This page showcases a selection of projects, events and creative work I have delivered across arts, education and community contexts. It includes facilitation and engagement projects, events coordination and performance-based work that demonstrates my access-led, people-centred approach to creative practice.
Facilitation and Engagement Projects
My facilitation and engagement work spans creative workshops, discussion-led sessions and participation-focused activity. Projects are shaped around access, reflection and collaboration, with a focus on confidence, voice and connection.
Student Digital Media and Creative Engagement Project
I have facilitated and supported a student-led digital media and creative engagement programme focused on building confidence, skills and voice. Working with student volunteers, I supported activity around writing, blogging, podcasting and content creation for social media, creating low-pressure spaces where participants could explore ideas, learn collaboratively and develop their own creative interests. The project was shaped responsively, prioritising accessibility, encouragement, development and peer support over polished outputs.
Creative Workshops for Reflection, Voice and Self-Expression
Alongside project-based work, I have facilitated creative workshops exploring play, creativity and imagination, often combining voice and body with text-based and physical approaches. Sessions have included activities such as animal studies, colour studies and embodied exploration, supporting participants to experiment, reflect and communicate in different ways. Workshops are adapted to the needs and access requirements of each group, with a focus on care, clarity and choice, allowing participants to engage creatively at their own pace and build confidence through shared exploration.
Events and Delivery Highlights
Alongside creative practice, I have experience supporting and delivering events, showcases and participatory activity across arts and education settings. My role often sits between creative vision and practical delivery, ensuring events are organised, accessible and well-held for participants and audiences.
Arts Showcases and Public-Facing Events
I have independently organised and delivered arts showcases and public-facing events within education and community contexts, taking full responsibility for planning and delivery. This has included recruiting, supporting and training volunteers, coordinating contributors, managing schedules and overseeing the logistics on the day. My approach prioritises clear communication, access and participant care, ensuring events are structured, welcoming and run smoothly for both audiences and the artists involved.
Engagement, Recruitment and Fundraising Events
In previous roles, I have contributed to the planning and delivery of recruitment and engagement events as part of a wider team. This included supporting live performance fundraisers and engagement activity designed to bring students together, encourage participation and promote creative opportunities. In these contexts, I worked collaboratively with staff, volunteers and contributors, supporting delivery on the day while remaining attentive to access, communication and audience experience.
Theatre and Creative Work
The following projects demonstrate how I use performance, live art and devised practice as tools for exploration, engagement and advocacy.
Who Wants to Be a Real Person? (2025)
A pastiche, multimedia political theatre project critiquing the systemic treatment of women within healthcare systems.
The work combined performance, projected media and critical commentary to explore how women’s bodies and experiences are framed, dismissed or misunderstood within medical and institutional contexts.
Performed as part of the Ignition BA (Hons) Theatre & Performance Finalist Showcase at the Media Factory, Preston.
Credit: Sarah Mahmood (2025)
Suff(e)rage! (2025)
An interactive, durational live art project exploring the pressures and expectations placed on women across the past 125 years.
The work invited audiences to encounter historical and contemporary narratives through presence, repetition and participation, encouraging reflection on progress, resistance and ongoing inequality.
Presented as part of Social Experiment by Word of Warning and hÅb Manchester at Contact Theatre, Manchester.
Credit: Tamsin Drury (2025)
She’s Hysterical (2024)
A verbatim and clown-inspired political performance art piece responding to women’s experiences of healthcare in the UK.
Drawing on testimony, humour, and discomfort, the project challenged medical misogyny and the language used to dismiss women’s pain and autonomy.
Performed at the Media Factory, UCLan, Preston.
Credit: Jan Pablo (2024)
Labyrinth (2024-25)
A short devised monologue exploring the experience of navigating life following a new chronic illness diagnosis.
The piece focused on uncertainty, identity, and the emotional labour of self-advocacy, using text-based storytelling to centre lived experience.
Most recently performed at Enjoy the Show Scratch Night, The Ferret, Preston.
Credit: Garry Cook (2025)
Text Me When You Get Home (2022-)
An ongoing devised solo project exploring women’s safety through three interwoven strands: the universal ‘girl’, the legacy of Sarah Everard and societal expectations placed on women’s behaviour.
The project uses narrative and political framing to examine how fear, responsibility and survival are normalised within everyday life.
First performed at the Media Factory, UCLan, Preston.
Credit: Dylan Haslam (2023)
Interested in Working Together?
If you’d like to discuss a project, workshop, event delivery or creative collaboration inspired by the work above, I’d be happy to talk.
Harley Keasey 