Amateka series is a platform for Rwandan youth by Rwandan Youth. We hope that this space will help us continue our journey of learning about Rwandan history and culture & to hold ourselves accountable in making sure that we continue this journey. The history that we share with everyone will be co-created with you for the very purpose of learning, sharing and growing together.

Nukunonu Te Tuloto o Tokelau Sydney Inc. are a Tokelau cultural group based on Dharug Country.

Club Abiwacu are a group of young women who perform Burundian traditional dance.

Te Kaiga Akoga WA Tokelau is a non-profit Perth Tokelau Cultural Group educating Traditional Song/Dance/Language and Customs into the next Generation of children growing and living in Western Australia.

Based in West Auckland, Te Mana Performing Arts Pacific Dance School and Dance Company represents the Islands of Fiji, Tonga, Hawaii, Samoa, Tahiti and our host country of Aotearoa. At Te Mana it is our core belief that in order to successfully navigate the challenges of today's modern living, one must first learn off, and embrace the past in order to prepare for the future.

Tokelau Melbourne Sports and Culture Association (TMSCA) will endeavour to provide sport and culture

Brieanna is a proud Nyoongar woman who has lived in the South West for over a quarter of a century, incessantly daydreaming literary symphonies of mellifluous ascent. Her love for words entrenched in the tutelage of her proud, strong and kind mother – each manifest an ode of devotion to the woman who spent her life serving others. Nothing entices her more than the soulful baritones of, the one and only, Mr Sam Cooke and she is entirely unabashed to say that cold tea should be a crime. When not reminiscing, or romanticising, Brieanna can be found enjoying the delightful company of her wonderful girlfriend, Lorilei; and her four-footed canine son, T’Challa.

Daniel mateo is a 20 year old gomeroi (gom-a-roy) descendant from northern nsw as well as a descendant from ma’ufanga (mow-fung-a) in the pasifika island of Tonga. Daniel studied Naisda Dance College 2018-2020 and is now performing with Bangarra Dance Theatre debuting with the company in 2021 Sydney Festivals Spirit a Retrospective. Daniel has worked with Singers such as Ngaiires ‘closer’ choreographed by the Sela Vai and singer George Maples ‘MYTH’ choreographed by Lucy Doherty. Daniel had also worked with choreographers such as Cadi McCarthy, Catapult Dance, Stephanie lake company.

Daniel uses multi media like dance, painting, film (winning peoples choice with Bouddi scholarship) and poetry. Exploring the colonial language to express Blak Australians pain, excellence and history and encourages the listeners to be transported with the visual poetry he offers

Taonga is a Black poet, multimedia storyteller and workshop coordinator whose work centres on vulnerability, niche revelations of community, and familiar intersections of identity. In her poetry, she values the concepts of being seen and understood, striving to create spaces for Black people to be soft, to rest and to celebrate Black joy and liberation. Taonga is a hopeless romantic and a firm believer in the healing powers of a meal shared with friends

N’Gadie is a published fiction writer and Master of Clinical Audiology student at UWA. After completing her English Honours at UWA in 2018, she moved to London in 2019 where she worked as a school administrator and later started the school’s first after school creative writing club. N’Gadie loves working with children and aside from writing, enjoys kayaking, playing table tennis and watching psychological thrillers

Yolanda is a Geidei woman born on Thursday Island and grew up in Mackay. Her family come from Yam Island in the Torres Strait and is also of Papua New Guinean and Fijian heritage. In 2016 Yolanda was awarded a Helpmann award for Best Female Dancer in a dance or physical theatre during her four years with Bangarra Dance Theatre, dancing nationally and internationally. She was also apart of Ochre Contemporary Dance Company in 2014. Moving to Brisbane in 2011 Yolanda graduated from The Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts (ACPA) in 2013. Her arts credits include MABO directed by Rachel Perkins, Stolen directed by Leah Purcell and Up The Ladder directed by Wesley Enoch and choreographed by Penelope Mullen. After leaving Bangarra Yolanda has danced for Yt dingo, Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair. Yolanda has ventured into teaching dance in the Regional Contemporary Dance Exchange with Austinmer Dance Theatre and Brolga Dance Academy, she now dances with Jannawi Dance Clan.Description goes here

Steffie Yee is an animator, designer, and director working in Sydney (unceded Gadigal land) and in the Hunter Valley region of Australia (unceded Wonnarua land).

