2015 FCAC ECL brochure - Footscray Community Arts Centre

Emerging Cultural
Leaders 2015
WELCOME
Thank you for joining us to welcome and
congratulate the Emerging Cultural Leaders
for 2015. In our midst, artists and cultural
facilitators are reshaping contemporary
practices through stories and experiences.
Together we are building relationships in arts
and non-arts sectors, leading in thought and
change making. We are pleased to present
our new friends to you within these pages,
as part of the Emerging Cultural Leaders
(ECL) Showcase.
As ECL is the only program of its kind in
Australia, we invite you to take this booklet
and put faces to names, take your time and
talk with us. In 2015, we had the opportunity to
partner with Darwin Community Arts (DCA)
to pilot delivering an ECL Intensive. Each
year, we are further developing this model to
explore how we can ensure the integrity of
the program whilst reaching more amazing
emerging artists and cultural workers across
the country.
We all have the responsibility and the honour
of supporting the next generation of Australian
practitioners and cultural leaders. Each
Emerging Cultural Leader has engaged in a
five month program with access to a mentor,
industry speakers, the FCAC Team and a small
project budget, thanks to the Lord Mayor’s
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Charitable Foundation. With the further
support of the Australia Council for the
Arts and Learn Local, it is also apparent how
important creating capacity building and local
learning opportunities are for members within
or emerging into the arts and cultural sectors.
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.
Congratulations to this wonderful crew of
passionate, talented and insightful Emerging
Cultural Leaders, thank you for sharing time
with us.
Have a wonderful evening.
Jade Lillie
Director and CEO
Jade Lillie
INDUSTRY
REFLECTIONS
Fotis Kapetopoulos,
Kape Communications
Every year I find one incredibly
bright and innovative young
leader that I take great honour
in mentoring.
This is not a great program,
it’s an essential one!
Kate Larsen,
Writers Victoria
It’s long past time that our arts
organisations and commissions are
as diverse as the communities they
aim to represent. ECL is creating
the arts leaders of the future.
EMERGING
CULTURAL LEADERS
Grace Vanilau,
Contemporary Pacific
Arts Festival
ECL provides an opportunity
for emerging practitioners of
diverse cultural backgrounds to
gather in a safe environment and
engage in critical conversations
which explore the realities and
possibilities for the advancement
of self, community and the local,
national and international creative
cultural sector.
We take our commitment to the growth of our sector seriously. It
is through the Emerging Cultural Leaders program that artists and
facilitators come together to make work, to establish networks, develop
skills and receive mentoring. It is about getting a foot in the door, about
taking creative risk, about diversifying the stories that ebb and flow
through our communities.
Over the past five months participants have been meeting with leaders
in the arts and community cultural development sectors on a weekly
basis. These workshops cover a range of topics, and participants
develop, plan and deliver their own projects. The program provides
space and place for artists to excel in their art form and community
engaged practice so that each person is confident and can be
recognised as a leader and thought in their approach and process.
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ADELE PICK / MUMA DOESA
[email protected] | facebook.com/bahdoesa
BIOGRAPHY
PROJECT
Muma Doesa is an MC/ Vocalist/ DJ of
South African heritage, who specialises
in live performance and recording. Her
lyrics explore the themes of identity,
family, healing and empowerment, using
characters, symbols, and humour. These are
the main themes within her solo album “Ms
Fortune” recorded in Melbourne and New
York. She hopes through her music and ECL
she can learn more, and share knowledge
that others may find useful.
Bahdoesa are currently working on a
mixtape and their EP, produced by
UK Producer, Lotek.
Muma Doesa has performed around
Australia and New York for 11 years at
festivals, live music venues, and protests.
Highlights include: The Big Day Out, The
Light in Winter Festival (Fed Square),
Melbourne Now (NGV), Moomba, Nyorican
Poet’s Café (NY), The Delancey (NY).
I have discovered that I have a lot more skills in
community cultural development than I realised, but
I still want to work on a more structured approach.
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Muma has facilitated workshops at Queen
Victoria Women’s Centre, and mentoring
with Multicultural Arts Victoria.
mumadoesa.bandcamp.com
youtube.com/Themumadoesa
ANTONIO
MOREIRA
Ana Rita Pires
[email protected]
[email protected] | estreladomar.com.au | +61 452 204 364
BIOGRAPHY
PROJECT
Antonio Moreira is a Melbourne-based
Artist and Creative Cultural Producer with
passion for the arts, music and sharing his
rich Brazilian culture.
