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Morning Producers

We invite our artist and freelancer network to join us at the Artsadmin Canteen to work, hang out, and share space together.

People gathered in the Artsadmin Canteen during a Morning Producers session in December 2023. Our producer Nene is talking to the group. They are wearing a green beanie and a bright red scarf. The person on the right is smiling at Nene - they have a furry black hat on and braided hair. To the left is our producer Valentina. She is wearing a green jumper.
Photo by Daisy Mason

On the first Wednesday of every month we invite freelance producers and self-producing artists to join us in Alba Caffe in Toynbee Studios.

Morning Producers is an informal, peer-to-peer support session. You can bring questions, work, or just come to have a chat. This session will be hosted by Nene Camara, Benji Wright and Akshita from our producing and artist support team.

Access

  • The Artsadmin Canteen is accessible to wheelchair users and there are wheelchair accessible toilets. Read more about Accessibility at Toynbee Studios.
  • All toilets at Toynbee Studios are gender neutral.
  • A relaxed performance kit with yoga mats, blankets, cushions and ear defenders is available.

Please email access@artsadmin.co.uk or call 020 7247 5102 if you have any further access requests.

Nene is pictured here smiling against a red background. They are person with a light brown complexion and they are wearing, a brown woolly jumper.
Photo by Holly Revell

Nene (they/them) has worked alongside festivals, cabarets, galleries, artist-led collectives, and student unions. As their practice developed, they became more interested in deepened creative processes that attempted to create more sustained support for their communities. Structures that attempt to go beyond capitalist and imperialist designs and attempt to foster prosperity, art-making, and tenderness.

An Indonesian man in a medley of earth tones smiles in front of a window covered by plants

Benji (he/him) studied his BA in Anthropology & Visual Practice at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he first became interested in the intersection of art and social issues. He continued to develop his passion in this area through his MA in Global Creative and Cultural Industries at SOAS, where he focused on imagining the evolving function of the museum as a site where de-colonial, artistic, and ethnographic practices could merge. Outside of Artsadmin, Benji enjoys playing volleyball, baking bread, and throwing shapes on whichever dancefloors in London will still have him.

A young brown woman with dark brown eyes and shoulder length, curly black hair. She is smiling big whilst her face rests at an angle on one hand. She is wearing a sleeveless cream textured top, a golden necklace with a small pendant, a sparkly golden ring and big multicoloured dangling earrings.

Akshita (she/her) is an award-winning Artistic Changemaker who works across several art forms all in the dream pursuit of supporting social justice through creative mediums. Curated by an infinite curiosity, Akshita’s toolkit is full of ever-growing care practices, through leadership, producer brains, theatre experimentation, film adoration and virtual reality imagination. She is guided by a strong love for people (and the worlds that exist within that), a philosophy of ‘prevention over cure’; and where that isn’t possible – a deep calling to nurture healing.

Akshita’s path developed through experiencing dedicated creative spaces as something co-curricular, then into bringing it into a more academic lens through her school education. She then went onto study BA (Hons) Theatre and Social Change, being elected Student Union President in her second year and since graduating in 2023, working in the sector. Over the years, Akshita has contributed in various roles as a producer, facilitator, performer, dramaturg, director, writer, operational support, governor, activist or overall creative at different venues with different organisations or projects including Artsadmin (now!), Battersea Arts Centre, Rich Mix, Theatre Deli London, House of Annetta, Arcola Theatre, Woven Ink, Elevate East, Built on Blood, Laugh in the Face of Extinction, Rose Bruford College and the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Date and time

5 March 2025
10am–12pm

Booking

Free, no booking required

Venue

Toynbee Studios
28 Commercial Street
London, E1 6AB
Tel: 020 7247 5102
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