The following projects have been supported though Signal Young Creatives Lab.
Amy Marks - So Embarrassing (working title)
A comedic short film about a teenager dealing with the worst situation ever - the most popular kid at school seeing them in an hospital gown with a baby for a roommate…
Angela Anqi Liang and Henry Nguyen - A Place Like Home
A series of community-building art workshops, online publication, and exhibition giving voice to unheard stories within the Asian diaspora community in Australia
Grace Zhang and Emily Seif - Notes on Notes
A multimedia, communal, introspective celebration of the human condition via the Notes App
Leonardu Fenech - The Nest
A sensory safe haven for autistic people to explore how mark making, sculpting, or writing can be powerful tools to stim and express themselves
Nanchok Santino Chol - She Will
An exhibition combining photography and storytelling film to honour and pay homage to women from the South Sudanese community within Melbourne.
Acacia Coates and Winter McQuinn - Green Your NoiseOpens in new tab
An online carbon calculation tool designed for artists and the arts industry, launched with a live music and art event at Signal.
Cheryl Ho - 落叶归根 (Luò yè guī gēn - Getting Home)Opens in new tab
An award-winning one woman show that interrogates the conflict between a woman's desire for success and her sense of duty and longing to be with her family.
Jeanette Tong - Dyke EyeOpens in new tab
A short-form, 6 x 8-minute online series about 'The Almost Fab Five' – five hilariously incompetent lesbians performing makeovers on straight women in a parody of Queer Eye.
July (Christian) Stewart - Brown Sugar ChildOpens in new tab
A collaborative photography series looking at identity and belonging, representation and conflict through the perspective of a second-generation queer Polynesian (Samoan).
Natasha Hertanto - LegendaOpens in new tab
A photographic installation centered around mythical characters from popular Indonesian folklore against modern Melbourne backdrop.
Abbie Pobjoy and Bonny Scott - Why Did She Have to Tell the World
A short documentary exploring the lives of Phyllis Papps and Francesca Curtis, founders of Australia's first political gay rights group 'The Daughters of Bilitis,' now known as the Australasian Lesbian Movement.
Kiki Dévine
A series of vogue workshops at Signal hosted by House of Dévine and Melbourne’s first vogue ball presented to a sold-out audience at Kensington Town Hall.
Julia Prendergast - In Memory
Three memorials in the work of vinyl records that honour movements and spaces otherwise lost through moving headlines.
Komang (Rosie) Klynes - MythologiesOpens in new tab
An EP infused with jazz, drum machines and samples of voice and gamelan taken from her mother's home island of Bali.
Tré Turner - The FaeOpens in new tab
A new performance work that explores the similarities between the origins of fairies and early colonial writings about Blak people, using sound, spoken word, dance and drag.
Brodie Rowlands - Fury
A video artwork centred on the concept of female violence and rage.
Yasbelle Kerkow and Alec Reade
A series of workshops for and by Pacifika communities, presented by New Wayfinders: a platform for Oceanic artists using creativity to reclaim identity, build community and agency in self- representation.
Megan Rennie Gough-Brooks - Melbourne Kitchen Project
A series of mixed media portraits exploring the connections between food, family, community and culture.
Mary Bekele and Zack Ahmed - BI 35
A publication celebrating arts and culture across the Black African diaspora.
Chi Nguyen - LOTUS
A one-woman comedy cabaret all about Chi’s outrageous life as a Vietnamese immigrant living in Australia.
Leah McIntosh
A poetry and performance night hosted and special print edition of LIMINAL magazine, a space for the exploration of the Asian-Australian experience.
Kate ten Buuren - Yilam yuwang-ngal-i
Yilam yuwang-ngal-in means ‘to camp together’ in the language of the Taungurung people of the Kulin Nation. A collaborative project for members of ‘this mob’, an Indigenous art collective for emerging creatives based in Melbourne.
Niharika Senapati - Imagination/Vacation
An intimate contemporary dance work underpinned by a soundscape that guides the audience through a guided-visualisation journey.
Didem Caia - The University of Longing
A multisensory immersive play that explores how individuals influence global issues, in a chaotic and complex world of climate change and chronic illness.
James Werrett - Julia Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
A film exploring issues of class, race and gender through the story of a young woman who returns home to Melbourne from abroad to attend her mother’s manslaughter trial.
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