Sef Townsend

Sef Townsend draws on his personal experience of living and working on all five continents; and on reminiscence and language support work in immigrant and refugee communities to inform his workshops in participatory storytelling and music.

He has been running Arts projects with people in exile and immigrant communities since 1995. Through storytelling, song and 'join-in' music games he emphasises the use of traditional material from the participants’ original backgrounds, and promote work that enables other cultures to be seen as an invaluable resource contributing to a shared diversity in the wider community.

Sef has devised and presented several of his own radio programmes on traditional music and oral history including programmes for BBC Radio 3, Spectrum Radio and Radio 4’s "Woman’s Hour"