The Space to Come
The Space To Come is a new creative company that curates and produces imaginative experiences that sensitively centre art, conversation, feeling and care.From interactive events and live installations to leadership programmes, our spaces help people better connect to themselves, each other and prepare for an emerging, more compassionate world.
The Space to Come is led by Founder and Creative Director Gaylene Gould, a Cultural Director and Facilitator with 30 years experience, and Producer and Trainee Psychotherapist, Zaynab Bunsie.
Who is Black Mary?
Reasoning Circle: Part of London Unseen
October 2022, details coming soon
The Space To Come are embarking on a creative project to invoke the memory and spirit of Mary Wollaston, a 17th Century Black woman colloquially called Black Mary who purportedly resided in Clerkenwell and operated a well of healing waters. However, like many ancestral Black Londoners, the evidence surrounding who Black Mary was or might have been is patchy.
Whether fact or fiction, Mary's story reveals much about London’s overlooked ancient healing centre and Black women’s healing legacies in London. This “Reasoning Circle” or shared thinking space, will bring together historians, healers and Clerkenwell community members to explore who Black Mary might have been and what she reveals to us about the possibility of creating a future healing centre for London. The Black Mary Project will be realised in Clerkenwell in Summer 2023.
Gaylene Gould, Founder and Creative Director, The Space to Come. Image by Nina Photography
Zaynab Bunsie, Producer and Trainee Psychotherapist, The Space to Come. Image by Nina Photography
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