Friends in the arts! 🎭👩🎤🎺👨🎨🤹♂️🎉🎸🦄🎨🎼 You may have seen the Northern Territory Government opened applications for the Digital Adaption Program to help artists and organisations establish an online presence. If you’re considering applying for this grant and want to focus on skills development for you or your team as part of your process Read more…
Things are changing aren’t they! Since March 22 I’ve been adjusting my work to suit online delivery and upgrading my home office…. so far it’s coming along well. Here are some of the success stories so far: I’ve run several workshops using online platforms such as Zoom and Webex, including Read more…
I’m incredibly proud of comedy in the NT. It keeps growing and improving and producing insanely good talent and it’s a joy to be part of it. This year I once again produced and managed the Melbourne International Comedy Festival RAW Comedy heats and final in the NT. I do Read more…
This week I ran a social media workshop with Darwin business women for Commonwealth Bank Regional and Agribusiness Banking NT. What a lead in to International Women’s Day events! Absolutely loved sharing some advice and encouraging these legends to be creative and have fun with their content and brand. It’s a challenging Read more…
I’m incredibly excited that the Australian Institute of Office Professionals has invited me to be the guest speaker at the 2020 AIOP Breakfast in May. I’ve loved going to AIOP events and connecting with incredible people from across Darwin during them, and it’s a real honour to be the featured Read more…
I’m very excited to be assisting Darwin filmmaker Nat Kelly and producer Phil Denison in the marketing and publicity for FRACKETTY FRACK. It’s a sci-fi comedy web series set in the Northern Territory revolving around the fracking controversy. This show is a satirical look behind the curtain of politics, corporate Read more…
I had the absolute privilege of facilitating a full-day staff development, team building and values workshop with Darwin Entertainment Centre. It is an incredibly exciting time to be at DEC with new staff, a fresh open perspective on programming/community engagement and a really energetic and engaged team that I feel Read more…
One of the things I love about the work I do at Amiable Communications is that I get to work with young people in the Territory. Whether that’s running skills development and confidence workshops, training in media and content development, collecting community feedback or through comedy and arts – every Read more…
It’s been a huge year at Amiable Communications and while I could list all the projects we’ve been involved with I’d rather my final post for 2019 be the beginning of something new for 2020. This photo shoot with the incredibly hilarious and loving Renee Warland (Troggy) and Andrew Stevens Read more…
This year has been massive for MCing contracts and I am so grateful to every event coordinator that has invited me to be a part of their events. MCing is easily my favourite service offered through Amiable Communications. It’s an absolute privilege to bring energy and fun to events and Read more…
Today was one of my favourite work days of 2019. I was asked by Charles Darwin University Aspire program to develop a full day program for year 11s that flipped problems into opportunities in an entrepreneurial thinking activity. What ended up being “A University Project in a Day” is something Read more…
Been working with Darwin / Gold Coast engineering company Byrne Consultants (www.byrneconsultants.com.au) this year to create recruitment content for the World Engineering Convention in Melbourne. The company values community and integrity, so it was an easy group to work with. They’re also incredibly passionate about encouraging people to move to Read more…
For the fifth year I’ve been a mentor and workshop facilitator for the Charles Darwin University Aspire Program. This program aims to help students from diverse backgrounds achieve their best results in secondary school and to raise the aspirations of young people to pursue tertiary study. I’ve been working with Read more…
I’ve been out in Kakadu running film workshops for the West Arnhem Regional Council sport, rec and youth teams. The idea is that the crew that have been through the workshop can go back into communities and share their skills with other staff and interested people – so more stories Read more…
Airports can be pretty stressful places. They’re not everyone’s favourite place to visit. But with the activations and engagement activities through the Green Room Program we’ve been working to change that perception. Over the past two years I’ve worked with Darwin International Airport to assist in programming and promoting the Read more…
I felt very privileged to facilitate the inaugural Industry Wellbeing Collaborative with AFL Northern Territory and sporting organisations across the Top End. The idea was to unearth tangible actions to encourage wellbeing and positive conversations for players, athletes and communities and included reps from heaps of different sports and allied Read more…
Absolutely thrilled to be working with Darwin International Airport to deliver engaging pop up activations in the terminal at the Green Room. It’s been a real privilege to engage local arts groups to entertain passengers and general public in this space. Activating different spaces in Darwin with creativity and energy Read more…
I’ve been working with InsideOut Fitness for the past couple of years developing social media content, community engagement and marketing materials. We’ve just launched a new website for them as well – http://www.darwininsideoutfitness.com I love working with IOF because Susan the owner is 100% committed to making people’s lives better. Read more…
I’m very proud to have worked with the women at Bábbarra Women’s Centre to produce videos about the women’s textile exhibition they are taking to Paris in October. I was in Maningrida for the NT Travelling Film Festival and will assist these incredible women in sharing the stories behind their Read more…
Pretty stoked I get to use my Territory Pride to help promote Territory Day this year. Amiable Communications has been contracted to run the Territory Day social media channels in the lead up to July 1. The focus this year is on ‘Territorians doing it better’ and the positive stories Read more…