The 3rd International Arts and Homelessness Summit 2025

We are delighted to announce the programme of the 3rd International Arts and Homelessness Summit which will take place at the Old Diorama Arts Centre in London between 22-24 January 2025. The Summit features panel discussions from academics, projects and artists from around the world, over 50% of whom are or have been homeless.

The programme has been co-created with our international community and is outlined below. The Summit will sit within the final 3 days of ODAC’s wonderful One Roof Festival of Arts and Homelessness which was founded by AHI Co-Director David Tovey.

To book tickets, visit our Eventbrite page here. Tickets for anyone who is or has been homeless or is unwaged are free.

Wednesday 22nd January

10-11am What Makes a Good Quality Arts and Homelessness project? Facilitated workshop – Translated online into Portuguese and Spanish

12-1pm Street Papers and Arts and Creativity – Mike Findlay (International Network of Street Papers – Chair), Maria Portilla (Mi Valedor, Mexico), Andre Rostant, (Big Issue, UK), Jannice Vierkötter, (Surprise, Switzerland), Juliana Valentim, (Traços, Brazil) – Translated online into Portuguese and Spanish

2-3pm Arts and Homelessness Projects in the Global Majority including a Poetic Manifesto on Silence – Gbenga Yusuf, (Seeing Through the Arts, Nigeria), Daniela Camozzi, (No Tan Distintes, Argentina), Abdelfattah Abusrour, (Alrowwad, Palestine), Lisa Ogun’ (Arts & Homelessness Int Associate Alumni, writer and producer – Chair) – Translated online into Portuguese and Spanish

3-4pm Additional in person workshop on co-creating guidelines for photographic representation in arts and homelessness

4-5pm Photographic Representation in Arts and Homelessness – Rey Trombetta (Streetwise Opera, UK), Ollie Bream, (People of the Streets, UK), Owen Clayton, (University of Lincoln, UK), Anthony Luvera, photographer and writer (UK), Bengy Speer, (Arts & Homelessness International Associate Alumni, UK), Mark Horvath, (Invisible People, USA), Samra Said (Arts & Homelessness International)

5-6pm Networking Hour

Thursday 23rd January

10-11am Financial Inclusion in Arts and Homelessness including Unconditional Income – John Organ, (Our Agency, UK – Chair), Matt Kidd, (Our Agency, UK), Cathy Stancer, (Lankelly Chase, UK), Surfing Sofas, (poet and Arts & Homelessness International Associate Alumni), David Tovey (Arts & Homelessness International, UK)

12-1pm Trauma and Arts and Homelessness – Jess Turtle, Museum of Homelessness, Nell Hardy, Response Ability Theatre and Arts & Homelessness International Associate Alumni, UK), Nailah Muhammad, Kreatives Talk and Arts & Homelessness International Associate Alumni, UK), Christina Cooper (Northumbria University)

2-3pm The ‘Homelessness Friendly’ Cultural Space – Sarah Hiscock, (Factory International, UK), Claire Rivers, (Old Diorama Arts Centre, UK), Evelyn Lauro, Museu da Língua Portuguesa, Brazil), Matt Turtle, Museum of Homelessness, Simon Leroux, (Manchester Street Poem, UK), Katie Langford (Arts & Homelessness International – Chair) – Translated online into Portuguese and Spanish

3-4pm Additional performance by Lisa Ogun’ – ‘Immigrants to Venice’- From overseas to On the Seas – stories in a Verbatim theatre performance

4-5pm Artist Training and Support for Artists – Kate Richards Geller (Urban Voices Project, USA), Jade Fearnley (Making Things Up, UK), Farah Wardani (Laban, Lebanon), Jodie Cole (Arts & Homelessness International Associate, UK – Chair), Rico Vasconcellos, (Uma Só Voz, Brazil) – Translated online into Portuguese and Spanish

5-6pm Networking Hour

Friday 24th January

10-11am Women and Arts and Homelessness – Belinda Mason (Museum of Understanding Through Tolerance and Inclusion, Australia), Nell Hardy, Response Ability Theatre and Arts & Homelessness International Associate Alumni, UK), Sarah Hough, (Arts & Homelessness International Associate Alumni, UK), Alex Smith, (Homeless Link, UK), Katie Langford (Arts & Homelessness International – Chair)

12-1pm Homelessness and Arts and the Environment – Yvette Waweru, (architect, researcher, UK/Kenya), Adetunwase Adenle, (Slum Art, Nigeria), Diamantina Arcoiris, (Amor Real, Colombia), Alex Bax (Pathway, UK), Katie Langford (Arts & Homelessness International – Chair) – Translated online into Portuguese and Spanish

2-3pm Funding for Arts and Homelessness – Innovative Approaches – Sulu LeoNimm, (Theatre of the Oppressed NYC, USA), Mark Horvath, (Invisible People, USA), Brijesh Arya, (Pehchan, India), Ricardo Américo Gadpen (Hecho en Base, Argentina), Samra Said (Arts & Homelessness International – Chair) – Translated online into Portuguese and Spanish

4-5pm Arts and Homelessness and Academic Research – Christina Cooper, (Northumbria University, UK), Diana Margot Rosenthal, (New York University, USA), Natasha Boardman-Steer, (Open University, UK), Milena Sapey (Buenos Aires University, Argentina), Samra Said (Arts & Homelessness International – Chair) – Translated online into Portuguese and Spanish

5-6pm Networking Hour