RAV in Residence is a partnership between Regional Arts Victoria, Yea Arts Inc and Murrindindi Shire Council

Murrindindi Shire Council is pleased to acknowledge the joint funding contribution by Commonwealth Government and the Victorian Government under the Commonwealth State Disaster Funding Arrangement (DRFA) which has provided the funds to enable this activity to occur.

We are providing an opportunity for local creatives to book a one-on-one conversation with Regional Arts Victoria staff, and come along to discussion sessions:

Saturday 31 May 1pm to 5pm

One on one sessions with RAV staff (Jo Porter + Kate Gerritsen)

Sunday 1 June 

10am-11:45 one on one sessions with RAV staff (Jo Porter & Kate Gerritsen)

12:45pm - 2pm Creative Recovery presentation and Q & A with Annie O'Brien

2:15-4pm succession planning & working with volunteers with Fjorn Bastos

4pm-5pm networking drinks & nibbles

Fjorn Bastos is a strategic planner, artist, and community organiser with extensive experience working for and liaising with Indigenous communities and corporations across Victoria. She assisted the executive team over four years at Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation, and has worked in a consulting capacity with Taungurung Clans Aboriginal Corp and Wathaurung Aboriginal Corporation to develop operations and workforces. With Future Tense Fjorn liaises with local government authorities on forward thinking and socio-culturally competent policy and strategy development. A founding member and current project lead at Blak Pearl Studio, Fjorn continues to work directly with Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and local grassroots community Elders. This community-run and culturally safe infrastructure, aimed at the most marginalised sections of Aboriginal communities in the Yarra region has now extended to a second operation at the Medically Supervised Injecting Rooms in North Richmond.