If you want to work together, say hello. 🙋🏻‍♀️

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Steffie’s work weaves together digital and mixed-media processes involving stop-motion plasticine, ink, pencil, film, and 2D & 3D animation. With a background in music, her animation style is driven by the synergy between sound and image.

Her work has screened around the world at film festivals, including the Atlanta Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival, and Palm Springs ShortFest, where her film The Lost Sound (2018) received two nominations for Best Animated Short and Best Animated Student Short. Steffie was a speaker on the Women in Film and Television Victoria (WIFT VIC) panel at the 2019 St Kilda Film Festival, and was part of the jury for the 2021 Australian Directors’ Guild (ADG) awards.

Steffie’s work has earned features on Vimeo Staff Picks, Motionographer, Aeon Video, and BOOOOOOOM TV. She has worked on projects for ABC TV, created visual installations for live music events, and worked on music videos for major artists such as Sam Smith, The Free Nationals, Justin Bieber, PinkPantheress, TOKiMONSTA, Tkay Maidza, The Naked and Famous, and more.

Other clients she has worked with include McDonald's, Warner Music, Red Bull Music, QANTAS, the University of Technology Sydney, Opera Bar Sydney, among many others.

Moemoana Schwenke is a Sāmoan born performance artist, Indigenous cultural and environmental advocate and tutor at Matavai Pacific Cultural Arts. She has extensive experience with various Pacific cultural arts, travelling internationally to promote the Pacific. She has participated in cultural arts festivities and competitions such as the Te Maeva Nui in the Cook Islands, World Fire-Knife Championships in Hawai’i, Heiva I Tahiti in Tahiti and Teuila Festival in Sāmoa. She is heralded as one of few female fire-knife performers in the world, and received international acclaim for placing 1st Runner Up in the World Fire- Knife Championships 2019. These festivities and competitions, as well as the cultural centre, ensures that the positive fundamentals of Pacific culture are passed onto succeeding generations. Her central focus is empowering youth to mobilise their talents to counteract the social, political and environmental issue that affect the Pacific. She is currently a second year student at the University of Wollongong studying a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Communications and Media; majoring in Indigenous Studies, Environmental Humanities and Screen Media Production.

Following more than 15 years of experience in dance theatre, in 2020 Deborah graduated with her Masters in Screen Directing at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS). Her capstone project for AFTRS, Bala, has made the official selection for various film festivals including ImagineNATIVE Film Festival, Toronto, Flickerfest, Sydney and the Brisbane International Film Festival.

Concurrently she has been exploring directing theatre as an assistant to some of Australia’s top directors as well as delivering choreography for various projects. Her most recent project, directing for the newly commissioned Children’s Series, Barrumbi Kids, due to air on NITV in 2022.

Deborah was a Senior Artist and choreographer with world renowned Bangarra Dance Theatre. She was awarded the 2013 Helpmann Award for Best Female Dancer in a Dance or Physical Theatre Production, Terrain. That same year, she made her choreographic and directorial debut, creating a short dance film titled dive paying homage to the Pearl Shell divers of the Torres Strait Islands for Bangarra's season of Dance Clan 3, leading her to co-create IBIS as part of the Lore national season in 2015. Her career highlights with Bangarra were returning to Country - including Mer Island and Yirrkala – performing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theatre and partnering with The Australian Ballet at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.

