Sisters and Brothers

(CO-DESIGNER, LEAD ARTIST FACILITATOR, ARTIST FACILITATOR TRAINER, 2013-2018)

The Sisters and Brothers program facilitates workshops with primary school students, aged 8-12 years. The program promoted dialogue around diversity, raising awareness and building empathy for those who experience race-based discrimination by teaching bystander intervention strategies through an innovative vocational arts program.

At the heart of the Sisters and Brothers project was the age-old power of music and mass singing.  The Sisters and Brothers workshop process explored storytelling, collaborative song-writing, musical rhythms from diverse cultural traditions, and role-play. Between 2013 and 2018, Sisters and Brothers had been delivered across 25 schools to more than 1500 students throughout the inner and outer Western suburbs of Victoria.

AWARDS

2017 'Racism. It Stops With Me’ Human Rights Award for the Sisters and Brothers program in collaboration with cohealth Arts Generator

2015 VicHealth award for Improving Mental Wellbeing (Sisters and Brothers program) in collaboration with cohealth Arts Generator