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What is DIGI GEM?
DIGI GEM is a platform for connection, visibility, and opportunity.
We connect underrepresented artists with paid opportunities—and we train communities in how to thrive with AI and digital tools.
Artists bring culture, truth, and transformation. DIGI GEM brings the stage, the tech, and the support.
Whether you’re a visual artist, performer, designer, filmmaker, writer, or community creative—DIGI GEM was made for you.
DIGI GEM is led by a team of artists, dreamers, and doers who know what it means to create from the margins and still shine. We’ve lived the struggle of finding opportunities, navigating systems, and staying true to our craft. That’s why we built DIGI GEM—to flip the script and make sure artists like us are seen, celebrated, and paid.
We are creatives, educators, community leaders, and digital changemakers. Together, we bring decades of experience in the arts, tech, and grassroots organising. Our work is rooted in care, courage, and connection.
We don’t just talk about equity—we live it.
DIGI GEM is based in Manchester but built for everywhere. Our network is growing—and we’re always looking for collaborators, allies, and believers.
I’m Vian K. Hussein, a 25-year-old Kurdish artist from Syria, now living in the UK. I’m an award-winning visual artist and interior designer, currently studying Interior Design at UCLan and working with The Fidget Interior Architecture in Windermere.
My work blends creativity, functionality, and inclusivity, with a focus on sustainable design. Since arriving in the UK, I’ve returned to education after a 10-year break and joined humanitarian and feminist groups to make a positive impact.
Through art, I explore themes of war, feminism, and identity. My work has been exhibited across the UK and Europe, including at the Whitworth Gallery, the Kunstlinie Centre in the Netherlands, and the Holy Art Gallery in London.
Caroline is a director, theatre maker and facilitator with a passion for new writing.
Her directing credits include:
- Jaan and Knifes and Forks: Memories of Partition (Royal Exchange Theatre)
- The Storm (M6 Theatre)
- Shadow Girl (Proud and Loud Arts/M6 Theatre)
- Tales From the Town Hall (Rochdale Lit Fest/M6 Theatre)
As Assistant Director:
- The Tale of Mr Tumble (Manchester International Festival)
- Just Turf (Aqueous Humour)
Caroline was the Participation Director for M6 Theatre Company for over 12 years; creating inclusive, original, devised theatre and films with children and young people from the Rochdale Borough. She has previously been a facilitator for The National Theatre of Scotland, Cumbernauld Theatre and a visiting lecturer at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts on the Applied Theatre/Community Drama course.
Mahboobeh Rajabi is an award winner Creative Entrepreneur, Artist, Cultural Leader and creative producer from Manchester.
She has been working in the UK and internationally since 2010, working with different communities and cultures. Her mission is to give a platform to untold stories and give voices to the unheard voices through the language of art and building creative sustainable businesses for communities.
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