Way to Wellness: Brisbane

Name: Way to Wellness: Brisbane
Start: 2021-05-14T09:30:00+10:00
End: 2021-05-14T16:30:00+10:00
Location: State Library of Queensland – Auditorium 2

Details

14 May 2021
9:30 am - 4:30 pm

State Library of Queensland - Auditorium 2

Cultural Precinct, Stanley Pl,, South Brisbane, Queensland, 4101, Australia

Applications Open 19 April 2021 2:00 am
Applications Close 14 May 2021 4:00 pm

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Synopsis

This free full-day event is an opportunity to gather in-person as an industry and explore the unique health and wellbeing issues associated with being a creative professional and how our industry can survive and thrive post-Covid. What practical skills, tools and information can we arm ourselves with to sustain a long and varied career? How can we be best equipped to deal with the inevitable highs and lows of life as a creative professional? How can we build a sustainable industry with more opportunities for local performers, crew and creatives? Attendees will leave with invaluable tools to navigate their careers while staying healthy and well. Sessions will feature a range of industry leaders and specialised experts including; clinical psychologist/co-author of Living With A Creative Mind Dr Julie Crabtree; actor/director/producer and Equity President Jason Klarwein; CEO and Executive Director of La Boite Theatre Company & Roundhouse Theatre Zohar Spatz; Gina Black, Head of Physical Production and COVID Liaison, Screen Queensland; Alethea Beetson, First Nations Producer BIGSOUND, First Nations Curator (Music) of Brisbane Festival and Lead Artistic Director of Digi Youth Arts and actor Darren Gilshenan: Nicole Pedersen McKinnon, financial journalist, educator and author; Equity member and producer, Michael Balk; Jonathan Venables, Senior Business Development Manager, Media Super and Sam Foster, actor and mindfulness and meditation teacher with more speakers to be announced soon! There will be plenty of time for networking and audience questions. Morning tea and lunch provided. Open to all members of the QLD arts industry; MEAA members & non-members.

Host(s)

Jason Klarwein
Jason Klarwein is an actor and director who has worked around Australia with companies such as Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir, Bell Shakespeare, Black Swan, Sydney Opera House, Adelaide Festival Centre, QPAC, La Boite and Queensland Theatre. Jason has also performed and directed internationally in London (Origins Festival), LosAngeles (Skylight Theatre), Washington DC (Kennedy Centre), New York (Brooklyn Academy of Music). His television and film credits include Elvis, Summer Love, Devil’s Playground, Celeste, Seapatrol and Slide. He is the current Artistic Director of The Grin and Tonic Theatre Troupe and the Federal President of Actor’s Equity. Jason’s productions of Othello (a tri-lingual adaption set in the Torres Strait) and My Name Is Jimi (co-produced with Jimi Bani) both received Queensland Reconciliation Awards. Jason has recently performed as Trent Dalton in Love Stories (National and International Tours). Jason has been an Equity member since 2002.
Darren Gilshenan
Darren graduated from NIDA in 1988. Select theatre credits include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Ensemble Theatre); Strictly Ballroom directed by Baz Luhrmann; Mother and Son national tour (Mother and Son Live P/L); Tartuffe (Black Swan Theatre Company); Elling, Don Parties On (MTC); Machu Picchu, Fool’s Island, Loot and Our Town (STC). Recent television Credits include Harrow co-starring Ioan Gruffudd, Here Come the Habibs 1&2, The Moodys 1&2, Rake 3, Janet King and Top of the Lake. Film credits include A Few Less Men, the AACTA nominated Women He’s Undressed and Save Your Legs. Darren received nominations at the 2017 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Actor in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and at the 7th AACTA Awards for Best Performance in No Activity. He also won a Best Actor Helpmann Award for The Servant of Two Masters, and Equity Ensemble Awards for The Moodys and A Moody Christmas as well as multiple Green Room, Sydney Critic and Glug Award nominations. Darren most recently won an AACTA for best supporting actor in a tv series for Stateless.
Zohar Spatz
Zohar Spatz is the CEO & Executive Director of La Boite Theatre, Australia’s oldest continuously running theatre company. She is passionate about developing artists and audiences, pushing the boundaries of the creative arts by diversifying the narratives, practices and voices on our stages. Zohar has twenty years’ experience in the not-for-profit arts and culture sector including project management and cross-cultural development. She sits on the board of All The Queen’s Men and is an inaugural leader of the Obama Foundation: Asia Pacific program, a growing global network of emerging international leaders from private, public and non-profit sectors. Previous roles include: Festival Director, Horizon Festival, Executive Producer; Australian Performing Arts Market, Producer; World Theatre Festival as well as Operation Manager of Australia’s leading cultural exchange program, Garma and The Dreaming Festival. Zohar has also held producing positions at the Edinburgh Fringe and Melbourne International Comedy Festival and is a member of the Asialink Business Leaders Alumni.
Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
Nicole is a long-time money commentator and financial literacy campaigner and educator across newspapers, online and television. Nicole was formerly editor, then editor-at-large of The Australian Financial Review’s Smart Investor magazine. She is also the author of best-selling new book, How to Get Mortgage-Free Like Me, in which real Aussies reveal how they’ve accomplished the real Australian dream. Nicole’s money insights have appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald/Sun-Herald and The Sunday Age newspapers, and on all related websites, for more than 15 years. In recent times, Nicole’s social media updates on the stimulus and situation have been going viral, reaching more than half a million people so far.