ALETHIA

ALETHIA project is a fusion of Latin, reggae, jazz, R&B and soul with lyrics in English.

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ALETHIA, (Alethia Gomez) is a Colombian independent artist based in Melbourne, Australia. Her project is a fusion of Latin, reggae, jazz, R&B and soul with lyrics in English. Her sound is jazzy, soft and delicate. Her sound has influences from reggae, jazz,R&B, neo-soul, soul and boleros. Her music is a journal of her personal reflections with lyrics sung between English and Spanish where she expresses that music is a healing toll for our soul.

Fungi Solutions

Early Ethical Entrepreneur Pitch Competition 2021 Finalists
2021 EEEPC Red Hat Impact Award Winner
2021 EEEPC People’s Choice Award Winner
2021 EEEPC Melbourne Climate Futures Winner

I will be making a dish I love called "Sage Seared King Oyster Scallops' This is a vegan dish, made from mushrooms grown on recovered resources provided to us by Bridge Darebin's Enrich 360 Project which collects food waste from their social enterprise the Moon Rabbit Cafe. The collected resources are dehydrated and sent to us for Myco-Cycling and growing edible mushroom crop that is then donated back to their cafe and other local community food banks to address food insecurity. 

Sage Seared King Oyster Scallops

This dish has been produced using mushrooms grown on locally sourced organic food wastes, provided by Bridge Darebin. Fungi Solutions donates the mushrooms cultivated to local food banks to address food insecurity. 

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Amanda Morgan is a biotech designer and the Co-Founder of Fungi Solutions. She leads the Research and Development of Fungi Cultures to tackle challenges of waste management, pollution and ecosystem rehabilitation through circular design practices. Our aim is to foster collaborative partnerships that create health and abundance, bringing natural and social systems into balance. 

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Pauline Sherlock is a singer songwriter, comedian, actor, character performer, Clown and Butoh artist, she will turn her hand to anything really. Based in Melbourne since 2018, Pauline has engaged in rigorous training experiences with renowned teachers including Giovanni Fusetti, Yumi Umiumare, Andrew Morrish, John Bolton, Kimberly Twiner and many more. Pauline brings an eclectic collection of skills and offers an unconventional entertainment experience.

Theodora Glych is from Planet Luna and enjoys playing and singing her strange games and songs. Some may call her grotesque, some will call her weird, they are correct, but she is also funny and silly and loves to meet people and make them laugh and give them a fright

Zero Living Workshop

What will people learn: People will learn about ZERO Energy Homes and get some tips and tricks on how to run their own homes more efficiently.

Benefits: Learning about the future of housing, which is being unveiled in Melbourne early next year.

Learning more about how to drive your own homes more efficiently.

CHAR BEE HOON - Fried Noodle for Mother Earth

Each year, there is the Nine Emperors Deities festival, a Taoist festival celebrated by some Chinese Malaysians. During these 9 days of celebration, devotees go on a vegetarian meal plan. One of my childhood dishes during this festival is char bee hoon. Char means to fry and bee means rice in my mother's tongue, viz, Hokkien dialect. So this dish is simply "fried rice vermicelli"(noodles) with veggies and tofu, nuts and seeds. The main sustainable elements in this dish are: plant food, cooked very quickly hence using very little energy.

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Dr Moni Lai Storz is a Sociologist trained in cultural diversity & inclusion issues, Asian business cultures and global leadership skills. Moni's books include Dancing with Dragons: Chopsticks People Revealed for Global Business, and Tango With Tigers, an E-book about the Hands People of Asia (Indians, Malays, Hinduism & Islam). Moni is also a novelist, poet & playwright. Moni's lifelong mission is about empowering people to love themselves, others and Mother Earth through story telling, food, singing and dancing.

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Pauline Sherlock is a singer songwriter, comedian, actor, character performer, Clown and Butoh artist, she will turn her hand to anything really. Based in Melbourne since 2018, Pauline has engaged in rigorous training experiences with renowned teachers including Giovanni Fusetti, Yumi Umiumare, Andrew Morrish, John Bolton, Kimberly Twiner and many more. Pauline brings an eclectic collection of skills and offers an unconventional entertainment experience.

Theodora Glych is from Planet Luna and enjoys playing and singing her strange games and songs. Some may call her grotesque, some will call her weird, they are correct, but she is also funny and silly and loves to meet people and make them laugh and give them a fright

Afro-Latin Event Energiser

Engaging, fun and energetic. This event energiser will make you to get off your feet and dance whilst following along super friendly facilitators. Shake your stress off and join with our community.

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Mosaik Experiences is a Social Enterprise that aims to inspire a sense of community and belonging. We exist to address social isolation, loneliness, and disconnection in Australia, and to draw attention to the power of the arts and culture as a vehicle to: Improve wellbeing and harmony, Embrace diversity and inclusion, and Enhance quality of life.

Zero Living Workshop

What will people learn: People will learn about ZERO Energy Homes and get some tips and tricks on how to run their own homes more efficiently.

Benefits: Learning about the future of housing, which is being unveiled in Melbourne early next year.

Learning more about how to drive your own homes more efficiently.

SEVDAH

SEVDAH is very authentic music from Bosnia and Herzegovina which dates back to around 1600.

SEVDALINKA is generally very strong and heartfelt music with equal importance between poetry and melody. It is often an expression of love between lovers, mother and child, nature and human beings and must be felt within and told as a story.

