Picture by Roger Bamber : 6 May 1994 : Shipshape.. Outgoing festival director Gavin Henderson inside a "Ship of Fools", a paper and withy galleon made by Same Sky community arts. The ship led the opening parade of the 1994 Brighton Festival. Gavin Douglas Henderson is an English arts administrator, conductor and trumpeter. Since 2007 he has been principal of the Central School of Speech and Drama at the University of London.