The George Padmore Institute’s 2024 Artist in Residence, Dominique Le Gendre, will be holding a workshop at the Cultural Education Summit on 7 November 2025. A free annual event organised by Haringey Creates, the summit offers a range of performances, workshops and talks on this year's theme of the power of arts and culture to transform lives.
Event: Cultural Education Summit 2025
Date and Time: 7 November, 4.00-5.30pm and 6.15-7.45pm
Venue: Collage Artspace2, London N22 6UJ
Tickets: Free
Composer, musician and artistic director of StrongBack Productions, Dominique will draw on her experience researching archive materials held at the GPI. The workshop will provide a brief introduction into what an arts residency offers, how archive collections create windows into sections of our communities and an insight to her artistic engagement with the documents she unearthed during her residency in 2024. Dominique will also share how growing up in Trinidad shaped her creative development.
Workshop participants will be involved in mapping routes towards transformation through arts and culture. Asking what does transformation look like? How can it be achieved? What are the barriers and how can these be overcome? The route map will aim to create a manifesto for transformation.
The workshop will be held twice on the same day, so there is an opportunity to take part in other workshops available. To find out more about the keynote speaker, talks and how to book a place, click here.
Dominique Le Gendre, composer, artistic director of StrongBack Productions.
Dominique’s expansive career in music encompasses performance, composition, musical direction, teaching, curation, and event production. She has composed music for theatre, opera, chamber ensembles, art installations, dance, film, television and radio drama for BBC Radio 3 and 4. A former Associate Artist of the Royal Opera House and Manning Camerata, Dominique’s music has been commissioned and performed by BBC Radio 3 Proms, Southbank Sinfonia, ORA Singers, Nevis Ensemble, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Calabash Foundation for the Arts (Trinidad) and Hasselblad Laureat Ingrid Pollard. Her Concerto for Orchestra, for BBC Concert Orchestra premiered in March 2024 while her Missa Brevis inspired by Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si was premiered at Canterbury Cathedral in November 2024 and sung at Easter Sunday services this year. She is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the arts charity StrongBack Productions.
.png)