Protostars Season 3 applications are open! $$$$$$ for yr wild passion projects. Send this on to anyone you know with a passion project (so long as they are between 18 and 25 and living in Aus or NZ) blackbird.vc/programs/proto
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We're hosting an AMA today to answer all your questions about our new role, Marketing and Community Coordinator. What's the work about? What are the conditions like? Why creativity? Sign on up over here -
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🌶WANTED: Your dumbest, spiciest + most burning questions for investors 🔥
Next Thurs at #sunrise22 , , + will be answering them.
Got a question for our panel? Tell us and we might include it next week 👇 👇👇
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So excited and proud to have our Protostars Season 2 Exhibition listed on
We’re hiring a Marketing & Community Coordinator to support the Head of the Foundation in unleashing magic and creativity in young people all across Australia and New Zealand. We’re hosting an AMA this Friday and you can learn more over here. blackbird.vc/careers/market
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Our Protostars Season 2 Online Exhibition is live. Visit a space station full of dreams and wonder 🛸 ☄️ Passion projects covering art, engineering, digital fashion, zines and so much more
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The Protostars Season 2 Virtual Exhibition is live on . Designed by our very own Ivan Medrano (instagram.com/ivvnvvi/). Feat artists, engineers, poets, film makers, activists and more...
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Calling all creatives, wild hearts and passionate builders. is bringing their festival of ideas, Sunrise to Aotearoa. CHeck line up and details below...
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SUNRISE AOTEAROA SPEAKER DROP
Announcing 5 new speakers joining us in Auckland next month! A physics student turned space tech founder. A legendary film producer. A metaverse expert. And an inventor and event producer rethinking education.
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Sunrise is 's love letter to anyone with the courage to create. Come and paint a beautiful picture of the future with us. Aotearoa and Australia in 2022 🧑🏻🎨 🎨
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SUNRISE IS COMING
Yep, our startups festival is BACK and this year, we’re bringing the vibes to Auckland and Sydney.
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💖 Want to be inspired by 52 young legends?? just announced Season 2 of Protostars - our grant that funds passion projects by young people.
💫 Check out the cohort:
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Here we go! Protostars Season 2 is live! We’re funding 52 wild hearts chasing their passion projects. Playwrights flying to the US to see their show in Hollywood, a designer reinventing the surf lifesaving board, art exhibitions, short films, video games and much more. A
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Follow along on the journey as we all work to complete our passion projects. Full story over here
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Zac Matariki's passion project is learning traditional Maori carving under the guidance of his Whakapapa and Koro (teacher) Rua Paul. Zac is exploring his Whakapapa (heritage), his identity as Maori and the role and use of Whakairo in a modern context.
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Eddy Robinson is making an enclosure for a CNC milling machine to be used for machining aluminium CubeSat frames for his new start-up. instagram.com/ras.space/
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Jacob Parker and Hayden Tonazzi have written and directed the theatre production, Tell Me Before The Sun Explodes, a queer exploration of death, anxiety, and how the words gay and dead are used in the same sentence more than we'd like to admit. instagram.com/haydentonazzi/
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Monique Gawn is producing art-based workshops to educate people on strategies and resources to support victims of sexual assault. instagram.com/gawme_/
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Abbey Shen is creating an online compendium showcasing the nuances and complexities of Chinese culture intertwined with the Australian experience. She will use film, audio, photography and text.
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Margarita Bassova is producing Verve - a niche counter-culture Music, Arts and Culture publication sharing creative writing, thought pieces, art, music and fashion.
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Tom Geary founded The Tempest Collective to produce a sustainable natural-wax based cologne.
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Thomas Walker and Samual Drown use satellite imagery and historical weather data to train a machine-learning algorithm to examine and predict how flooding accelerates road degradation.
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Cassie Hamilton is developing a queer theatre show about identity and patriarchy called Daddy Developed a Pill. instagram.com/cassievehamilt
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Brendan Lewis is a contemporary graffiti muralist and fine artist based in Perth. He is producing a poetry/Grafitti book that will be published alongside an exhibition featuring his watercolour paintings. instagram.com/hope_perth/
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Laneikka Denne’s play, Dead Skin is being performed at Hollywood Fringe and Off-broadway in New York. Blackbird Foundation is helping Laneikka with her flights so she can work towards producing a film adaptation of her play. instagram.com/laneikka/
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Ari Kwasner-Cats & Renee Kypriotis are creating a film exploring the relationships between 3rd generation Greek Australians with their ethnic and contemporary identities. instagram.com/_arikc_/
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Declan Cole is directing a short film that explores a man’s journey into the depths of the internet, and the consequences for his girlfriend.
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Ivan Medrano is creating an immersive digital fashion exhibition in the Metaverse, accompanied by a physical book that will double up as a catalogue. instagram.com/ivvnvvi/
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Amber Clyde is producing a skate video to showcase girl skating talent in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. instagram.com/girlsskatenz/
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Rafe Skidmore is a designer who is refurbishing old cameras, selling them and donating all the profits to the Fred Hollows Foundation, who work to cure preventable blindness. instagram.com/viewfindercame
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Ella Kolomyjec is producing Forth - a quarterly magazine that will give practical support, effective skills and resources to people looking to manage their own mental health and wellbeing. instagram.com/forth_mind/
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Loredana Podolska-Kint is developing interactive poetry workshops for New Zealand primary school children. instagram.com/loredana_poetr
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Helen Shen is creating EnviroSound - a concert series featuring music about our climate, wildlife, and humanity. Helen aims to inspire a love for nature and motivate climate advocacy.
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Melanie Philippou and Angelina Das are developing a menstrual health education resource to be utilised by primary and high school teachers in Australian schools. instagram.com/peried.au/
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Katie Glasgow Palmer is producing an exhibition exploring the changing species layout of the Waitemata Harbour. She's combining interactive crochet pieces with auditory interviews with fishermen who have watched species decline and fluctuate over the year. linkedin.com/in/katie-glasg
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Lara Yelavich-Coddington produces Six Cents, an artist-run publication distributed all throughout New Zealand. They aim to amplify new voices in art and encourage higher public engagement with the arts in Aotearoa. instagram.com/6cents_/
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Jesse Pretorius is a fine art photographer based in Perth. She is creating a new semi-annual zine that features local and emerging student creative practitioners. instagram.com/goofy_jpegs/
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Bella Kent is producing a documentary about Charlotte, a 15-year-old who has recently been diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder. instagram.com/charlottedocum
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Romanian Asche is making a music video for his song 'cold house', about a friendship that dissolved. instagram.com/romaanasche/
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Aaron Ellis-Bloor is the editor of Elucidate - a media venture that democratises academia by distilling academic research into fun, short and story-like articles.
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Oliver Coates is making an educational video game featuring the history, economics and politics of New Zealand during the 1980's.
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Seb Fergusson is redesigning the humble Surf Life Saving Rescue Board.
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Amira Skeggs is building Kindred Mental Health - an online search tool that connects young people to mental health resources in their community.
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