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Raven's Ait Island
Portsmouth Road
Surbiton, Kingston upon Thames, KT6 4HH
United Kingdom

Ali Golding

Ali holds a degree in Dance Theatre. For almost 30 years she’s worked as a choreographer on stage, film, and television with artistes such as Twiggy, Kylie and David Gilmour. Then, in 2011 she completed a Master’s degree, which led to a whole new career as a Dance Scientist.

JP Floru

Writer, politician and campaigner

JP Floru is a writer, politician and campaigner for liberty. He is a councillor in the City of Westminster and in 2015 stood for Parliament in Bermondsey & Old Southwark. He has published two books and his third, ‘The Sun Tyrant – A Nightmare Called North Korea’ was published in June. In 2016 JP travelled to North Korea for the Pyongyang Marathon and soon realised that it is the strangest place one can go save the Moon. North Korea is the prime example of what happens if individual liberty is obliterated and the state takes over every aspect of every citizen’s life.

Mo Haque

Director of Student Development

Following a stage 4 cancer diagnosis in December 2014 Mo Haque was given “a small chance of success”. Mo’s life changed overnight. “Do I Choose to Stay?” became a primary question for him. He went through radiation, 18 chemotherapy cycles, and a major surgery, to then being told “there’s no more treatment available”. Refused breakthrough immunotherapy on the NHS, the odds of surviving were stacked against him. Mo “choosing to stay”, crowdfunded over £186,000 to access the potentially lifesaving drug and has seen his tumours reduce by over 50%. He now shares his story of hope, love and gratitude.

Portia Ungley

Portia lectures in visual cultures at Kingston University, researching the personal, through philosophy and theory. She gets her kicks from making the complex simple and seeing her students soar. She's currently researching the conceptual implications of kintsugi, and developing a professional doctorate on critical thinking at Cambridge.