Creative
Co-creating hopeful, sustainable futures through performance, experience, impermanent art, and participation.
Creativity and connection matter
Creating something better isn’t just facts and figures. It’s imagination, storytelling, connection and practice.
As a performer, artist and experience designer, I explore all of that. I am a professional oral storyteller, urban walker, futurer, and experimenter. I am interested in lived experiences, the art of gathering and noticing, and the concept of impermanence and change.
My creative work both supports and is supported by my professional work and my research.
Storytelling
I’m an oral storyteller creating wise, witty, wonder-filled shows for (mostly) adult audiences. My stage name is Ziyadliwa, an isiZulu word that means “walnut”. And yes, there’s a story behind that…
Walk the Futures
An art-based research project that forms part of my doctoral work. Come and walk possible futures with me.
Ways to Walk
Urban walking events designed to bring people together to notice the world aroud them: individually and collectively.
Earthed Art
A new and emergent creative exploration into impermanence, ritual, and reflection.
The creative practices that underpin my work
What I explore and play with in my work:
Storytelling
To entertain, challenge and encourage; and to ask what stories we tell about ourselves, place and futures.
Experiences
Full-bodied, sensory work: place-based walks, immersive story events, participatory podcasts.
Walking
Mostly urban/semi-urban; facilitation, sensory prompts and reflection to make new spaces inside familiar ones.
Liminality
Working with change and in-between states; impermanent, earthed art; speculative futures.
Connection
With self, to others, place and planet.
Presence
Noticing what is (and what could be) in the moment.
Playfulness
Lightness with intent: trying things, iterating, inviting joy alongside the serious.
Curious? Want to collaborate? Get in touch →