Room 6 — Who We Are — House of Talents

Mary Louise Morris

Mary Louise is a highly experienced mindfulness teacher and certified Focusing practitioner working with children, teens, adults, parents and organisations. She brings over 15 years of experience teaching wellbeing practices in schools, workplaces and community settings — and over a decade working one-to-one with individuals. She has delivered talks, workshops and training for organisations including Citibank, Rabobank, Deutsche Bank, The Mirror Group newspapers, Reuters and the Royal College of Nursing.

Mary Louise is offering Mental and Emotional Wellbeing sessions for adults, teens, children and families. These group sessions include storytelling, art and movement as well as practical techniques to manage anxiety and stress.

Room 3, Room 6, Page 2Hattie Holden EdmondsMarch 5, 2025Mental Health, Kids, Mindfulness, Social Prescribing

Micky Pallant

Micky Pallant is a musician and actor and has run the Portobello Live! Community Arts festival and the Portobello Live! Choir for several years. He works as an activities coordinator at local care homes, working with residents who suffer mainly from dementia and a wide range of disabilities. He teaches guitar and ukulele, running groups for both adults and children.

Micky is offering the chance to sing in our community choir, either as a casual drop-in, or on a more permanent basis. All singing abilities welcome! He also offers individual and group guitar and ukulele lessons.

Page 1, Room 6Hattie Holden EdmondsFebruary 18, 2025Social Prescribing

Auriol & Family

I am the founder of Kite Studios (est. in 2005), a creative oasis in Shepherds Bush which offers inclusive art, drawing, pottery and printmaking workshops to children and adults of all ages, abilities and needs.

I will be offering drawing sessions for families and individuals of all abilities, aimed at developing a mindful approach, which helps to build confidence. Also on offer: pottery with my brother & gardening with my father.

Room 5, Room 6, Room 7, Page 1Hattie Holden EdmondsJune 6, 2020Art, Kids, Gardening, Making, Pottery

Saul Boyer

Saul Boyer is an actor, comedian and award-winning writer (RSC-Marlowe Other Prize 2014), who trained at ArtsEd and Cambridge University. He has written for stage, audio and is in the process of developing a screenplay with a prominent film production company.

Saul is also a tutor of nine years’ experience and has a degree in English Literature from Cambridge University.

Saul is offering sessions on playwriting, screenwriting and how to write narrative and sketch comedy, as well as home tutoring sessions for kids and adults. He is also offering voice and performance coaching.

Room 5, Room 6, Room 2, Room 4, Page 1Hattie Holden EdmondsJune 2, 2020Tutoring, Students, Script Writing, Sketch Writing

Paola Cimmino

I’m an Italian and I grew up in Naples, where my family owned a renowned pasticceria (cake shop). As a child I would race back from school to watch the pastry chefs making and decorating the cakes, which I would then try to recreate at home.

I will be offering Italian inspired cookery sessions & classes for adults & kids.

Maddy Read Clarke

Maddy has been running the hugely popular Music with Maddy classes for the children of Hackney for the past 13 years. These sessions include singing, dancing, instruments, puppets and lots of creative fun and games for children and babies age 0-5 and their carers.

Maddy will be offering online music sessions with a combination of classic and original kids songs that support children’s learning and development while having lots of fun with props and small instruments.

Room 4, Room 6, Page 1Hattie Holden EdmondsMay 17, 2020Music for Kids

Rebecca Collingwood

I am a singer and actor with many years professional experience in West End and regional theatres (inc. Much Ado About Nothing/Love's Labours Lost - RSC, Theatre Royal Haymarket, Malory Towers - Emma Rice, Wise Children, Precious Little Talent - Orange Tree Theatre). I am also part of the Nannying agency, Bea & Co. I’ve had extensive experience as a tutor as well as a child entertainer.

Rebecca is offering: tutoring, coaching & entertainment for kids + tuition in acting or singing

Simon Paisley Day

Simon is a theatre and screen actor, most recently seen as General Quinn in Star Wars 9 and Douglas Carswell in Brexit An Uncivil War. On stage his many roles include Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe), Malvolio in 12th Night (National) and The Once-ler in Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax (Old Vic), which was described by the Guardian as ‘the best family show since Mathilda’.

