As the Community Engagement Manager at The Barbican, Sade brought Chloe in to collaborate on the legacy planning for the Walthamstow Garden Party. This collaboration led to the development of the Creative Citizens Fellowship – a capacity building programme for community partners, The Walthamstow Ideas Kitchen – a model for participatory grantmaking and prepared the ground for LB Walthamstow Borough of Culture in 2019.
This began our relationship and catalysed Sade’s departure from working within cultural Institutions. From this point onwards, We began to experiment with disrupting institutions from the outside.