Footscray Night Market aims to activate
the City of Maribyrnong at night with
friends and family actively promoting
social engagement.
He grew up in Recife, the cultural capital of
Brazil where he was immersed in a lifestyle
rich in vibrant foods, dance, colours and
music. Antonio proudly shares his roots
and connects Melbourne with the powerful
and exotic performances of rhythms mainly
from Brazil’s Northeast representing styles
such as Maracatu, Coco, Ciranda, Afoxé
and Forró.
Planned to be run at heart of Footscray,
showcasing the richness and multicultural
local trades, artisans and artists, this night
will be a sure success.
Through his experience of traveling and
living in different countries, Antonio has
worked in many productions. Since arriving
in Melbourne, he had opportunity to work
for companies like Melbourne Olympic
Park, Australia Open, Melbourne Arts
Centre, Melbourne Food and Wine Festival,
Melbourne Recital Centre, Multicultural
Arts Victoria. His background in production
include also a tour with Cirque du Soleil
in Brazil in nine cities, while travelling
he identified the challenges of being an
outsider within a foreign culture.
Bringing different cultures together in a
safe space, interactions will be facilitated
through common interests, such as cultural
food, drinks and music.
I think we often forget our own values and
personality through outside influences, who
tell us who we should be. During ECL, I have
discovered that I could be, again, myself. I was
part of a comfortable space of acceptance,
where my mistakes would be supported and
treated as part of a learning process. I did
not feel judged as an other culture, the way
foreigners usually are.
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Aphrodite Feros-Fooke
[email protected] | www.cargocollective.com/aphroditeff
BIOGRAPHY
Aphrodite is a visual artist, currently
working with video art, film, projection,
projection mapping and installation. In
her art practice she is interested in how
technology has influenced human-to-human
relationships, and human-to-technology
relationships. Her works have featured at
events such as the Food and Wine Festival,
Fringe Festival, Gertrude Street Projection
Festival, Channels Video Art Festival and
Melbourne Fashion Week.
Her attraction to the Emerging Cultural
Leaders program was a desire to learn the
skills to organise community events and
spaces that enable citizens of Melbourne
to have the interest and ability to generate
and communicate their own idea of art
and creativity.
The interpretation of community is fluid
and often hard to determine. Though the
definition may vary from project to project, the
approaches ECL has taught me when working
with community will remain. I intend to focus
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on a community’s strengths, to arrive informed
and with integrity, and to allow the passing on
of responsibility and ownership. And to enjoy
the process!
She has a strong interest in politics and
social justice. She would like to produce
opportunities to merge creativity and
politics to encourage people to question
themselves and those around them, to have
the difficult conversations in environments
where people feel safe and permitted to
speak freely.
PROJECT
memento mori |m'men,tō 'môrē|
noun (pl.same)
a serving as a warning or reminder of death.
ORIGIN Latin, literally ‘remember (that you
have) to die.’
You are invited to our version of a
momento mori. The aim of the evening
will be to celebrate some of the ideas and
approaches to death across cultures, whilst
being entertained and educated by food,
audio, visuals, conversation, and settings.
Aseel Tayah
http://aseeltayah.wix.com/aseel-tayah | +61 439 220 996
BIOGRAPHY
PROJECT
Aseel is an Installation & Performance
Artist, Art and Education Graduate with
Honours. Her major areas of interest have
centred on Identity and Culture, with a
particular focus on women, freedom and
land. Driven by passion for social change,
she creates interactive experiences that
invite audiences to participate with how
she designs her space, her physical and
vocal presence. Aseel has performed at La
Mama, Metanoia and Polyglot Theatre, sung
and contributed to various festivals and art
events around Australia.
What happens when you have limited time
left to leave your hometown, when your
house is demolished, when you feel in
danger and lost? You look for a shelter and
grab the most valuable things you have in
one sack and walk. We all have a story for
the things we care about. Whether we have
a small bag to carry on a boat, or on a plane.
When you are leaving a whole life behind
and starting a new one, what do we decide
to keep?
I present a community art installation that
engages people who have been through
similar situations, with special stories to
share. This work is also for those who have
not had to leave their homes in a hurry, to
try and imagine what they might do.
