Open Session - From page to post: Archiving Creative Voices

Join us for a panel discussion where we’ll explore and examine how creatives archive their stories—from zines and books to social media. Led by experts including Zoe Thompson (founder of ), we’ll cover:

• What it means to leave a creative legacy
• How to archive your work intentionally
• Who gets to be remembered—and who decides?
• The importance of grassroots movements in documenting underground and underrepresented cultures
• Thinking about social media as a lasting digital archive

As part of Youth Takeover at Phoenix Art Space, this Open Session in collaboration with Lighthouse is hosted and curated by Fez Sibanda and Elsa Monteith, members of Lighthouse’s Future Creative Leaders cohort 2024.

Lighthouse Young Creatives alumni Maia will be playing a DJ set to soundtrack the evening.

Wednesday 27 November

Doors open 6.30pm, event 7-9pm

Elsa Monteith (She/Her) is a writer and broadcaster working in music, the arts, and with impact-driven organisations. She has a newsletter called which explores "content" as both a feeling, and a symptom of the algorithm, and has an archive of published writing and radio spanning music, arts, and culture journalism. Elsa is also a Lighthouse Future Creative Leader and participated in Lighthouse Young Creatives as a mentee in 2019.

Fez Sibanda (She/Her) is a Doctoral researcher at the University of Sussex with a passion for exploring how marginalised groups experience education. Her research dives into topics like race, coloniality, and higher education. When she’s not researching, she’s busy being a Lighthouse Future Creative Leader, where she’s hosted events and led panel discussions that spark important conversations. Fez is all about challenging systems, amplifying underrepresented voices, and creating spaces for powerful dialogue.

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