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Emerging Cultural Leaders 2017


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Thank you for joining us to welcome and congratulate the Emerging Cultural Leaders of 2017.

Artists and cultural workers have a vital role of sharing important stories and in shaping the narratives of the contemporary Australian landscape. Our Emerging Cultural Leaders program offers participants an opportunity to establish networks in the arts sector and learn essential skills to develop and share their stories to the next level.

After six months of mentorship and creative development with key mentors, industry speakers and the FCAC team, we are pleased to present the skills, stories and insights of people forming the future of our creative industries.

With support from Learn Local, this year’s ECL group has developed projects that engage local communities and address powerful themes and topics.

The annual ECL Showcase and celebration is an occasion for you to get acquainted with the incredible 2017 Emerging Cultural Leaders. Curated entirely by the group, the industry showcase presents fresh ideas in contemporary arts and cultural community practice.

Of course, we always want to hear from people who are interested in being a mentor, an industry guest speaker or providing an immersive in-organisation experience for the group or an individual. Please be in touch if you are interested in being a part of the ECL experience or collaborating with us in some way.

We look forward to the journey these leaders take us on.

Jade Lillie Director and CEO

WelcomeImage by Shehargho Ghosh.


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At Footscray Community Arts Centre, we are dedicated to supporting the next generation of artists and cultural facilitators.

Through the Emerging Cultural Leaders program artists and facilitators come together to work on individual projects, establish new networks in the arts, cultural and community sectors, learn necessary skills and receive mentoring from industry professionals.

Renowned for amplifying the voices of artists and facilitators from diverse communities, the program enables participants to get a foot in the door and take creative risks.

Over the past six months, participants have broadened their skill-set and expanded their knowledge of the sector through weekly workshops with experienced arts

leaders and FCAC staff. These workshops cover a range of topics, which help participants develop, plan and deliver their projects of a high calibre.

ECL is an opportunity for participants to excel in their art form and community practice, and gain the confidence to be a successful and influential community arts leader.

Emerging Cultural Leaders

Images by Shehargho Ghosh.


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Over the years, the ECL program has enabled participants to gain the essential knowledge and practical skills to excel in every aspect of arts event production. Past graduates have gone on to forge their own careers as independent artists and producers and many work for renowned arts organisations.

The program provides participants with opportunities to assist in producing large-scale events and festivals for the public.

This year, participants had the chance to work on West of What? – FCAC’s curated all-day community festival for Melbourne Fringe 2017. The event included numerous musicians, dance groups, artists and installations, market stalls, a sausage sizzle and a separate evening poetry performance.

Images by Shehargho Ghosh.

Participants supported the day with administration, sound and production, guest services and documentation.

A highlight of West of What? was the evening event Memories//Disperse, which was produced by ECL participants and the collective New Wayfinders.

West of What?


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Contact

+61 4 1018 7513

[email protected]

Interests

Visual Art

Poetry

Project

Grace Amigo is developing the arts collective ‘The One Who Knows’. The aim of the collective, which is made up of female artists, is to offer women creative opportunities where they can connect with their wild selves. The collective believes all women are artists and can explore their creative practice. Since women are the nucleus of every family, healing themselves through art can benefit society.

Grace is using the Emerging Cultural Leaders program to present the stories of the women who are part the collective. Through a combination of voice recordings and projections infused with psychedelic undertones, Grace explores what it means to be a woman and an artist in this time.

Biography

Grace Amigo was born in Santiago, Chile. In 2011 she moved to Australia and took back her love for painting and writing, sharing her poetry with the Spanish poetry group A Voz Limpia. She published her first book of poetry La Gracia de las Nieves in 2017 under Grace de las Nieves.

In 2016 Grace founded the ‘The One Who Knows: Creative Exercises To Connect With Your Wild Self’ collective with Gabriela Gonzales. She is planning an exhibition with the collective.

Grace also hosts the radio show ‘Completada Bailable’ with women in the collective on 3CR Community Radio. She is currently working with Industrial Designer Miguel Zerene at Nebulab.