Deborah has explored independent work as a choreographer, director and actor. She was the recipient of the 2015 Australia Council Creative Fund where she directed and choreographed local talent for a short film, hide, in association with Campbelltown Arts Centre. She choreographed and assisted the new Australian production, Spinifex Gum, a collaboration with Felix Riebl, Ollie McGill and Marliya of Gondwana Choirs, including their pre-game performance at Dreamtime at the G for the Australian Football League, as well as sell out seasons at Adelaide Festival 2018 and Sydney Festival 2019, with the more recent highlight performing at Garma Festival. She was also assistant director and choreographer for the world premiere of The Long Forgotten Dream, directed by Neil Armfield for Sydney Theatre Company as well as The Beauty Queen of Leenane, directed by Paige Rattray and Wonnangatta directed by Jessica Arthur. She was also Associate Director to Anthea Williams

on Winyanboga Yurringa as well participating in Belvoir's 2020 Artists at Work program.

As a performer in 2017 she returned to acting as the lead Layla, in the short film Water, directed by John Harvey. In 2019 she was featured in Angelica Mesiti's Assembly 2019 as part of the 58th Venice Biennale.

Rusty Risque is a self taught, Torres Strait Islander, Fijian and Cook Islander artist.

Flowing between genres of neo expressionism, urban art, contemporary and dreamy surrealism.

My elders have been a driving force behind my creativity, story telling has always been a way of life for us.

Manjula Radha Krishnan (Manju) is a Malaysian born dancer, choreographer and actor who has called Perth home for the last 20 years. Manju has trained extensively in the Indian classical dance styles of Bharata Natyam, Odissi and Kathak as well as Contemporary dance at the Temple of Fine Arts (TFA) in Malaysia and Saraswathi Mahavidhyalaya (SMV) in Perth. Though performing has been her main focus, Manju is also passionate about teaching the arts at SMV (Perth). Playing key roles in numerous productions including Shakuntala and I AM RAVANA, Manju is known for her versatility as an all-rounded artist. Manju recently acted in the Perth Festival 2021 production "Children of the Sea" which received much positive feedback and reviews. Manju strives to share her passion for the arts through her performances and teaching and hopes to inspire and nurture the future generation of young bright artists to come.

Nidal Saeed (She/Her), also known as JungleOfSpells is a Sudanese Muslim Artist, Poet, Educator and emerging Creative Director. Mazing through the jungle of her mind, Nidal's art is her identity and is driven by her deep desire to be understood. Her creativity is ever-evolving. Nidal is constantly growing and welcomes learning, seeking the best way to explore ideas about herself and global social constructs. Although she doesn't limit herself to one medium, poetry is the main vessel in which she expresses the universal odyssey of being, belonging and becoming. Nidal believes that written and spoken words assert the laws of attraction, thus her poems are spells cast to the universe. They derive from dreams, secrets and affirmations that she shares to better connect with bodies from different walks of this life. Nidal moves through the challenges of the world through the guidance of her ancestors, often honouring them in her storytelling, tapping into her inner child and upholding their spiritual values. She lives and writes on stolen Whadjuk Nyoongar Boodja.

Nitya Ganesh is a Stage Manager from Perth, Western Australia. She has recently graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts with a Bachelor of Performing Arts majoring in Stage Management. During her time at WAAPA, Nitya worked on a wide range of productions and genres including plays, ballet, contemporary dance, opera and major musicals. A highlight for Nitya is Stage Managing WAAPA's 2021 major musical, Crazy for You, at His Majesty's Theatre.

Jane Stark is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger, mixer and more, based in Boorloo, Whadjuk Noongar land (Perth, Western Australia). Her passion is writing, performing and sharing the music she loves, which includes post-‘Classical’ musics, atmospheric pop, groove-based experimental rock and more. She does this through performance and studio recordings – both solo and collaboratively – of original works alongside those composed by others.

She has performed live and in recordings with various ensembles since 2015, including performing regularly with WAAPA’s premiere percussion ensemble Defying Gravity. In May 2022, she and Koen Smailes composed and performed the music for WAAPA’s production of Suzie Miller’s play Caress/Ache, directed by Sandie Eldridge. This follows WAAPA’s 2021 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, for which she also composed and performed the music with harpist and vocalist Kira Gunn.

