Mosaik workshops use the arts and culture as a vehicle to improve well-being, embrace diversity and inclusion. The workshops invite participants to connect with their senses and emotions as well as to bring people together and create an engaging environment by using the power of the music, singing, dance, laughing together, poetry, and storytelling as well as the mindfulness-based art therapy, theatre and food.

Come and help us build an artwork focusing on post consumer waste. Put your creative flare at work and be part of this amazing project.

Immersive sustainability focused VR career experience sessions

Building a Sustainable Wardrobe can be confusing, over welcoming and can seem expensive. However it doesn’t have to be and our guest panelists will enlighten us on how to build a sustainable wardrobe and what to look for. Before our styling and second-hand clothing experts take to the runway with a fashion parade.

Panelists:

Katrin Naish - Founder of A Fitting Connection

Katrina Naish has over 20 years’ experience in the fashion industry across design and production. Through Katrina’s diligence and devotion to her community, 2020-2021 lead her on a journey to see a seed of an idea grow, develop and come to fruition. She now leads her growing team into a new journey of educating students and the community to not only start to understand the complexity of textile waste and circular economy but to also see textile waste as a resource by facilitating opportunities to explore upcycling that earns financial rewards

Jewelz Green -

Computer aided pattern maker. Now works with A Fitting Connection. After completing studies in fashion Jewelz spent 3 years in London and Netherlands working before coming home to hone her skills in the craft of computer pattern making. Jewelz spent a further 10 years working with some of the most well-known brands in Australia. Jewelz now works for A Fitting Connection as an Eco Constructionist for their Fundraising with Purpose program, which combines her pattern making skills and her passion for sustainability and the environment.

Imogen Lamport – Image consultant

Imogen Lamport is an internationally certified, award winning image consultant and image trainer whose passion is demystifying the science and art of style so that you can define your personal style and curate a wardrobe full of clothes you love to wear as they express your personality from the inside out. She is known for her insightful expertise and is the author of the encyclopaedia of colour and style Inside Out Style www.insideoutstyleblog.com . Imogen has been training aspiring personal stylists since 2006 through her Academy of Professional Image www.aopi.com.auand is an innovator in the image industry having created the 18 directional Absolute Colour System. With a deep interest in understanding how personality impacts style choices, she is also co-creator of the ground-breaking 16 Style Types www.16styletypes.com which marries psychological type with style. Imogen loves to help clients and her students create their own sustainable style, one that both harmonises with their unique features and reflects their personality, as knowledge is power when it comes to shopping for clothing in a sustainable way, as a style education gives you personalised style and colour criteria to only buy what is really going to work for you and your body. And when you have a wardrobe of clothes you love, you will be seen as brilliantly on the outside as you are on the inside.

Yesha Patel - Founder After-au

From Yesha's words: as someone who appreciates fashion and clothing, when it came to clearing out my wardrobe, I couldn’t find suitable options that were transparent on where my clothing ended up once I disposed of them and was convenient. Bringing together my learnings from my Masters of Entrepreneurship, and my passion to solve the problem of textile waste, I started after. Not only did I stop buying new clothes since I started my business, but also pledged to disrupt the way we dispose of our textile waste. After takes care of your unwearable clothing, after you. We collect unwearable clothing and textile waste from households and businesses, recycle it, and on-sell it (eg. textile fabric, or insulation) - reporting everything back to the customer for full transparency. To reward customers, we even provide discount codes to sustainable brand partners. My passion lies in sustainable and circular fashion to ensure we take care of our beautiful environment. I find joy in connecting with people and being inspired. I enjoy innovating in ideas and solutions that help the world become a better place.

Meghan Fiddler - Founder 2Cool2Chuck

Meghan from Melbourne started selling her secondhand clothes in 2017 and became a full time Depop Top Seller in 2019. Her shop’s style is predominantly 90s-00s clothing, but really it's anything that is “ too cool to chuck out”.

Christian Elchagie

Christian is a year 7 student who is part of the organisation committee of the re-geration Youth Festival 2022 and he is also a radio presenter on Funky Kids Radio. Christian loves to be creative and stay active. He has reviewed multiple books on the radio program Primary Perspectives and he has written a book of his own! Christian also plays soccer and enjoys his weekly soccer matches.

Gemma Wildermuth

Gemma is a year 12 student from Cornish College and a proud STEM enthusiast. She has participated in multiple STEM programs both locally and internationally and has been involved in all 3 levels of FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) competitions. Gemma started 2 teams herself in FIRST® Tech Challenge (FTC) and FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC) and this year Gemma represented Australia with her FTC team on the international stage in Houston, Texas. Gemma is also a student mentor for Real Time Learning and aids in mentoring other FIRST® teams.

Elder Uncle Paully Chapman

Co-founder of the Janandi Aboriginal Corporation (Bendigo, Victoria) Elder Uncle Paully Chapman was born on the Wakka Wakka lands of Queensland, where he lived for the first 30 years of his life without electricity or running water. Caring for Country is both as natural and essential as breathing to him and Uncle Paully has a lifetime of wisdom to share about what it means to respect and regenerate the Earth.

The Immigration Museum opens its doors to our Clothing Swap with purpose. It will be an opportunity for you to update your wardrobe and enjoy a sustainable fashion parade. Female and Male Fashion, shoes and accessories.

Come along an hear young and diverse performers who will inspire resilience and empowerment, caring for country, and creating the world we all wish to live in.

