LJ Findlay-Walsh
LJ Findlay-Walsh is Artistic Director of Take Me Somewhere, an international contemporary performance festival based in Glasgow. She is Senior Curator of Performance at Scotland’s largest contemporary arts venue, Tramway, working on year-round activity that includes the country’s city-wide biennial dance festival, DIG (Dance International Glasgow). Previous roles include Executive Producer of Mischief La-Bas and Senior Producer at the Arches arts venue in Glasgow, where she worked for over a decade. While in post at the Arches, she aided the curation and delivery of international performance festival Behaviour and emergent artist festival Arches Live. She has worked as co-curator of the Plateaux live art festival (Frankfurt, Germany). She is an advisor to the BSL Buzzcut Festival (Glasgow) and has held various advisory and curatorial roles with organizations such as the Federation of Scottish Theatre, The Canada Council, Erdlangen Festival (Germany), and in 2020 with OGR (Turin, Italy). She is part of the European consortium Festivals of the Future and is an ISPA fellow (International Society of the Performing Arts).