I have discovered a new me. All the assumptions
I had, were only what I decided to believe. I
needed to widen my vision, to research, to ask
more and to discover a whole picture. I have
discovered that to be able to work and lead the
community you must be honest with yourself
first about the reason you do it and to build the
trust with the people that will be the heroes of
your project.
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Bigoa Chuol
[email protected]
Working in the arts sector is one of the
most exciting, demanding and challenging
journeys. I believe it is a constant endeavour
of awareness, continual professional/personal
learning and configuration. I have a much more
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BIOGRAPHY
PROJECT
Bigoa Chuol is a spoken word artist based
in Melbourne who is re-discovering her
love for writing and passion for poetry.
Her art explores socio-political themes
and challenges conventional ideas of love,
relationships, beauty and womanhood.
She hopes her art will uplift and empower
others to embrace their heterogeneity
without apology.
My project is the production of my first
performance poetry video to be developed
in collaboration with local African creatives.
Serving as the beginning of a series of
events simultaneously exploring the self,
I aim to explore ones’ place in community
and the fluidity of culture. The main focus
is to facilitate space for autonomous,
constructive, creative ownership of the
stories of African people in Australia for
and by them.
educated admiration and respect for those in
the field. It has been absolutely inspiring, I have
definitely shifted some paradigms!
Didem Caia
[email protected] | +61 413 808 847
BIOGRAPHY
PROJECT
Didem Caia is an emerging Australian
playwright who has had worked produced
through NIDA, the Griffin Theatre Company,
Theatre 503 and La Mama Theatre. Her
plays have been developed in Melbourne
and Sydney through Playwriting Australia,
the RE Ross Trust, and City of Melbourne.
In 2014, she travelled to the UK and the
US to gain extensive knowledge about
Dramaturgy and new writing development;
specifically in Edinburgh, London, Chicago
and New York. This journey was proudly
funded by the Australia Council for the Arts
and the Ian Potter Cultural Trust. Didem is
also a short fiction writer, having published
work in Voiceworks, Catalyst, Farrago,
and Yen.
The muted melancholy between the lines
is a growing collaboration between myself
and people of many different communities.
It’s a project about the voices we don’t hear.
My intent is to uncover the ways in which
people relate to their voice and their body.
Through a series of questions, I have begun
to gather stimulus for a multidisciplinary
theatre project.
I’ve learnt to always be aware of my intentions,
my tone, and my questioning processes. Arts
practise and leadership is about creating unity,
and I’m interested in the ways I can pioneer
this. Sometimes being provocative is helpful
in order to blow questions open, but if the
intent, tone and language isn’t coming from a
place of positivity and curiosity, it can result in
blowing questions up. This has been a rewarding
exploration for myself as an emerging arts leader.
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Florence Tupuola
[email protected] | +61 410 456 492
BIOGRAPHY
PROJECT
Florence ‘FTRIANGLE’ Tupuola is a
self-taught contemporary Australian
visual artist of Samoan descent, currently
living in Melbourne. She established the
FTRIANGLE label, and is a commissioned
textile artist.
Be Open supports the need to rediscover
and empower people and art within
Samoan community. To bring forth the
colossal significance of contemporary
art in supporting artistic restoration.
Providing a safe, supportive, educational,
inspiring, collaborative and ongoing creative
community platform for the Samoan
people to bravely share stories of artistic
empowerment and healing, in overcoming
and managing difficult life challenges
and disadvantages.
A visual artist and a dancer, Florence
continues to learn and cherish her cultural
background through various art forms.
She is a member of the contemporary
all-female Samoan dance group, Nesian
Pearl in Melbourne. She is a youth member
and dance performer of Canberra /
Queanbeyan Methodist Youth Group. She is
also a supporter of Samoan Victim Support
Group and their ongoing work against
domestic violence and child abuse.
[The] ECL program has given me the strength
and longing growth that I desperately needed
as an artist and artist for the people. ECL has
reawakened my passion in strengthening the
connection between community and art. During
my ECL journey, I’ve demolished my fear of
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leadership and taken ownership to that role,
discovering the fearless and confident innerqualities I so dreadfully shadowed myself away
from. ECL has rebirthed me, as an artist and
cultural facilitator and human being.
Hiroki Kobayashi
[email protected]
BIOGRAPHY
PROJECT
Hiroki Kobayashi recently completed a
Bachelor of Arts in English and Theatre
studies at The University of Melbourne and
was a participant in Playwriting Australia’s
Lotus Asian-Australian Playwriting Project.
