ECDP RADIO

ECDP Radio features interviews with a range of ECDP commissioned artists, diverse artists, arts organisations and past and present projects, presented by Nita Jhummu. In this episode, Nita interviews Artist EVEWRIGHT. The artist talks about his work inspired by the Windrush generation, Coronavirus, family and dealing with grief during lockdown. 

EVEWRIGHT's work 'Mother's Touch' was shown as part of 'Art For Life' exhibition at Firstsite in Colchester in 2021, that focused on key workers and the pandemic.

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About EVEWRIGHT

Everton Wright (EVEWRIGHT) is a British artist, with parentage from Jamaica. His work is a conscious ‘mash up’ of drawing, sculpture, combined with digital film and live installations. EVEWRIGHT’s work explores the intricate connections between the body and our experience of the modern environment, and he communicates this through bold interactive art, also using urban and rural landscapes as his canvas.

EVEWRIGHT studied graphic design at Middlesex University, received a first class degree and continued on to train as an artist in mixed media painting at Central St Martins College of Art, where he did his foundation. He also trained in film and video production at Four Corners London.

With a professional background in commercial graphic design, EVEWRIGHT is also an award-winning creative director, responsible for creating iconic imagery. However, art has since become his focus and EVEWRIGHT as participated in several group and solo exhibitions including: Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition, London, Jeanne Kahn Gallery 2012 and Porters Gallery 2014. Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, Medulla Art Gallery, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 2013, Nominated for the Young Masters Art prize 2014. ELECTRONICS ALIVE VIII Biennial, Tampa Florida USA 2015, Ripon Cathedral. Great North Art Show 2015, Guildhall Gallery. No Colour Bar Exhibition 2015. BFI British Film Institute. Firstsite gallery Britishness exhibition 2018, Caribbean Takeaway Takeover 2018. Migration Museum London 2019. V&A Friday Night Late. July2019.

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ECDP Radio: Nita meets Artist Evewright

ECDP Radio features interviews with a range of Essex Cultural Diversity Project's friends, partners, artists and arts organisations working in diversity, presented by Nita Jhummu. In this episode, Nita unearths the story of an Indian Princess buried in Doddinghurst Essex, with the help of Sikh Historian Peter Bance and Caroline Seville who used to manage the All Saints Church Graveyard.

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ECDP Radio: An Indian Princess In Doddinghurst

ECDP Radio features interviews with a range of Essex Cultural Diversity Project's friends, partners, artists and arts organisations working in diversity, presented by Nita Jhummu. In this episode, Nita meets the wonderful Singh Twins, contemporary artists who are showing work at Firstsite in Colchester, as part of the Festival of east Anglia & Punjab.

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ECDP Radio: Nita meets the Singh Twins

In this episode of ECDP Radio, Nita Jhummu meets people involved in the Braintree Music Project, including Sarah Goldsmith from Essex Music Hub, and musicians Jonathan Mayer and Josh Doughty.

In 2022 Essex Cultural Diversity Project worked in partnership with Essex Music Education Hub and Braintree District Cultural Education Partnership to deliver an exciting cultural diversity music project in schools. Seven creative practitioners worked closely with teachers in six schools across the Braintree district. The aim was to help young people to understand other cultures and traditions, pilot new ways of working that can be embedded into daily school practice, and develop a bank of teaching resources that can be shared with other schools.

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ECDP Radio: Nita discovers the Braintree Music Project

Welcome to the second episode of ECDP RADIO! Broadcaster Nita Jhummu launches a series of programmes that celebrated and explores cultural diversity in arts and heritage, in Essex and beyond.

In this episode Nita talks to Seema Anand. Seema is a Storyteller, Artist and Narrative Specialist. She is a Doctor of Narrative Practices, working with the uses and the implications of ‘Oralness’, specialising in Story telling. Seema specialises in global mythologies – comparing and retelling stories through different cultural nuances to give everyone ownership of the tales. Her ongoing work in researching and collating stories from the ancient Asian texts is an invaluable resource, both in the corporate and the education sectors. Story, according to Seema, is a physical skill and a visual art and her work is developed to include alternative aesthetic and cultural perspectives for all ages and capacities. ECDP has partnered with Seema on many different projects over the years, including the Kavaad Picnic in rural locations of Essex, hosting events as part of a project inspired by ‘Princess Sophia: Suffragettes and Women’s Votes, exploring BAME women’s engagement in the democratic process. Seema has also hosted events as part of our Festival of Norfolk & Punjab.
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About Seema Anand

Seema is a Storyteller, Artist and Narrative Specialist. She is a Doctor of Narrative Practices, working with the uses and the implications of ‘Oralness’, specialising in Story telling. Seema specialises in global mythologies – comparing and retelling stories through different cultural nuances to give everyone ownership of the tales. Her ongoing work in researching and collating stories from the ancient Asian texts is an invaluable resource, both in the corporate and the education sectors. Story, according to Seema, is a physical skill and a visual art and her work is developed to include alternative aesthetic and cultural perspectives for all ages and capacities. ECDP has partnered with Seema on many different projects over the years, including the Kavaad Picnic in rural locations of Essex, hosting events as part of a project inspired by ‘Princess Sophia: Suffragettes and Women’s Votes, exploring BAME women’s engagement in the democratic process. Seema has also hosted events as part of our Festival of Norfolk & Punjab.
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About Nita Jhummu

Nita Jhummu is an award-winning radio broadcaster having won “Presenter of the Year” at the HBA National Hospital Radio Awards in Bolton in 2017, as part of the Hospital Radio Chelmsford team. She currently presents popular show, “City Talk” on Monday nights on Chelmsford Community Radio (CCR 104.4FM) and has a real passion for radio – be that talk shows or feel-good music.

Aside from radio broadcasting, Nita has a background in financial services and data analytics. Nita is a graduate of the London School of Economics and having worked for prestigious companies such as Citibank, Deloitte and Lloyds Banking Group, Nita is now working for a specialist lender who focus on niche mortgages, development, construction and asset finance.

Nita is from Brentwood and her heritage is from Mauritius. Her parents were instrumental in setting up the Essex Hindu Dharma Society which was a group set up in Brentwood in the 1990s and is still going strong today from it’s base in Witham. Nita’s favourite foods are her Mum’s dholl puri and her Dad’s rougaille – both yummy traditional Mauritian foods.

ECDP Radio: Nita discovers the Braintree Music Project

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