THE PROJECTS
As a social justice focused creative practitioner and facilitator MIRI works with arts organisations, charities and universities on programmes that facilitate opportunities for underrepresented children, young people and adults to develop skills and expressivity. She also provides consultancy and advice to help curate and shape programmes.
Facilitation
MIRI’s roles have included music facilitation, mentoring and pastoral support work.
She’s worked for Young Lyric, Somerset House, Soundcastle, Attitude is Everything, Spark The Noise (previously Girls Rock London), Wigmore Hall, Newham Music and many more. MIRI has ran open mic sessions in mental health wards for organisations who specifically target groups that are unjustly represented in the mental health system. She has planned and delivered vocal workshops for First Timers Fest, LIPS Choir and songwriting workshops for Newham Poetry Festival, Mind Charity on behalf of Writerz And Scribez, and co-led a live arts and songwriting conversation and space with Sumita Mujamdar for Mad Hearts – The Arts & Mental Health Conference at Queen Marys University.
Photo credit: Adam Kang at Somerset House
“MIRI makes music accessible and helps to quieten the insecurities. She helped me drop my self doubt for long enough to reach for what I am really capable of and rediscover my uniqueness… and my fire!”
“MIRI is a soulful rebel and creative leader facilitating spaces for queer folk and artists via FAC, LOUD Women and more.”
MIRI ran a number of Music & Activism workshops for ALLFIE’s (the Alliance For Inclusive Education) future leaders, Our Voice group.
The Our Voice project is a young people’s campaigning and activism programme funded by the Paul Hamlyn foundation. It amplifies the voices, and addresses the erasure of Young Disabled people’s education experiences.
MIRI has worked with:
ADVOCACY & consultancy
MIRI is on the Artist Council, an advisory board for The Featured Artist Coalition who represent the rights and interests of music artists.
She interviewed DJ Paulette for the FAC at The Boudica Conference which strives to encourage Trans+, Female and Non-Binary individuals to become involved in the music industry and spoke on a panel at the UD Incubator Programme for independent artists. In addition she has represented FAC on the long-listing panel for The Artist & Manager Awards.
She is a Board Member for LOUD Women and has stage managed two of their music Festivals at Rich MIx. As an Ambassador for The F-List, a music directory and movement for female and non-conforming artists, she has spoken on panels at London College Of Contemporary Music and One Fest.
MIRI provides consultancy and advice to organisations helping to shape programmes in order to assure that practices are inclusive and that the curation of the programmes cater for the participants specific needs.
“I first met MIRI while I was CEO of the FAC and MIRI was at the heart of a vital group of developing artists working to support emerging talent. She is dedicated and honest in her commitment to both artistry and artistic health. A talented musician, MIRI’s own music and originality will grab your heart.”
Ethical Streaming
Excerpt taken from The Ivors Academy website.
A 2020 poll by The Ivors Academy and Musicians’ Union found that 82% of musician respondents earned less than £200 from streaming in 2019, a figure that included musicians with millions of streams.
You can ethically stream MIRI’s music on Resonate and Qobuz. Resonate is the first community-owned music streaming service — a multi-stakeholder platform co-operative, democratically governed by their members: artists, listeners, and workers.
Use the FAC Royalty Calculator here to find out what your streams are worth.
Photo credit: Richie Phillips
Research
In 2024 MIRI was diagnosed with Autism and ADHD which has steered her towards various research projects for universities. She was invited by Dr Martha Lomeli-Rodriguez and Dr Nikki Street at Liverpool John Moores University to co-facilitate Melodies for Mindfulness: a community-focused programme designed to deepen understanding of the experiences faced by neurodiverse undergraduate students from marginalised genders in higher education.
She has been working with Dr Emma Murray at Anglia Ruskin University who, through collaborative approaches, develops alternative knowledge systems that promote social justice. MIRI ran a songwriting exploration workshop for academia staff at the university looking at how music can be used as an action for change.
MIRI presented her own research ‘The ART is Showing Up’ for The F-List’s 4th conference “The Personal is Political – THE CULTURE AND POLITICS OF MUSIC SYSTEMS” at the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance, 2025.
“MIRI stands out not only for her incredible talent as a musician but also for the kind, thoughtful person she is. She poured her heart into the project and listened to the needs of everyone involved. MIRI translated our ideas into actions, and thanks to her expertise and commitment, we have created a joyful space for people at the university.”
Articles and Press
The Guardian
In September, independent singer and songwriter Miri earned £44.30 in one week for 1,772 streams of her music on Sonstream, a new streaming service based in Stoke-on-Trent. “Although that doesn’t sound like a lot, for me, that’s money towards food and electricity,” she says. Her equivalent earnings on Spotify would have been less than £5.
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Nonchalant
It was the mid-90s when music became a career option for me due to receiving interest from a music publisher. I was very young and hadn’t dealt with my sexuality. I was on the cusp of realizing that how I felt was different to the norm presented to me by the heteronormative mainstream, yet I kept pushing my feelings down.
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The F-List
“All the girls to the front, I’m not kidding” said Kathleen Hanna, front woman of Bikini Kill at a punk gig in the 90’s. An iconic moment that I’ve watched over many times thanks to The Punk Singer DVD. Back when Bikini Kill were touring in the 90’s many women were being beaten and bruised by men at their shows when trying to take up space at the front.
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FAC Insights
For many of us Pride has become a party and a time for celebration. I know a lot of people who won’t go to the mainstream Pride events, preferring to stick with community Prides where the grassroots ethos and protest for equality remains centre stage. I wanted to hear what some of my friends felt about this. Should Pride be a protest, a party or both?
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Loud Women
After watching Killdren perform live at last year’s LOUD WOMEN Fest I jumped at the opportunity to review their latest album release, Illuminaughty. The duo’s fourth album is an inimitable combination of brutal satire, punky vocals and full-on rave music which contains 10 original songs plus four remixes from Gullyteen, Freddy Frogs, Amousement and Obese.
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Moths & Giraffes
‘Freedom Is The Purpose’ rallies the listener not only through MIRI’s frank lyricism, but in its offbeat guitar, reggae beat and melodic bass. When the future is written by the victors, protest songs don’t forget. While history is being erased before our eyes, there is timelessness and permanence in ‘Freedom Is The Purpose’, the new single from MIRI..
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Attack Magazine
A year ago we published a series of articles about artists who had removed their music from Spotify. We caught up with some of them to see if their views, or situation, had changed over the last 12 months.
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