In the past he has devised and performed
in productions at Melbourne University,
created performance installations for
Inca Roads and Paradise Music Festival
and produced and presented arts based
programming for SYN FM. He has also
undertaken a communications internship
with TimeLine Theatre Company in the US
and worked as a development assistant at
Malthouse Theatre.
My project seeks to harness performancebased workshops to encourage
collaborations between diverse age
brackets and create alternative spaces
for intergenerational dialogue. It has been
prompted by questions surrounding ageing
in a society with a propelling life span and
particularly its impact on intergenerational
relations and the ways in which we
engage with senior communities. Through
encouraging playful spaces focused
on storytelling, I hope to incite greater
conversation and consideration for the
spectrum of ageing within our population.
Being part of the Emerging Cultural Leaders
program has provided me with a stimulating
environment to rigorously question and explore my
intentions and ambitions as an arts practitioner who
is interested in collaborating with communities.
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Jose Luis Inostroza Aqueveque
[email protected] | +61 404 263 067
BIOGRAPHY
PROJECT
Jose (Pepe) Inostroza Aqueveque is
a Chilean Psychologist, Personal
Development Facilitator, Psychodramatist
and Actor based in Melbourne. Passionate
about movement, sound, emotional
expression and communication has sculpted
Pepe’s journey.
Revitalising the language connection
for people and their cultural belonging.
Exploring within the community, the
personal concept of Home and the contrast
between conceptions of Home both in
English and in the mother tongue of the
participants. These materials will work as
sound support for an on stage performance,
showing the connection of emotional
language through the body as a container.
Pepe’s practise involves performing in
contemporary dance, physical theatre
and drama. He participated in an on stage
research about language and education. He
worked in Berlin with his company exploring
movement, sound and pre-expressive
language inside a different cultural context.
Working with the community means to have a
curious eye, warm ear and a mirroring body that
is empathetic, recognising the peculiarity and
uniqueness of life and being able to present all of
these facets on stage.
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Justyn Koh
[email protected] | www.justynk.com
BIOGRAPHY
PROJECT
Justyn Koh is a Melbourne-based
photographer who has covered a variety
of events including theatre performances.
He started off his professional career
by photographing a band that plays for
refugees and has since been inspired to
align his practice with that of those who are
lacking a voice in the community.
Conversations: Footscray is simple. I sit on
the streets of Footscray and invite people
to sit down and share their stories with me
or if they would prefer, I share my story
about my family’s history. The project came
about through my desire to combine my
work in Education as a student teacher,
with Photography and Community working
with youth from the Public Housing estates.
The common thread I found between
all three was the presence of narratives.
Students in the classroom share and listen
to stories all the time. Humans of New
York demonstrated that photography
can be a medium rich for telling stories
beyond an image. Behind every door is a
different story.
Justyn is also a full-time student at the
University of Melbourne, pursuing a
Master in Teaching (Primary) and enjoys
working with youth as he strongly believes
in being able to influence and grow the
leaders of tomorrow. As such, his goal in
the ECL course is to find a way to capture
and integrate aspects of Community,
Education and Culture into his professional
photography practice.
I’ve learnt that what it means to be an artist,
much less a cultural leader is much more
nuanced than just picking up my camera and
sharing my photos. The ECL program has
helped push me off the cliff, in a good way, to
the deep end so that I may build a stronger
foundation and reflect on what it truly means to
be negotiating the landscape of community arts.
Am I a Community Artist after this program? No.
But I now have the necessary frameworks to
keep myself, an artist to be, in check.
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Natasha Phillips
[email protected] | @tashalashllips | +61 417 217 959
BIOGRAPHY
Natasha Phillips was born in Hong Kong and
grew up in both Hong Kong and Australia.
She has recently moved back to Australia
after five years in London and considers
herself to be a third culture kid.
As a creative producer and theatre maker,
she has been the Assistant Producer for
RIFT where she co-produced and stage
managed RIFT’s overnight production
of Macbeth (2014) set in the iconic Balfron
Tower. She has also been the Marketing
& Outreach officer for SPID Theatre
working closely with the local community
to promote the benefits and wellbeing of
The Arts. Since graduating from Goldsmiths
in 2012, she has gone on to make her own
work which has been staged at the Brighton
Working with community is realising your own
privilege and what position you bring into that
space, acknowledging the power you have and
being careful with what you do with it. It is also
about constantly asking yourself and others
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questions such as who is not at the table or who
else needs to be here. Continually interrogating
your intention and motivation is key.
