Joanna Hartle :
Joanna Hartle started working in the Live Events industry at the tender age of 16, learning to do lights at the famed Pink Toothbrush Club in Essex. Over the period of a few months she moved from club nights to live acts and was then asked by the visiting bands to tour with them for PDs Her works as a lighting designer led her to be a regular touring LD for the up and coming bands of the then new indie scene and grunge bands from Seattle.
Her creativity with Light, she claims came from always having a love for the music she was responding too and the fact that she sees music in colour, shape and form, almost like a type of synesthesia. She was the youngest person in the world and the first woman to train on the the LSD IKON, and worked across the world designing and operating lights for the first six years of her career. Towards the end of this period, she moved into Production and Tour Managing before side stepping to return to study and qualify as a Professional Youth and Community Worker
After the birth of her first child, Joanna spent time working as a Professional Youth and Community Worker, teaching, educating and empowering young people and students to learn develop and in some circumstances reengage with the world. Her projects won awards and she was asked to sit on national bodies to develop future working practices further. Her greatest gift from this time was being told that she had inspired others to want to be like the way she managed to create change in the lives of others. That accolade is in itself a priceless gem.
During her time workng in the public and third sector Joanna worked with many hard to reach young people and established funded and award winning education programmes to reengage young people and adults back into education and training, Including the building with volunteers of a straw bale building to create a new sustainable education and training centre for the organisation.
During her time workng in the public and third sector Joanna worked with many hard to reach young people and established funded and award winning education programmes to reengage young people and adults back into education and training, Including the building with volunteers of a straw bale building to create a new sustainable education and training centre for the organisation.
Joanna returned to the Live Events Industry in 2001, starting back again as a lighting designer for DP lighting with Darren Parker, before being offered The Beta Band as Production Designer.She has crew chiefed Reading and Leeds Festival.
In more recent times she has become a fully fledged Production Manager on Large Scale Events as well as event designer/ manager on corporate events and parties. Her lighting talents still come through in her creative activities as an Artist Designer. Her most recent work Camino are planned to be shown in Poland, Denmark and itis hoped at The Burning Man festival in Nevada September 2012.
Joanna splits her life between being the creative driving force behind naturespacecreative, both the education and creative, being a mom of three children and producing large scale events. Her special qualities are her tireless enthusiasm for ideas and finding ways to make things happen, a passion for educating, bending time, dynamic and creative thinking on many levels and her ability to dispel tension with compassion.
