North area council
Meet the members of our North Area Council.
Meet the members of our North Area Council.
Annabel Turpin
In her previous role, as CEO and Artistic Director of ARC in Stockton on Tees, Annabel established the venue as a leading North East arts organisation with national and international influence, including for its Pay What You Decide pricing and arts freelancers’ policies. She founded Venues North, developing best practice through a network of venues supporting artists making new work, and produced and toured new theatre work nationally and internationally.
Prior to her 15 years at ARC, she was Director of Norden Farm Centre for the Arts in Maidenhead from 2002-2008.
She is a long-term advocate of purposeful strategic collaboration, and horizontal and vertical sector partnerships. She played a significant role in securing £20million+ investment in local creative industries as Deputy Chair and Strategic Lead for Creative Place for the Tees Valley Combined Authority’s Business Board. She has previously held a number of board positions including North East Culture Partnership, North East Screen Industries Partnership, Sunderland Culture and Tangled Feet.
Her advisory roles include as a consultant, facilitator and speaker to venues, theatre companies, national and international cultural bodies.
Term of appointment: 1 December 2023 – 30 November 2027.
Twitter/X: @annabelturpin
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Javaad Alipoor
Syima Aslam
Patrick Chapman
Cllr Janet Emsley
Cllr Susan Hinchcliffe
Cllr Luthfur Rahman
Graeme Thompson
Cherylee Houston MBE
Cherylee received an MBE in the New Years honours list 2022 for services to disabled people and drama.
Sean Lawless
Edenamiuki Aiguobasinmwin
Commissioned to develop and perform works such as ‘Reformation’ and ‘Exploring the Man’ at various local and international platforms like The Civic Theatre in Dublin, York Theatre Royal, Ludus Dance, Stadler’s Well, and Tedx Kigali, Edenamiuki's journey as a Young Creative Community Leader began during his BA(Hons) in Dance and MA in Choreography at Leeds Beckett University from September 2014 to September 2019. Notable events include presenting the “Young Minds Matter” Festival at Leeds Beckett University with 20 local and international artists of different disciplines. In subsequent years, he delivered EKA Palace in Lisbon, Portugal, and Young Minds Matter in Brussels, Belgium, working with over 100 artists. In 2019, he introduced Face Festival in the United Kingdom, Portugal, and Tanzania, which resurfaced post-lockdown as an annual multifaceted program in the UK.