Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp on Clubhouse

Bio

British-Nigerian 🇬🇧🇳🇬
based in London

Freelance Arts & Culture Consultant
Interim CEO Eclipse Theatre
Former dancer / choreographer / dance teacher / director
Former CEO of The Place
Former Director of The Africa Centre
RSA Fellow

Loves music, dance, theatre, visual arts, literature, film, African film, African fashion, African music, African art. Hobbies include tennis, sea-kayaking. Plays piano, Javanese gamelan, mbira, kalimba.
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Trustee of @Chineke4Change & @New_Adventures / School Governor

Passionate about the role of the arts in young people’s development.

Could talk about music all day!
Especially jazz, classical music, baroque music, choral music, chamber music, orchestral music, mbira, gamelan, kora, world music, highlife, Afrobeat, Afrobeats, folk, healing music, metaphysics of sound, 432hz, 528hz.

Other interests - contemporary dance, ballet, hip hop, South Asian dance. London National Park City

Made a CBE in 2017.

P.S. “Don’t touch my ‘fro!“ 🤣