‘Art for me is a way of healing and connecting with our inner selves, which is the first step towards transforming this society. As Alain said in Simone Beauvoir’s book The Second Sex ‘Magic is the spirit that lives in everything and every woman’s path is towards this magic’. Let’s see what this group of magical people can do.’

Grace Amigo

Image by Shehargho Ghosh.


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Project

Roberta Rich is deve¬loping a creative residency and exchange program between Melbourne and Johannesburg. Recently awarded the 2017 Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship for Emerging Artists, this will see her continue working in South Africa, developing her artistic practice and further build her professional arts networks towards her project of connecting South Africa and Australia creatively.

Coloured™ as a construction and signature, evolved from an artwork Rich produced while on residency in South Africa. Coloured™ as Rich’s creative project identity takes the form of hand screen-printed t-shirts, as a ‘street’ platform to discuss issues of identity while promoting her endeavour to facilitate South African and Australian creative exchange.

Biography

Roberta Rich is an emerging artist who responds to constructions of identity, often referencing her diaspora African identity and experiences. Utilising language and satire in her video, performance, installation and multi-disciplinary projects, Rich draws from historical, socio-political, media and popular culture to challenge problematic representations of identity.

Since completing a studio residency in Johannesburg in 2016, Rich has been exhibiting in Johannesburg, Melbourne and Sydney.

‘ECL is such a valuable program that equips creatives and producers with essential knowledge to work ethically and sustainably within the arts sector while also emphasising the importance of self-care and the value of one’s work.’

Roberta Joy Rich

Contact

+61 4 0180 7940

www.robertajoyrich.com

[email protected]

instagram.com/robertajoyrich

Interests

Socially Engaged Practice

Contemporary African Art

Arts Management



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Project

Through the development of a creative platform that focuses on an interdisciplinary approach to place making, Iampolski hopes to fosters a sustainable and safe space for place-makers of different practices to collaborate with the common goal subverting the urban experience. Forming a site and network to develop community informed projects, workshops, discussions and tours, the platform creates opportunities to focus on how we interact, define and play with space.

Iampolski hopes to develop a platform that will leverage her own skill set and approach, while learning from others. This project aims to bring awareness to the importance of adopting a critical, interventional and interdisciplinary approach when considering how place effects community.

Biography

Rachel Iampolski is a creative producer and arts researcher with a particular interest in place-making through art and site-specific work. Playful and unexpected, Iampolski’s work explores the social and political constructs that govern how people function within place, often with the aim of subverting them.

Following a bachelor in Sociology and Contemporary Anthropology, Iampolski is currently completing her Masters in Arts and Cultural Management. With experience in festival contexts, community broadcasting and producing space interventions, Iampolski creates guerrilla public art projects aiming to disturb how people interact with, and define public and private place.

‘The past six months has brought home just how much critical, real world impact the arts have and the responsibility, as well as the privilege that places on all of us as arts practitioners and facilitators.’

Rachel Iampolski

Contact

+61 4 4844 9383

[email protected]

Interests

Installation

Activations

Research

Live Art

Collaboration



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Project

Songs of Vaitaranî is an epic choreopoem set in the afterlife and exploring the feminist resistance practices of girmitya (indentured) women in Fiji. Encompassing ancient and contemporary poetic traditions, the work is shaped by religious ‘hell’ texts and girmit folk culture.

Songs of Vaitaranî, draws on the stylistic elements and tradition of the forgotten Indo-Fijian folk culture of “bidesia”, an intangible form of song and poetry that emerged through the girmit.

Biography

Manisha Anjali is a poet, painter and performer. Working with women of Oceanian and Indian histories, Anjali’s work is concerned with the hallucinatory dream states they experience as they navigate their folklores, rituals and decolonisation.

Manisha’s pan-Pacific works appear including Mascara Literary Review, Seizure, IKA Journal, Blackmail Press and Lor Journal. A recipient of a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk, Anjali seeks to work with immigrant communities and encourage poetic and dramatic expression.

Her debut poetry collection, Sugar Kane Woman, is available at www.manishaanjali.com.

