Speaker - SAMAG

Emma Fitzgerald

Administrator — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:55:29 +0000

Emma Fitzgerald is a qualified counsellor and registered Art Therapist with the Australian, New Zealand, and Asian Creative Arts Therapies Association (ANZACATA). She is dedicated to integrating non-verbal creative therapeutic interventions across various settings, strongly believing in the power of art to foster connection, creativity, and collaboration. Her practice spans a wide range of demographics, specializing in working with young people, individuals with complex trauma, NDIS clients, and those in rehabilitation, including drug and alcohol […]

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Ash King

Administrator — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:51:36 +0000

Ash King is a psychologist, writer/designer and the wellbeing content and programs lead at Support Act. After her life in the music industry came to a halt following a vocal injury, she’s now using psychology & mindfulness to help folks live their best lives with creativity, passion and purpose. She has worked across a range of creative fields, including film & tv, live music, visual arts and radio, and run workshops and talks for Amazon, […]

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Jill Bennett

Administrator — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:46:30 +0000

Jill Bennett Jill Bennett is Scientia Professor and Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow at UNSW. She is Founding Director of The Big Anxiety Festival; the Big Anxiety Research Centre [BARC]; and the Felt Experience & Empathy Lab [fEEL] at UNSW. Jill’s immersive media and public engagement projects explore the role of creativity and trauma-informed design in supporting mental and emotional health with a particular focus on lived experience of trauma and distress. Her team have […]

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Micha Reads Stars

Administrator — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 20:30:50 +0000

Micha (she/they) is a queer, Eora-based astrologer, artist and community peer worker, offering insights into how the stars align and what it means for you… Her readings act as a gateway between the planets and the person’s birth chart (the soul’s guidance map). With a deep understanding of astrology, she leads you through its nuances with playfulness and authenticity while inviting an open dialogue and intuitive interpretation.

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Lay the Mystic

Administrator — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 19:54:51 +0000

Lay the Mystic is a lyrical poet, musician and dedicated cubby-fort maker based in Eora. With a focus on exploring entanglements, his works are around intimacy, all things close being both a lens to understand societal or cultural issues, and a landscape to enact change.

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imbi aka Imbar Nassi

Administrator — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 19:49:58 +0000

imbi is a practicing mystic and multitudinous artist currently residing on unceded Gadigal Land. They are the founder of Word of Mouth: an evening of indulgence in vulnerable self expression and a frequent performer of poetry, performance art and music. imbi also offers tarot readings to assist people in observing internal dissonance and working toward resolve. Through all their creative channels imbi maintains a commitment to practicing magick, queerness and connection in spite of the […]

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Angela Dix

Administrator — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 19:45:09 +0000

Angela (she/her) is a queer mystic from San Francisco/Kansas City, currently living on Gadigal country. Also known as Mysdix, she is a professional medium and tarot reader who has had a long journey with the mysteries since childhood.

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Justine Youssef

Administrator — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 03:56:06 +0000

Justine Youssef’s work often begins with moments and places that reconfigure authoritative realities, most recently exhibiting With the toughest care, the most economical tenderness at the Hawai’i Triennial, O’ahu (2022); A Gateway or a Key at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney (2022) and Under the table I learnt how to feed you at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2022). She lives across Wangal and Dharug Countries in Sydney, Australia, where she was a Parramatta Artist […]

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Gillian Kayrooz

Administrator — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 03:52:59 +0000

Gillian Kayrooz is an artist based in Sydney; on unceded Gadigal and Dharug land, whose practice reflects her personal experience and ongoing engagement with local communities. Kayrooz’s work is collaborative; she invites members of the community to contribute authentic impressions, in a bottom-up rather than top-down conception of history and place. In 2018 she was awarded the Create NSW Young Creative Leaders Fellowship which led her to exhibit internationally in the Asia-Pacific region and complete […]

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Julia Gutman

Administrator — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 03:43:10 +0000

Julia Gutman’s multidisciplinary practice is anchored by an experimental textile process, with which she interrogates her own relationships and the performance of selfhood. Her figurative works are made primarily from donated fabric – worn clothes, slept-in sheets – and often replicate compositional moments from historical artworks, using her friends as models to respond to and reinvent the originals. Garments often become physical artifacts of the past – stand-ins for those we have lost, or relics […]

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