Make It Happen - Skills Development Program

Facilitated by Dance Makers Collective’s General Manager Carl Sciberras

Saturday 4 July | $35 per ticket | 9am - 5pm (Including morning tea and lunch break)

Make It Happen is a professional development program for creative practitioners and producers to refine their skills in making project or program ideas happen. This program starts by posing the questions: “why this project; who is it for; and how will we achieve it?” Moving through this chain of questions, participants come out the other side with a holistic understanding of how to then go forth and ‘make it happen’!

This full-day intensive version is scaffolded in three x two hour modules, with breaks in between.

The three modules are:

Situating your creative projects in a wider context: systems and design thinking principles.
Relationship management: the importance of understanding your stakeholders and working with them
Project management principles: how to plan and deliver your creative project
“Carl is an expert in this area that delivers a program like nothing else that is currently being delivered. His balance of authenticity, experience and generosity allow it to be a space where all artists can speak, question and be heard. I personally was left with clear pathways to go a produce work and am richer from the opportunity to collaborate with such a diverse group of artists.” - Program participant

About the Facilitator

Carl Sciberras (he/him) is an arts executive, dancer, choreographer, teacher, business advisor and producer from Western Sydney. Carl has a Master of Fine Arts (Cultural Leadership) from NIDA, a Bachelor of Arts (Dance) from WAAPA and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications (Writing and Cultural Studies) from UTS. Carl is the General Manager and a Co-Founder of Dance Makers Collective, Australia’s largest and leading Collective-led dance company.

Carl recently co-authored theIndependent Dance Sector Report(2024) and was commissioned by Meanjin to writeThe Year in Dance, published in its 2025 Winter edition. Carl is an alumni of Creative Australia’s leadership programs including the Collaboration Fund (2024), Australian Progress (2023) and the Future Leaders Program (2017). In 2016, Carl was awarded the City of Parramatta’s Creative Fellowship and in 2018 was presented a Highly Commended Award by the City of Parramatta’s Australia Day Awards Committee for his contribution to the arts in the region. Carl also co-founded Flatline, a visual art and dance collaboration that creates performance, installation and art works that have been presented internationally.

As an artist, Carl’s work has been described as “beautifully cathartic” and his performance style “fluid and princely, rippling and sculptural.” Carl’s independent works have appeared at PACT Centre for Emerging Artists, Metro Arts, Riverside Theatres, First Draft, Art Est, The National Centre for Drawing, BEAMS Festival, White Night Melbourne, Home Brew Festival, and Sydney Fringe Festival.

Carl was the Interim Managing Director of PYT Fairfield in 2021. From 2012-2015, Carl worked as the Marketing, Program and Education Coordinator at FORM Dance Projects. Carl also worked as a Project and Engagement Coordinator at Create NSW (2020) and as Venue and Administration Manager for Legs On The Wall (2018).

Contact the host of Dance Makers Collective, Make It Happen