Event Two: Explore Places in Melbourne and Create Your Own Story

Video Screening and Panel

Come and join our Everyday Heroes China live stream series event Two: screening a video about things you can do and places you can visit in Melbourne, followed by an interactive panel sharing with current and former Chinese international students.

The video will feature Skylar Lin interviewed by Feifei Liao, sharing what she loves exploring in Melbourne and giving her thoughts and feelings connecting with various places.

Melbourne is the city of arts and multiculturalism. Skylar is also an artist and loves using dance to express and tell stories.

Skylar will take us into the world of graffiti, laneways, markets and unconventional community hubs where you can explore your creativity and connect with diverse cultures and communities.

She will share her challenge as an international student and also the learnings she has gained along the way.

Our panel will bring you a fun and interactive experience, evoking your five senses in an artistic and creative way. While our panellists share their stories, we will reveal some lucky dips of objects and props that reflect their stories and allow you to feel connected with their experiences.

Panel:

Host and facilitator: Feifei Liao

Born and raised in Sichuan, China, Feifei Liao is the founder of the social enterprise ‘Feifei Curiosity’ production and the co-founder of ‘Co-inventors,’ dedicated to bringing people together through creativity, arts, stories and shared experience while championing inclusion, diversity and equality. She is the co-founder of ‘Story is Connection,’ a Not-for-Profit organisation that focuses on amplifying international students’ voices through theatre and films. Feifei Liao is multi-passionate and multi-disciplinary with the energy to light up a room, Feifei is impossible to put in a box. As a creative producer, curator, facilitator, multicultural consultant, contemporary dancer, public speaker, recovery educator and advocate, elevating others to explore their full potential and enabling silent voices to be visible are Feifei’s heartland. For over a decade, Feifei has worked with education providers, service providers, local councils and the state government to bring international students quality and meaningful experience. Many projects she managed have won awards. She is also a joint winner of International Alumnus of the Year for the 2020 Victorian International Education Award.

Panellist: Skylar Lin

Skylar is currently working as a marketing coordinator at Melbourne Theatre Company. She loves to immerse herself to the Melbourne art scene both at work and in her spare time as a dancer, festival and art event goer. Having lived and studied in mainland China, Taiwan, Germany and Australia, Skylar really found herself in love with her life in Melbourne with friends from different backgrounds as well as the most authentic food worldwide which provided most of the experience she had have in the past.

Panellist: Miranda Liu

Miranda works as a service designer at a local design consultancy. She studied in Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, but found Melbourne her home. Miranda has received recognition through industry awards such as Red Dot and Victorian Premier’s Design Award. Her current project involves designing user experience for the Melbourne convention and exhibition center. During her spare time, she DJ at restaurants. She used to have her own stall in St Kilda Sunday Market selling her crafts, ranging from jewelries made of recycled material and tie-dyed second hand clothing.

Study Melbourne, in partnership with Internash and Feifei Curiosity, supported by City of Melbourne and Share Some Journey

Notes:

Time in China: 4:00 - 5:00 pm

Time in Melbourne: 6:00 - 7:00 pm

If you have any questions, please contact Feifei (如有任何疑问，请联系菲菲): feifei.curiosity@gmail.com

Please use the words 'Everyday Heroes' in the email Subject.