Mele Broomes

10/06/2024

Friday 9 August 7pm—8pm (link in bio)
through warm temperature

I’m looking forward to sharing this performance. It’s been a minute and I’m so excited!

Opening Performance Edinburgh Art Festival.

Through progressions of vocal callings accompanied by live melodies and choreographies, this work pays homage to a series of conversations and the living archive.

The conversations serve as a guidance in reconnecting with natural sources; reflects on our bodies undergoing change influenced by constructs of time and the environment; and foregrounds the relationship between health and embodiment practices that centres individuals’ diasporic interpretations of well-being.

through warm temperatures is about affirming past beliefs in castor oil: a natural remedy, an elixir, and an historic and abundant natural source that transcends categorisation and boundaries.

Mele Broomes, 2024. Wearing: Barbra Kolasinski. Make Up: MV Brown. Photo: Ruby Pluhar

06/06/2024

BODY REMEDY - GEOGRAPHICAL ECHOES // 2024 PROGRAMME

🗓️ 02 Jul – 02 Aug 2024 
📍 Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA, Glasgow)

Body Remedy’s 2024 programme: Geological Echoes extends from last year’s theme where we explored the “weather” of our bodies in relation to physical responses to sound and vibration. Continuing our ongoing conversation with earthly matter through sound and movement, Geological Echoes is framed by the terrestrial processes of rock cycles. 

Through understanding the ways ongoing relational processes like heating, cooling, weathering, sedimentation and crystallisation profoundly alter our inhabited landscapes and shape the earth, we uncover how these same processes pattern our personal and communal aliveness.

Discover our full programme at www.mybodyremedy.com/2024 (link in bio).

All classes are FREE and open level for black people and people of colour who identify as women and non-binary.

04/09/2023

Tomorrow I will be In Conversation with Pole Artist held at

Learn about her pole experience, training and performance styles. Gain insight on how to get started on your pole journey, followed by a short question and answer with Kheanna

Sound and Music Production with Plantainchipps

In this workshop, we will be tapping into the qualities of sound and how it has been and can be used to heal. In the first half of the workshop, we will be looking into the ways that sound was originally used to heal and how much that has changed or stayed the same over time. In the second half, we will listen to a mix/something produced and try out some of the methods used.

Body Remedy's final workshop of the year a head of Body Remedy day event ecology at Cove Park

FREE LINK IN BIO

03/08/2023

**LOOKING FOR 2 DANCERS:**

I am looking for 2 Black dancer and those of mixed heritage to explore some movement/choreography as I work towards developing/evolving my work Wrapped Up In This (more info see my website, link in bio)

DATE: 13th September

PAID: £200

LOCATION: Glasgow

TRAVEL: Up to £50 (only in the position to cover local transport)

INTERESTED: Please send to my email (link in bio) videos and your experience (CV or short description)

Further information will be sent through via email. Any question please feel free to email me.

Mele 💕💕✨image by

02/08/2023

WORKSHOPS BY ME
Free booking required see link in bio

Confluence: The voice is a search party
Sat 19th Aug | 2:00pm- 5:00pm

Responding to Samra’s Mayanja’s film ‘Blueprint for the Deep’ and its surrounding themes of sound, erasure and survival in the abyss. Mele Broomes will lead Black and POC participants in a sonic workshop, or choir, that centres on the fall and response - the sway, the swing and the break that requires you to trust that your voice will be felt in the void whether in this moment or another.

Note: This event is exclusively for Black people and people of colour. The workshop is open level and no experience is required.

Movement and Sound Scores
Sun 10th Sept | 11:00AM - 15 :00PM (with lunch break)

This workshop will begin with a physical warm up, body conditioning and stretching. Following this we will start generating choreography through guided tasks and improvisations. The movement created will be used in the latter part of the workshop and accompanied by self-generated sound, voice, and text

Note: No experience required

20/07/2023

learning to receive love
makes loving and trusting
a pleasure
as I slowly realise - I am allowed
to be loved
this process reminded me
to actively continue to seek and nature meaningful relations
this process to me was part of loving-self
it was felt
it was moment
to reflect on the black people
in my life - that make my life
feel valued
thank you for seeing me
it makes those scary days
become less & less the narrative of existence

CHRISTIAN NOELLE CHARLES

Exhibition Information
WHAT A FEELING | ACT I
Opening July 27th | July 28th - September 17th
Edinburgh Printmakers | Castle Mills, 1 Dundee Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9FP
Hours are Tuesday-Sunday | 10am-6pm

GETTIN’ READY | MELE
Screenprint
50 x 70
2023

13/07/2023

So looking forward to this with hosted by .bodyremedy 🖤

Free but booking required. Link in bio (a few spaces left)

Restoration with Mele Broomes & Diljeet Kaur Bhachu
Date: Tuesday 18th July

Time: 6:30PM-7:45PM

Venue: Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA, Glasgow)

Led by Mele Broomes accompanied by flutist Diljeet Kaur Bhachu. A combination of active, passive and restorative movements

You’ll be guided through standing and seated positions with space to investigate and interpret movement that suits your body.

24/02/2023

An inspiring evening at The Art Foundation Future Awards. Claudette Johnson your speech was truly nourishing.

Was a pleasure to shortlisted with incredible artist 🥰 Toussaint To Move]

Congratulations Toussaint To Move]

A beautiful and reflective moment and insight.

The evening was felt! Thank you

09/11/2022

FREE WORKSHOPS book via .bodyremedy

Body Remedy x Laura Rice

Join for “Nourish”.

Move and breathe together in a way that nourishes our body and mind. The movement and breath work will focus on the pelvis which will help us to feel more grounded and centred. We will also learn some asana poses to support movement fluidity and ease.

