The BSWN Heritage team is growing, excited to work with cultural heritage institutions and BAME-led organisations in the region! Joining our team in January 2020 is Christelle Pellecuer in her role as Cultural Heritage Manager. Christelle has background in education having work for several years in research Council and universities in programme/project management role with an international focus. She has experience of working with Cultural Heritage while working at The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for 9 years.

Christelle is the founder of Razana Afrika, who has lead a project called “African queen”, which started as a photographic storytelling of real life African queens. As Ann extension to this project she has written a short film called “Golden Goddesss” based on the African Goddess Oshun. Christelle is currently developing the “African King” project.

Christelle has a special interest in fashion and textile. She is a professionally trained makeup artist with experience of working advertising campaigns, magazine shoots, films and TV shows. Her interest in African visual culture and history has led to organise several fashion shows in the community with special focus on work from designers from Africa and the diaspora. She curated a fashion show at Spike Island focused on Kanga cloth in connection to the Zanzibar-born artist Lubaina Himid, she rated a fashion show at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery in connection to their Fabric Africa exhibition. She will be curating a fashion show at RWA on 20th February, in the exhibition space of “Africa state of Mind”. Christelle is a presenter at Imperial Voice Radio based at Fairfield House and host “Fashion Rendezvous” show.

“ I am very excited to join BSWN and work on the ICH project. I am very interested in material culture and the importance of documenting our stories for future generation. Intangible culture is not so well documented in the heritage sector and this is an area BSWN can make a difference for the Black and Asian community.”