The Inc Arts team is growing...

Ailin is a Japanese-American director with a passion for daring new works of theatre that engage audiences with untold and under-told stories in a visual, visceral way. Her Colchester-based physical company, Theatre Témoin, is a 1ºEast Portfolio, Lowry ‘Developed With’, and Without Walls Portfolio company, and has worked in collaboration with The Salisbury Playhouse, Ovalhouse, Roundhouse, GDIF, and others. 

Ailin is a board member of Stage Directors UK and the Directors Charitable Foundation, a delegate member of Artistic Directors of the Future, and a core member of Migrants in Theatre.

Anand Bhatt is a dance enthusiast and producer from Leicester . With an interest in all things Michael Jackson and Bollywood, he stumbled upon contemporary dance in 2007 when he was dancing in a Kathak show along with dancer Aakash Odedra. As Aakash and Anand found their creative talks and dreams aligned, the clearer it also became that Anand was not in fact a dancer. He started to help out Aakash with his shows, and ended up as his producer. Their first project ‘Rising’ featured commissions by Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Russell Maliphant.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Anand developed the Shiamak UK operations to 14 sites across 6 English regions with 1000-people attending per week. At Dance City Anand became Artistic Director and Chief Executive in 2020. Anand was awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list in 2021 for services to Dance and Community.

Ayesha Casely-Hayford is an Offies Award nominated actress, and award-winning voice artist.  She is also a solicitor specialising in employment and discrimination law and former chair of the board of trustees of The Act For Change Project (which campaigns for greater diversity in the live and recorded arts). 

Over the last decade, Jiten's work has focussed on pioneering new ground-breaking arts festivals and cultural interventions. As a Director of a small social enterprise, he has had the opportunity to work across a breadth of roles, namely, a Creative Producer, Strategic Partnerships Manager and Festival Director.  

He started his journey in 2011 when establishing Inspirate. Since then, he has led one of the UK’s most exciting contemporary South Asian arts festivals, An Indian Summer, established Bring The Paint festival with Graffwerk, and is now working towards cementing Inspirate’s position as a pioneering cultural beacon in the Midlands. 

He is also a Clore graduate having completed the Short Course. These experiences in particular have helped him to propel his aspirations as a young South Asian cultural entrepreneur.

Leo Wan is an actor and arts campaigner. As an actor, he has worked with The National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare's Globe and New Earth Theatre. He works with a number of campaigns to ensure the performing arts is diverse, equitable and accessible. He sits on Equity's Race Equality Committee and the Board of Northern Broadsides.

Matthew Xia is a self-taught theatre director, DJ, composer, broadcaster and journalist with a focus on using theatre as a platform to promote inclusion, activism and social change.

Matthew has served as Associate Director at Stratford East, Director in Residence at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Associate Artist at the Nottingham Playhouse and as Associate Artistic Director at the Manchester Royal Exchange.

Matthew is a founding member of Act for Change, which is a registered charity with the mission of strengthening diversity in the arts. He is also a trustee of Cardboard Citizens, the UK's only homeless people's professional theatre company, as well as a trustee of Artistic Directors of the Future. 2020 has seen him join the Everyman and Playhouse Diversity Action Group as well as the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama's Equity Committee.

Omeima is a British-Sudanese combined textile artist, Crafts Maker and Independent Curator who has exhibited both nationally and internationally and received the runner-up prize for the Arab British Centre Award for Culture 2019 (individual award).

In 2018 Omeima was commissioned by Artichoke to work with local communities in Brighton bringing deaf and hearing women together to create a banner that took part in the PROCESSIONS event to mark the centenary of women's right to vote in the UK.

Omeima is a 2019/20 Clore Cultural Leadership Fellow, Creative Consultant, Deaf and Hard of Hearing Accessibility Consultant and Trainer and a leader in creating Deaf and Hard of Hearing integrated activities that promotes both equity and professional development opportunities.

Paula Gazzard has worked in academia, media and digital industries before founding Fossbox in 2005 to translate collaborative research into real-world impacts working with universities, civil society, and creative industries. 

Paula has a PhD in Culture & Communication from the University of Sussex and has been a partner/co-investigator in numerous research collaborations funded by Research Councils UK/EU. Paula was also Director of Policy & External Relations at the Council for Higher Education in Art & Design, a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Design and Innovation Group, Creative Industries Federation Higher Education Working Group, and Director of the Contemporary Visual Arts Network.

A keen advocate for neurodiversity in creative and digital industries, Paula is also currently a member of the research advisory group for Autistica and founded Neurodissident Cafe, a national network for autistic women

Tigho Feldman has worked in the arts sector for over twelve years and the charity sector for over twenty years. She has been working in HR and EDI for over five years and is qualified as a Chartered Member of the CIPD. As an ethnically diverse woman she is passionate about the arts being more diverse and inclusive, allowing everyone who wants to participate to have access and to have a voice and be heard.  

