Byuka Makodru

Co-curated a complex artistic programme supported by Arts Council England, including workshops with different queer communities, a month long exhibition at Mimosa House London, a residency at Bidston Observatory with the commissioned artists and a performance evening.

Explored how curatorial practice can intersect with ritual and ancestral technologies, community making, and the healing possibilities created by embodied storytelling.

Created dance choreographies alongside the Live Electronics Ensamble for their Barbican showcase.

Facilitated workshops with the students on collaborative practice and somatics.

I created the project Lunarrr Playgroundz - a queer & experimental coven, which provides community ritual-workshops on a bimonthly basis, following the phases of the moon.

Within the project, I am the main facilitator and curator, inviting and mentoring other guest workshop leaders to facilitate the space too.

Created & facilitated workshops on ancestral healing practices through writing, visualisation and drawing at Galeria 101, Lithuania (2021).

Collaborated with the other artists on feminist practices of knowledge making, speculative fiction and eco-somatics.

Co-created dance scores & collaborated with the team to offer multimedia immersive performances at the Barbican, National Gallery, Hotel Mandrake, Watermans Art Centre.

Directed and performed in immersive ritual performances at The Royal Albert Hall (2019), Emurgency Festival (2020), Eco-Futures Festival (2019), Matchstick Piehouse (2022), Torture Garden (2022).

Facilitated open lab movement classes with a focus on ecology and multispecies myth making at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2019.

My work has been shown at Queer Circle (2025), Mimosa House (2025), BBC Sounds (2024), Iklektik (2023), Ugly Duck (2023), The Old Baths (2019), Camden's People Theatre (2019), The Others (2019), O2 (2019).

Exploring the intersection of ecology, queerness, disability justice and ancestrality - my writing has been published in Performing Borders, Lesbians are Miracles, Luxury Literature, Field Project Zine, Ache Magazine, Aghh! Zine.