UPCOMING
The Things We Did Next – artist talk & guided listening Phee Broadway Theatre Castlemaine – May 5th
Scott Ludlam Full Circle Book launch - Taproom Castlemaine – May 9th
Women’s Environmental Leadership Australia – Retreat Talk; Art & Climate change talk May
SELECTED PAST EVENTS
2021
The Things We Made Next exhibition Raft Gallery Alice Springs – April 22nd
First Assembly for the Centre of Reworlding - Arts House, Naarm – April 27th
Institute for the Future talk - Collaboratively envisaging multiple futures February 22nd (2pm Pacific Time US / Canada)
Queen of the Desert + Q&A at Taproom March 25th
Wild at Heart book launch + Q&A at Taproom March 31st
The Things We Made Next Castlemaine Fringe Festival March 19th – May 10th
The Things We Made Next – Tomorrow’s Ideas, Today’s Possibilities Panel March 30th
The Things We Made Next Melbourne poster series – Melbourne Design Week March
2020
Assembly for the Future: July 9th, July 23rd & August 6th
Field Trip Symposium August 8th
Virtual Progress – Reset Reading Group panel 23rd June + People’s Bailout session Moderator 24th June
Castlemaine Commons – Weekly program via youtube x10 weeks
In My Blood It Runs Mparntwe Premiere’s 13th & 15th February
2019
Castlemaine Documentary Film Festival - various Q&As July 19-21st
MIFF Victorian Premiere of In My Blood It Runs - August 3rd & 5th
NIDA Cultural Leadership – Activism talk – with Roj Amedi – 10th August
Progress 2019 ‘A Very Human Climate Crisis’ panel moderator 21st June
A Centre for Everything: Fossil Fuels & the Arts Roundtable - 3rd April
ArtsHouse MAKESHIFT GATHERING: PRODUCING AND ACTIVISM - Tuesday 21 May
World Problems - opening night Q&A – 14th March
AIDC 3-6th March
2018
WTS ARTalk Red Hot Arts, Alice Springs ‘What kind of life do I want to live with others?’- November 21st
Island of the Hungry Ghosts, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs – November 19th
Artists on the Frontlines Lab, Katherine – September 22nd
NT Screen Summit – DIFF, Darwin Sept 15th
Terror Nullius presented by SSFF Alice Springs September 8th
Island of the Hungry Ghosts – Australian Premiere - MIFF August
Wide Open Space Festival Art & Heart panels May
AIDC Impact Panel, March 4-7th, Melbourne
Overcoming Barriers to Climate Justice, Conference, Tasmania University February 7-8th, Hobart
2017
DocAcademy Impact Workshop, IDFA Netherlands November 19th
Creating Impact Workshop, Take One Action Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland September 17th
Community Arts and Climate Justice, A conversation, Brisbane 11th May
Community Arts and Climate Justice workshop, Brisbane 12th May
2970 Generator 5 day masterclass, 15-19 May Coolangatta, QLD
Something Somewhere Film Festival April 20-23rd Alice Springs
ARTS / POLITICS / ACTION Artists intensive with A Centre for Everything, Melbourne April 30 – May 7th
AIDC March 5-8th Melbourne, Impact Strategy Hack & One Film to Change the World speaker and Impact Keynote Producer
2016
Women of the World, Katherine September 18th – Presenter
Darwin International Film Festival, DIFF Film School, September 19th Impact Producing workshop – Presenter
Communicating Climate Justice Sydney University May 27th – Presenter (via skype)
The Case for Arts and Culture in personal wellbeing, Regional Arts Australia, June 16th – Webinar Presenter (via skype)
Screen Futures Social Impact in Film breakout workshop, 1-3rd July - Presenter (via skype)
Impact Production panel & This Changes Everything screening May 16th, Swinburne University, Presenter (via skype)
S.S. SingSong, Wide Open Space Festival, Alice Springs April 30 – May 1st
Something Somewhere Film Festival, Alice Springs May 5-8th
National Pioneer Women’s Hall of Fame, Stories from the Heart, February 14th, Alice Springs, Speaker
