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                    About Signal

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                    Signal is a creative studio for young people 14 to 25 years providing emerging and established artists with opportunities and spaces for exploration, creation and showcasing.

                    Signal's curated program includes workshops, exhibitions, installations, live events and performances.

                    Signal works with external partners including arts and community organisations to support and engage young people across a range of art forms and practices and to showcase ideas and creative projects with public outcomes for young audiences and audiences in general.

                    All programs produced by Signal are free and open to young people from all walks of life and artistic ability.

                    Signal values an imaginative, diverse, just and environmentally sustainable global society. Respectful and welcoming of all members of our community, we recognise the unique and continuing culture of Indigenous Australians, and respectfully acknowledge that our activities take place on the traditional lands of the Kulin Nation.

                    Staff, curators and support

                    Signal team

                    The team:

                    • Steph Urruty, Program Manager
                    • Amy Turton, Creative Producer
                    • Aïsha Trambas, Creative Producer
                    • Eelin Cheah, Venue Manager
                    • Jeany Lee, Operations Coordinator
                    • Sonya Schubert, Front of House Coordinator
                    • Carmen Mikhail, Business Support Officer.

                    Signal's casual staff support the delivery of Signal workshops and events working alongside young people and artists. Young people and emerging artists work closely with Signal’s producers contributing to programming and realising projects.

                    The Signal Curators are a group of young art makers and art fans who lead inspiring art projects all year round. Acting as a curatorial panel, they devise ways to foster creativity in young artists and non-artists alike, from participating in workshops to thinking up exciting avenues to share their work and programming ideas. A diverse group of young people – some artists themselves, all art enthusiasts – meet up on a monthly basis to get a behind-the-scenes insight into each stage of the curatorial process and direct access to professionals from a range of key cultural organisations in Melbourne.

                    The Signal Curators collaborate with Signal staff to give young artists a leg-up while developing their own skills as the curators of the future. Armed with their newly acquired skills and artistic know-how, Signal Curators will have an ongoing input into the studio’s future exhibitions and workshop programs.

                    Find out more about Signal Curators.

                    Supporters

                    Signal was made possible through the generous support of

                    • Mr Les Erdi AOM of The Erdi Group
                    • Myer Foundation
                    • Federal Government Regional and Local Community Infrastructure program
                    • Department of Planning and Community Development
                    • Heritage Victoria.

                    Find us

                    Getting there

                    Signal is right in the heart of the city: behind Flinders Street Station on Northbank, in the Les Erdi Plaza, at the northern end of Sandridge Bridge, and at the top of Banana Alley. ​

                    Signal is easy to get to by public transport and there is bike parking (but no car parking) on site.

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