Who We Are
Marlize
Director
Marlize Swanepoel is a Drama Therapist and the co-founder of sp(i)eel arts therapies collective. She enjoys being in spaces of learning, unlearning, connecting and dancing. Her area of interest lies in contributing to the development of trauma-informed and healing-centered arts-based psychosocial practices that are relevant to the South African context and helps to create wider access to mental health services.
Uné Conradie
Director
Uné Conradie is an Applied Arts Practitioner, working in community development as a practitioner, facilitator trainer and programme developer. She counts herself among the very fortunate to have experienced the restorative powers of the creative arts. It is her hope and enduring pursuit to see a world where access to the creative arts and its potential to inform, transform and heal is available to everyone.
Malika Ndlovu
Applied Arts Practitioner
Malika Ndlovu is an internationally published South African poet, playwright, performer and arts project manager. For several years she was curator/ presenter for the Africa Centre's Badilisha Poetry X- Change an exclusively African poetry podcasting platform. She features in UCT’s Arts and Medicine: Humanizing Healthcare MOOC and via her poetic memoir Invisible Earthquake: a Woman’s Journal through Stillbirth (Modjaji Books, 2009) and www.invisiblestill.co.za, Malika is a passionate 'mother's voice' advocate around pregnancy-related loss and bereavement support. Her trans-disciplinary work encompasses matters of heritage, indigenous wisdom, identity, spirituality, health and the 'medicinal' value of creative expression inherent to all human beings.
Nolan Africa
Drama Therapist
Nolan Africa is a drama therapist whose heart lies in storytelling in all its expressive forms. He has worked as a theatre director, actor, and teacher and passionately as a facilitator. Spieel has opened up doors to working in a vast array of communities and it’s given him the privilege of journeying with participants through various creative arts and psychosocial processes of re-storying their life stories.
Anke Cullinan
Applied Theatre Practitioner
Anke Cullinan is an Applied Theatre Practitioner.
Her focus with the work she does is to make use of the arts and play to encourage holistic humanness within the spaces and places we work.
Chenal Kock
Applied Drama Practitioner
Chenal Kock is a "Mixed But Not Fixed Creative Artist" from Mitchell's Plain. She is a Facilitator and a Poet. She holds a BA in Dramatic Arts and Theatre Studies, as well as an Honors degree in Applied Theatre studies from the University of Stellenbosch. She recently completed her PGCE (Postgraduate Certificate in Education) qualification and is currently working as a teacher.
Given Mkhondo
Applied Arts Practitioner
Given Mkhondo is an actor, who also qualified as a drama teacher. He is passionate about the arts and loves working with children. He enjoys the applied arts as it is a way of helping people deal with issues that are troubling them in a way that is also fun and enjoyable.
Shaun Gabriel Smith
Actor and Community Arts Facilitator
Shaun Smith is a member of Groundspring Playback Theatre Company and the creator of the Multidisciplinary Model for Actors. Through his model he teaches basic improvisation techniques as well as how these techniques can overflow into- and enhance one’s life, practice, workspace and family space. Shaun (shaunx37@yahoo.com) is passionate about helping others to work with uncertainties, stay present and learn to play again by listening, saying yes, noticing more, using everything and letting go.
Jesika Jones
Community Arts Facilitator
Jesika Jones is an ECD practitioner, passionate about developing and stimulating children from the age of 0-7. She is also an ambassador for the Evergrow Foundation, project manager for an art program in Vlottenburg and the co-project manager for Sp(i)eel’s Keep Them Busy program for high school learners.
Jessica Mayson
Jessica is an HPCSA-registered Arts Therapist (Drama Therapy) working in Cape Town, South Africa (MA, University of the Witwatersrand). She works individually and with groups; with children, adolescents and adults in community-based and private practice settings.
Her particular focus is on supporting the impact of trauma, building resilience and processing challenging transitions. In her practice, she is committed to offering socially just, creative spaces where parts of self and community can be understood, find expression and integration.
Jessica has worked with sp(i)eel for many years, and is constantly inspired by the wisdom that comes from intentional creativity in community.
You can visit her website www.jessicamayson.com.Make it stand outWhatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Sp(i)eel team dream-weaving our future at the 2018 AGM