‘I have come to know myself, embrace community in its many forms and tune in to the world. Community arts is a labour of love, and creative expression is for everyone.’

Manisha Anjali

Contact

+61 4 20879476

www.manishaanjali.com

instagram.com/manishaanjali

[email protected]

Interests

Literature

Music

Performance



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Project

Depicting Diaspora is a photo exhibition that offers a platform for Oceanic people to present and reconnect with cultural heritage on their own terms. Working with Oceanic and Queer Oceanic people, Reade creates a contemporary visual celebration and reimaging of diasporic identity. Working with Reade to research and trace their ancestory, the participants are then invited to represent themselves through highly stylised portraits.

Biography

Alec Reade is a young Oceanic artist (Fijian/European) looking to decolonise, intersectionalise and reclaim their identity with members of the Oceanic community.

New Wayfinders are a community art collective, co-founded by Reade, that centres queerness and unifies isolated community members with cultural leaders of the Oceanic diaspora, encouraging creativity and confidence amongst would-be and emerging Oceanic artists. New Wayfinders also aims to connect with other diasporic art initiatives and organisations to further decolonise the art scene within Naarm (Melbourne).

‘The ECL Program has opened me up to myself, my confidence as an arts facilitator, and an art community so loving, inclusive and full of practitioners and opportunities that I never knew existed nor had I thought I’d be a part of.’

Alec Reade

Contact

+61 4 3472 1692

[email protected]

facebook.com/newwayfinders

instagram.com/newwayfinders

Interests

Poetry & Spoken Word

Dance

Singing/Choir

Music

Events

Writing

Photography

Advocacy

Visual Arts

VideographyImage by Shehargho Ghosh.


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Project

Inviting the community of Geelong to co-produce and collaborate, Tread encourages meditation on the relationship to the items we collect, capital, labour and spectacle within the context of the de-industrialising city.

Conceived by artist and academic, Merinda Kelly and co-produced by Soraya Mobayad, Tread has evolved to include the voices of artists, poets and performers, mechatronic engineers, photographers and graphic designers. The work has been produced over multiple sites, including pop-up workshops in an empty shop front, a gallery showing and an interactive public artwork at Geelong After Dark. The interactive sculpture evolved with each showing, as participants from each location contribute items to the Tread neon totems.

Biography

Soraya Mobayad’s artistic practice explores audio frequencies and the relationship of noise to information. Taking the form of drawings, installations, bespoke electronic circuits, audio loops and public works, Mobayad is preoccupied with creating multi-sensory pieces and cross-disciplinary works designed to place the viewer in an immersive environment.

Passionate about socially engaged practice, Mobayad has previously worked as a Creative Program Coordinator at Courthouse Youth Arts in Geelong as well as freelancing on festivals.

‘The ECL program has shown clear pathways towards building a healthy and inclusive arts industry. It has been a joy to grow my creative production and leadership skills under the mentorship of the FCAC team.’

Soraya Mobayad

Contact

+61 4 3256 0655

[email protected]

www.sorayamobayad.com

Interests

Art

Community Engaged Practices

Creative Production



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Project

Lowered Voices is a zine and interdisciplinary art project that recounts snippets of conversations and anecdotes of the experiences of non-white people in the arts. The zine and works play with the hushed conversations and knowing looks between non-white people in all-white spaces, and is informed by Andy’s experience working for large arts organisations as a ‘diversity worker’. Lowered Voices is an extension of several writing, curatorial and art projects Andy has worked on for the past two years, that investigate the tension between diversity discourse and institutional whiteness in the arts. Andy is working towards executing more ambitious projects on this theme.

Biography

Andy Butler is a Filipino-Australian writer, curator and artist from Melbourne. His practice focuses tensions between structural racism and diversity discourse in the arts. His writing has appeared in Overland and Art+Australia. He has previously worked for ACMI and the NGV, and currently works for Melbourne Writers Festival.

Andy is currently undertaking a Glenfern Fellowship residency through Writers Victoria, and is curating an exhibition Always there and all a part at BLINDSIDE through their Emerging Curator Mentorship program, which will open in December.

