About | Enact Arts

Our work

Enact Arts is a community interest start up with the mission to promote creative practice for well-being and personal, professional and community development. We create and support communities of practice and networks which include arts researchers, arts practitioners, recreational artists and people who love the arts. Enact Arts CIC works with practitioners of all racial backgrounds whilst running specific projects to support practitioners and practices of African lineage.

We advocate for the space for artistry and creative expression in our society. Our CIC’s work is primarily in the fields of Creative Health, Everyday Creativity and Africa and Diaspora cultural production.

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Meet the Directors

Founder/Director

'Funmi Adewole Elliott (PhD)

‘Funmi Adewole Elliott is an arts practitioner working across storytelling, dance practice, professional development, training, and research. She has over 35 years of experience in arts and culture internationally

She continues to perform, using performance as a

central method for engaging with and exploring the

socio-cultural and historical issues that inspire and

inform her practice.

She holds an MA in Postcolonial Studies, a Professional Graduate Certificate in Education and a PhD in Dance Studies. Her research areas are Dance as a profession,

Dance of Africa and the Diaspora in the UK, Creative

Health, Storytelling as performance, African cultural

production.

She founded Enact Arts CIC to support communities of artistic practice and creative practitioners, as well as researchers—particularly those of African descent—

whose work contributes to the arts and the wider

creative economy. She is also passionate about and promotes about creative practice as part of everyday life.

Director

Precious Obilaso

Precious Obilaso is a Paediatric Nurse with over seven years’ experience supporting children and families

across hospital and community settings in the UK and internationally. Her work has spanned complex

long-term care in Abu Dhabi, hands-on community practice, and global service through volunteering with Mercy Ships in Sierra Leone. These experiences have shaped her practice, resilience, and commitment

to care.

Precious is also a creative practitioner with a strong interest in arts, culture, and performance. As a Director

at Enact Arts CIC, she supports dance and performing

arts initiatives that engage, inspire, and empower communities. She is passionate about storytelling,

creative expression, and the ways the arts can explore socio-cultural and historical issues, foster wellbeing,

and amplify voices. For her, creativity—whether through painting, culture, or movement—is a vital lens for connection, reflection, and growth.