A Raybel Charters 'Culture Cargo' event for the Totally Thames Festival. Onboard Sailing Barge Raybel - St Katharine Docks

Dee Sada

Dee Sada is a London-based curator, broadcaster, and musician. She is the creator and host of For the Lost, a weekly Resonance FM radio programme and live event series exploring experimental music, poetry, storytelling and interdisciplinary performance, with a focus on underrepresented voices and independent artistic communities.

Dee curates and produces live events and broadcast programmes, and has collaborated with Raybel Charters, Spanners, Theatreship and Totally Thames Festival, bringing together artists across music, spoken word, sound art and performance. She is particularly interested in radio as both an artistic medium and a public space, creating live broadcasts that blur the boundaries between performance, documentation and participation.Alongside her curatorial work, she performs with the experimental no-wave trio An Experiment On A Bird In The Air Pump (AEOBITAP). Dee also produces solo work and collaborates with musicians including Massimo Braghieri and Fergus Lawrie (Urusei Yatsura).

As a curator, Dee has programmed interdisciplinary exhibitions and performances with some of the most radical voices in contemporary art, including Carolee Schneemann and Laure Prouvost. Her work has been supported by influential institutions such as CIRCA, Whitechapel Gallery, IKON Gallery, and Cafe OTO. Her practice explores memory, migration, myth and identity through sound, live performance and collaborative projects. She has curated events at Cafe OTO since 2015 and recently collaborated with Pop-Kultur Berlin on a series of workshops and panel events on DIY communities.

https://www.instagram.com/deesada1

Rishi Dastidar

Rishi Dastidar's fourth collection of poetry is Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak (Nine Arches Press, 2026). His third collection, Neptune's Projects (Nine Arches Press, 2023), was longlisted for the Laurel Prize, and a poem from it was included in The Forward Book of Poetry 2024. He is chair of Wasafiri, the magazine of international contemporary writing, a trustee of the Wordsworth Trust, and a regular poetry reviewer for The Guardian (UK).

https://www.instagram.com/betarish

Neptune's Projects

What do you do when you are a god – but powerless and unable to prevent one of your favourite species from their insatiable, accelerating death wish? Do you try to shout louder and more insistently, or instead reinvent yourself as a troubadour of romantic ruin, a barkeep, even a football manager? Such are the dilemmas posed by Rishi Dastidar in his third poetry collection Neptune's Projects, a reshaping of mythology for the climate crisis era which gives bold consideration to the stark choices we face.

"Rishi Dastidar's third collection, Neptune's Projects is an extraordinary and fascinating deep dive into the underwater world that surrounds us and how our attitude and treatment of it reflects the extreme anxieties of our age. Using the almost futuristic lens of hyperobjects, in tandem with the more mythical and historical ballad form, Dastidar creates an alien, destabilising yet incredibly rewarding reading experience."

– Victoria Kennefick

Martin Williams

Martin Williams is a London-based musician, sports announcer and DJ. He is the frontman of Lost Movies and formerly of the band Absent Kid—whose releases appeared on the independent label, Fierce Panda Records.Martin is also an experienced live announcer and presenter, bringing theatrical energy, humour and improvisation to sporting and cultural events. His practice combines music, storytelling and performance, with a passion for creating memorable live experiences that connect audiences through entertainment and spectacle.

https://www.instagram.com/martin_cb26

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