Thousands of SEVDAH songs have been written and enjoyed around Balkan’s but somehow it was best kept and preserved from losing its true meaning in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

YASSNA, Jasna Dolic is a Bachelor of Music graduate and has worked tirelessly on sharing SEVDAH with her brother Yasmin Dolic and traditional SAZ player Mr Kadir Dulović,  in Australia for over two decades. 

She is the first artist to have appeared on SBS Australia radio, tv stations, various universities and theatres stages and hopes to be performing SEVDAH with a symphony orchestra in the future.

Super Mande Percussion

Super Mande Percussion offers a range of performance ensemble sizes, from solo up to 8 or more performers, and can perform either on stage or in a roving format.

“Mady Keita's African Drumming Academy" student ensemble showcases the roots of African Drumming with some authentic and catchy Mande (West African) rhythms. The ensemble is led by Mady Keita from Mali and Abli Laryea from Ghana, performing on lead djembe and vocals.

Mady Keita is a highly respected Master Drummer and began his drumming tutelage at the age of 14 under the guidance of the legendary Mouriba Keita in Mali's capital, Bamako. Because of his rare and authentic approach to the drum, Mady is well known as a Roots Djembe Traditionalist and is sought out by students from around the world as a keeper of tradition.

Abli Laryea is a Master Drummer and multi-instrumentalist from Nungua/Accra, Ghana, specialising in djembe with a long-held interest in traditional drumming and music. With 20 years experience, Abli is an active and well-known musician, teacher and performer and a much-loved member of the "Super Mande Percussion" ensemble here in Australia.

Mady has been running his African Drumming Academy as well as performing with "Super Mande Percussion" throughout Melbourne and beyond since 2005. As well as teaching and performing, Mady also runs the “Super Mande Percussion” shop in Bayswater, where he has a drum-making and repair workshop and many beautiful hand-crafted instruments on display."

Zero Living Workshop

What will people learn: People will learn about ZERO Energy Homes and get some tips and tricks on how to run their own homes more efficiently.

Benefits: Learning about the future of housing, which is being unveiled in Melbourne early next year.

Learning more about how to drive your own homes more efficiently.

Participate 3000

City of Melbourne has launched an initiative called Participate 3000 and as part of this we are on a mission to have at least 100 conversations by 16 December to get to know more people who live / work / study / play in the Melbourne CBD better. We want to know what you missed the most, where you can’t wait to go and who you can’t wait to see. We’d also love to know what you learned during lockdown that you might want to take along with you. The feedback and information gathered through Participate 3000 will influence the development of a Neighbourhood Plan for the Melbourne.

Making Jewellery Like An Urban Flaneur

To respond to this year’s theme — ‘Living Local’, you will be guided to use your 5 senses to explore the local area like an urban flaneur. You will wander aimlessly to find inspiration for your jewellery, such as the smell in the air, the sound from the tree, or the colour from an artwork in Immigration Museum. The inspiration will be the design decision for your jewellery. Jewellery designer(s) will be there to assist you to make and assemble your jewellery. All materials including recycled and sustainable materials are provided. Beginners and intermediate levels are welcomed.

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Vivian Qiu is a sentimental jewellery designer and teaching artist with a fashion design background. Her jewellery practice focuses on reflective design based on sentiment, memory and cultural identity. She makes materials for her own jewellery and artwork, such as rice fabric and rice clay. Her Sentimental Rice Jewellery project has been presented as part of Melbourne Fashion Festival and Melbourne Design Week 2021. Vivian has worked as an artist-in-residence at McKinnon Secondary College, as part of the Creative Workers in Schools program initiated by Regional Arts Victoria in 2021. See more of her jewellery work at Instagram: vivian_qiu_studio

Christmas Tree of Love and Hope

This project of creating up cycled and recycled fashion, textiles, packaging, left over building materials INDOORS & OUTDOOR TAPESTRIES is about raising awareness of current waste created by fashion industry as second largest environmental polluter on the planet. Visitors will be able to contribute and help build the Christmas Tree over the two days.

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YASSNA - Jasna Dolic is Melbourne based Artist , Public Speaker, Mother , Entrepreneur and Humanitarian with many dreams, aspirations and ambitions. Yassna is very enthusiastic and hard working individual with passion for the environment and her local community . She built an extensive experience and solid reputation with local and international networks and keeps contributing with her diversity within the arts industry. Yassna is a recipient of many Operatic potential awards, she writes lyrics records CD albums, works on raising awareness of traditional SEVDAH music and food recipes . She is active performer here in Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and internationally. Her charity work extends to visiting and raising funds for Orphanages , water projects, historic architecture, education, indigenous communities and arts projects

Nutritious Meals on a Budget

Healthy breakfast, lunch, and dinner recipes with easily found ingredients and minimal waste.

Host: Christine Weliwita

I am currently reading for my masters in Nutrition and Population health and I love food.

My love and interest for food & nutrition has been growing ever since I was about 6 years old.

Coming from Sri Lanka a south Asian island all my food contain a lot of spices that are great for health.

With work and studies taking a lot of my time, the time I spend in my kitchen is where I unwind and let the flavours take over.

My aim to educate and help people build healthy relationships with food.

So join me as we learn to make quick ,easy,healthy and budget friendly meals that are full of flavour!

Instagram Handle: _yawye_

Mosaik Experience Cultural Experience

Join the team at Mosaik for a vibrant cultural experience, learn to dance, try some constumens, play the drum and more

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Mosaik Experiences is a Social Enterprise that aims to inspire a sense of community and belonging. We exist to address social isolation, loneliness, and disconnection in Australia, and to draw attention to the power of the arts and culture as a vehicle to: Improve wellbeing and harmony, Embrace diversity and inclusion, and Enhance quality of life.