PEOPLE'S PALACE PROJECTS - Key Persons
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- Brazilian Visionary Artists
Celebrating two decades of artistic fusion, Arthur Nogueira, a Brazilian visionary artists who seamlessly blends ...
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- PPP's Artistic Director, Receives the British Council 's 70th Anniversary Award
Paul Heritage receives Premio ORILAXÉ award for Human Rights.
In January 2021, Renata Peppl moved to a new job in the QMUL Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, where she now works on several arts and mental health/wellbeing projects that PPP delivers in partnership with the Unit. In her extra time, Renata is still our project manager for several long-term projects at PPP: With One Voice - our arts and homelessness UK-Brazil exchange in collaboration with Streetwise Opera, from 2015 to date; and our work on Violence Against Women and Girls, including our partnership with WOW Rio.
Renata was born and raised in South Brazil and moved to London in 2011. She has worked as an arts journalist, playwright and arts project manager. Before joining People's Palace Projects, Renata developed film, visual arts, theatre and music projects alongside organisations such as Somerset House, Roundhouse and RichMix. Previously in Brazil, she was co-founder and playwright for Tem inço na Coxia Theatre Company, having touring with her plays around Brazil for almost 10 years. She has also worked as a freelance culture journalist for publications including ELLE magazine, Folha de São Paulo and O Globo; and a PR professional working on accounts including Fundação Iberê Camargo (Arts Museum). For six years Renata managed a series of PPP's projects including our London as a Village film project in 2015; The Verbatim Formula; and Building the Barricades.
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- Lead for Indigenous Exchange & Climate Action
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- Creative Producer and Researcher
Thiago Jesus is a creative producer and researcher passionate about arts and transformation. For over ten years, he has managed wide-ranging international creative projects and interdisciplinary research at PPP in collaboration with artists, academics, activists, and local communities in various countries. Since 2014, as the head of PPP's Indigenous Exchange and Climate Action projects, Thiago has been working closely with Indigenous peoples from the Xingu Territory-in the Brazilian Amazon's ‘arc of deforestation'-leading an exchange programme for the preservation of indigenous cultural practices as a key factor in safeguarding these communities from the climate crisis.
Thiago is also working on Julie's Bicycle's Creative and Climate Leadership programme, and is doing doctoral research at Queen Mary University of London, funded by the AHRC (LAHP Collaborative Doctoral Awards). The study, ‘The Art of Creating Climates', investigates how third-sector organisations with arts and environment at the heart of their programmes approach climate change and respond to environmental issues in distinct North and South contexts, in partnership with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Thiago holds a MA in Visual Culture (University of Westminster) and a BA in Media and Communications (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.