Parvinder Marwaha

Parvinder works in cultural and climate advocacy and programming, exploring core systems of gender, faith and race. In her role at the British Council, she specialises in UK, EU Europe and South Asia relations to promote cultural exchange through Arts programming that supports social change. Some of her projects include ‘Gender Ecologies’, a cross-artform programme which looks at the intersection of women and climate in Bangladesh and Pakistan; ‘Circular Cultures’ which supports dialogue in sustainable practices across nine countries in EU Europe; Design Connections, a global programme which supports festivals, biennials and museum curators to connect and exchange knowledge and skills; and ‘DesignKind’, an emerging designer programme which explores race and climate injustice. She recently curated and produced Bradford Arts & Culture Climate Symposium, in collaboration with Bradford City Council and Bradford 2025.

She promotes dialogue and collaboration through practices of food and ritual. Her project ‘chai breaker*’ uses chai (tea) as a catalyst to collaborate with artists and designers to open up conversations from decolonisation to gender equality.

*chai breaker is written in one case, inspired by the Gurmukhi script in Sikh culture where there is no upper or lower case – all letters are treated the same.