Global Carnival Centre

Expert:	Colin Spalding	Territory	UK
Expertise	Carnival Designer and Productinn
Looking for	Freelance contracts and commissions

Colin runs UK’s leading touring mas band “Rampage” and is an award winning Caribbean carnival designer who has worked throughout UK, Trinidad, USA and Germany as a workshop leader or costume designer. As a designer, Colin can work from idea through concept to finished product alone or with a team. Some of the groups Colin has worked with include Labor Day Carnival (New York), Stephen Derek (Trinidad), STAMP (Humburg) and Arts Council England.

Expert:	Lilford  Dick	Territory	South Afrika
Expertise	Carnival Wirebender
Looking for	Full time work/contracts

Lilford has over ten year experience working with carnival in South Africa as an expert wirebender and mas man who builds giant puppets. In South Afrika he has worked with international artists such as Trinidad’s  Stephen Derek, Geraldo Vieira and French Puppet artist Christophe Vert. Through that he has also become a Float Designer

Expert:	Shabaka Thompson	Territory	UK
Expertise	Carnival Programmer/Producer;
Looking for	Carnival consultancy

Shabaka is an  expert on Caribbean carnival culture who has worked as an arts animateur, co-coordinator and manager in Denmark, Miami, New York,,  UK Trinidad and Tobago,. He has experience in conference/seminar presentations on various areas of Carnival e.g. Carnival role within the Creative Industries. As an ex Notting Hill Carnival CEO, Shabaka also has experience on carnival governance, operations, programming and skills development.

Expert:	Pax Nindi	Territory	UK
Expertise	Carnival Artistic Director and Speaker
Looking for	Consultancy/Part time and Speaker

 Pax has over 20 years experience working with carnival arts internationally covering, strategies, programming, fundraising, visual arts and artistic direction. He travels round the world as a carnival consultant and speaker on the artform and its developments. He has been a speaker/Guest Lecturer at various conferences and Universities around the world and wrote and published UK’s first National Carnival Strategy as well as produced two 3 day international carnival conferences in UK for the Arts Council.

Expert:	Alexander Loewenthal (aka Alexander D Great)	Territory	UK
Expertise	Carnival Music - Calypso
Looking for	UK and international projects and contracts

BBC Calysonian-in-Residence (since Feb 2000) and currently UK Calypso Monarch. He has years of experience in musical composition, arrangement/orchestration and songwriting.. For the past 12 years Alex has worked in schools and colleges in Dominica, Trinidad, Ireland and the UK e.g. Brunel University, Goldsmiths College, London University, Trinity College of Music  and , University of Belfast,
Alex designs tailor-made projects to suit a variety of situations and has a lot of experience working with schools, education bodies, local authorities and national institutions.

Expert:	SW Storm	Territory	Canada
Expertise	Music - Soca
Looking for	International bookings and workshops

Trinidadian born SW Storm is a renowned Soca singer and performer now based in Canada who has toured extensively in UK, Trinidad and North America. He is known for being energetic on stage and his releases are always welcome by both his fans and the media in Trinidad and Canada. Storm has experience of running Soca workshops and performs with his band or solo with some dancers.

Expert:	Leyla Güler	Territory	UK
Expertise	Photographer/ Film Maker
Looking for	Freelance, part time or full time photography work

Leyla has been a documentary and events photographer for the past ten years, and runs community workshops with young people on a regular basis covering photography and film-making. With a qualification in teaching community arts, Leyla teaches adults, vulnerable groups and people from BME communities. She  mostly specialises in photography and has covered Notting Hill Carnival for the last 6 years.

Expert:	Kofi Debrah	Territory	Ghana
Expertise	Carnival Marketing and PR
Looking for	Freelance and part time work

Six-year experience working in the arts and marketing within the Carnival sector in the UK. Currently based in Ghana setting up an international music festival, which has a strong carnival element and will end up processing through the streets of Accra. Past marketing work has involved working with Focus Consultancy, Notting Hill Carnival, Carnival Village and Combined Arts Services.

 

Expert:	Brian Cleary	Territory	UK
Expertise	Event Management
Looking for	Event Management and H&S consultancy

Director of Sygma Safety & Events. Experienced in event and safety management working exclusively in the events industry. Brian has over 8 years of working with carnival and circus groups. He event managed St Pauls Carnival in Bristol for 2 years and has been involved in the Cambridge Christmas Parade for over