Listening to Laughter: Oral Histories From The People Of Redbridge

Presented by Almass Badat

Step into a world alive with humour through storytelling in this interactive, bold workshop. Guided by Almass Badat, we’ll unearth the joy, express the real, and amplify the voices of Redbridge’s creative community. Together, we’ll craft a five-minute provocative audio piece and collage-cover art, celebrating laughter as a radical act of empowerment and presenting oral history as radical art.

Who is Almass?

Almass Badat is a multidisciplinary creative professional across music, film and the arts. Through her directorial, digital communications, international live event production and broadcasting skills, she tells compassionate, colourful stories. Her disciplines span across film-directing, DJing, collage-making, photography, hosting, mentoring, programming & more.

Almass is a member of the BRITS Voting Academy as well as the Soho House membership committee. You can hear Almass in the mix monthly on Voices Radio and in conversation on the What is this Behaviour? podcast now available on British Airways, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Explore her film, audio & photography on this website and check out British Underground, where she produces international music showcases.

Outside of her projects and commissions, Almass mentors developing creative professionals and practises collage-making and ceramics.  

Notable collaborators include: Southbank Centre, British Airways, British Underground, Glastonbury festival, Kérastase, Dialled In, Fender, Amazon Music, British Council, Tay Iwar, Elrow, BBC Asian Network, The Science Gallery, ICA, Netflix, V&A, Boiler Room, BBC, British Podcast Awards Trippin World, WorldwideFM, NTS, BoxOut FM & DAZED. 

Date, Time & Location

Hainault Youth Centre

Wednesday 30th April – 3pm to 5pm

Frenford Clubs

Wednesday 7th May – 5pm to 7pm

Key Learning Outcomes:

• Humanising stories of the people of Redbridge. 
• Upskilling participant into audio content production 
• Responding to a brief.

Who is the workshop for?

These workshops are tailored for young people ages 16 to 25 years who are starting their careers. However we still welcome participants 25+.

What to bring?

• Images and magazine for collaging.
• Please bring a laptop or tablet. We have a limited number of laptops available for those who don’t have access to one and want to join.
• We also ask participants to bring headphones with a microphone, this doesn’t have to be any high tech set, just something you use your phones with.