Fringe Festival and has produced for
theatre companies and venues such as You
Me Bum Bum Train (Stratford, 2012), RETZ
(The Trial, 2013) and Battersea Arts Centre
(London Stories: a 1-on-1-on-1 Festival, 2013).
PROJECT
China AUS Arts is aimed on strengthening
cultural literacy and pragmatically
investigates the creative exchanges
between Australia and China within the
independent contemporary arts. It is
focused on helping to remove information
roadblocks and provide frameworks that
help ease the processes for cross-cultural
project development.
Sungkey Chalernkhun
[email protected]
BIOGRAPHY
PROJECT
Sungkey Chalernkhun is an international
student currently undertaking a Diploma
of Community Development. Sungkey is
passionate about connecting communities
with creative activities, particularly enabling
youth’s capacity through sharing and
building networks where the same values
are shared.
The Tree of Fate is an artwork on textile
representing stories of young Lao
community who are from different parts
of the country but have similar cultural
practice. The Tree of Fate is an initial piece
of work showing what young Lao people
do to maintain their cultural practice while
living in a new environment. Somehow their
cultural elements have been disconnected,
and they form their community in
other countries.
I have discovered that networks amongst artists
are very huge. They are not limited to those
artists who work within the art sector but also
the connection to other sectors within and
outside the countries such as Community and
Education sectors.
It reminds me how powerful The Arts is in
terms of engaging individuals and communities,
especially the vulnerable voices in our society.
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Supina Bytol
facebook.com/supina.bytol | vimeo.com/140756086
BIOGRAPHY
Supina Bytol is an Australian born
multidisciplinary artist, and she is an
advocate for grassroots projects. She
believes that you can build something from
nothing if you can see outside the box.
Her cultural heritage is of Indonesian
and Malaysian Cocos/Christmas Island
decent. In the last five years she has been
working with artists, and artist groups based
in Yogyakarta, and Bali, Indonesia. Her most
recent project was to fundraise for an artist
run space in the village of Bona, which
is world renowned for its strong Hindu
spiritism and Kecak dance.
The time spent at ECL, has made me aware
of how similar artists and people can be. As a
young and impressionable person in the very
beginnings of my art and music career, it is
very easy to stay in one’s shell, to easily make
a judgement about a group of people and/or a
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profession, to not expand and reach out to the
wider community.
Meeting, talking and having lectures from
industry professionals and with my ECL
peers on a weekly basis has made me aware
of how important contribution of ideas and
Through her work in Bona, she develops
and manages an arts residency program
connecting artists from Indonesia and
Australia, as well as working as on her music
incorporating field recordings of Indonesia.
PROJECT
At the ECL showcase, I will show images of
landscape and sound that are a culmination
of ideas and concepts that I encountered
as a participant of this program. These
images will focus on cultural and geographic
similarities. I have chosen to use volcanoes
as a subject because of their ancient
structure and the complex make-up, stories
and significance they bring to a community.
participation is. And, how similar people are in
emotion and connections, which makes working
with people more attainable and enjoyable.
No idea is a bad idea and the more people
contribute to a project, the more expansive you
can grow as an individual.
Minh Nguyen
[email protected]
BIOGRAPHY
PROJECT
Minh Nguyen is currently completing
her Masters of Applied Psychology.
Her dissertation research explored
constructions of ethnic identity among
second generation Christian-affiliated
Vietnamese in Melbourne. She found
that through the negotiations between
social relationships, and within one’s
location in society, participants created
‘A Different Kind of Australian’ identity that
accessed resources from the surrounding
environment, their parent’s culture and
experiences of racism and exclusion. This
study provided an account of Vietnamese
Christian identity construction, a particular
historical, cultural, and social location within
the complex world.
Immigrants are continually challenged by
issues of settlement, sense of belonging,
exclusion and identity construction. These
issues are also important life challenges
for the children of immigrants, the second
generation and generations thereafter.
