Nelly features in It’s Nice That article on Tour de Moon:
With its retina-boggling installations and parade floats, and mind-broadening workshops and events, Tour de Moon festival could only come from the brain of Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun, founder of charity and postgraduate University of the Underground, as well as NASA’s International Space Orchestra. Arriving today in Southampton (10-13 June) and next week in Hackney (16 June), the touring event has a little something for everyone to enjoy, all under the umbrella intention of prompting “radical imagination” and supporting youth creatives and nightlife workers, “demographics which have been hit especially hard by the impacts of Covid and funding cuts over the last few years,” Nelly says. To that end, Nelly and her team have allocated more than £1 million of its budget to bursaries for young creatives to produce contributions to the festival.
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