Emerging Cultural Leaders 2019
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 2019 participants!
Thao Ly
Thao Ly is a sound artist, music producer and storyteller who lives and creates on the unceded lands of the Kulin Nation.
Ruby Pivet
Ruby Pivet is a writer, producer, community organiser and collage artist from Melbourne’s inner-west.
Reagan Romero Maiquez
Reagan Romero Maiquez is as a writer, researcher, and teacher with a background in creative writing, anthropology, psychology, Philippine theatre and performance studies.
Nicholas Burridge
Nicholas Burridge is a Melbourne-based multi-disciplinary artist who completed his BA in Fine Arts at Monash University in 2016.
Mahla Karimian
Mahla Karimian is a visual artist whose emerging practice predominantly focuses on classical Persian miniature scratchboard and photography.
Liv Satchell
Liv Satchell is a theatre-maker, writer, and facilitator trained at the VCA (Directing).