Once a singer-songwriter player with acclaimed Goanna Band, Rose has maintained a strong bond with Aboriginal people in areas of social justice and human rights.
Kathryn Williams
Artist - Ward Flags
Colour, textile and natural fibre, natural dyes are Kathryn’s inspiration. Spending 25 years specialising in silk, breeding silkworms and researching Sericulture. The bulk of her work is based on a close working relationship with clients requesting individual commissions, realising their visions.
Margie MacKay
Margie is an artist and researcher known for creating large-scale ceremonies alongside diverse communities both nationally and internationally. Utilising fire, ritual-art forms, design thinking, trans-disciplinary performance modes and collaborative processes. Her work over the past 25+ years has ranged from intimate indoor events, to exuberant street theatre productions, street art installations and epic-scale community ceremonies in many Arts Festivals and Community Gatherings.
Margie recently completed a PhD on Composing Contemporary Ceremony, whilst continuing with her freelance artistic practice. She performs a mentorship role for young and emerging artists, and has an ongoing commitment to reconciliation, the recognition and respect of Indigenous cultures, and championing the rites of humans, other entities and the environment in her works.
Malcolm Hansford
2009 2014 Assistant Visual Artist/Lighting
Ngioka Bunda-Heath
Dancer Spirit Bird
Mariaa Randall
Dancer - Spirit Bird
Lola Anderson
Dancer Spirit Bird Chick
Lucy Jones
Choirmistress & Singer
Lucy Jones studied music theatre at WAAPA and has worked in theatre, on television and in community settings as a performer, writer, composer and director. She has also worked extensively in primary schools as a teaching artist for The Song Room, facilitating performing arts projects for students, and developing and delivering workshops for teachers. She is currently involved in singing for literacy programs, and is composing a suite of songs inspired by the indigenous plants and animals of the Bellarine Peninsula.
Natale Lewington
Choirmistress
Natale Lewington 'retired' to Barwon Heads following twelve years working as a professional opera singer throughout Europe and the US. In her spare time she runs the Barwon Heads Chorale, a community choir with a membership of approximately 75 people. She is passionate about the many benefits of community singing and music-making.
Tiffany Eckhart and Dave Steel
Singer/Songwriters
Tiffany Eckhardt, award winning singer/songwriter, has written and recorded seven successful independent releases. She has been adopted by the folk/roots, festival scene in Australia as a firm favourite, receiving rave reviews and radio airplay across the country.
Dave Steel, Blues man, songwriter/producer and instrumentalist, has been writing songs and making albums for the past 20 years. He has also been an instrumentalist for many of Australia's best known artists including Weddings Parties Anything , Archie Roach, Kasey Chambers, and Kavisha Mazzella to name a few. He has earned himself a reputation of being one of our finest musicians.
2014 Album release: 'Big Big Sky'
Dynamic Trio of the Folk/blues/roots Australian music scene, this husband and wife team along with their bass player Sandy Brady, have recently released their brand new album 'Big Big Sky'. .... songs about life's journey, sometimes soulful and sentimental, sometimes just plain fun, along with their recently released ‘Best Of’ album, ‘Think About You’, featuring favourite songs and previously unreleased live tracks. For further information call Tiffany on 0409 896 877 or Dave on 0417 548 027.
Stephen Oakes
Story Collector
Stephen is a media artist based in the Geelong region whose film-making, soundscapes and musical compositions focus on young, marginalised and people with a disability. Stephen most recently was commissioned by the City Of Geelong to produce two new suites of stories for 'Memory Bank', exploring memories and place via audio stories and short films.
Trace Elements
Athletes, artists, performers and masters of movement
Trace Elements is a diverse group of athletes, artists, performers and masters of movement. Leading practitioners in parkour, freerunning, L’art du Deplacement and professional stunts, Trace Elements has worked overseas and extensively in Australia in forms ranging from live performances and demonstrations, music video clips, performing as a street team, television commercials, corporate events and feature films.
Blink
Dancers - M2M Launch
Blink Dance Theatre was established by a group of contemporary dance & theatre makers and has now expanded to include a broad team of multidisciplinary artists from movement, theatre, new media and design backgrounds. Our central aim is to develop a platform for professional artists to continue making high calibre work in the Geelong and Surf Coast region.