“ECL has given me a real insight in to how an arts organisation can meaningfully work with culturally and linguistically diverse artists and audiences. The sense of community and openness seems to come so naturally to FCAC, and I’m excited to move forward with their support in my career in the arts.”

Andy Butler

Contact

+61 4 0665 3854

instagram.com/andyray87

twitter.com/andyray87

[email protected]

Interests

Writing

Curating

Visual Arts

Arts Management



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Contact

+61 4 0270 4693

www.piperhuynh.com

[email protected]

facebook.com/PNNHProductions

instagram.com/pnnh95

twitter.com/pnnh

Interests

Stage & Production Management

Creative Producer

Performance & Devising

Community Engagement

Project

Piper Huynh is embarking on a body of work that explores the intersectionality of the Vietnamese-Australian identity. Through a series of projects, each collaboration will create a platform for individuals and communities to share their stories to audiences they would never see on a daily basis. These outcomes will utilise audience spaces to prompt conversations and cross pollination between generations, practices and communities to create connection and understanding.

Mother and Daughter, is the first project in collaboration with her mother Hanh Huynh. It is a bilingual work that explores language and communication through story-telling, movement and projection.

Biography

Piper Huynh is a Melbourne-based theatre-maker driven by untold stories. She has worked extensively with Western Edge Youth Arts as an emerging artist and has facilitated community-engaged Playback Theatre workshops in Melbourne, the Philippines and Sri Lanka. With an array of disciplines, Piper produces accessible works that address issues of intersectionality and identity while inviting new audiences. As a stage/production manager her credits include Ode To Man, Surprise Party with Jem and Dead Max, My Ancestral Roots, Salt and Anti-Hamlet.

‘ECL is an invaluable program for artists wanting to learn, thrive and get practical advice about the industry. The program is a warm, nurturing and safe environment for ideation and exploration of interests. You can’t get direct honest stories and experiences anywhere else.’

Piper Huynh



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Contact

+61 4 5929 4729

[email protected]

Interests

Theatre

Education

Youth

Project

Sabet is delivering and refining a high school theatre program that nurtures confidence, powers of expression, agency and consciousness in youth.

Simultaneously, she is developing a body of work that explores the conversation of humanity, between and across cultures. Amidst the tumult of this world, what is our common ground? The most recent advancement of her research is an immersive piece that interplays between Swahili, English, Farsi and Samoan. The play unravels issues of child safety, land and humanity. These issues resonate closely with Narrm, where this piece is developing.

Biography

Driven by compassion and social justice, May Saba Sabet co-creates theatre with young people. Sabet’s roots were exported from Iran, seeded in Johannesburg, nurtured in Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania), and are now planted in Melbourne.

Her previous work includes directing the play Everything In Between with high school students and facilitating workshops for The Power of Expression, a play about female genital mutilation that toured schools in Dar-es-Salaam. Sabet uses theatre to unite hearts and dissolve social barriers. She works as a teaching artist, while producing and directing an independent piece with youth.

‘A special energy is generated when community artists gather to refine and elevate their practice. The ECL program has thoroughly and thoughtfully prepared a cohort of emerging cultural leaders to integrate into society and find pathways to produce, create and disperse their practice.’

May Saba Sabet



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Contact

+61 4 0068 7801

beth.atkinsonquinton @gmail.com

twitter.com/bethanyaq

Interests

Radio Broadcasting

Project

Broadwave is a curated network of Australian podcasts telling community-driven stories.

Broadwave develops, nurtures and promotes emerging Australian podcasts and producers to provide a genuine, intelligent and considered alternative space for quality independent audio content.

We equip producers and communities with the skills and resources to make their best work, reach new audiences and sustainably fund their practice. Partnering with existing independent podcasts, commissioning new podcasts and one-off creative audio pieces, Broadwave works at the intersections of communities as a tool for self-determination and story sharing.

Biography

Bethany Atkinson-Quinton is a broadcaster, producer, writer and educator based in Narrm (Melbourne). Beth’s work focuses on developing emerging artists, sparking conversation and producing work that centres community, art, identity and intersectional feminism. She creates audio documentaries for multiple broadcasters and podcasts including ABC Radio National, Triple R and All The Best. She is a presenter and producer of The Breakfast Spread on PBS 106.7 FM.

