Wellcome Collection Lates: Not Done Yet

Positive East has supported people living with and affected by HIV for over 30 years. Its services help improve the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities affected by HIV, and include counselling, peer support, advice, HIV testing and prevention outreach.

Tom Rasmussen is a musician and composer whose work explores love, hope and queer dance floors. They have performed at venues and festivals including the Royal Opera House and Glastonbury, and collaborated with artists including Romy, Self Esteem and TAAHLIAH. Tom is a patron of Positive East.

TAAHLIAH, also known as Tahliah Simumba, is a Scottish artist and composer based in London. Working across sound, painting, performance and installation, her practice explores embodiment, perception and the social conditions through which identities are experienced and understood.

Tash is a writer, poet, audio producer and community organiser who believes in the power of listening as activism. They are co-founder and co-director of Aunt Nell and have over a decade of experience in the charity sector, including with Switchboard, the LGBT+ Helpline.

Adam Zmith is a writer, producer and storyteller drawn to hidden histories. He is co-founder and co-director of Aunt Nell and has worked across its podcast series. His other work includes ‘The Film We Can’t See’ for the BBC and ‘Press Play, Turn On’ for Audible.

Joyful Noise is a community choir established by NAZ in 2013 for people living with HIV. Led by choir director Colin Vassell and vocal coach Stella Betton, the choir uses music to challenge HIV stigma and create connection, friendship and joy. 

Club Des Femmes is a queer feminist film-curation collective. Through screenings, events and publications, it creates space to re-examine ideas through art. The collective has presented work across the UK and internationally.

Carla is a Spanish filmmaker known for her autobiographical storytelling and the director of ‘Llacunes (Llacuna)’, screening as part of this event. Her award-winning shorts and features include ‘Summer 1993’ and ‘Alcarràs’, which won the Golden Bear at Berlinale in 2022. In 2025, she premiered ‘Romería’ at Cannes in Official Competition. The film explores her Galician roots and the months her parents spent there, against the backdrop of the era’s heroin and AIDS epidemic.

Cecile is an animator and filmmaker, and the director of ‘Doug + Me’. Working in archive-led mixed-media animation, her work is guided by the idea of wabi-sabi, embracing the authenticity of imperfection and pairing playful visuals with emotionally resonant stories rooted in nostalgia, memory and the commonalities in our experiences.

Luis is an Irish-Venezuelan artist and journalist based in Dublin since 2013, and the director of ‘Journey’. As an artivist, their work confronts the stigma surrounding HIV by blending video poetry and visual storytelling to promote awareness and empowerment.

Imani is the director of ‘Realms Remix’. Since 1995, her oeuvre has included short films, literary works and plays that explore the dramatic tension between fact and fiction, often addressing the socio-political body and examining the human condition through subjects including slavery, HIV/AIDS, cultural heritage, female sexuality, identity and the spirit world.

Katherine is an interdisciplinary artist, educator and researcher, and the director of ‘Voices at the Gate’. Katherine produced and directed the video work in 2021, when it was commissioned by Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art. It was later presented in the ‘Viral Intimacies’ exhibition at nGbK in Berlin in 2025.

Viva is a community, family, nightlife and sex work educated artist and the director of ‘Chloe Dzubilo: There Is a Transolution’. The child of Ecuadorian factory workers, Viva was born and raised in Jamaica, Queens. Proud to be the ‘daughter’ of beloved punk rock trans femme activist Chloe Dzubilo, Viva has been building power and birthing pro-abortion aesthetics since 2015 with the #thankgodforabortion experiment.

Adam is an independent curator whose practice centres on lived experiences of health, accessibility and social justice. He curated ‘Tenderness and Rage’ and worked on exhibitions including ‘Zines Forever! DIY Publishing and Disability Justice’, ‘In Plain Sight’, ‘The Cult of Beauty’ and ‘Thirst: In Search of Freshwater’ at Wellcome Collection. He has also developed accessible exhibition experiences across audio description, BSL, multi-sensory commissions and wayfinding.

Ranjini is a Visitor Experience and Engagement Facilitator at Wellcome Collection. She brings together her practices as a dance artist and academic researcher, using movement to develop creative ways of experiencing the museum, and research to uncover the human stories held within objects, artworks, artefacts and the larger collection. Her work aims to foster dialogue and debate, as well as encourage visitors to make the museum their own.