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Each course required the students to work as a team to deliver a "live" participatory arts project, while on placement with an arts and/or community organisation. I worked with partner organisations to devise and supervise eight participatory projects a year with forty students.

Amongst others, projects included:

Nothing Rhymes with Poets Placement with BBC Big Screen with a spoken word performance project. A "Talking Heads" film of ten Merseyside poets was made and shown on the Liverpool BBC Big Screen over 2005.
Streetlife Placement with South Liverpool Housing Group. Students organised a performance-based family event with associated activities and workshops.
Made in Liverpool : Moving Images of Merseyside Placement with the Liverpool Biennial of Art. A screening event and tour of short art films made by Merseyside residents that reflected some aspect of living in the city.
This is not the only Version of You that Exists Placement with the Bluecoat Arts Centre Connect Programme, touring an installation made by teenage girls, and evaluating the project.
Black Screen Film Festival Placement with Pidgin Productions, organising the delivery of the Festival.
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Students undertook a research project into participation in the Philharmonic's Schools Programme

I also created and programmed two new exhibition spaces: Tunnel Vision and The Underground Gallery (for text based work), giving Leeds and regional artists the opportunity to show in a city centre venue. Exhibitions included, amongst others:

	•  Pixelism.org
	•  Funny Shape, Perfect for the Job, curated by Stephen Bayley
	•  Sky Corridor - Andrea Thoma
	•  Otiose
	•  Farhenheit 451: Leeds College of Art & Design degree show

Parallel Lines

Managed "Parallel Lines" a Year of the Artist project employing three writers to work in three community contexts to develop new work. This was followed by a ten-date performance tour of their new work.

Leeds City Voice Festival 2001 Produced Leeds City Voice Festival of New Writing, a 10 -day festival of live literature and providing a platform for emerging spoken word artists. John Hegley and the last Beat poet Dick McBride headlined.

The Writing Pad

Funded by Yorkshire Arts Board (as it was), HMP Leeds and Leeds Libraries, I devised and managed a 12 month writing residency, raising c£15k from Arts Council England, HMP Leeds and Leeds City Council. This created a prison magazine and gave inmates and staff the opportunity for creative self-expression through creative writing over a sustained period. This project also enabled a significant paid opportunity for a writer.

Traces of Five Millenia
		I developed and organised this project for the first Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art in 1999. An exhibition of Jewish artists work from all over the country, shown in the Hanover Gallery, Liverpool, it achieved good press coverage and was well received, giving Jewish artists a much-needed profile in a mainstream art event.

The Women in the Community Conference
Taking place in November 1999, this conference was a follow up to the national conference that had taken place ten years earlier at the instigation of the Chief Rabbi. The second conference looked at changes to the position and status of Jewish women within the Orthodox community, and discussed ongoing issues via a panel of high profile speakers. A final resolution was passed and presented to the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain . Working with the Women in the Community committee, I undertook much of the venue organisation, and contributed to the coherent administration of the conference.

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