When - Tuesday 15th November

Time- 6:30PM-7:45PM
Where -
Booking - via @

These classes are open level for black people and people of colour who identify as women and/or non-binary

About Laura Rice

Laura is the owner of a yoga studio, Studio 70, in the Southside of Glasgow. She has studied with Brigitte Longueville, David McAmmond, Natalie Rousseau, Jules Mitchell, Michael Stone and many more inspiring teachers. Laura graduated from a 200 hours Teacher Training in

24/10/2022

FREE WORKSHOPS book via .bodyremedy

Join Kheanna Walker for 2 beginner pole sessions. Kheanna will first take you through a full-body warm up, followed by some conditioning exercises designed to activate your muscles and increase your strength. She will then teach you an array of beginner spins, tricks and transitions. Prepare to fall in love with the art of pole dance.

Let's empower our bodies!

When - Saturday 12th & 26th Nov 12:30-2:00PM
Where - The White Studios
Booking - via our website, visit the link in our bio

These classes are open level for black people and people of colour who identify as women and/or non-binary

FREE - we welcome donations

About Kheanna Walker (

Kheanna Walker is an international pole artist & instructor based in the UK. She currently teaches at multiple studios in Glasgow. She has performed in various showcases and short films and has also been featured in numerous brand campaigns. Kheanna currently holds the Pole Theatre UK Pro Classique title.

24/10/2022

FREE EVENT

Live listening session with Simone Seales book via .bodyremedy

This session is an intimate gig, where participants are free to listen as they comfortably sit, move, stretch, or lay down and rest.

When - Saturday 5th November 6:30PM-7:45PM
Where -
Booking - via our website, visit the link in our bio

About Simone Seales (.cello)

Simone is passionate about exploring sound, how sound can reflect emotional states of being, and how emotions are embodied. Their creative influences come from Black feminist leaders such as Audre Lorde, Assata Shakur and bell hooks. Within Simone's creative work, they centre Blackness, sexuality, intersectional feminism and anti-racism. Simone is currently the Young Artist in Residence for Chamber Music Scotland and a recipient of the Sphinx MPower Grant.

24/10/2022

FREE WORKSHOP book now via .bodyremedy

Salma Faraji with AEROBICS WITH SOUL®

An innovative workshop based on dances from Salma’s native country of Tanzania. It offers the magic, spontaneity, creativity, expression, music and rhythms of Africa. This dance workout is accompanied by a contemporary and traditional African music playlist.

When - Tuesday 1st November
6:30PM-7:45PM
Where -
Booking - via our website, visit the link in our bio

Class is open level for black people and people of colour who identify as women and/or non-binary

FREE - we welcome donations

About Salma

Salma Faraji has an extensive teaching and communication experience, bringing creativity and diversity to teamwork. As a Dance Artist, she has worked with various choreographers and Arts Centres in Scotland creating and leading workshops and classes for both adults and children. She is passionate about Dance, and Aerobics with Soul® provides a unique programme that is both energising and educational, with an emphasis on FUN.

06/07/2022

Rendition of Wrapped Up In This
working revels…

1/5/22
curated by

Team


Image by .p.campbell

04/07/2022

RESET by Alberta Whittlemongrel

The moving-image work is informed by the writings of q***r theorist, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, interweaving gothic imagery, fears of contagion, xenophobia and the ensuing moral panic that often follows such anxieties.

Copyright Matthew Arthur Williams, 2020

26/05/2022

PATRICIA PANTHER🔥

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Available to watch online

26/05/2022

KEMONO L. RIOT 🔥


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Available to watch online

26/05/2022

DIVINE TASINDA 🔥

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Available to watch online

25/04/2022

Working Reveals: A live rendition of Wrapped Up In This

1st May 8pm

A thank you to the Black womxn who shared their stories with me during this process and gifted those stories to the work.

I value these conversations so deeply.

🖤🖤🖤

25/04/2022

Working Reveals: A live rendition of Wrapped Up In This

1st May 8pm on the Isle of Mull�
A womxn is called upon for service, following in the footsteps of her past generation and members of the Old World. With her ancestors alongside to guide and protect her, she leads herself to the opportunity she has been waiting for. With pride, she transcends physical distance to reach her apex; her journey is euphoric, visceral, and spiritual in nature.

- Director + Performing Artist Mele Broomes
- Sculpture-Costume Sabrina Henry
- Costume Construction Heather Currie and Siobhan Randle
- Lighting Emma Jones
- Music Nwanneka Osammor, Sarra Wild + Shaheeda Sinckler
- Outside Eye Ashanti Harris
- Production Support Shalmali Shetty and Siân Baxter

21/02/2022

Dance and Body Conditioning workshop with myself happening in GLASGOW

Dates
Saturday 7th May 11:30-13:30
Saturday 14th May  11:30-13:30

//Limited spaces//

£15 per session (2hours)

Free spaces available

More information coming soon.

Keen and wanna book now send me a message.

Mele 💕🖤💕

22/11/2021

Amethyst | Scottish Dance Theatre

A performance of visual and vocal vibrations that represents the stone Amethyst. Responding to the texture and the guidance properties of this regal stone. This is a reflective space.

Director + Choreographer
Mele Broomes

Dancers + Collaborators
Kieran Brown ()
João Castro ()
Glenda Gheller )

Costume + Set
Zephyr Liddell ()

Understudy Dancers + Collaborators
Jessie Robert’s-Smith
Louigi Nardon

Music Producer


Lighting Design
Emma Jones

Rehearsals Director
Naomi Murray

Photography
Tiu Makkonen ()

With thanks to



Dundee Rep Theatre 29 & 30 October 
The Place, London 24 & 25 November 
The Riley Theatre, Leeds 28 November

02/10/2021