Dance Harlesden

2013 – Rose invited ten friends to arrive at her flat one Sunday morning dressed as though they’d been up all night. They walked in a silence pilgrimage down to the Jubilee Clock in Harlesden. The idea was to bring tenderness to the heart of Harlesden. To the sounds of Phil Dale on the bassoon. People were either hypnotised, horrified or bemused.

Death Dinner

2017 – Advantages of Age were awarded an Arts Council England grant to stage a series of performances aimed at breaking the taboos around ageing. One of the strands was a performance called Death Dinner – they took over the Dissenters’ Chapel in Kensal Green Cemetery, put on an abundant feast, invited all sorts of characters from death world including a death rituals’ academic, a death midwife and a mortician. The talked about what a good death might look like, trends in death and dying and their personal wishes around death. Participants were invited to come dressed as they would like to be buried or burnt.

It had a sell-out launch at the Pathology Museum, and several outings to festivals like Byline Festival.

Building on Stilts

2020 – The Willesden Junction Poets were all filmed reading their poems at the station itself by Marlon Rouse Tavares. This is Rose reading Building on Stilts. It was funded by the Brent2020 Culture Fund.