Sir Madam Salon creates unique opportunities for people to build unexpected connections through hairdressing. We are a social change hairdressing group, working across remote Australia and festivals. Sir Madam Salon is a collaboration between hairdresser Mel Balkan,...
I’ve just spent a transformative fortnight with Mel Balkan: hairdresser, artist and all round livewire. This was the first intensive stint in an ongoing mentoring exchange around our expertise in hair, social change and art. Social change hairdressing is more common...
DOWNLOAD REPORT NOW Are you interested in finding out how salons, barbershops and social innovators all around the world are using hair and hairdressing to make their community a better place? Serious Style, the report from my Churchill Fellowship, is now available as...
Brooklyn, United States, during Churchill Fellowship. As part of my Churchill Fellowship I visited the incredible Arthur Ashe Institute, whose health promotion programs in salons and barbershops focus on ‘culturally competent care’. I was lucky enough to...
My Churchill Fellowship is taking me to Scotland, Switzerland, France, England, South Africa and the United States. I am currently on the road, meeting people around the globe who are using hairdressing to make their community a better place. September 2013