to you? Armed with phones, they captured markets, gardens, pets and hidden corners. Their photos, later exhibited at Canons House, showed Mitcham’s vibrancy and intimacy, proving the power of young voices in celebrating community.

I'm thrilled to announce that "Don't Buy A Bomb," a short documentary I produced, received the Social Impact Award!

Shaping Tomorrow: A new vodcast spotlights deaf professionals breaking barriers in diverse fields. Read more here.

As a huge fan of hip hop in the '80s and '90s, the scene profoundly influenced how I saw life, how I dressed and it deepened my...

On July 29th, 2024, THAMES visited Shine Saturday School to skate and unveil Mark Gonzales scarf designed by the children at Shine Merton.

Blondey collaborated with Shine Merton to customise Mark Gonzales' drawings, creating limited-edition silk scarves sold through Thames.

Shaping Tomorrow Podcast Set Last year, Hear Art secured its first funding which left me considering the best way how to use the funds...

This year's exhibition, curated by the talented Juanita Richards, features captivating action shots and portraits taken by children at Tooti

An exciting exhibition called Punk, Rage & Revolution will be launching at Leceister Museum and Art Gallery, celebrating the story of...

Excited to announce our Shine Camera Club exhibition, curated by Fiona Freund! See stunning black-and-white photos by the children at Elys.

The Shine Camera Club children teamed up with Tangerine Press to create a photo book showcasing their photography from a fresh perspective.

This year, I launched Shine Camera Club at Shine Saturday School in Mitcham, teaching children photography with analogue cameras. What start

In 2020, I had the privilege of judging the British Short Film Awards alongside Aimee Lou Wood, Elizabeth Lail, Samuel Adewunmi and other industry professionals, celebrating diverse and powerful short films. The following year, I was honoured to receive the Founders Award with Rachel Shenton for our work with Hear Art, championing deaf talent in film.