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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
https://newart.city/show/protostar-space-station-ssn2…
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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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
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.
Eddy Robinson is making an enclosure for a CNC milling machine to be used for machining aluminium CubeSat frames for his new start-up. https://instagram.com/ras.space/
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. https://instagram.com/haydentonazzi/
Monique Gawn is producing art-based workshops to educate people on strategies and resources to support victims of sexual assault. https://instagram.com/gawme_/
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.
Margarita Bassova is producing Verve - a niche counter-culture Music, Arts and Culture publication sharing creative writing, thought pieces, art, music and fashion.
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.
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. https://instagram.com/hope_perth/
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. https://instagram.com/laneikka/
Ari Kwasner-Cats & Renee Kypriotis are creating a film exploring the relationships between 3rd generation Greek Australians with their ethnic and contemporary identities. https://instagram.com/_arikc_/
Ivan Medrano is creating an immersive digital fashion exhibition in the Metaverse, accompanied by a physical book that will double up as a catalogue. https://instagram.com/ivvnvvi/
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. https://instagram.com/viewfindercameras…
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. https://instagram.com/forth_mind/
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.
Melanie Philippou and Angelina Das are developing a menstrual health education resource to be utilised by primary and high school teachers in Australian schools. https://instagram.com/peried.au/
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. https://linkedin.com/in/katie-glasgow-palmer-42ab82152/…
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. https://instagram.com/6cents_/
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. https://instagram.com/goofy_jpegs/
Bella Kent is producing a documentary about Charlotte, a 15-year-old who has recently been diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder. https://instagram.com/charlottedocumentary/…
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.