Resonate Arts is led by a voluntary board of trustees and small staff team. We work in partnership with freelance artists across all art forms and regularly develop projects in collaboration with arts and healthcare organisations. Our volunteer Creative Befrienders support our events and build relationships with individuals living in the community.
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​Sofi Mogensen
Creative Befriender Projects Manager
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​Sofi previously ran the arts & fitness programme for older adults at C&C Housing Trust. After graduating with a degree in Music & French, she started her career working on the epic 29-volume New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians, before spending more than a decade in the field of folk and world music as Deputy Editor of fRoots magazine and Blog Editor at Proper Music.

Sofi enjoys singing, is passionate about traditional music from around the world, and has collaborated on folk music projects in the Balkans and Scandinavia. She has also been a long-term carer and loves supporting people to keep active in later life.

Sofi joined Resonate Arts in 2022 and runs our award-winning Creative Befriender volunteer programme, our Music for the Moment concert series and produces the Resonate Now newsletter.
Sam Curtis (he/him)
Director

Sam is an artist and curator who, in a past-life, also worked as a fishmonger. Having graduated from the MFA Art Practice programme at Goldsmiths College in 2005, he went on to exhibit his artwork internationally and worked on commissions with Whitechapel Gallery,  Serpentine Galleries, Turner Contemporary, CREATE London and Eastside Projects. 

Previously Sam worked for an adult education provider, leading learning programmes for people experiencing homelessness. He was also Curator at Bethlem Gallery for eight years where he supported artists with a connection to the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust in developing their work, in co-producing exhibitions and public events.

Sam is excited to be working with the brilliant team at Resonate Arts and to be leading the charity’s development and growth. He joined Resonate Arts in May 2022.
Shelley Hastings (she/her)
Projects Manager
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​Shelley is an Arts Producer and writer with over twenty years’ experience. She is passionate about the transformative power of creative practice for those living with dementia and their carers. 

​Previously she worked as the Senior Producer/Artistic Associate at Battersea Arts Centre for over fifteen years. She has also worked for National Theatre Studio, LIFT festival and Age UK.  Shelley first joined Resonate Arts in 2019 as a volunteer Creative Befriender.

Shelley currently leads on the Singing with Friends choir in partnership with Wigmore Hall Learning. She has also developed and grown two highly popular Creative Space groups; one visual art based  and the other movement & dance based.
Trustees
Annjana Ramesh
Kathryn Dixon
Sam Nguyen​
​Jude Sweeting (Chair)​

Barbara Stephens - Honorary Treasurer ​

​​Resonate Arts is funded by

North West London Integrated Care Board
​The People's Postcode Trust
The Gilbert Trust (Victoria and Albert Museum)
The European Reminiscence Network
Independent Age
London Community Fund
St James Piccadilly
Co-op Good Causes 
Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund
The Arts Society Westminster