Passionate about connecting audiences to storytelling, she has presented podcast workshops with The Walkley Foundation, The Arts Centre and Melbourne Writers Festival.

‘ECL has really helped me dissect and develop what it means to approach my practice through a community-engaged lens. I feel incredibly privileged to have been able to learn from so many socially engaged, interested and interesting people.’

Bethany Atkinson-Quinton



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Contact

+61 4 0043 5089

instagram.com/hanann_a_d

[email protected]

Interests

Curatorship

Arts Management

Writing

Project

Hanann’s project is defined by identity and belonging. She explores the universality of the human experience, and how empowerment can be found through examining personal and political trauma. Drawing on sporadic memories and documentation material that she gathered upon her first trip to Palestine in the wake of a personal upheaval, Hanann reclaims her personal narrative as an Australian/Palestinian to better understand how she can sensitively approach the representation of Palestinian communities in her curatorial practice. With this knowledge, she hopes to create platforms and opportunities to advocate and share the experiences of the Palestinian diaspora.

Biography

Hanann Al Daqqa is an Australian/Palestinian curator based in Melbourne. After growing up in South East Asia, her practice revolves around exploring diasporic identities including her own, and facilitating the voices of culturally and linguistically diverse arts practitioners in Melbourne.

‘ECL has provided me with community, strength and a platform for self-expression in understanding my own heritage and identity.’

Hanann Al Daqqa



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Project

Daisy intends to found a zine collective for young zine-makers who are Indigenous and People of Colour (POC). Recognising the stark absence of People of Colour in the Melbourne zine scene, the POC zine collective will facilitate zine-making workshops to give people skills, and create a community for people to connect with other POC and foster collaboration.

The collective will also travel to zine fairs across the country and eventually internationally in an effort to represent the voices of People of Colour and Indigenous people globally. As the founder of this collective, Daisy intends to implement the leadership and production skills she gains from her ECL participation.

Biography

Daisy Catterall is an artist who uses installations to investigate her position in the Pasifika diaspora. Daisy is the co-founder of a Naarm-based Pasifika art collective who use art as a form of cultural healing.

Her art practice is heavily informed by zines – an independently made publication, like a magazine but independently produced. Daisy’s zines are about regaining agency over your representation and reclaiming your voice under oppression and capitalism.

‘The ECL Program has opened me up to myself, my confidence as an arts facilitator, and an art community so loving, inclusive and full of practitioners and opportunities that I never knew existed nor had I thought I’d be a part of.’

Daisy Catterall

Contact

+61 4 1234 5678

[email protected]

instagram.com/queen_dee_luscious

Interests

Hip Hop Music

Gender Politics and Queerness

Cherry Tomatoes



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Project

Mia believes in creating ways to engage with culture in a tangible way in an everyday practice. This led to the vision for Indigaroo – a class exploring identity, safety, connection, environment and development through an Aboriginal perspective and shared values.

Indigaroo is not about learning aboriginal culture. It’s learning about where we are, what was here before, the landscape, the stories and our relationship to this country. It’s about how it relates to us now; it translates and it’s relevant. It’s not my story; it’s our story. As Mia develops Indigaroo, she continues to learn about the area and language group she’s working in. Mia will reach out to councils and schools to offer Indigaroo to more people.

Biography

Mia Stanford was raised in the Northern Territory from Kungarakan and Gurindji people. With a degree in Indigenous Studies, Professional Writing and honours in Arts Management, she has years of experience working in cultural arts and with community.

As a performer, writer and stand-up comedian, Mia has appeared on the Aboriginal Comedy All Stars, NITV and SBS, written for TV series and Ilbijerri Theatre and performed at festivals. She has worked in strategic planning on advisory committees and with philanthropic partnerships. A theme that remains constant in Mia’s practice is the draw towards creating ways to nurture connection to country and strengthen identity through storytelling.

