Robyn Archer

Robyn Archer is a singer, writer, director, artistic director and arts advocate. Her cabaret Que-reste t¹il is  part of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival to be held in June 2009. Her play Architektin premiered in Adelaide last September and has further interest in Australia/USA. In March she presented the Creative NZ showcases in Auckland and then travelled to Pittsburgh to direct the Brechtian cabaret she devised for the Drama School, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh. Robyn is Artistic Director of the annual Light in Winter, which she created for Federation Square, mentor to Mildura Arts, and is developing new events for Perth and Canberra. She is in global demand as a speaker and her Wal Cherry Lecture is published in abridged form in the Griffith Review. Robyn is patron of Australian Art Orchestra, Brink, Australian Script Centre, Arts Law Society and  Institute of Postcolonial Studies. She has associations with RMIT¹s Globalism Institute and the Women¹s International Development Agency. She is an Officer of the Order of Australia, Chevalier de l¹Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France), Officer of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) and holds Honorary Degrees from Flinders and Sydney Universities.

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www.robynarcher.com.au

Gail Robinson

Gail Robinson is an accomplished community consultant and professional storyteller with over 25 years of professional practice. Gail works both cross-culturally and across artforms, exploring storytelling practices. Her work creates a network of narrative discovery. She delights in making the ordinary become extraordinary! Her work embodies performances, workshops, management/ facilitation of cultural development projects, story creation conference presentations and conference ‘weaving’! Each of Gail’s storytelling performances is a unique experience! Whether based on myth, folk-tales, gathered stories or her own stories, each listener can…expect the unexpected… expect to laugh, expect to learn …expect to be entranced!

Leah Barclay

Leah Barclay has been recognised as one of the most promising composers of her generation. She has received numerous awards, scholarships and grants and her work has been commissioned, performed and published across Australia, Canada, Europe and India. In 2008 her residencies included the BBC, IRCAM (the leading centre for electronic music composition and research in Paris) and VKV Performing Arts Academy in Kerela, South India.

To see what Leah’s Floating Land installation so far: www.ecosonus.com