Founded by David Avery in 2007, Abracadia is the needle in the haystack. Well found! David hails from an unbroken line of Jamaican ‘Maroon’ storytellers traced back to a royal Ashanti griot (musician-storyteller-educator) enslaved in 1750. This discovery came when traced by his birth family in 2006, 15 years after attaining a Number One record and a doctorate in the educational and cultural applications of narrative forms!
- No. 1 recording artist, underground soul record producer.
- BA Hons: Philosophy, PGCE in R.E., MA in Education.
- DPhil in narrative and cultural dynamics.
- Secondary school teacher (1994-2007).
- University lecturer in education and culture (1990-94).
The long journey from un-parented wild-child (expelled from school) to pioneering education professional enables David to reach and inspire people of all sorts. His exceptional breadth of life experience adds a special depth of human understanding to his work, and his passionate commitment to restoring meaning in a world often overloaded with information makes David an esteemed associate of world-leading corporate consultants, education advisors, teachers, students, social entrepreneurs and artists (see recommendations).
A full time artist educator and cultural dynamics consultant, David is also a school governor and a regular speaker at educational conferences home and abroad.