‘I spend so much of my life supporting and creating safe spaces, which has been a burning passion of mine. I realised throughout my ECL journey that I didn’t have a space for my own. As a mother with a family to care for, I struggle to maintain my practice. The program made me realised how crucial it is to have a space to work from and really honour it.’

Mia Stanford

Contact

+61 4 5030 1553

[email protected]

instagram.com/I_am_magic_of_life

Interests

Festivals

Women’s Healing

Ceremony And Ritual

Improvised Theatre

Foraging

Connecting To The Magic Of Life In All Of Us



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Contact

+61 4 3288 4776

[email protected]

sneharghophotography.com

Interests

Photography

Project

Through portrait photography, Snehargho Ghosh is portraying people in personal spaces that reflect their identity as a person and artist, cultural background and intimate environment. Snehargho’s subjects for his first directorial photography series are the 2017 Emerging Cultural Leaders group.

Having used the Emerging Cultural Leaders program to develop his directorial photography style, Snehargho wants to now utilise this type of photography for future personal projects about identity, culture and environmental topics, as well as for promotional work with artists and arts organisations

In the future Snehargho would like to continue to work on larger scale directorial photograph projects.

Biography

Snehargho Ghosh is a Melbourne-based photographer. Born in West Bengal, India, Snehargho’s early photography projects involve documenting the exiled Tibetan community in Dharamsala and remote tribal cultures in the Eastern Himalayas as well as running photography workshops for local community.

In 2014, Snehargho moved to Australia and developed his artistic photographic practice, while working on numerous commercial projects.

His photography has appeared in news media (Al Jazeera), magazines (TimeOut), blogs, travel guides, and social campaigns (NSW Breast Cancer Council) and has been exhibited in India, Australia and Europe.

‘ECL has provided me with a platform to express and to empower myself as an artist while creating a strong community where I am putting down my roots.’

Snehargho Ghosh



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Kat Clarke

Biography

Kat Clarke is a multi-talented creative from the Wimmera. Being a proud Wotjobaluk woman, Kat takes pride in being active with both her own community and the Aboriginal community in Melbourne. Having graduated from RMIT with a specialty in writing and film, Kat dreams of one day developing her own business that is focused around the Creative Arts Industry, where she aims to incorporate a learning environment for disadvantaged cultural groups and low socio-economic groups that supports creative talent and encourages self-worth and self-management.

Kat is currently working for the University of Melbourne as the Project Officer for Undergraduate STEM Students, developing a new Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program

Key Mentor BLAKSTREAM Associate Producer

‘As Participant and Mentor being apart of the ECL/Blakstream program has been a welcoming and supportive experience. Not only have I been blessed to work with some deadly emerging leaders and creative talent. Many who I can’t wait to work with in the years to come. But the program itself has transformed my approach to being a creative in the arts and working with community. FCAC and the ECL program is a family I’m proud to be apart of, a community that continues to grow and inspire me. ‘



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Key Mentor Communications

Biography

Fotis Kapetopoulos heads Kape Communications. He has experience in multicultural services, arts programming, management, audience research, policy development and marketing. Between 1993 and 2001, Fotis was the director for Multicultural Arts Victoria; there he initiated a marketing approach to multicultural arts resulting in programs on a local and international level. Fotis initiated exchanges with Singapore, Malaysia, India, Hungary and Greece and was the arts representative on the 2000 AMF delegation to China.

‘I have never believed that ECL participants are ‘emerging cultural leaders’, rather they are existing leaders that need the right strategies to secure a foothold in Australia’s cultural ecology.’


Fotis Kapetopoulos


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Biography

Darren Gee

Darren has over a decade of experience with digital audio studio design and computer network design and implementation. He joined Footscray Community Arts Centre as a tutor for the Media Technology courses and has since assumed the roles of ICT Support Officer and now Venue and Operations Manager.

Jenny Moon

Founded in 1991, Jenny’s company, Moon Mother Productions deliver a complete range of event production services across Melbourne and Victoria, which always showcase a refreshing and innovative personal touch. Jenny started out as an audio engineer 30 years ago, her career has seen her tour internationally as a front of house/monitor audio engineer, tour manager & production manager. She has production managed and co-founded some of Australia’s most iconic festivals such as Falls, Queenscliff, Meredith and Melbourne International Jazz Festival.

