FUTURE CULTURE
Salaried artists-in-residence and internships
Image credit: The Future Culture 2024-25 cohort with CuriousWorks staff. From left to right: Miranda Aguilar (Creative Producer), Kobra Sayyadi (Future Culture Arts Worker Intern), Emma Pham (Future Culture Artist-in-Residence), Kirsten Maglalang (Future Culture Arts Worker Intern), Cassandra Li (Future Culture Artist-in-Residence), Jenny Trinh (Communications Officer), Kiriaki Zakinthinos (CEO), Samantha Barahona (Creative Producer) & Andrea Nealy (Administration and Finance Officer). Photographer: Fairfield City HQ staff
How do you build a more relevant, equitable, sustainable and future-focused arts culture? You invest time and money in the people; and you create multi-directional opportunities for sharing, learning and growing relationships. Future Culture is a pilot program from CuriousWorks that commenced in 2024.
As an arts organisation, we cannot work towards a Future Culture without being responsive to the current needs and desires of the artists and the sector. Embedding new artistic perspectives on an organisational level means we are constantly listening to the evolving needs and desires of local artists and arts workers.
We invited EOIs for two early-career artist residencies and two graduate/early career arts worker internships to work with CuriousWorks on a 9-month long salaried, casual, fixed-term, contract from September 2024 through to June 2025. Emma Pham, Cassandra Li, Kirsten Maglalang & Kobra Sayyadi were welcomed as our Future Culture 2024-25 cohort.
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CREDITS
Artists-in-residence: Emma Pham, Cassandra Li
Arts worker interns: Kirsten Maglalang, Kobra Sayyadi
Creative Producer: Miranda Aguilar
Future Culture is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.
As an arts organisation, we cannot work towards a Future Culture without being responsive to the current needs and desires of the artists and the sector. Embedding new artistic perspectives on an organisational level means we are constantly listening to the evolving needs and desires of local artists and arts workers.
We invited EOIs for two early-career artist residencies and two graduate/early career arts worker internships to work with CuriousWorks on a 9-month long salaried, casual, fixed-term, contract from September 2024 through to June 2025. Emma Pham, Cassandra Li, Kirsten Maglalang & Kobra Sayyadi were welcomed as our Future Culture 2024-25 cohort.
CREDITS
Artists-in-residence: Emma Pham, Cassandra Li
Arts worker interns: Kirsten Maglalang, Kobra Sayyadi
Creative Producer: Miranda Aguilar
Future Culture is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.