Hi my name is Tomasi people call me TomTom. I'm of Fijian heritage born and bred in New Zealand. I mostly teach traditional Fijian Dance (Meke). I try to maintain and preserve our traditional dances as a lot of them are rarely practiced these days.

Jessica Taruna Paraha is a multi-disciplinary artist who looks at her practice as a loving act of translation. Through her work she tries to translate her whakapapa as a Ngati Hine Māori woman living on unceded Gadigal land.

Steev Laufilitoga Maka is a master dance artist with over a quarter of a century's experience within the professional Pacific region arts and culture sectors including seventeen-years with 'Pacifique et Compagnie New Caledonian Theatre Company and School', and eight-years working with Tongan based Pacific arts initiative 'On The Spot'.

Sela Vai is a Pasifika movement artist who seeks to create safe spaces for the empowerment of young artists. Her work seeks to dissect and reflect her experience as a Tongan-Australian womxn as well as help elevate the voices of fellow womxn and Pacific peoples. Sela has choreographed TVC’s and music videos, where her passion lies in creating visibility for Pasifika artists in the commercial industry. Not limited to the dance industry, Sela is resident choreographer and Associate Artist of Black Birds, independent theatre company run by Womxn of Colour, (whom she collaborated with on her first work RECLAIM that won an FBI Smac Award for ‘Best On Stage’ 2020.)

Located in Maidstone, Naarm (Melbourne) – On Jackson Street is a platform for sharing and creating work that can branch from photography and videography, through to design, illustration and typography. We particularly enjoy working alongside artists and small businesses to capture content that will amplify their own personal storytelling. Our working style is unobtrusive, collaborative and positive. We work hard to nurture relationships with our clients and involve them in each step of the process to ensure they are happy with the results, which has successfully expanded our portfolio to many regular clients and friends.

On Jackson Street strongly believes in nurturing environments where empowered people can express themselves freely and with positivity. We do not tolerate racism, transphobia, homophobia, xenophobia, ableism, or sexism.

Tatanja (she/her) was born in Aotearoa and has lived in Australia since her childhood. She graduated from RMIT University in 2014 with a BA in Communication Design and established On Jackson Street in 2015. She enjoys working with artists, small businesses and individuals. Outside of OJS she works at The Jacky Winter Group, and enjoys watching films, powerlifting, and working on projects for our other business – Soft Nice.

Oliver (he/him) can sometimes be found assisting Tatanja on the odd job, so he is no stranger to many clients of OJS. He has a background in film, textile, and illustration. He works part time as a disability support worker, and loves wrestling, playing the drums, and working on projects like warhammer terrain and Gundam models.

We have lived in Melbourne’s west since 2014, but travel around metro Melbourne to work. We thrive when working with like minded creative people to create something that is intimate and unique to them.

Always open for new projects, collaborations and feedback. OJS offers special rates for community projects and emerging small businesses / artists at our own discretion. Get in touch and say hello.

Hi, I’m Teniola.

What you have to say matters and just as equally, how you say it too. That last part is where I come in. I am a portrait, stills, theatre, and editorial photographer based in Sydney.

I was born in Nigeria, raised on both the east and west coasts of America and now call Australia home. I have had the privilege of meeting many different individuals and because of that, my honest love for people and the stories they share has grown immensely.

Past clients and publications include Peppermint Magazine, Netflix, Vogue Australia, Google, Darlinghurst Theatre Company, B&T Magazine, ABC Arts and Dropbox.

Tasha Faye is a 26 year old creative portrait, fashion and fine art photographer based in Perth, Australia.

O lo’u igoa o Saint Andrew Palauni Matautia and I am a child of the diaspora. Like many migrant families, Aotearoa was the land of milk and honey. Whilst this is home for now, Samoa will always have my heart.

I am a multimedia artist that excels in telling diverse stories of people. One of the greatest lines that underpins my motivation to do what I do is - “If we are not telling OUR STORIES then someone else will” (unknown).

