A failure may be deemed as something that didn’t go as planned, have a non-desired outcome, or be something tried that simply didn’t work. Some failures may even result in negative repercussions. They may cause us surprise, embarrassment, frustration and all kinds of unwanted feelings. They should be avoided at all costs- right?
Read moreYoung and Emerging Leaders Forum Spotlight: Sul Ju Kim
Artistsnowww (Sul Ju Kim) is a teaching artist from South Korea. My artistic identity has been constructed since I was very young. I started painting at the age of 4 and studied orientalpainting, western painting, sculpture, and design in the art high school. While I studied University and Graduate School, I contemplated how to communicate with the world as an artist and was involved in various projects. In particular, I have endeavored to be an artist who works with marginalized groups. Spontaneously, most of my works address the life of the socially disadvantaged.
Read moreYoung & Emerging Leaders Forum Spotlight: Thea Martin
Thea is a teaching artist and violinist living on Kaurna land (Adelaide), seeking to invite their community into artistic experiences through a creativity and participatory-centred pedagogical practice. They hold a Bachelor of Music (Advanced) Majoring in Music Education and Pedagogy from the Elder Conservatorium of Music, teach music in local schools and created the collaborative composition workshop series A Room of Her Own Workshops, which invite young people to explore what it means to develop mental and physical spaces for creativity, through the work of living femme artists and composers. As a violinist, Thea has collaborated on improvised music projects with dancers, theatre artists and musicians across genres of contemporary classical/art music, experimental, jazz and post-rock as well as curated a workshop/performance on text scores through community organisation MUD. Thea is interested in exploring listening as activism and self-care as well as providing accessible entry points for the community into art-making experiences.
Read moreYoung & Emerging Leaders Forum Spotlight: Ivy Ogott
I am a creative, teacher and human rights lawyer. I founded a non profit organization known as Obulamu in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic hoping to provide a safe space where children could growth and thrive emotionally, spiritually, physically, socially and mentally. As of now, we have established a children centre in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya where we host classes/events for children, which has an art gallery filled with paintings done by me and a collaborating artist depicting personal experiences that we hope will inspire generations to come, a play area, grounds for physical activities. We have set up an online learning platform on youtube where children can access free lessons taught by children as well. We also visit several schools and or children homes to spread love and hope while fostering creativity within the children among other upcoming projects. We hope to build a library and hub that would serve the community here as well as establish a centre at the coast of Kenya as well as in Uganda to serve the same purpose, in the near future.
Read moreYoung & Emerging Leaders Forum Spotlight: Raz Salvarita
Razcel Jan Salvarita is a TEDx Talk speaker on the topic “Effecting Environmental Consciousness through Art” where he encapsulated his environmental art actions for more than two decades as a creative artivist and community-based arts organizer. During this pandemic year, he pursued a strong commitment to creative recovery programmes including a transformative healing art experience for women farm workers who were awakened to their artistic skills; he also worked on a public art installation project focused on climate change and the impacts in the local farm community through his grant from ITAC Impact: Climate. He is a multi-disciplinary artist with primary practice on visual and performance art; and identifies his role as an “activator, facilitator, and educator”. He believes in the transformative power of the arts as a centering place for healing, recovery, and renewal of courage.
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