Gabriella Gay

Executive Co-Director -  Founding Member and Artistic Director

POET - Literary Arts

Gabriella is responsible for the creative vision of Kwanzaa Collective UK and its programmes.

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Gabriella Gay is a Trinidad born page-stage poet, artist, trained teacher, creative producer and PhD researcher who is regularly commissioned to perform, write, organise events and facilitate workshops for a wide range of organisations including the BBC, the V&A, the NHS and the National Theatre.  She is the founder of Stoke’s Roaming Poets and Kwanzaa Collective UK. She is an associate artist at B-arts, Restoke, and has been trustee of the New Vic Theatre for nine years. Gabriella has made numerous TV and radio appearances and her work features in shows, exhibitions, advertisements and the Visit Stoke official video.

Underlying all of Gabriella's written, performed and socially engaged work is the power of sharing our stories, building community and amplifying the voices of often unheard people and places. 

Gabriella is interested in publishing in unusual ways and explored her interest in working in overlooked spaces in her recent TEDx talk at Keele University. Her PhD project, 'Staffordshire's Colonial Connections: Re-imaging Black voices from the archival debris' writes from the fragmented records of Black men and women who lived in Staffordshire. It explores how we can creatively and critically address the silences in Staffordshire's archives.