A celebration and afternoon of performances to launch the public programme of the Women’s Museum, a new cultural space in Barking east-London. 

1pm – 3pm – Collage Club and Women's Museum workshops led by designer Claire Mason

4pm – 4.45pm – Lesley Asare and Jazreena Harlow lead a procession beginning at Barking Abbey to The Women’s Museum followed by a breathe work and sound bath

5.15pm – 6pm - Dr. Hannah Catherine Jones leads an embodied listening and singing bowls session set to the healing frequency of 432 Hz

Artist Lesley Asare and Sound Healer Jazreena Harlow invite you to join an audio and movement based performance where intentions and native seeds will be sown for the new space. A procession beginning at the ruins of Barking Abbey will be intertwined with a ceremonial breathwork, planting and sound bath session. The evening ends with a listening session by the artist, scholar, multi-instrumentalist Dr. Hannah C. Jones who will lead a triangular dialogue between the resonating chambers of our bodies, singing bowls tuned to 432 Hz, and a carefully selected playlist of healing sounds also tuned to 432 Hz. Creating an embodied experience of her research into the physiological healing potentials of tuning down. 

This evening is curated by Nephertiti Oboshie Schandorf to honour the upcoming opening exhibition of the Women’s Museum in March 2023. A dynamic new space showcasing the history, stories and role of women from both the local area and beyond, the Women's Museum will showcase exhibitions, learning opportunities, community events and workshops. www.valencehousecollections.co.uk/womens-museum/

Lesley Asare 

Lesley Asare is a British Ghanaian Multidisciplinary Artist, Tamalpa Teacher training graduate, Somatic Coach, Breathwork Practitioner and Mentor, based in Milton Keynes, UK. As a multidisciplinary artist, her practice is led by her quest for truth and a desire to be more present. 

She wholeheartedly believes in the healing power of the creative process. Her work explores identity, personal histories and the experiences of Black People. Through her work she aims to create the space for play, stillness, self-reflection, self- discovery, empowerment, transformation and healing.

Jazreena Harlow 

Jazreena Harlow is the Founder behind the brand Radiant Wisdom. She is a creative, space holder, guide & coach offering a mix of dynamic modalities - Life Coaching, Human Design Analysis, Sound Healing and Personal Branding to assist clients with deeper Self-Connection, turning up the dial on Inner Radiance and understanding their individual energetics.

Dr. Hannah Catherine Jones

Dr. Hannah Catherine Jones (aka Foxy Moron) is a London-based artist, scholar, multi-instrumentalist, broadcaster and DJ (BBC Radio/TV, NTS - The Opera Show), composer, conductor, founder of Peckham Chamber Orchestra – a community project established in 2013 and founder of Chiron Choir - a queer diasporic choir established in 2022. Jones completed her AHRC DPhil scholarship at Oxford University for which the ongoing body of work The Oweds was presented as a series of live and recorded, broadcast, audio-visual episode-compositions, using disruptive sound as a methodology of institutional decolonisation and was awarded with no corrections in 2021. Jones was a recipient of the BBC Radiophonic Oram Award for innovation in music (2018) and has been previously nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Award Composer Award (2014).
Dr. Jones has performed and exhibited widely, internationally, including NIRIN - 22nd Biennial of Sydney (2020), produced the solo show Owed to Chiron (The Wounded Healer) in London (2022) and currently has a new 4-channel sonic artwork, UPRISINGS (trope lento), at the National Gallery as part of Artist-In-Residence Céline Condorelli’s exhibition Pentimenti (The Corrections) open until January 2024.