Malcolm McKinnon
Filmmaker
Malcolm McKinnon is an artist and filmmaker working mainly in rural communities. Over the past 15 years, his work has encompassed oral history, urban planning, public and community art projects and exhibitions. His current practice is mainly focused around documentary filmmaking and social history.
Donna Jackson
Conceptual Artist
Donna is a conceptual artist. She works in the mediums of landscape art, site specific performance and events. She has recently moved into working with the medium of ice. Donna’s process of working involves collaboration with community members to develop partnerships where interesting art can be fostered.
Manfred Pohlenz
Choirmaster
Since graduating first from the Elder Conservatorium, Adelaide and then Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Brisbane, Manfred has been active as a performer, teacher, and conductor and is currently the Director of Music (Performance) at Kardinia International College, Geelong. Manfred has performed a number of principal roles since further studying in the USA with Daniel Ferro of the prestigious Julliard School of Music, New York City: Valentin, Fiorello, Dr Bartolo and Schiarrone (Opera Queensland), Papageno, Leporello, Silvio and Schaunard (Princeton Opera, USA), Zuniga (State Opera South Australia) and Miles Banter QC (Spring Festival Pt Fairy),Alfio (Melbourne City Opera). In addition, he has performed an extensive repertoire of Oratorio including: Messiah, Mozart C minor Mass, Mozart Requiem, Bach Weinachts Oratorium (Qld Choral Society), Faure Requiem, Bach Cantata No 82: Ich Habe Genug (Queensland State and Municipal Choir), Deutsches Requiem (University of Qld Choral Society) and Elijah (Princeton Choral Society), Haydn Stabat Mater (St Pauls, Geelong). Most recently, Manfred has performed with Melbourne Opera and Melbourne City Opera in productions including the highly acclaimed Barber of Seville (Dr Bartolo), Il Corsaro (Seid) (La Traviata (Germont Senior), Rigoletto (Title role) Madame Butterfly (General Bonz), Pearl Fishers (Zurga) and Le Nozze di Figaro (Count Almaviva).
http://www.morethanopera.com/artists/manfred-pohlenz-2/
Rod Gear
Composer
I graduated from the Victorian College of the arts, specializing in the double bass. I’m also a recording engineer and music instructor. Keel-la, written for CONNECTING IDENTITIES, is a short musical piece that highlights the tension between the present and the past, flight and repetition, arrival and yearning. The city of Geelong is in the process of change, of re-assessing past identities. Keel-la (the word for walk in Wathaurong) seeks to give voice to some of these elements. At times the music hints at flight and yet the rhythmic repitition refrains it. The indigenous sounds seek to harmonise with the contempory and vice versa. The sung melody (Kella-walk) floats a voice from above, time to walk, time to slow down, time to reflect.
Richard Thomas
Richard Thomas has exhibited in 17 different countries over a 20 year period in art spaces, non art contexts and in the landscape. His work addresses ecology and the confluence of man made and natural systems, forms and spaces. Media includes installation, sculpture, photography and video. He has also durated and directed various artist initiated events such as “The Bridge” (Construction in process VI) in 1998, and the Australian Pavilion at the “Satellite” project coinciding with the 2006 Shanghai Biennale. He has participated in artist’s residencies in Okinawa, Belfast, Spain, the Netherlands and New York. For more information please go to www.richardthomas.com.au
Sam Spry
Sam Spry is an artist and art teacher. She enjoys and appreciates the creative community of Barwon Heads, where she lives with her son and daughter.
Sam’s role in the Mouth to Mountain journey was to design, facilitate and produce the 'River of Dreams'. The 'River' is an 18 metre silk banner that shows the dreams and memories of grade six students from six different schools between Barwon Heads and Lara.
Sam decided to use batik to create this artwork and enlisted the help of fellow artist and art teacher, Maggie Hall, who became an invaluable asset to the project.
"I have loved hearing all the stories that are now immersed in the ‘River of Dreams'. The children’s stories and the personal meaning attached to their images, as well as the stories from the team of dedicated and enthusiastic artisans who brought this artwork to life. It has been an amazing and inspiring experience and I am looking forward to seeing it flow forth on the 9th May.”
Jacob Boehme
Jacob Boehme is a Melbourne born and based artist of Aboriginal heritage, from the Narangga (Yorke Peninsula) and Kaurna (Adelaide Plains) nations of South Australia. Jacob is an independent artist and Artistic Director of IDJA, Victoria's first professional Indigenous dance theatre, established in 2011.