AIDC Melbourne Impact Day 1st March, ACMI, Melbourne, Speaker & Hack Table participant
Transitions Film Festival, Anthropocene, March 3rd, Melbourne, Speaker
School of Life Melbourne, ‘Art of Change‘ 5th March, Speaker
2015
CPH: DOX Conference 10 November, Copenhagen IDENTITY x CHANGE, Speaker
Impact Academy Workshop, 20th November, IDFA Amsterdam, Speaker
Impact Assembly, BRITDOC, 21st November, IDFA Amsterdam, Participant
BERTHA IDFA Grantees Workshop, 23rd November IDFA Amsterdam, Mentor
ReelWorld Films with Impact Reception, TIFF 2015, Toronto, Speaker
August 19th VCA Food for Thought Art, Social and Spatial Practice (ASSP) research cluster presentation
Arid Lands Environment Center ECOFAIR Sustainable Desert Town, Speaker
2970° Boiling Point, 26-28 June, Gold Coast. Keynote speaker
Lens Flair, Alice Springs, June 7th, Masterclass leader
This Changes Everything Climate Justice talk May 19th Sydney, Presenter
Arid Lands Environment Centre This Changes Everything talk
Progress 2015, Panelist This Changes Everything workshop
S.S. SingSong at Wide Open Space Festival
Sundance Film Festival – Sundance Institute Mentor with Impact Producers Group
Movement Mastery training retreat January 2015, Participant
2014
The Trews brainstorm, NYC Participant
World Technology Summit, NYC Panelist
Beautiful Trouble retreat, USA October, Participant
Alice Springs Ecofair panel 10th August, Panelist
ADG Public lecture on social impact filmmaking at VCA Friday 20th June
ADG social impact filmmaking course 21/22nd June Melbourne
ADG social impact filmmaking course, Perth WA 23/24 May
Spectres of Evaluation Conference Melbourne 6/7 February – Panelist
Queen of the Desert screening at FIFO Tahiti 9 February
2013
S.S. SingSong at Big hART’s Museum of the Long Weekend Canberra, ACT 18-20th October
Queen of the Desert screens at Margaret Mead Film Festival NY, USA 19th October
Attending Good Pitch Chicago 22nd October
Big hART presents Namatjira at the Southbank Centre London 27-29th November
S.S. SingSong at Darebin Music Feast Banana Island 18-22nd Sept Northcote, Melbourne
VCA Making Movies 2 Lecture, Melbourne Uni Wednesday 21st August
Films With Impact: Don’t You Have Docs? and VCA hosted talk on film, impact and social change Tuesday 10th September, VCA Melbourne
OzDox – The Australian Documentary Forum; ‘Lights Camera Action!’ Wednesday 10th July AFTRS, Sydney – Churchill fellowship travels report back presentation
Melbourne International Film Festival Talking Pictures Resistance = Futile? Activism and Film panel 31st July 5.30pm Wheeler Centre, Melbourne
Churchill Fellowship April-June 2013
Big hART’s Hipbone Sticking Out premieres in Canberra 3-6th July
Centre for Story Based Strategy Advanced Training June 2013
Melbourne Queer Film Festival Queen of the Desert Screening Q&A March 2013
Australian International Documentary Conference Panelist March 2013
Big hART Introduction Workshop Canberra Museum and Gallery Co-Presenter February 2013
2012
FWD 2012 Session Presenter November 2012
Queen of the Desert Alice Springs Pink Carpet Premiere November 2012
Kumuwuki Goolwa Regional Arts Australia Conference Panelist October 2012
Big hART presentations on theatre and nuclear industry, Co-Presenter Tokyo March 2012
2011 and earlier
Screen Territory Bob Plasto Fellowship 2011
Oral Verbal and Other Written Media Conference Key Note Speaker 2011
Global Social Change Film Festival Presenter 2011
This is Not Art, Newcastle Presenter 2010
Australia Council Residency, Paris 2010
Tipping Point Melbourne, Participant 2010
Crossover Media Lab Participant 2009
Youth Action Net Fellow 2008
Lingfest, Indigenous Languages Conference Workshop presenter 2008
NTCOSS Darwin Conference Presenter 2008
Art~Land~Culture Ideas Incubator Speaker Alice Springs 2007
Shifting Ground Speaker and facilitator Alice Springs 2007