The Team
The festival is run by London Arts and Health in partnership with the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance.
Anna Woolf
CEO – London Arts and Health
At London Arts and Health, Anna has driven content and ideas around cultural social prescribing, practitioner care and networking with key stakeholders in Creative Health across London. Anna authored the Cultural Social Prescribing Myth Buster, co-chairs the London Action on Creative Health stakeholder group and runs initiatives such as the Digital Sandpit for LAH.
She has project-managed Creativity and Wellbeing Week for the last four years and overseen a plethora of events and partnerships.
Victoria Hume
Executive Director – Culture Health & Wellbeing Alliance
Victoria Hume is Director of the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance.
Victoria was an arts manager in the NHS for 15 years before pursuing arts in health in South Africa for 5 years, including setting up a new module in hospital-based performance for the University of the Witwatersrand and managing a three-year, Wellcome-funded drama and diabetes programme with Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. She is also a composer and researcher specialising in culture, health and wellbeing, and has a Masters in Music and Health Communication focused on hospital-induced delirium. She continues to write and release music through Lost Map Records, based on Eigg.
Amalia Restrepo
Research and Programme Director – London Arts and Health
Amalia is a researcher and project manager with expertise in creative health and community engagement. As Research Lead at London Arts and Health, she helped deliver the London Creative Health City Unconference at Battersea Arts Centre and contributed to the Understanding Creative Health in London report for the GLA Culture and Creative Industries team.
At London Arts and Health Amalia leads on our research projects including mapping the Creative Health sector pan-London, supporting the development of an Arts Strategy at St. George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub in Havering, writing a manifesto of Creative Health for Creative Health Hoxton as well as sharing knowledge through the sector via collaboration with a wide range of academic institutions.
Amalia also works as a Project Manager with Breaks and Joins, serves as the Coordinator for the Metro Mayors’ Creative Health Network alongside Laura Bailey, and is supporting the WMCA Creative Health Scoping Project with Dr. Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt. Amalia holds a Bachelor’s degree in Environment from McGill University, specializing in the Ecological Determinants of Health, and a Master’s in Creative Health from University College London.
Kheyla Anderson
Administration & Social Media Lead – Culture Health & Wellbeing Alliance
Kheyla has always had an invested interest in the wellbeing of others. Following the birth of her son in 2014, she founded Mother Nature’s Recipes, a company that focuses on making room for the necessity of self-care and community in motherhood from a holistic perspective. She also co-founds Birthing In Colour, a charitable organisation that creates safe spaces online for black and brown birthing bodies and is qualified as a Peer Supporter for the Association of Breastfeeding Mothers.