In line with Inc Arts Unlock principles, all of our contracts are offered on a fixed-term basis, open to renewal after the stated term period (unless stated otherwise)

Inc Arts UK is part of the UK’s arts and cultural sector, where ethnic diversity is under-represented at all levels. As our mission is to build an inclusive workforce and society, we welcome applications from all areas of the arts and culture community, and in particular from applicants of ethnically diverse heritage. 

Closing date: Wednesday 15th September 

We are looking for an experienced Executive Assistant and Administrator to support the smooth running of the entire business with a special focus on executive level management; someone accustomed to grasping what an organisation does quickly and maintaining a strategic overview. 

Essentially, we want you on our team if you are; highly organised, possess superb presentation, written and verbal skills, and are able to handle sensitive information with care and tact.

To apply, please email admin@incarts.uk with your CV and a cover letter of 500 words or fewer on why you want to work with us, and detailing your relevant experience. You might want to send us a video instead of a letter - that’s fine too.

For more information on the role, please see the full job description below.

Closing date: Wednesday 15th September

We are looking for an ambitious, organised and passionate Project Manager to lead on campaigns and projects delivery for Inc Arts.

If you are someone who can confidently communicate and engage with people at all levels, who is equally skilled at relationship management and group facilitation, and is invested in the growing agenda of diversity and inclusion within the creative and cultural sector then we’d love to hear from you. 

To apply, please email admin@incarts.uk with your CV, a sample of, link to, or image and/or short description of an arts or advocacy project you have worked on, and a cover letter of 800 words or fewer on why you want to work with us, and detailing your relevant experience.  

You might want to send us a video instead of a letter - that’s fine too. 

For more information on the role, please see the full job description below. 

Closing date: Wednesday 15th September

We are looking for a Digital Content Manager responsible for communicating our vision, mission and objectives in a transparent, clear and exciting way.  

Through creating, managing and scheduling our content and campaigns you will grow our reach and manage both our internal and external stakeholder communications to maintain and develop our relationships and partnerships between Inc Arts and ethnically diverse workers, sector leaders and advocacy groups.  

You will be knowledgeable of, and attentive to, and proactive in scanning for the trends, concerns, issues and events that concern Inc Arts, our activities, the sector and beyond. You produce reactive communications that responds to sector issues through securing Inc Arts’ comment in a timely manner, as well as securing PR profile opportunities for Inc Arts’ work and Inc Arts’ CEO.  

You will also be responsible for ensuring Inc Arts’ websites create an accessible, positive, exciting and compelling presence that enhances Inc Arts’ business growth and sector engagement and profile.  

Inc Arts is peer-centred, which means our messaging has the ethnically diverse cohort at the heart of all we do and say. 

To apply, please email admin@incarts.uk with your CV and a cover letter of 800 words or fewer on why you want to work with us, and detailing your relevant experience. You might want to send us a video instead of a letter - that’s fine too. 

For more information on the role, please see the full job description below. 

Closing date: Wednesday 15th September  

We are looking for a Projects Officer to support the development and execution of our exciting project work across our Research, Advocacy, and Networking and Fellowship work streams – from helping to build and run campaigns, assisting the write up and design of our public research reports to drafting letters to sector leaders and building outreach databases.  

We are looking for someone with experience and passion for working within the arts and creative industries as well as for advocacy work, with an ability to grasp and carry out both the creative and organisational aspects of project work. We want someone tapped into the issues of the ethnically diverse workers and practitioners in the sector and good at hunting for information and opportunities to develop and connect both our and others’ advocacy across the sector and beyond.  

Essentially, we want you on our team if you are passionate about making inclusive change, a creative thinker, highly motivated and organised, and possess superb presentation, written and verbal skills. 

To apply, please email admin@incarts.uk with your CV, a sample of, link to, or image and/or short description of an arts or advocacy project you have worked on, and a cover letter of 800 words or fewer on why you want to work with us, and detailing your relevant experience.  You might want to send us a video instead of a letter - that’s fine too. 

For more information on the role, please see the full job description below.  

We are looking for researchers experienced in quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to join our fast-growing team.  Inc Arts is ramping up our public research output over the coming months, and we are looking for energised and dedicated researchers to realise this work. Inc Arts conducts research on the experiences of ethnically diverse people working in the sector and the EDI practices of arts organisations in partnership with research and/or arts organisations, and on behalf of clients, Inc Arts conducts this through a range of methods, ranging from surveys and interviews to literature reviews. 

The primary responsibilities of the Researcher will be to facilitate and manage the collection and analysis of data, conduct research, collate resources, and provide research, analysis and reporting on all research information relevant to Inc Arts. 

The Researcher will provide accurate, accessible and concise written presentations for public promotion, including sourcing appropriate graphic presentation of research outputs. 

To apply, please email admin@incarts.uk with your CV,  a short sample of your written research work, and a cover letter of 800 words or fewer on why you want to work with us, and detailing your relevant experience.  You might want to send us a video instead of a letter - that’s fine too. 

We are also interested in hearing from freelance researchers looking to take on either regular or project-based work. 

For more information on the role, please see the full job description below.