Emerging Cultural Leaders 2016
Our Emerging Cultural Leaders (ECL) program is a five-month skills development and mentoring program for emerging artists and cultural facilitators from Melbourne’s west. Past graduates have gone on to forge their own careers in community cultural development as artists and producers. Meet the 2016 participants!
Soma Garner
Soma Garner is currently studying her Masters of Cultural Materials and is an artist, set and costume designer based in Melbourne.
Kei Murakami
Kei Murakami is an overall multi-disciplinary Japanese person, who has always worked with aesthetics that are informed by her cultural heritage.
Olugbade Okunade
Olugbade Okunade, aka GP Saxy, grew up in the afrobeat capital of the world, Lagos, Nigeria.
Rebekah Robertson
Rebekah Robertson is an emerging creative professional passionate about nourishing community and the people, pasts and presents that are it.
Kate ten Buuren
Kate ten Buuren is a young Taungurung artist, filmmaker and journalism student, whose driving force is building confidence throughout her community.
Lisa Maza
Lisa Maza (Meriam/Yidindji/Dutch) has twenty years experience working as a professional actor and singer.
Larissa MacFarlane
Larissa MacFarlane is a Footscray based visual artist, working across printmaking, street art and a community art practice.
Fiona Dunne
Fiona Dunne is producer and arts manager from Western Sydney, focused on the development of young and early-career artists across the spectrum of Australian storytelling.
Abdulrahman Hammoud
Abdulrahman Hammoud is a spoken word artist based in Melbourne by way of Lebanon, a country that he is still captivated by and connects to.
Salma Osman
Salma Osman is a multidisciplinary artist and designer joining the dots between community, art and culture.