Songhai Creative

04/03/2026

Thrilled to be exhibiting 2026.
The fair runs from the 5fh-8th of March.
Do swing by!
Big thanks to for constantly championing the arts and holding space for the imaginary.

04/03/2026

07/09/2025

As the Lunar eclipse swells in the nebulous, I am thankful for the balance of energies, the solar and lunar frequencies that permeate and shape life across the galaxies. It calls into reflection our relationship with our bodies as part of the celestial whole in symphony with all of creation.

As creatives we tune in to the divine blueprint, sacred codes and configurations embodying the imaginary through our integrative practices.

Led by intuition, Light, shadow, the cognitive and the transformative in dialogue with natural, generative and futuristic technologies. Our biotechnology is sacred, vehicles of pure connection to knowledge systems and metaphysical wisdom, ever present coalescence of lifetimes, memories & dreams activated through visions.

'STAND of The SUN' was truly a Higher Vibrational communion. We are excited to share future reincarnations+ constellations when time and space align.

In the meantime... Stay radiant, joyful and true to your purest Essence.

Antoine Marc: Choreographer & dancer  
Renako McDonald: Dancer
Robert Dunkley-Gyimah: Dancer
Rose Aïda Sall Sao: Dancer 
Sadé Alleyne: Dancer 
Olia Poliakova: Dancer 

Tomi Allen-Nurse: Jewellery design 
Vincenzo Capodivento: Sound engineer 
Rachel Sampley: Lighting design 
Aron Kyne: Sound design

Producer - Joanna Penso

Photography - Alberto Romano

07/09/2025

We created something wonderful to mark the Summer solstice with an inaugural Performance by The Rising Suns Archestra titled 'Stand of the SUN'

Curated in direct response to 'My Body is a Sundial' sculpture conceived by .

Stand of the Sun: 'A solstice ritual for the melting metropolis' was a sunset performance inspired by  research within the wider Cultural Reforesting exhibition and festival programme at .

I had the honour of working with this extraordinary team of creatives and musicians to traverse the imaginary and pull new worlds + dimensions into the present. With the SUN at the core of this magical experience.

The performance interwove an original score by , new choreography by , storytelling and the 'My Body is a Sundial' sculpture by , with lighting design by  produced by  .

Full cast / crew / funders:

Bryony Ella: Director, spoken word & sculpture 
Bumi Thomas: Composer, Performer & Conductor
Carlene Etienne: Steel pan 
Clare Hirst: Flute & saxophone 
Cosimo Keita: Percussion 
Elixir: Sound healing & ambient soundscape 
Emmanuel Clem: Voice  .clem
Kieron Daniel: Cello  .strings.sound
Max Rademacher: Ngoni, voice & guitar 
Miles Danfo: Upright bass
Pharoah Russell: Drums 

Antoine Marc: Choreographer & dancer  
Renako McDonald: Dancer
Robert Dunkley-Gyimah: Dancer
Rose Aïda Sall Sao: Dancer 
Sadé Alleyne: Dancer 
Olia Poliakova: Dancer 

Tomi Allen-Nurse: Jewellery design 

Vincenzo Capodivento: Sound engineer 
Rachel Sampley: Lighting design 
Aron Kyne: Sound design

Commissioned by Melting Metropolis, a Wellcome Discovery Award environmental history project. 

Part of the Orleans House Gallery 'Cultural Reforesting' programme 2025.  

Photography: Alberto Romano

07/09/2025

We created something wonderful to mark the Summer solstice with an inaugural Performance by The Rising Suns Archestra titled 'Stand of the SUN'

Curated in direct response to 'My Body is a Sundial' sculpture conceived by .

Stand of the Sun: 'A solstice ritual for the melting metropolis' was a sunset performance inspired by  research within the wider Cultural Reforesting exhibition and festival programme at .

I had the honour of working with this extraordinary team of creatives and musicians to traverse the imaginary and pull new worlds + dimensions into the present. With the SUN at the core of this magical experience.

The performance interwove an original score by , new choreography by , storytelling and the 'My Body is a Sundial' sculpture by , with lighting design by  produced by  .

