Facilitator
Comfort B Smithson
Comfort B Smithson's Training:
I consider myself a natural creative. I describe myself as a passionate
and multi-skilled Creative. This has been the backbone through which I have been able to gain vast experience in starting, building and managing creative brands from conception to completion. I am also adept at leading creative teams to achieve set out goals as well as effectively liaising with relevant stakeholders. I am therefore able to confidently work in the arts, culture and heritage sector and fully understand the importance of ensuring that suitable activities, products and services are directed to the right and relevant audience.
and multi-skilled Creative. This has been the backbone through which I have been able to gain vast experience in starting, building and managing creative brands from conception to completion. I am also adept at leading creative teams to achieve set out goals as well as effectively liaising with relevant stakeholders. I am therefore able to confidently work in the arts, culture and heritage sector and fully understand the importance of ensuring that suitable activities, products and services are directed to the right and relevant audience.
Comfort B Smithson's Experience:
At the Dar es Salaam Center for Architectural Heritage (DARCH), I was the project coordinator and a founding member of a team that secured the funding and mandate to protect and preserve a historic building in Dar es Salaam. The project vision went beyond physical preservation to focus on winning political support, building public engagement and securing revenue streams to sustain the project. I was a founding member of the team that brought this vision to reality. I served as the project representative on national committees and acted as the interim Project Manager until a full-time employee could be appointed. In this role, I organised two Professional seminars, one international Symposium and exhibitions in collaboration with the founding associates and partners.
Comfort B Smithson's Experience with Online Groups:
My recent experience in self-employment highlights a distinctive strength in
my ability to work remotely. As a stay-home-mother running various ventures like Fundi box and 31 Homes had customers and clients across the UK and others like Letasi design Studio had customers, staff and participants in East Africa and other parts of the world. It has been a great unique experience and a great incentive for coming up with creative, ambitious, original ideas that I can bring to fruition with energy and determination regardless of the context I am working in.
With my own personal creative social enterprise Letasi Design Studio, I remotely (while based in the UK) organised and brokered an international collaboration to transfer batik fabric making expertise from Tanzania to artisanal designers and manufacturers in Uganda.
my ability to work remotely. As a stay-home-mother running various ventures like Fundi box and 31 Homes had customers and clients across the UK and others like Letasi design Studio had customers, staff and participants in East Africa and other parts of the world. It has been a great unique experience and a great incentive for coming up with creative, ambitious, original ideas that I can bring to fruition with energy and determination regardless of the context I am working in.
With my own personal creative social enterprise Letasi Design Studio, I remotely (while based in the UK) organised and brokered an international collaboration to transfer batik fabric making expertise from Tanzania to artisanal designers and manufacturers in Uganda.