What do the arts teach us? 

Curiosity, Initiative, Grit, Adaptability, Leadership, Social and Cultural Awareness. 

These are the qualities that Australian industry needs from workers in a post COVID- Industry 4.0 world. 

Join Professor Anna Hickey-Moody over the month of October for this series of Instagram live discussions with key industry figures as she talks to community leaders, arts practitioners and researchers about the use of youth arts in a post-COVID world. We’ll be chatting about why the arts are vital for a strong, vibrant and sustainable economic recovery in Australia, how the arts instill critical qualities in Australia’s workforce and what we can do to ensure that youth arts are supported into Australia’s future. 

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SARAH MAINWARING of Back to Back Theatre

Sarah has a Bachelor of Arts (Performing Arts) from Victoria University, and has a particular interest in avant-garde and physical theatre. She has developed a number of original solo performances including FOREIGN BODY (directed by John Bolton) and I’M ME AND I’M OK and OUT ON A LIMB (directed by Lloyd Jones). 

Sarah joined the Back to Back Theatre ensemble in 2007, played the lead role of Lesley in Back to Back Theatre’s FOOD COURT (2008) and has toured both nationally and internationally with the DEMOCRATIC SET RESIDENCY and LADY EATS APPLE (2016). Sarah has played a collaborative role in the creative development of GANESH VERSUS THE THIRD REICH (2011), SUPER DISCOUNT (2013) and as creator and performer in the company’s most recent major work, THE SHADOW WHOSE PREY THE HUNTER BECOMES (2019). 

What do the arts teach us? 

Curiosity, Initiative, Grit, Adaptability, Leadership, Social and Cultural Awareness. 

These are the qualities that Australian industry needs from workers in a post COVID- Industry 4.0 world. 

Join Professor Anna Hickey-Moody over the month of October for this series of Instagram live discussions with key industry figures as she talks to community leaders, arts practitioners and researchers about the use of youth arts in a post-COVID world. We’ll be chatting about why the arts are vital for a strong, vibrant and sustainable economic recovery in Australia, how the arts instill critical qualities in Australia’s workforce and what we can do to ensure that youth arts are supported into Australia’s future. 

Tune in through our Instagram page: @interfaithchildhoods

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During this session Anna will be speaking with Tariro Mavondo and Penny Harpham of Western Edge Youth Arts.

What do the arts teach us? 

 Curiosity, Initiative, Grit, Adaptability, Leadership, Social and Cultural Awareness. 

These are the qualities that Australian industry needs from workers in a post COVID- Industry 4.0 world. 

Join Professor Anna Hickey-Moody over the month of October for this series of Instagram live discussions with key industry figures as she talks to community leaders, arts practitioners and researchers about the use of youth arts in a post-COVID world. We’ll be chatting about why the arts are vital for a strong, vibrant and sustainable economic recovery in Australia, how the arts instill critical qualities in Australia’s workforce and what we can do to ensure that youth arts are supported into Australia’s future. 

Tune in through our Instagram page: @interfaithchildhoods

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Zalman Kastel:

Zalman Kastel was raised and ordained as a Chasidic Jewish Rabbi. Work and friendship with Christians and Muslims transformed him from mainly seeing people in terms of "us and them" to appreciating people of many belief groups.  

He is Director of Together for Humanity Foundation, an interfaith based diversity education organisation that fosters intercultural understanding in school students and brings communities together. Since 2002, he has led an initiative that has challenged the misconceptions of over 100,000 students.  In January 2020, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for his work teaching tolerance and interfaith understanding to school children.

What do the arts teach us? 

 Curiosity, Initiative, Grit, Adaptability, Leadership, Social and Cultural Awareness. 

These are the qualities that Australian industry needs from workers in a post COVID- Industry 4.0 world. 

Join Professor Anna Hickey-Moody over the month of October for this series of Instagram live discussions with key industry figures as she talks to community leaders, arts practitioners and researchers about the use of youth arts in a post-COVID world. We’ll be chatting about why the arts are vital for a strong, vibrant and sustainable economic recovery in Australia, how the arts instill critical qualities in Australia’s workforce and what we can do to ensure that youth arts are supported into Australia’s future. 

 Tune in through our Instagram page: @interfaithchildhoods

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Beverley Irving:

I am Beverley Irving and I am an illustrator from Liverpool, UK. I work with mixed media to create more traditional 2D forms but I also work with clay, challenging the boundaries of what illustration can be. My work is predominantly authorial rather than brief responsive. I address experience, gender, equality, and mental health as a way of initiating conversations about society from a feminist perspective.

My practice also involves working in collaboration with others. I have worked as an assistant with the Interfaith Childhoods project working with children to find common threads through art. With the Manchester based charity, Mustard Tree, we made collaborative work through clay workshops for an exhibition that embodied the support generated by the organisation and its volunteers.

This year I will begin my PhD study where I will investigate how clay can help to improve mental health, wellbeing and body image.

What do the arts teach us? 

 Curiosity, Initiative, Grit, Adaptability, Leadership, Social and Cultural Awareness. 

These are the qualities that Australian industry needs from workers in a post COVID- Industry 4.0 world. 

Join Professor Anna Hickey-Moody over the month of October for this series of Instagram live discussions with key industry figures as she talks to community leaders, arts practitioners and researchers about the use of youth arts in a post-COVID world. We’ll be chatting about why the arts are vital for a strong, vibrant and sustainable economic recovery in Australia, how the arts instill critical qualities in Australia’s workforce and what we can do to ensure that youth arts are supported into Australia’s future. 

Tune in through our Instagram Page: @interfaithchildhoods 

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Miranda Matthews:

Miranda Matthews is an artist, educator and researcher. She is currently Head of the Centre for Arts and Learning at Goldsmiths, University of London. Miranda worked as an artist and in arts development for ten years, then as a teacher of art in London schools and colleges for ten years. She has taught across undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in art and education at Goldsmiths since 2016. Miranda has published on issues of agency and representation for practitioners and students, and in educational policy. She often connects theory with practice in mapping empirical research. Miranda is also a practising artist, in a range of artforms.

What do the arts teach us? 

Curiosity, Initiative, Grit, Adaptability, Leadership, Social and Cultural Awareness. 

These are the qualities that Australian industry needs from workers in a post COVID- Industry 4.0 world. 

 Join Professor Anna Hickey-Moody over the month of October for this series of Instagram live discussions with key industry figures as she talks to community leaders, arts practitioners and researchers about the use of youth arts in a post-COVID world. We’ll be chatting about why the arts are vital for a strong, vibrant and sustainable economic recovery in Australia, how the arts instill critical qualities in Australia’s workforce and what we can do to ensure that youth arts are supported into Australia’s future. 

Tune in through our Instagram page: @interfaithchildhoods

 Register for updates.

Katerina Eleftheriadou:

Katerina is an artist from Greece currently living and working in Thessaloniki. In her practice she sought engagement in producing work that is not self-referential but connected to lived experiences. Her interests and the work she produces to date derive from memories informed by her personal background, her origins, the traditions and complexities of her home country. 

Katerina was an active participant at ‘My Body-Image’ workshop with Rabih Mroue organized by STUDIO theatregallery in collaboration with Onassis Stegi, she has worked as a Teacher of Art and Design at Westhill Academy in Scotland, she has organized workshops for the Centre of Chinese Contemporary Art, she has worked as an assistant curator for Marianna Tsionki (Research curator for CFCCA- Associate Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University) and she delivered educational programmes for the Children’s Art Museum in Athens, Greece. Her work has been exhibited in the United Kingdom, Germany and Greece. "