
Welcome to Noisy Women Present
The Noisy Women Present is a multi disciplinary creative hub championing diversity and collective virtuosity.
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The Noisy Women Present is a multi-disciplinary creative hub championing diversity and collective virtuosity. We provide an inclusive, supportive space for women/non-binary performers across all disciplines.
Our concerts, workshops and events embrace improvised and experimental music, dancing, art and poetry. We believe in individual expression as part of a collaborative, liberating experience. Our associated ensemble, the Noisy People’s Improvising Orchestra, explores these ideals on a grander scale, and welcomes performers with neuro-diversity and learning differences.
We look forward to seeing you at our next event and welcome collaborations from like-minded performers.


Noisy People’s Improvising Orchestra
The concept of the Noisy People’s Improvising Orchestra came about through conversations between Faradena Afifi and co-founder Dominic Mulvey, a poet and artist who lived with schizophrenia and a chronic lung condition. Dominic used music art, poetry and being a Krishna devotee to maintain a healthy, balanced and fulfilled life full of friends, food and love. The inaugural concert of the Noisy People’s Improvising Orchestra took place on 15th July 2022 at St Pauls Church, Cambridge, 6 months after Dominic had passed, to celebrate his inclusive and open-minded approach to connecting with and socially including human beings through the arts. The orchestra, made up of 80 people of mixed ability, mixed culture, mixed gender and sexuality, included international musicians, vocalists, poets, dancers and visual artists. Also taking part were members of the Tuneless Choir Cambridge, a mental-health-focussed on-site art workshop, and. photographers and announcers with learning disabilities. The Noisy People’s Orchestra epitomises Dominic’s way of valuing and encouraging all human beings through the arts and continues to champion social inclusivity.
An Award for The Noisy Women Present
An Award for The Noisy Women Present
We have been awarded a fellowship by the Serpentine
as part of its Support Structures for Support Structures programme
Serpentine is delighted to announce the awardees of the Support Structures for Support Structures programme: Ashley Holmes, Janie Doherty, Roo Dhissou, Taey Iohe and Noisy Women Present co-founders: Faradena Afifi, Maggie Nicols, Gwendolyn Kassenaar and Marion Treby.

In its second iteration, the fellowship consists of an unrestricted grant given to each artist and collectives across the UK, a development from the first programme (2021) focused on London. Recipients will be provided with a network of support, and mentoring sessions at a timely moment in their careers.
The Noisy Women Present or TNWP is a collective of avantgarde artists, performers and musicians working with methodologies and traditions of improvisation that champion diversity and social inclusion. Their work supports and sustains a network of diverse communities across London and throughout the UK. TNWP is committed to resisting structures of exclusion that marginalise the work of non-binary, trans, multi-ethnic, neuro diverse and disabled women musicians, artists, and performers. The gatherings organised by TNWP involve women as performers, differently abled persons from a variety of class backgrounds, cultures, genders, sexualities, ages, disabilities and neurodiversities. TNWP uses multi-media technologies, dance, movement sound and art to elicit change through a collective practice of social virtuosity.
The criteria:
This award is given to artists and/or collectives:
· Who demonstrate exceptional imagination, and vision, working in the spirit of experimentation and innovation.
· Who are at the forefront of social practice, community practice and collaborative working, or are engaging in, stimulating and/or challenging the current debate in this area of work.
· Who have developed a significant body of work or made a significant impact on a social or community level over the past 3+ years and are regularly producing work;
· The Serpentine is particularly interested in new forms of praxis that are situated between disciplines, and challenging inherited modes and models of practice to develop different ways of working that may offer other imaginations for our current world and its crises.
· The Support Structures for Support Structures fellowship is for artists and collectives who are at a significant stage in their career. This includes those at the cusp of breaking through to greater recognition or those who have been sustaining this practice for many years without financial or institutional support.
In addition, the artists or collectives must meet the following eligibility criteria:
· Artists or collectives must be living or working in the UK and have done significant work in their cities or towns;
· There is no age restriction.
Read the press release in full at https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/about/press/support-structures-for-support-structures-2024/