During the year at Open School East, Rosa pursued interests in the performance of places, people, land and lore. Working with video and sound, Rosa performed live experimental folk sets around Margate and Thanet. Performance highlights include Criss Cross at LIMBO, with Claire Orme and Lou Lou Sainsbury, OSE x LIMBO Residency, Broadstairs Folk Week and a Folk Horror Live Score at Tom Thumb Theatre, organised by Melanie Wheeler. Rosa also contributed to the Open School East radio programme series at Radio Margate. Alongside fellow Associates, Rosa organised workshops, talks and screenings including visits from Fourthland and Winnie Herbstein.

For Gut Feelings, Rosa presented a performative installation titled the house that forgets and the hands who remember. The work was part of a research project aiming to unpack the chronology of agricultural practices and food production through a lens of folklore and performance. Focusing on the Isle of Thanet as a microcosm for the British Isles, the work mapped ways of knowing, archaeology and migration, English folk music and East Kentish traditions. Rosa became involved in ‘hoodening’ a performative tradition specific to Thanet and also worked with a local farmer to understand how Thanet District Council’s ‘Local Plan’ and Brexit may affect communities and livelihoods.

During the project Rosa introduced new threads to their practice; woodwork, set building and instrument making – notably working with lamb’s gut to create natural catgut strings.