Meet our Resident Curators
MALAIKA KEGODE
Malaika Kegode is a writer, performer and producer based in Bristol. She has performed around the UK at a number of celebrated venues, festivals and poetry events, such as Tongue Fu, Out-Spoken at The 100 Club, WOMAD, Boomtown Festival and BBC at the Edinburgh Festival. In 2018 she was included in the BME Power List, celebrating Bristol’s 100 most influential black & minority ethnic people. In 2021, Malaika's debut theatre show Outlier was produced for Bristol Old Vic’s main stage.
Malaika also works in film. She is currently an associate curator at Watershed in Bristol alongside Karen Alexander and Adam Murray. She has worked as a programme selector for Encounters Film Festival and Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. In 2021 she was part of the Cinema Rediscovered film critic cohort. Her debut short poetry-film Wide as the Sea, an exploration of millennial Queer culture, was made over the 2021 lockdown on a £10 budget. It has been shown at various online events, including Queer Vision’s Sofa Club.
ASMAA JAMA
Asmaa Jama is a Danish-born Somali poet and artist. Their work has been published in print and online, in places like The Good Journal, Popshot, ANMLY and Ambit. As an artist, they have been featured by Dark Yellow Dot, Kayd and publicly exhibited by, RisingArts, Tate Collective. Most recently, Asmaa was a artist-in-residence at IBT’s Creative Exchange Lab and writer-in-residence at Arnolfini. They are the co-founder of art collective, Dhaqan Collective. Asmaa is currently working on ensemble production Mailles.
VALENTINA PAZ HUXLEY
Valentina Paz Huxley (they/she) is a 24-year-old artist based in Bristol. They specialise in colourful illustrations and run a poetry event called Sonder Spoken Word. Recent films she has enjoyed were Keyboard Fantasies and Zama.
