Generate: Open Studio and Workshop with Ainslie Allan and Mani Mae Gomes

Name: Generate: Open Studio and Workshop with Ainslie Allan and Mani Mae Gomes
Start: 2026-12-01T10:00:00+1100
End: 2026-12-01T16:00:00+1100
Location: WXYZ Studios

Tue, 1 Dec, 10am - 4pm AEDT

WXYZ Studios

North Melbourne VIC, Australia

Arts Access Victoria

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Description

Grounded in trust and care, explore unmasked expression through voice and body. Experience movement, breath and live sound through loop pedal.

Everyone is welcome to participate.

When: Tuesday 1 December

Time: 10 am - 4 pm

The event is split into 2 parts: Open Studio and Workshop (more info in the Agenda below).

Where: WXYZ Studios, 130 Dryburgh St, North Melbourne VIC 3051

Access: Auslan, Calm Space, wheelchair access

This event is part of Generate, a week long collaboration between Lucy Guerin Inc. and Arts Access Victoria. Head to the AAV website to find out more.

Agenda

10:00 am - 12:30 pm

Open Studio

View the artists at work and play in their practice. Drop in anytime, but the recommended observation time is minimum 30 minutes. Artist talk from 12 - 12.30 pm.
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Workshop

Join activities designed to invite radical honesty through physical and vocal impulses. The artists will show how they find freedom and relief through co-regulation. They practice unmasking via movement, deep interoceptive awareness and trust. Experience an embodied approach that explores perceptions of gender, disability and the tension between voyeurism and agency.

Artist Info

Ainslie Allan

fka. Daisy Sanders – Ainslie is a Boorloo dance, experimental and community artist (WAAPA BA Arts Dance 2013, Honours 2017). Their choreographic work is based in improvisation (body/voice/writing), re-imagines audience paradigms and prioritises collective experience and energetic exchange. Protracted experience of chronic illness led Ainslie to develop a rest-focused movement method and deeply considered approach to collaborative artistic leadership that is sustainable, accessible and caring.

In 2026 Ainslie is dancing with new layers in their creative approach via poetry, live vocalisation / loop pedal and lived-experience grapplings with disability and gender fluidity.

Mani Mae Gomes

Mani Mae Gomes (they/them) is a Boorloo-based independent performing artist who works across dance, theatre, and music, relishing opportunities to blend these passions.

Mani works regularly with Sensorium Theatre as a musician, performer and facilitator, delivering accessible stories to children with disability through play. Having freshly completed a Master of Occupational Therapy, this work ties into their interest in paediatrics. They completed their Bachelor of Arts (Dance) Honours in 2017 and developed their acting and musical skills in action.

Mani's intersecting identities (queer, neurodivergent, trans non-binary, Cabo Verdiano-Australian) feed into their practice. Currently, they are working in collaboration with Ainslie Allan on an evolving improvisational movement and vocal practice. It prioritises radical honesty of movement and vocal impulses through interoceptive awareness and mutual trust. The practice is durational, stimmy, vulnerable, intimate, sensual, musical, physical and celebrates friendship and care.