Breaks & Joins Podcast
Episodes
Series 8, Episode 3: Hannah Kayi Mason
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hannah is an experienced cultural practitioner with over 20 years’ experience in the arts, education, public and private sectors. An innovative prob...
Series 8, Episode 2: Chris Hellawell
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Hellawell is the Director of the Edinburgh Tool LibraryChris has an educational background in environmental science, but began working in the ch...
Series 8, Episode 1: Sarah P Corbett
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah is Founding Director of Craftivist Collective and Gentle Protest. She is an award-winning activist, author and Ashoka Fellow. Born in Everton,...
Series 7, Episode 8: Morag Anderson
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Morag Anderson’s second chapbook, And I Will Make of You a Vowel Sound, won the Aryamati Poetry Pamphlet Prize and was described by TS Eliot Prize-w...
Series 7, Episode 7: Haeweon Yi
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Haeweon is a theatremaker, writer, and researcher from Korea, now based in the UK. As a co-artistic director of Blooming Ludus, she has been making di...
Series 7, Episode 6: Arti Prashar
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Arti’s inclusive creative practice champions diverse voices, and immersive sensory theatre practice for people living with dementia and learning dis...
Series 7, Episode 5: John Dash
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I volunteer with Cycling Club Hackney (CCH) My, now adult, children grew up riding and racing with the club and I have used a bike for transport...
Series 7, Episode 4: Mah Rana
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mah is a practising artist, researcher and writer working in the fields of contemporary jewellery, well-making, creative health, creativity and dement...
Series 7, Episode 3: Tobias Tembo and Adam McGuigan
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tobias Tembo is Provincial Youth Development Coordinator for Southern Province, Zambia. He is a visionary leader and co-founder of Barefeet Theatre, a...
Series 7, Episode 2: Ayesha Chouglay
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ayesha is a writer, artist and facilitator, and recently judged the Deaf and Disabled Writers Commissions for Spread the Word, alongside Joseph Rizzo ...
Series 7, Episode 1: Daniel Regan Artist & Creative Health Consultant
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Regan is a visual artist & Creative Health Consultant working across the sector in the UK. For over 20 years his creative works have broker...
Series 6, Episode 8: Bridget McKenzie
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bridget McKenzie: Researcher, trainer and artist, engaging people with the Earth crisis. Her career includes being Tate’s Education manager and the ...
Series 6, Episode 7: Celia Pym
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
London-based artist Celia Pym has been mending clothing and textiles since 2007. Her work has recently been exhibited in Bags, Hweg, Cornwall (2024); ...
Series 6, Episode 6: Tas Emiabata
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tas Emiabata is an actor, musician, facilitator and trainer. As a creative facilitator he works with children, young people and adults to deliver a di...
Series 6, Episode 5: Carolyn Defrin
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Carolyn Defrin is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and facilitator originally from the US and based in Europe. She is currently a Marie Curie f...
Series 6, Episode 4: Meadhbh McIlgorm & Amberlea Neely
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
9ft in Common uncovers the complexities and shares the possibilities of an infrastructure of urban alleyways, Belfast’s wild and liminal spaces.The ...
Series 6, Episode 3: Maryam Shaharuddin
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A theatre facilitator, Maryam co-creates performances with participants. She works at a range of organisations including Angel Shed, Kiln, Almeida, Bu...
Series 6, Episode 2: Lauren and members of Sydenham Garden's m.u.d. project
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
ⓜ.ⓤ.ⓓ is a group for Lewisham-borough-based 18-25-year-olds wanting to commune with the natural world. They cultivate an LGBTQIA+ and neurodiver...
Series 6, Episode 1: Phineas Harper
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Phineas Harper develops sustainable cultural programmes that engage broad audiences with architecture and design. A regular contributor to The Guardia...
Series 5, Episode 9: Dr Ros Gray
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ros is Reader in Fine Art, Critical Studies and Programme Director of the MA Art & Ecology. Her research and teaching often involves collaboration...
Series 5, Episode 8: Matilya Njau, Horticulturalist
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I’m a gardener by trade and have spent most of my waking moments in the last 8 years, tending to and communing with plants. At the heart of my pract...
Series 5, Episode 7: Dr Georgia Bowers
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Georgia Bowers is a leading Creative Ageing practitioner, academic and pro-ageing activist. Her work explores how theatre making with older adults ...
Series 5, Episode 6: Anna Matthams
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In my role of Arts Manager for Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust I am responsible for delivering an arts programme to support the health and wellbeing ...
Series 5, Episode 5: Gaynor Tutani
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gaynor Tutani (Art Adlib) is a curator, producer and writer who merges her various arts, culture, community and educational passions to produce exhibi...
Series 5, Episode 4: Dr Megan Vine
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Following a Masters in Applied Theatre at Goldsmiths, Megan completed her PhD in Psychology at the University of Limerick in 2023 and received an Iris...
Series 5, Episode 3: Arji Manuelpillai
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Arji Manuelpillai is a poet, performer and creative facilitator based in London. He was the Jerwood/Arvon Mentee mentored by Hannah Lowe. Arji’s deb...
Series 5, Episode 2: Merel Van Der Knoop
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Merel works as a freelance accompanist and vocal coach besides teaching singing and piano. She is choir leader of the Long Covid Choir and the Long Co...
Series 5, Episode 1: Amie Taylor
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Amie is a writer, theatre maker, musical theatre teacher and the Director for Fun Palaces. A Fun Palace is a free event made by local people for thei...
Series 4, Episode 8: Camille Dawson and Cristina Ottonello
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Camille Dawson is a critically acclaimed comedy writer, performer and director. She is founder and Artistic Director of Frisky Arts. Camille has a mul...