Full cast / crew / funders:

Bryony Ella: Director, spoken word & sculpture 
Bumi Thomas: Composer, Performer & Conductor
Carlene Etienne: Steel pan 
Clare Hirst: Flute & saxophone 
Cosimo Keita: Percussion 
Elixir: Sound healing & ambient soundscape 
Emmanuel Clem: Voice  .clem
Kieron Daniel: Cello  .strings.sound
Max Rademacher: Ngoni, voice & guitar 
Miles Danfo: Upright bass
Pharoah Russell: Drums 

Commissioned by Melting Metropolis, a Wellcome Discovery Award environmental history project. 

Part of the Orleans House Gallery 'Cultural Reforesting' programme 2025.  metropolis 

Photography: Alberto Romano

16/06/2025

My Deepest Gratitude for all the Birthday, Love messages and Well wishes. As I begin another cycle around the sun, the Universe saw it fit to bless my solar consciousness with the gift of this performance aptly titled 'Stand of The Sun' the serendipitous timing is truly special.

So I invite you to come, celebrate and partake in the gift of this exchange as we collectively explore new and remember old ways of being in harmony with our celestial nature in the evening landscape of the melting metropolis. May our bodies guide us to sacred ecological sites and states that raise our consciousness through creative Reimagining.

Portrait by

16/06/2025

3 days to go still 'Stand of the Sun' 🔆 so excited to share what we have been working on

13/06/2025

Join us for 'STAND OF THE SUN'
A very Special immersive solar experience on Thursday 19th June, 8PM
As the Sun begins to set this solstice, we invite you for an evening performance where environmental history meets the wonder of celestial interconnectedness. 

Integrating choreography inspired by Western and Caribbean flow with harmonic invocations inspired by nature, Stand of the Sun offers a new ritual amid climate chaos.

This will be the first live performance of creative responses to Melting Metropolis, a University of Liverpool research project exploring the history of urban heat islands and the lived experience of their residents in London, New York, Paris and Port of Spain, Trinidad.

Stand of the Sun invites us to observe our cities through the solar gaze, exploring the deeply uncanny and uncertain nature of our celestial relationship today. It imagines what our closest star would say to humanity if only we could listen. How does the Sun experience our over-heating world? What does it feel like to move through our too-hot cities and heat-stroked bodies? Can we empathise with an entity so utterly different to us, yet intertwined with our fate?

Travelling from outer space into the melting metropolis, stories from the hot heart of our solar system will guide us through the evening.

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Performer & Composer:
Choreographer:
Lighting:
Producer:
Photography:

30/04/2025

Jazz is embodied liberation, spiritual consciousness, the sound of paint and brush strokes beating the heart of the canvas, jazz is creative agility, imagination distilled as the rhythm of the soul. Jazz is evolving in harmony with the celestial swirl of breath and stardust. Jazz is creative technology, a record of living and ancestral metamorphosis.

Happy International Jazz Day.

Celebrating cultural ontologies


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24/04/2025

Re-earthing, Rebirthing, Releasing, Reimagining, Re-creating. Restoring our energies in the spirit of peace, alignment and total awakening.
The spring season yields the bloom of light and life,
the earth in us alive as laylines and lifelines intertwine in celestial harmony.
Grounding our bodies + Re-centring our Souls.
Infusing our beings with sacred knowledge and technologies. The undeniable sentience of the soil from which we are forged, always connected through the fire of return. 🐦‍🔥

I had the pleasure of visiting and performing in Aberdeen with the amazing for his inaugural headline show. Big thanks to for their progressive vision,
Partnership and the fantastic work they activate as cultural custodians, curators and producers.

Going home to Scotland is always profound. A certain magic is felt in the land, aligning new realities with collective possibilities and ancestral memory.

Until next time.... Thank you for having us! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇳🇬🩵🌎

'Threads of wisdom
Interweaving to birth a brand new day
In the now
I release me
In this season
I reclaim my being.

I take my freedom
Take my freedom
Cleanse my system...
Purpose driven
Sovereign
Heal my Vision
Earth Quaking
I am reborn
In Higher form.'

Earth 🌎 Day 🌎 Every 🌎 Day

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