Steel City Sofa: Meet Melanin Fest founder Annalisa Toccara

By The Newsroom
Published 1st Apr 2019, 16:38 BST
Updated 2nd Apr 2019, 12:16 BST
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Annalisa Toccara is an award-winning cultural producer and freelance marketer who is passionate about gender equality, social inclusion & representation.She is the founder of social enterprise Our Mel and Melanin Fest.

Annalisa joined us on the Steel City Sofa last week to talk about her busy life managing Our Mel, planning Melanin Fest and studying for a masters degree.

Chatting behind the camera, she said: “There’s not that much that happens in Sheffield for people of colour. There’s only one festival on the Sheffield train station board for people of colour.

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“If we’re calling ourselves the city of festivals, there needs to be more.”