Each year, Creative Generation conducts a campaign with a specific focus and this year’s campaign is “Intergenerational Collaboration,” explored through quarterly topics. In this blog, Manager of Community Knowledge André Solomon explores this quarter’s topic, Redefining Eldership, through an examination of the balance of power between Mentors and Mentees.
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.
Read moreYoung & Emerging Leaders Forum Spotlight: Chloe Tower
Chloe Tower is a teaching artist, director, performer, and dancer currently based in Honolulu, Hawai’i. Originally from Orlando, Florida, she graduated with her BFA in Theatre for Youth from Samford University in 2021 and is about to enter her second year as an MFA candidate in Theatre for Young Audiences at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Chloe has worked professionally as a teaching artist with Seattle Children’s Theatre and Garden Theatre, and co-created an applied theatre program in Taitung, Taiwan and Galette-Chambon, Haiti. Most recently, she assisted in devising and performing in The JoyMobile, a nonverbal clowning show, that toured through the island of O’ahu this past year. She believes in the power of play, collaboration, and social emotional learning through theatre education to empower the next generation of creative and empathetic artists.
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