I’ve done this for nearly a decade, servicing various organisation’s around Aotearoa. This has meant that I’ve had to interact with many different cultures because of the multitudes of people that call this place home. No matter the person’s background I’ve been able to enable them to bring their authentic selves to the table. I do this by making them feel comfortable and just by being my hoha self. I’ve captured so many visually compelling moments that have highlighted the oppression of a colonial system and also showcased the beauty of marginalised cultures. I’ve enjoyed the successes and accolades that come with this.

If you have a unique, culturally relevant story that needs a culturally responsive creative to tell that then I would love to sit down with you and help you bring those stories to life.

Noa'ia! Sarah Carroll (she/they) is a Rotuman/Australian queer writer and performer working across live performance and film/tv with a passion for creating work and spaces that push for female queer representation in hopes that she can inspire someone out there to feel safe and seen. Sarah is also interested in focusing on cultural identity and interweaving her experiences coming from a mixed race background and growing up in Australia and Fiji.

Currently, Sarah is developing a queer short film with Australian actress Nadia Townsend slated to enter production in late 2021 and working with Eleven O’Clock Theatre as a writer on a new musical development.

Sarah is also completing a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Screen Culture and on the side hosts her own podcast ‘Coffee Chat Podcast’ where she connects with fellow creatives and industry professionals to help inspire in an already tough industry.

Gabriel Faatau’uu-Satiu is a Creative Arts graduate residing and working primarily in Dharawal and Dharruk country. He is of Sāmoan heritage and was born and raised in Aotearoa. As a Creative Writing major, Gabriel is primarily a storyline writer & screenwriter. He founded his production company Satiu Studios, with the intention of creating Pasifika narratives across multiple writing platforms.

Gabriel has written theatre reviews and articles for Audrey Journal and The Guardian, as well as abroad. He teaches creative writing for highschoolers as well as tutoring creative writing for primary-aged students. He is self-publishing a Pasifika children’s series inspired by his nieces and nephews, in post-production for an experimental short film he directed with an all Sāmoan cast/crew, and most recently directed the pilot episode of a web series he wrote. This series is an amalgamation of family inspiration, his current Masters studies, and an incubator program called Pacific Noir, which was facilitated by the Information and Cultural Exchange and endorsed by Screen Australia.

Although most of his experience leans towards print and screen, Gabriel has also co-written stage works, had a play reading, and developed a full length play through a festival. He is yet to direct and stage a work that is 100% his own. However, Gabriel strives to stage new works that speak to the Pasifika-Australian narrative and will use all previous, present and new experiences to achieve that.

Sereana Suguturaga is a a 24-year-old Fijian artist currently residing in Adelaide, South Australia. She currently creates Fijian- inspired, hand drawn & painted pieces. She started out scribbling tribal patterns on pieces of paper and found a real passion for it. I then began to draw and paint Fijian patterns onto canvas, modernising the artworks by using a range of different colours rather than just the traditional black, white and brown. She used this to personalise artworks she gifted to family and friends. Eventually she created an Instagram account and after much encouragement from family and friends, started my small business- Faith Creatives in 2018. She completed my Diploma of Business with the South Australian Institute of Business & Technology in 2020. Currently, I am now studying at the University of South Australia, where she is in her second year of my Bachelor’s degree (Bachelor of Business: Tourism & Event management), hoping to graduate at the end of next year.

VUKU MEANING INNOVATIVE, WISE, INTELLIGENT, CREATIVE AND TRANSFORMATIVE.

GROUNDED IN INDIGENOUS WAYS OF KNOWING. RECIPROCITY. STORY SOVEREIGNTY. RESPECT. WE ARE TE TIRITI-LED. A SAFE SPACE TO EXCHANGE KNOWLEDGE. UPHOLDING EQUALITY. COMMITTED TO DESIGN AND FORM THAT DISRUPT SYSTEMS OF DOMINANCE.