Simon and his son Theo will be reading Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax.

Room 2, Supper Sessions, Room 5, Room 6, Page 1Hattie Holden EdmondsMay 9, 2020Theatre, Supper Sessions

Hattie Edmonds

After a ten year career as a music journalist for a German pop magazine, Hattie became the first in-house writer at Comic Relief, working in a team on comedy projects with Richard Curtis, as well as interviewing project users including Rwandan widows, women experiencing domestic violence and child carers. Her first novel Cinema Lumiere topped the Amazon fiction charts and her second The Spectacular Vision of Oskar Dunkelblick was described as “a beautifully crafted tale about a young man’s spiritual transformation.” She is currently writing a book about the heart from a scientific, personal and spiritual perspective.

Hattie is offering sessions on: ‘Writing for Wellbeing’, ‘The Alchemy of Emotions’ and ‘Writing from the Heart'.

Nathan Evans

Nathan is a poet and performer. His first poetry collection, Threads, was longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2017 and his work has been presented at major venues including Royal Court Theatre, Southbank Centre and Latitude Festival as well as on Channel 4. He is also a puppeteer and puppet-maker and has created puppets for Soho Theatre and run puppet-making workshops for Little Angel Theatre.

Nathan is offering puppet-making sessions for children and adults and he is curating personalised poetry readings for our Supper Sessions.

Ailon Freedman

Ailon Freedman is an artist, comedian, clown and storyteller (secretly disguised as a yoga teacher). He has taught clowning internationally after developing his own humour-based workshops known as ‘Clown Healing’.

Ailon is offering Clowning, Games and Playfulness sessions (for kids of 7 +) as well as Clowning for Beginners for individuals and groups.

Room 2, Room 6, Page 1Hattie Holden EdmondsApril 27, 2020Theatre, Performance, Clowning

Peter Keserue

Peter Keserue is an experienced multi-instrumentalist who applies his musical skills to work in care settings, both with children in SEND schools and in homes working with residents with dementia. He runs projects using iPads which allows individuals and groups with little or no musical training, and with very diverse abilities, to create and perform high quality, meaningful music in a single workshop.

Peter is offering one-to-one sessions and training to teachers and music specialists.

Room 3, Room 4, Room 6, Page 1Hattie Holden EdmondsApril 21, 2020Music for Kids, Mental Health, Music

Mary Llewellyn

I am an organic gardener and ecology teacher in an inner city London garden called Meanwhile Gardens Association near Westbourne Park along the canal.

I will be offering sessions to show and share my knowledge about growing food on window sills, in pots on the patio and back yards, as well as teaching children how to grow healthy food they will like.

Room 6, Room 7, Page 2Hattie Holden EdmondsApril 17, 2020Gardening, Kids

Rod Sugden

Rod has 17 years’ experience, as a full-time primary school teacher (5 – 11-year olds) in state and independent schools. He now works as an education facilitator for the environmental and education charity Global Generation.

Rod will be running Universe workshops to help children develop understanding about themselves, others, the world and the Universe in which they live.

Room 6, Page 2Hattie Holden EdmondsApril 3, 2020Kids, Home Schooling

Romy Bernstein

Romy is 11 and goes to ArtsEd school in Chiswick, London. She’s been doing ballet since she was 2 and her favourite dance classes are classic, contemporary and jazz. Her heroes in the dance world are Margot Fonteyn, Darcey Bussell and Carlos da Costa and her favourite musical is ‘Everybody’s talking about Jamie’.

Romy is offering 20 minute dance routines, which she would love you to join in with.

Room 6, KidsHattie Holden EdmondsMarch 16, 2020Kids, Dance

Afi Evans

Hi, my name is Afi. I’m 12 years old and I’ve been experimenting with makeup since I was about 2! When I first started doing makeup I would wear a lot of different bright colours but I’ve learned to tone it down and work with just a couple of colours for a more natural look.

Room 6, KidsHattie Holden EdmondsMarch 14, 2020Kids, Makeup

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