Cindy Batchelor - Deputy CEO of Australian Red Cross

Cindy has had a long and successful career in professional and financial services supporting people and customers to realise their potential and achieve their dreams.  She believes deeply that there is strength in vulnerability and leads and inspires people through connection to purpose and a belief that anything is possible.  Cindy was most recently the Deputy CEO of Australian Red Cross and has also spent time in Myanmar working for a private bank whose ambition is to build a better Myanmar for its people.  Cindy is the CEO of a start-up called Spiritum and working with her business partner to launch re-imagined medical scrubs early next year for women in health that are functional and fashionable.  Cindy is a Non-Executive Director of Auto & General which is more commonly known through the Budget Direct and Compare the Market brands.  Cindy is a sports fan- she played basketball for 35 years and more recently spends her time keeping fit through strength work and hiking.  Cindy is also a mum to two adult sons, Jackson & Billy and her baby cocker spaniel Harlee.  

Daniel Bull - Adventurer - Motivational Speaker

Daniel Bull is a 3x Guinness World Record-breaking adventurer, 1% for the Planet Advocate and keynote speaker on boosting resilience and defying limits. He delivers practical take-aways learnt from over 2 decades of not just surviving but thriving in the harshest environments on Earth. Daniel completed an unguided ascent of Mount Everest in his 20s and has since made numerous first ascents up unclimbed peaks in uncharted locations such as northern Greenland and Antarctica, has tackled some of the world's most dangerous mountains, and became the youngest person on the planet to climb the highest summits on every continent.

Joseph Callaghan

Joseph Callaghan is 15 and has been singing for 10 years. His first love is musical theatre and he has performed lead roles in Les Misérables, Mary Poppins and Aladdin at local level. He busks locally, playing piano and singing a variety of songs and has participated in numerous song writing and performance enhancing workshops, working alongside professionals. Joseph attained honours in his AMEB grade 6 musical theatre examination and hopes to make a career in musical theatre. He has performed in Eisteddfods and Melbourne classical singing competition winning and placing in almost every section entered.

Elena Konikkos

Elena Konikkos is a contemporary singer and musician with a passion for singing acoustic covers with her own iconic, melodic style. Humbled by any opportunity to perform, Elena uses the energy from her audience and her love for music to create a unique atmosphere for any occasion. Whether it be celebrating at weddings, providing comfort at funerals, ambient vibes at a restaurant or providing background music for your special event, Elena has something for everyone both emotionally and spiritually.

Kaiyah Mercedes

Kaiyah Mercedes is a 16-year-old emerging LGBT singer/songwriter based in Melbourne, whose lyrics are written with poetic influence with a focus on storytelling and emotions. This year Kaiyah has performed at the Frankston Waterfront Festival, Sunday Sessions, and Safety Beach Yacht Club, as well as being a regular at Open Mics across Melbourne. During lockdown in 2020, Kaiyah taught themself guitar and piano, and started writing complete songs and she describes songwriting as a form of therapy; a way of understanding emotions and feelings in a creative way.

Amber Walker

Amber Walker has always had a love of music ever since she was very young, and she took to the stage as a singer for the first time at age 8. At 16, Amber travelled to America to perform in New York and Los Angeles for film, music & theatre productions and at 17, she was vocally trained by world renowned vocal coach Torb Pedersen, who has worked with many A List artists, such as Whitney Houston. Amber has been singing originals and covers at local venues around Melbourne and Mornington Peninsula, including the famous Bennetts Lane Jazz Club and she looks forward to recording some of her originals in the near future.

Olivia Servello

Olivia Servello is a 9-year-old who loves singing! She regularly competes in vocal competitions including the Royal South Street Eisteddfod, Bendigo Eisteddfod and many others. Her dream is to be able to perform at a professional level one day, as she loves the joy that her singing brings to her family and friends. Olivia is inspired by multiple singers and enjoys a variety of musical genres, though her favourite to sing are ballads, pop and Disney. Besides singing, Olivia is learning the piano as well as jazz, tap and classical dance.

Trent Ray - Managing Director & Cyber Safety Educator

Trent has over 15 years experience working as a primary/secondary school teacher and leader in Australia Schools. More recently, Trent's roles include Co-Founder of the Cyber Safety Project, Director of Collective Education Australia and working in partnership with the Education team at Microsoft Australia.

Kian Allen - Cyber Safety Educator

Kiah is a primary school teacher with a passion for engaging young people to develop the skills they need to independently navigate the online world safely. She is passionate about technology for learning and helping young people take control of their digital balance through wellbeing strategies.

Christie Perry-Crockart

Christie Perry-Crockart is a 14-year-old with a passion for singing and performing. She trained at Alberta Rose Performing Arts from 2014 -2019 and is currently studying under renowned artist and singing coach, Sally Bourne. Christie took first place in singing at the Eisteddfod by the Bay and 1st place in the open section of the Speech & Drama Teachers Association of Victoria Eisteddfod in 2019. More recently in 2022 she achieved two second places in the Eisteddfod by the Bay Speech & Drama and Christie has another Eisteddfod ahead in August this year.

Kalina Lauer

Kalina Lauer was raised on Darumbal Land in Queensland and now lives and works in Melbourne as a creative artist in film, stage, and design. Throughout her studies in Digital Media and Film, TV, and Animation, Kalina has had the opportunity to write and direct multiple short films and a TV show. In addition, Kalina made her playwright debut with Bayou Bart, which was graciously performed with talent from Ilbijerri Theatre Company and most recently at PLAYGROUND - DRIFT Festival along the Mornington Peninsula with Spark Productions.