Kala Sangam Appoints Archive Assistants
We are delighted to introduce the four Archive Assistants, who will be working on the creation of our archive. As we look ahead to our reopening as Bradford Arts Centre, Ella Barrett, Emma Illingworth, Farhana Khan Pushpa and Nathan McGill will be supporting Archivist Alex Wilson to document and preserve our history.
The Archive Assistant positions were created specifically to help students and early career archivists gain value experience working on a real archive. Their input will help shape the Kala Sangam archive, ensuring that it reflects of our work over the last 30 years and our home at St Peter’s House.
Alex Wilson said, ‘I’m very proud to announce the Kala Sangam Archive Assistants, who will be joining me in the project. This team will give us a great mix of experiences and new ideas to the project, helping us steer the development of the archive in exciting and innovative ways. From cataloguing and digitisation, to archive re-activations, researching and oral history making, the Archive Assistants will bring so much to this project during 2025 as we look to cement an archival legacy for the history and future of Kala Sangam /Bradford Arts Centre.’
The Archive Assistants have begun working with Alex Wilson and we will be sharing more about the development of the archive in the new year.
Ella Barrett
Ella is a community archivist and curator based in Sheffield. Specialising in community archiving, she has been the lead archivist at The Bantu Archive Programme, a project specialising in recording the journey of Sheffield’s African-Caribbean community. Alongside this, she is half of White Teeth, an audio- visual collective that visualises archival work through short films and installations.
Emma Illingworth
Originally from West Yorkshire, Emma is a recent fine art graduate from Manchester School of Art. Her artistic practice explores temporality and the archive in the digital world and she is looking forward to starting her career within archives to enrich her creative research.
Farhana Khan Pushpa
Farhana Khan Pushpa is a communications and sustainability professional with over eight years of expertise in archive management, digitization, and oral history. Deeply connected to her South Asian roots, she is committed to preserving cultural heritage combining her professional skills with her passion for storytelling and community engagement.
Nathan McGill
Nathan is a Bradford based socially engaged photographer, who utilises analogue processes and archives to explore the interrelationship between people and place. Nathan is most looking forward to developing ways to support access to Kala Sangam’s archive and discovering methods to story-tell its collections.
