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as well as currently working on a Carnival CD rom
game.He is currently negotiating the involvement
of Carnival Arts in the opening and closing of the
Commonwealth Games next year to coincide with
the launch of the ‘’On Route’’ Carnival book.
Greg Hilty
Director of Arts, London Arts
Greg Hilty has been Director of Arts at London Arts
since 1999. Before that he was Senior Curator and
Head of Public Programmes at the Hayward
Gallery on the South Bank and Exhibitions Director
at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith.
Denise Mellion
Lead Officer for Carnival, London Arts
Denise Mellion has been Combined Arts Officer,
including Lead Officer for Carnival at London Arts
since 1996.
Greta Mendez
Carnival Advisory Group, London Arts
Greta Mendez has been a member of the Carnival
Advisory Group,at London Arts since 1996. She is a
dancer, choreographer and Carnival specialist. She
is an experienced workshop leader and has
directed for Talawa. She is currently working on a
one woman Carnival performance piece
‘’Ndulgence’’.
Celia Burgess Macey
Having been a teacher and advisory teacher in
primary schools in London since 1972, Celia
Burgess-Macey is now a Teacher Trainer at
Goldsmith’s College, University of London. During
her time with ILEA (Inner London Education
Authority), she was seconded to work with the
multi-ethnic inspectorate designing and running
courses for teachers on race, community and
curriculum. She took up a research fellowship at
the Institute of Education Centre for Multicultural
Education undertaking research into the
implementation of ILEAs equal opportunities
policies in schools. She was a member of the
Editorial board of Multi-ethnic Education Review.
From 1982 to 1986 she worked on an ILEA
research project on the implementation of the
Rampton/Swann reports. This project, directed
by Winston Best and led by Leela Ramdeen
focused specifically on developing inclusive
curricula and teaching approaches for children of
Caribbean origin. In 1985 she accompanied
Trevor Carter and Bebb Burchell from ILEA multiethnic
inspectorate to Trinidad to look at school
Carnivals. On returning to London she helped
prepare a ‘’Carnival in the curriculum’’ tape slide
which, had ILEA continued, would have been
reproduced and sold by the Centre for learning
resources.
Following the demise of ILEA, Burgess-Macey
was appointed primary and early years adviser in
the London Borough of Lambeth. In 1994,
Lambeth successfully bid for funding from the
London Arts Board to launch a Carnival project in
seven schools. She led this project which has
resulted in a carnivals in schools exhibition, a
street Carnival to Brockwell Park, and the
formation of an ongoing schools Carnival Group
run by herself and a small group of committed
teachers on a voluntary basis. The Carnival in
Lambeth spread to 21 schools since then and the
group have produced a Carnival in the Curriculum
resources pack with the support of Lambeth
Endowed Charities.
Since her arrival at Goldsmith’s College, Burgess-
Macey has been instrumental in introducing
Carnival Arts workshops into both the BA(ed) and
PGCE programmes for teacher trainees and in
developing research into the implementation of
carnivals in schools. She has presented several
conferences including the international carnival
conference in Trinidad last year.
This year she accompanied a Lambeth primary
school teacher from Stockwell Park Secondary
School on an exchange visit to St Ursula's primary
school in Port of Spain in order to learn more
about school Carnivals in Trinidad and to
establish ongoing collaboration between the two
schools and their children.
Carol Chin
Carol Chin is a teacher and fine artist. She
received an invitation from the Creative and
Festival Arts Centre at the University of the West
Indies to exhibit her work at the Trinidad:1234
gallery in the ‘Inner and Outer Space’ exhibition.
She has worked on Carnival arts at the Horniman
Museum and will be Artist in Residence at the
198 Gallery, Herne Hill where she will conduct
workshops with children from the Family and
Friends Summer Scheme to coincide with the
Notting Hill Carnival exhibition.
Joan Anim-Addo
Head of Caribbean Centre, Goldsmith’s College,
University of London
Joan Anim-Addo is head of the Caribbean Centre
at Goldsmiths College, University of London,
editor of Mango Season, which presents and
debates Caribbean women’s writing. She is also
the founder of Mango Publishing and the
company published Limbolands (1999) by
Maggie Harris which won the prestigious Guyana
prize for the best first book of Poetry. At
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