Lionel McCalman was born in Guyana, South America. He is the former leader of Nostalgia Steel Band, the UK’s original ‘traditional’ steel band (founded in 1965), and a retired Senior Lecturer in Education Studies from the University of East London. Today, he is an active musician, and part-time music teacher at a local school. He also […]
It’s nice to see pad arts continue to support nurture and teach the children of our community and this is one of the reasons I became a trustee
Leandra is a senior manager at the Race Equality Foundation, a leading UK equalities charity. Her career has been largely within the voluntary sector and has consistently focused on tackling disadvantage and inequality, particularly in the field of parenting and family support. Leandra was born and brought up in the area and is a parent […]
Alan Lazarus is treasurer of Paddington Arts. He first became a trustee in the 1990s to help the organisation through the major redevelopment after its successful major lottery bid and returned to the board in 2021. Alan lives in West London and is a qualified accountant and economist and recently retired as the regulatory director of a […]
Word of Mouth was developed in partnership with Turtle Key Arts, working with students from Hillingdon School, which is an autism-specialist school in West London. First of all the students worked with the talented poet Cheryl Moskowitz, exploring a range of writing techniques and means of expressing them. With a portfolio of poems to hand, […]
Choose Your Own Adventure was a filmmaking project where students from PIP came to weekly workshops at Paddington Arts to produce an interactive film. Students invented comic-book super heroes with special powers and created a story with different endings. They learned a range of skills including: Character building Storyboarding Photography Graphic Design Creating gif animations […]
