INTRODUCTION
Taghrid Choucair-Vizoso joined Julie’s Bicycle’s Senior Leadership Team as Head of Programmes in March 2024. She is a cultural worker with fifteen years of curatorial, producing, and educational experience working across contemporary performance, multi-art form festivals, participatory arts, and cross-cultural programmes. Prior to JB she was Joint CEO at Shubbak Festival, where she was committed to forging more just cultural ecologies; developing collaborative and decolonial curatorial approaches and artistic development opportunities that centre equity while reducing access barriers to the arts. She is passionate about the transformative power of culture to mobilise for the environment, social and climate justice; particularly in relation to restoring nature, food and land sovereignty, resilience, circular economy, just transition, ending fossil fuel capitalism, and the liberation of indigenous peoples. She frequently presents, speaks and leads workshops across JB’s programmes, including Creative Climate Changemakers. She is a trustee with the Palestinian Institute for Climate Strategy, Book Works, and Another Sky.
She has worked in partnership with major institutions and across site-specific locations in the UK and the SWANA region. Taghrid began her artistic journey in performance-making and facilitation, directing projects like At Home in Gaza and London (Station House Opera). As an associate with Kazzum, she led education programmes with young people going through the asylum-seeking process. As a facilitator, she has worked within school and criminal justice environments, and shaped Shubbak’s community engagement programmes for a number of years. Taghrid has been a mentor on the Crossing Borders Programme at Scottish Refugee Council and was on Equity’s International Solidarity Committee. She continues organising in the context of Palestinian cultural resistance, antiracism, and is committed to transforming our extractive relationships to the earth.