Welcome to SECOND BRAIN HQ!

This is the creative kitchen of Táiyé + Abi Falase, where we use the power our joint imagination to cook up projects that keep love + play at the centre.

meet the visionaries ✨

  • A woman with glasses, tie-dye dreadlocks, and a black head covering, wearing a gray hoodie with an orange pouch bag, is holding a person's hand during a social event. A man in a black jacket is in the background, holding a drink.

    Abi

    VISION DIRECTOR

    Abi is a writer, director and thinker whose creative practice centres on the idea of collective liberation through creative expression, blending feel-good social realism with wit, humour, and poetry to interrogate societal constructs. Because if you don't laugh, you'll cry. Through their work, they create transformative, escapist work for audiences seeking both authenticity and mysticism.

  • A woman with long, wavy black hair, wearing a light-colored top, sitting next to sheer curtains.

    Táiyé

    VISION CURATOR

    Táiyé is an interdisciplinary artist opening portals across theatre, literature and arts + heritage based in London. Interrogating the world through their lived experiences, centring the voices of historically overlooked communities is the golden thread that runs throughout their creative practice. Working intuitively, they use the elasticity of language and art to explore afro-futurity, intimacy and care.

why

“second brain”?

A term once affectionately used by Abi to describe Táiyé’s role in the room during our first time working together, it soon became the name to christen our working relationship.

To us, Second Brain means, another person to bounce an idea off of, it means you play to your strengths and I’ll play to mine, it means two heads are always better than one. It means double the trouble and the double the heart.

We take turns serving as each other’s ’Second Brain’ diligently supporting the growth of projects the other is energised by.

our story…

Within our growing friendship, the kitchen was a site for creativity and food quickly became a love language for us - we would dream about the projects we wanted to make over a bowls of katsu curry and sweet chilli chicken, we’d passionately scheme our take over of the arts industry, gyros in hand. It then feels natural for food to be the language for which we use to describe our work - the menu, became our list of offerings, cooking, our process of creation and so on.

Food also plays a significant role in our rooms - we are keen on a communal lunch on the last day of working with each other, breaking bread reflecting over our time together. A hobby baker, Táiyé is known to bring a baked good in for a press night or if someone needs a pick me up. We are also known to be very partial to a working brunch in the room (shout out Deliveroo!)


Food is nourishing and we desire to create work and work in a way that is nourishing for ourselves and our communities. We don’t play about advocating for that too - we always want what you need.

If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together.

🤝🏾

African Proverb

✨ Our shared + combined gifts + skills, allows us to fulfil our passion for supporting individuals + communities from historically overlooked communities* reach the fullness of their creative potential ✨

* By our definition, historically overlooked communities are groups that were (and some continue to be) denied full participation in mainstream cultural, social, political, and economic activities. This can include Black people, people of colour, women, LGBTQIA+, low-income individuals, prisoners, the disabled, young people, senior citizens, and many more.