I oversee an ongoing programme of events, performances and interactive experiences at Birch (handle.silk.comet) with the aim to bring people together and enhance connection through shared experiences.
The role provides a platform for my love of music, people, food and drink, creativity, discovery, and brand building.
It combines strategy and positioning, talent booking and curation, partnerships, budget/data management, and leadership.
The Cultural Programme is the core offer that connects to the lead brand statement of ‘looking like a hotel, but acting like a festival’.
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As well as working for Birch, I also DJ and book talent for Glastonbury Festival, and programme pop-up broadcasts on Amateurism Radio (co-founder).
Projects
Projects credited in
- FINE+RARE podcastFINE+RARE approached myself and regular collaborator, Leo Walton, to do some Spotify playlisting for a project they were doing that would look to celebrate the 90th anniversary of iconic Lebanese winery, Chateau Musar. Leo and I jumped at the chance to work together on a music project with FINE+RARE, and as we started researching, we pitched the idea of putting together a podcast that would give a UK audience a real insight into music from Lebanon. The FINE+RARE podcast was born and for the
- Amateurism RadioA big family of my friends are used to all connecting and hanging out over the summer schedule of festivals. When the UK went into lockdown in March, I was working with fellow Amateurism collective members Leo Walton, Rob Leggatt and Aymen Bensaad on a collaborative mix that we could release around the time Amateurism should have been DJing at The Beat Hotel festival in Morocco. With all the year’s live music events cancelled, we wondered if we could do something with our mix beyond simply loa
- It's Bigger ThanIt’s Bigger Than was a monthly London party (which ran from 2004 - 2007) conceived and run by a collective of DJs (of which I was one) along with artist/designer James Joyce who created the visual identity (and the monthly flyers) for the club night. As IBT’s Cutmaster Max reminisces on the Tumblr site he created to commemorate the night, “We came up with the concept of loosely doing a Hip Hop night that, along with party bangers, would involve 70’s rock, 80’s pop and 90’s dance music. Now I mig
Work history
Cultural ProgrammerBirch
Cheshunt, United KingdomFull Time
• Full design, creation and implementation of an ongoing Cultural Programme of events, performances and interactive experiences
• Brand positioning / Marketing / Talent curation / Guest experience / Partnerships
• Spiritland / Horsemeat Disco & Luke Solomon / Birch Arising
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Talent BookerGlastonbury Festival
Pilton, Shepton Mallet BA4, UKFreelance
• Interstage hospitality area for Pyramid and Other stages
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Skills
- Brand Consultancy
- Creative
- Music
- Music Events
- Brand Strategy
Education
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GCSEBedes School
- Hailsham, United Kingdom