Chopsticks and Vegemite explores the
identity construction of four people
from a group of young Christian affiliated
Vietnamese called Night Church. Unlike
their parents, they create their identities
and evaluate themselves in relation to
the structures and ideologies of the new
society, in addition to the memories retold
of their parents’ birthplace. Meanwhile,
Vietnamese youth in Australia who
define themselves as Christians and
who attend a church youth group have
an added dynamic to their identity and
community making process – that is, being
part of a transcendent aim within an
eternal community.
Minh is exploring ways to engage both
the creative arts and community input in
developing artistic projects based on her
research findings. Due to the fluid, evolving,
and sometimes conflicted nature of identity
construction, Minh plans ongoing research
and art projects in this field.
This project was done in collaboration with
two talented young artists of Night Church,
David Hong and Julia Tran.
As a newbie into the wide world of the arts sector,
I’ve found that it is an exciting place to be in, and that
the sky is the limit to dream and produce creative
projects. I have thoroughly enjoyed embarking into
the arts and learning about artists, organisations, art
mediums, and my own art preferences.
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ECL Alumni
Ana Rita Pires (ECL 2014)
Sudeep Lingamneni (ECL 2014)
Ana Rita has lived her life between Portugal and Australia. This sharing
of territory has been a catalyst in the development of her work as a
visual artist and in her teaching. Her work questions themes such as
migration, identity and place. Her projects have involved working with
culturally diverse youth groups, artists’ residencies in West Africa, the
ongoing exhibition of her drawings and paintings and more recently the
participation in Big West Festival 2015 leading three projects. Ana Rita
completed her formal education in 2007 graduating with a degree in
Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
She currently works and lives in Melbourne`s West with her partner
and collaborator Mito Elias and their daughter Tamira.
I am an Indian-American-Australian contemporary artist and arts
worker based between Melbourne, Australia and Hyderabad, India
with a background in Community Cultural Development (CCD)
practice. I use Multimedia and Digital Storytelling to challenge cultural
perceptions and comment on local and global issues regarding identity,
place, and history. I am currently undertaking a Master of Fine Arts
(Contemporary Music) by Research at the Victorian College of the
Arts, University of Melbourne, where I will be investigating Indian aural
environments, explored and expressed through Indian Noise Music.
Tania Cañas (ECL 2012)
Tania Cañas is the Arts Director at RISE Refugee, a PhD at the VCA
and Editorial Board member for the International PTO Academic
Journal. Tania is interested in the intersection of performance and
research having facilitated, performed and presented at conferences
both nationally and internationally. She worked in prisons and with
a youth group in Northern Ireland, developed a Forum Theatre play
with women in the Solomon Islands and conducted Theatre of the
Oppressed Dramaturgy Masterclasses at Rhodes University, South
Africa. Her monologue Untouchable, was published with Currency
Press 2013 and she has since toured the piece in the US.
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Ignacio Rojas (ECL 2014)
Ignacio was born in Chile in 1978 and moved to Australia in 2001. He
has a double background in fine arts and sociology and is currently
undertaking a multidisciplinary PhD in Australian studies at The
University of Melbourne. Ignacio lives and works in Melbourne and
has exhibited in more than thirty solo and group exhibitions as well
as being finalists in numerous competitions. He has worked as an
art teacher in different socially inclusive programs and in different
universities as research assistant and project officer such as in RMIT
University, Victoria University and The University of Melbourne.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Morgan Brady, Supina Bytol, Didem Caia, Tania Canas, Lachlann Carter, Sungkey
Chalernkhun, Bigoa Chuol, Daniel Clarke, Hanifa Deen, Aphrodite Feros-Fooke,
Richie Hallal, Carly Heard, Mike Justice, Fotis Kapetopoulos, Hiroki Kobayashi,
Justyn Koh, Dan Koop, Mazna Komba, Kate Larsen, Jose Luis Inostroza Aqueveque,
Andy Lynch, Joel McKerrow, Antonio Moreira, Liz Moreton, Sarah Neal, Dave Nguyen,
Hoang Tran Nguyen, Minh Nguyen, Natasha Phillips, Adele Pick, Tara Prowse,
Mary Quinsacara, Bong Ramilo, Ignacio Rojas, Dan Santangeli, Tim Stitz, Aseel Tayah,
Toltu Tufa, Florence Tupuola, Grace Vanilau, Chi Vu,
Uncle Larry Walsh, Angharad Wynne-Jones
SUPPORTERS
Emerging Cultural Leaders is supported by the Australian Government through
the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, Learn Local and
the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation.
Footscray Community Arts Centre is supported by