Orode Faka

Connecting my life to art and my art to life - Theatre | Art | Dance | Stories.

My creative practice is deeply rooted in community care, solidarity, and self-determination and focuses on redressing structural discrimination and injustice through exploring questions of agency, collectivity and identity as prompts to important conversations and social action.

I makes art that is personal and deeply rooted in my life experiences and observations to evoke purposeful inclusivity, curiousity, remembrance, a safe space for building bonds of solidarity and emancipation from the mental enslavement our cultural socio-economic environments hold us in bondage.

Currently exploring leveraging for arts and culture practitioners to incubate ideas and new work to form creative public policy interventions around social housing and related issues. This is an ongoing practice through my own lived experience as a resident in social housing in Roehampton.

With over 10 years experience in arts in education, Orode is passionate about bringing creativity, innovation and enjoyment in learning and used this approach to work in a diverse range of mainstream and alternative education settings and community groups.

She has worked with the Ambassador Theatre Group, Creative Partnerships, UK Centre for Carnival Arts, Royal Opera House, Social Innovation Exchange (SIX) and has been a visiting lecturer at University Arts London and St Mary's University College.

Orode is an Ultd award winner (2013), which she won to start up Roehampton R.O.C.K.S! a community arts hub where she lives. Most recently, she was 1 of 3 UK artists awarded a British Council Los Angeles Fellowship and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.