CARCLEW: Skilling Up
Skilling Up is Carclew’s professional development series for emerging creatives, offering skills development, networking opportunities and supported employment that fosters the confidence and resilience needed to develop a sustainable and safe career.
We’re rounding out the year with 2 discovery sessions for early career artists (aged 26 year or under), with invited guest presenters who are specialists in their field (further presenters to be announced) alongside Carclew’s Creative Consultants.
FREE to attend, limited capacity, registrations essential.
Conducting impactful creative workshops in the community
Wednesday 17 November, 5.30-7:00pm
Carclew, Kaurna Country, 11 Jeffcott St, North Adelaide
Many people are introduced to arts and creative practices through community workshops. Many artists and creatives spend their careers delivering community projects and workshops.
Join our Creative Consultants as they engage with leaders in creative community workshop facilitation. Explore the possibilities and get some guidance on how to make this a career option for you.
Guest presenters
Edwin Kemp Attrill (he/him)
Edwin Kemp Attrill is a South Australian theatre maker and the creative director of Replay Creative. He is the founder and former Artistic Director of ActNow Theatre and the former Artistic Director of the University of Adelaide Theatre Guild. As a community arts practitioner, he has worked across a range of settings including with young people, refugees and migrants, people with disability, and children in detention. Edwin was the recipient of the 2013 Channel 9 Young Achievers Award for Career Leadership, the 2015 Geoff Crowhurst Memorial Award at the South Australian Ruby Awards, the 2018 Australia Council for the Arts Kirk Robson Award and 2020 Carclew Young Achievers Award. Learn more…
Loren Orsillo (she/her)
Loren is lead assistant for Carclew's Pom Pom program, having worked within the program as an artist for the past 3 years. Pom Pom is a contemporary art space in Davoren Park offering hands-on creative workshops for children, delivered by leading artists. It is a long-term partnership with Anglicare SA's Communities for Children program that supports individuals & families to work together to create supportive environments for children. Loren Orsillo is also an Adelaide-based painter with a practice that embraces objecthood and the innate meaning embedded within materials.
Creative approaches for inclusion and diversity
Friday 3 December, 2.30-4:00pm
Carclew, Kaurna Country, 11 Jeffcott St, North Adelaide
Constant conversation, story sharing and awareness building is needed to ensure our workplaces, projects and teams are inclusive and diverse. The subject is deep and complex.
Carclew’s Creative Consultants will host this important conversation with our community of artists on International Day of People with Disabilities.
Guest presenter: Rhen Soggee (they/them)
Rhen is an arts manager living and working as a migrant on unceded Kaurna land. They are Executive Director & Co-CEO of ActNow Theatre, and Co-Chair of Post Office Projects. They are interested in contemporary, experimental, multicultural, inter/multi-disciplinary and participatory arts. They seek to affect social change through the arts, specifically with multicultural, intersectional, feminist and queer agendas.