Rhiannon Smith
Discipline:
Theatre / Faciliator
Location:
South London
ABOUT:
Rhiannon is the Co-Director and Lead Faciliator of Hodge Podge Community Arts, a programme that works with Asylum Seeking Children in West Croydon, offering multidisciplinary workshops that have an arts focus. She finds inspiration in her work in her belief that communities can flourish with increased arts accessibility and wider access to accompanying practices, skills and activities. Here, Hodge Podge can be seen as a professional channel to express this, with Rhiannon's key focus consistently being on delivering expansive, varied, and exciting workshops throughout company creation to expansion. Rhiannon's favourite part of Hodge Podge is watching the work taking effect, providing opportunities for children participants to smile, have fun, make friends and laugh. She also aims to deliver work that provides a wider societal impact, providing an opening to experiences otherwise not accessible that will be forever apart of participants development and memories. Alongside these creative works, Rhiannon's co-director role is also bound within admin, logistics, and financial tracking, assuring the delivery of these workshops expanding beyond the room itself. Her enthusiasm to community focused works is seen further by Rhiannon's current PhD study in which she brings her lived experience as a working-class person to unpack meanings of community. Titled The Theatricalization of Class: In Policy, Performance, and Practice she explores class is as a complex, intersectional and culturally constructed concept produced through processes of theatricalization.