Series 4, Episode 7: Maria Amidu
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Maria Amidu is a visual artist and PhD Candidate in the School of Arts & Humanities at the Royal College of Art. Her artistic concerns are influen...
Series 4, Episode 6: Lee Robb
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lee is the founder of Positive Carrickfergus and co-founder of Repair Cafe Belfast and Carrick Greengrocers. She has lived in Carrickfergus for most o...
Series 4, Episode 5: Amahra Spence
29 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Amahra Spence lives in the UK and works globally. Her practice is one of poetic pragmatism, exploring transformation and iterating change oriented tow...
Series 4, Episode 4: Madeline Tanoto
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Madeline Tanoto is a designer-maker & teacher with a 20 year career in fashion & teaching across all things textiles. She is a qualified Menta...
Series 4, Episode 3: Sally Jaquet
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sally Jaquet is an Edinburgh-based community musician who believes music is for everyone - a human right that helps us connect, care and cherish each ...
Season 4, Episode 2: Ellen Bassam
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ellen works as a consultant for Seahorse Environmental, a specialist environmental communications agency. In this role she works with a number of NGOs...
Season 4, Episode 1: Kay Adekunle Rufai
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kay Rufai is a Photographer, Poet, Filmmaker, Author, Mental Health researcher and founder of the internationally acclaimed S.M.I.L.E-ing Boys project...
Series 3, Episode 8: Yvonne Field & Immy Kaur
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yvonne Field is a serial social entrepreneur and change agent who has spent more than four decades working with grassroots organisations, front line s...
Series 3, Episode 7: Sarah Pimenta
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Pimenta is an experienced artist, illustrator and facilitator and has worked in education for over twenty three years including in over 250 prim...
Series 3, Episode 6: Chris Finch
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Finch is an NHS Mental Health Worker. He has a passion for repair, fixing bikes from his garage, and many more things from his cellar, which is ...
Series 3, Episode 5: Jo Cook
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jo Cook is the founder and creator of Meet and Mend and runs sessions and projects within the West Yorkshire county of England. Meet and Mend focuses ...
Series 3, Episode 4 Yomi Sode & Chloe Osborne
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Award - winning writer Yomi Sode, and artist/activist Chloe Osborne together run 'The Grief Lab' an opportunity to explore, playfully, rioto...
Series 3, Episode 3: Professor Hartley Jafine
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Hartley Jafine is an improviser, clown nose enthusiast, and Survivor superfan. He is on the faculty at McMaster University and University of...
Series 3, Episode 2: Molly Syrett
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Molly Syrett is a costume supervisor and buyer, currently training in millinery. Molly has worked with a range of theatre and dance companies on UK to...
Series 3, Episode 1: Toby Peach
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Toby is an Award-Winning theatre maker & Associate Director at interactive theatre makers, Coney, where he focuses on making work with, and for, y...
Series 2, Episode 7: Devon Goodrich and Michael Breakey
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode we made a site visit - a first for us. We spoke to Michael Breakey and Devon Goodrich who host and manage the Rotherhithe Shed, but a...
Series 2, Episode 6: Olivia Namutebi and Rebecca Hayes Laughton
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Hayes Laughton has supported the Women for Refugee Women drama groups for 7 years, hosting a space for women who are refugees and asylum seeke...
Series 2, Episode 5: Tony Cealy
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Cealy is an Arts Development Practitioner, Consultant, Trainer & ProducerFounder, Director & Producer of 492 Korna Klub the UK's onl...
Series 2, Episode 4: Parisa Wright
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Parisa Wright is is the founder and CEo of Greener & Cleaner, a sustainable living charity. She left her 20 year career in law to focus fully on a...
Series 2, Episode 3: Gail Babb and Alex Evans
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gail is an award-winning theatre maker who specialises in creating new work that centres and celebrates Black British experiences. As a dramaturg and ...
Series 2, Episode 2: Molly Martin
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Molly is an artist who lives and works in London. Her art work looks at negative space with a considered colour palette, and a delicate approach to th...
Series 2, Episode 1: David Labi
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
David is a London-born storyteller, founder/director of ethical agency Good Point, and an artist who writes, makes films, and performs. Currently he&a...
Episode 8: Rachel Ho
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel trained as a potter in Belfast and Kilkenny and has developed a unique ceramics practice that explores concepts such as Hope, Grief and Scars...
Episode 7: Sudip Chakroborthy and Ali Campbell
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sudip Chakroborthy recently gained his PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London. he is an experienced theatre director who has worked extensively in Ba...
Episode 6: Suzi Warren
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Designer and Maker Suzi Warren is a co-founder of Twisted Twee, designing, making and upcycling clothes with a satirical twist. Suzi created 'Sti...
Episode 5: Amanda Mascarenhas and Mo Sumah
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Amanda Mascarenhas is a Theatre Designer and Visual Artist. She specialises in immersive and sensory design, and also works extensively in participato...
Episode 4: Liz Honeybone
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Liz Honeybone is in the textile department at the National Theatre. She has always sewn, making and adapting her own clothes, and she shares her exper...
Episode 3: Sylvan Baker
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sylvan is a neuro diverse care leaver, practitioner and researcher who has been working across the fields of applied theatre, socially engaged arts an...
Episode 2: Raj Bhari and Claire MacDonald
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Both Raj and Claire have broken bones, in a way that brought them to a halt . They chat about fractures, doctors, slowing down and slow mending.Raj Bh...
Episode 1: Rose Sinclair
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We chat to Rose Sinclair, Design Lecturer at Goldsmiths, A textile specialist, she talks about all things mending, and the Dorcas Clubs, where women...