Karen Gabay
Trustee
Karen Gabay is a television producer, radio host and producer creating programmes and content around music, history, social and community affairs and popular cultures. She is also an award-winning filmmaker and curator, documenting Manchester’s communities and the social histories that have often been overlooked.
Alongside this work, Karen has been involved in outreach projects and broadcast features and programmes that encourage inclusion in music and intergenerational engagement in communities.
Within the social histories field, Karen has won awards for her short films and curation on Belle Vue, Moss Side & Hulme and for her public engagement work through historical storytelling., Karen has created and curated oral histories, video content, events and soundscapes towards exhibitions on Disabled Living, Manchester’s Belle Vue, Strawberry Studios and North American artist Emory Douglas of the Black Panther movement.
Karen has consulted and produced landmark television and radio programmes on a local, national and international level.
Karen is an advocate for profiling women in music and in radio and television, and also of music and education for children as well as developing emerging artists in the music and the arts.
