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Meet The Team.

BOSI is made up of a small core team with a pool of brilliant Associates who we co-conspire with on a regular basis.

OUR CORE TEAM

Roger Hartley

Artistic Director
Roger is a celebrated public space maverick, founding the Bureau of Silly Ideas in 2002. A seasoned creator, lecturer, and leader, he influences cultural strategy and advocates for fair governance in various roles and directorships including TedX, the Fenland Cultural Strategy Steering Group and Guardians of the Arches.

Leon Barker

Creative technologist
Dr Leon Barker pursues research in robot-human interaction, machine learning, performance capture and other emerging technologies. With over a decade of extensive expertise in interaction design and creative technology development, Dr. Barker has established a track record for developing innovative and immersive mixed reality applications that cater to a wide range of domains and audiences.

Anna Gregg

Senior Silly Administrator Anna has a wealth of experience in event & festival production. Highlights include Grange Park & Pimlico Opera, Covent Garden Festival, Richmond Arts, The Big Picture Company, Adonais Dance Company, Early Opera Company & the Farnham Maltings. She joined BOSI in 2022 and is currently Administrative Director at Tête à Tête and on the board of the British Arts Festivals Association.

Valerie Hayes

Finance
Valerie is a QBE Accountant with 30 years experience working in many industries before making a change of sector in 2012, to exclusively work within the arts. She joined BOSI in 2018. Herself an artist & artisan, in the traditional craft of upholstery and stained glass.

Nésa Depeza Njie

Events & Community Liaison Ace
Nésa is a Genetics graduate that aims to combine her interest for science and love of creativity to produce interesting, interactive and accessible events. With a strong footing in the creative industry, from DJing to dance, being able to combine these skills is why she is interning at BOSI as an events coordinator.

Jeroen van Dooren

Quartermaster
Dr. Jeroen van Dooren is an artist, writer and researcher based in London. He is an Associate Lecturer on MA Photography at London College of Communication and a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art London. Specialising in contemporary notions of subjectivity, performativity and the role of the contemporary artist.

Pearl McLean Jennings

Events and Social Media Ace
Pearl produces our Club Silly events, platforming artists, developing our doorstep work and facilitating partner nights. She engages the wider community through social media content. She also sends out our silly repertoire on tour all over the country!

OUR FREELANCE TEAM

Aqiong Zhang - Performer

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Caggy Kerlogue

Associate Producer
Caggy Kerlogue is a cultural strategist with over 15 years experience in the cultural industries. Specialising in large scale works, placemaking & communities. She has supported some of the UK’s largest cultural institutions to deliver collaborative programmes with cultural legacy. Alongside working with BOSI she is the Creative Asset & Place Manager for the Creative Estuary programme.

Jack Wood

Design Engineer
Jack is a product and industrial designer with broad design interests. His practice is shaped by big-picture thinking, synthesizing varied perspectives to uncover novel solutions and innovations. An awareness of social and environmental contexts informs his design from the start.

Asher Heigham

A specialist technician for the events industry. Asher has 15 years experience, with a focus on pyrotechnics. Asher is Managing Director of Batten Down Productions Ltd a company providing technical services and special effects for the corporate and entertainment industries. He has worked with some of the biggest musicians providing special effects on their world tours.

Caitlin Strongarm

Community Keeper and Comms
Caitlin Strongarm is an artist and organiser affecting social change through projects and artworks, and empowering communities to create, collaborate and take collective action.

Martin King - Super Geek

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Brian Thunder

Brian Thunder BOSI
Brian is an Irish theatre maker, based in Scotland, with over 3 years’ experience working in theatre, film, television and radio and outdoor arts. He specialises in setting things on fire and has burnt stuff on every continent apart from Antarctica. His ambition is to try and add that last bit so he can truly say he has set the world on fire.

Comfort Fabian - Clown

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Thor McIntyre Burnie

Sound Associate
Thor is an Artist, Sound Designer and founder Director of Aswarm a collective that draws on the creative use of Sound, Digital Technology, Immersive Installation, Site-Specifics and Concept to make art, politics and play happen where it matters.

OUR BOARD

Claire Baldwin

Claire Deloon Baldwin is an aerialist & circus specialist. She performed across the world for 15 years and passes on the centuries old skills of trapeze performance to the next generation. In addition she’s a casting director & programme for AnyStage Productions, who work with MSC cruises.

Claire "Kiwi" Horan

Claire has over 20 years experience in leading and developing creative, cultural and community engagement programmes, events and one off spectacle shows. Claire currently works for Medway Council as Festival and Events Manager, with previous roles including Lambeth Council & Cancer Research UK.

Amarjit Chanion

Amerjit is an experienced community development professional with a track record of designing and delivering successful housing and regeneration schemes across London. His specialties include social policy, public administration, economic development, housing/urban regeneration, project management, and fundraising.

Agamemnon Otero

Agamemnon Otero is Energy Garden CEO and Repowering co-founder, holds an M.Sc in Architecture: Advanced Environment and Energy. He's a recognised leader in community energy.

David Buzz Heard

40 years a dual qualified (NZ & UK) corporate/commercial lawyer (in the City and nationwide) undertaking multi-national multi-sector transactions and projects in English and French. Now aged 65, engaged increasingly in the not-for-profit sector.

PARTNERS + SUPPORTERS

The people that help us make things happen

Arts Council England
Arts Forward
Audience Agency
Barnados
Big Oriental Squid Inc
Bio Organism Substrate Industries
Bloomsbury Festival
Boomtown
Clapham Omnibus
CPP Market Place
The Egg
Fool's Paradise
Glastonbury Festival
Hemingway Design
Heritage Lottery Fund
Outdoor Arts UK
Lambeth Council
Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust
Southside Shopping Centre
Southwark Council
Stockwell Festival
UCLIC
United Nations Board Of Significant Inspiration
Wandsworth Arts Festival
Wandsworth Council
Xtrax

SILLY FRIENDS

These are Artists and Companies that we regularly conspire / collaborate with

Thor McIntyre-Burnie / Aswarm - Transforming sites as symphony to walk within

Valentia Studios - painters, sculptors, ceramicists, photographers, upholsterers, couturiers, dress makers…

Hooper and Kind Digital Design

L.E.G - visual language, light and structural design

Bicycle Ballet - A celebration of the dance that is cycling

Red Herring - playfully provocative outdoor theatre

Miraculous Theatre Company - stories, poetry and philosophy

Molly Orange - Juicy Street Theatre, Circus and Roving entertainment

NASA - An independent UK network of creative practitioners making live arts outside!,

V2 Display - Installations and big plastic things

We love our Friends and Supporters

  • Hemingway Design
  • Shakesspeare Birthplace Trust
  • UCL
  • V2 Display Solutions
  • Postcode Community Trust
  • FP West End
  • Market Place
  • City Bridge Trust
  • Community Fund
  • Fraser & Ellis Ltd
  • Artcore
  • Without Walls
  • ITC
  • Battersea Power Station
  • Wandsworth Shopping Centre
  • Bloomsbury Festival
  • Partners
October 30, 2018
Hooper and Kind

WHAT'S ON at CLUB SILLY

Check out what’s on here in Brixton with all the latest events at Club Silly.


ADVENTURES IN DUB Palacio de Poetas presents "A Night of Foreign Affairs" with Maria Who?


Sugarpush Lindyhop Class and Social

23rd June - 7:00pm - 10:30pm

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Mic, Meet N' Mingle

26th June - 5:30pm - 8:30pm


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