Key Mentors Production

‘How refreshing to meet such a lively group of emerging art professionals, great to share some knowledge and experience. I feel happy for the future of the arts industry in your hands.’ - Darren Gee

‘It was an absolute pleasure working with the ECL team. I have made some amazing connections and was really impressed with the participants enthusiasm. For the ECL group to be able to learn basic audio engineering in a two hour session and go out and mix audio for live acts at a Melbourne Fringe Festival event was incredibly impressive. This experience has been very rewarding for both myself and the participants.’ - Jenny Moon


Darren Gee and Jenny Moon


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Biography

An arts manager with more than 15 years’ experience, Amanda is currently General Manager at Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne, working across governance, human resources, government funding, strategic planning and arts administration. From 2010 to 2014, Amanda worked at Playwriting Australia, initially in the role of Administrator and as General Manager from April 2011. She was employed at the Australia Council for the Arts from 2004-2009 in a range of roles within the Arts Funding Executive and was previously Administration Officer at the Arts Law Centre of Australia, the national community legal centre for artists. Earlier in her career, Amanda worked as an independent theatre producer on productions at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and SBW Stables in Sydney. Amanda has a Bachelor of Arts (Communication Studies) from the University of South Australia.

Key Mentor Administration

‘Congratulations to Bo and the Emerging Cultural Leaders for 2017. Thank you for inviting me to be a Key Mentor this year, it’s been such a fantastic opportunity to get to know these talented individuals and share some arts management insights. The passion and energy they showed in our discussions about strategic planning and compliance is pretty impressive. Malthouse Theatre is super proud to have supported the program and we all look forward to seeing what’s next for you all.’


Amanda Macri


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ECL Acknowledgements

Participants

Grace Amigo

Roberta Joy Rich

Rachel Iampolski

Manisha Anjali

Alec Reade

Soraya Mobayad

Andy Butler

Piper Huynh

May Saba Sabet

Bethany Atkinson-Quinton

Hanann Al Daqqa

Daisy Catterall

Mia Stanford

Snehargho Ghosh

Mentors

Kat Clarke BLAKSTREAM Associate Producer

Fotis Kapetopoulos Communications

Darren Gee and Jenny Moon Production and Logistics

Amanda Macri Arts Management

Organisations

Malthouse Theatre, Moon Mother Productions and Kape Communications.

Speakers

N’Arweet Carolyn Briggs, Uncle Larry Walsh, Richie Hallal, Isabel FitzGerald, Heather Horrocks, John Harvey, Karen (KJ) Jackson, Jive Poetic, Lachlann Carter, Cameron Smith, Alfons Van Maanen , Ren Slusarski, Dario Vacirca, Selene Bateman, Tania Canas, Lia Pa’apa’pa, Nilgun Guven, Fia Hamid-Walker, Lisa Maza, Didem Caia and Justine Walsh.

FCAC Staff

Bo J. Svoronos, Darren Gee, Ben Beare, Jessica Ibacache, Bernadette Fitzgerald, Khalid Warsame, Jade Lillie, Lydia Fairhall, Jenna Williams, Morgan Brady, Susan Doel, Simon de Lacy-Leacey, Adrienne Baldwin, Tija Lodins, Alicia Peet and Nikki Lam.

With Special Thanks to

ArtLife, Slice Girls West, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Happy River Café, Dream Factory.

And a Special Thanks to

Big Fish.

Contact Us

Footscray Community Art’s Centre (FCAC)

45 Moreland Street Footscray VIC 3011 Australia

P (03) 9362 8888 F (03) 9362 8866 E [email protected]

footscrayarts.com

Supporters

Emerging Cutural leaders is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its art funding and advisory body, and Local Learn.

This event is Auslan interpreted.

Sound amplification avaliable in the FCAC Performance Space.

Wheelchair Accessible

Front cover image by Snehargho Gosh.

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