All Events: Artist LAS 2023

 Jimmy Malecki is an award winning photographer and filmmaker from Seattle, Washington,  and has called the Northern Rivers home for the past 22 years.  He started using his camera to tell stories at the 2009 Repco Rally in the Tweed and Kyogle Shires, interviewing event patrons and protesters. This is when he realised the power of citizen journalism and peaceful protest to achieve positive outcomes for the community.  His recent work with writer and producer Susanna Freymark, ‘Tinnie Heroes’ won the Flicker Fest 2023 Byron All Shorts audience award for best short film this year and has been received warmly around the region.

Carlie Daley Nekrasov lives in Northern NSW where she steals time to create poems in between work and mothering. She has had pieces published in The Long Paddock, Southerly, Gargouille, Capsule, Frostwriting, and the Australian Poetry Anthology. She was the winner of the City of Stonnington Literary Festival – Poetry Open Age – Non-Stonnington prize in 2018, and published her first chapbook with Dancing Girl Press in 2019.

Huda Fadlelmawla (aka Huda The Goddess) is a nationally recognised spoken word poet, educator, and community activist. Huda is the Australian Poetry slam champion 2021, the 2021 QLD poetry slam champion and the 2020 QLD poetry slam champion. She has been a poet for over 6 years. Her spoken word is centred around using art as a tool for education and an expression of her own life experience. 

Jeanti St Clair is a storycatcher, a journalist, a documentary and audio walk producer, and media academic. She is the creator of Lismore Flood Stories, a series of audio walks about the 2017 Lismore flood, and the highly acclaimed Rescue project, an exhibition featuring 29 stories and portraits of 41 civilian rescuers from the February 2022 floods in the Northern Rivers, which she produced in collaboration with photographer Raimond de Weerdt. They plan to tour Rescue and reproduce the stories and portraits in book format.  Jeanti is an advocate of creative recovery practices. She brings a trauma-informed interview practice to her work and recognises the psycho-social benefits of story-sharing for individuals and communities following a disaster or other traumatic event. 

Don McQueen performs poetry by “traditional” poets like Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson, as well as poems by modern poets like himself.

Don says ,‘To me poetry is a one person play, so I approach a poem that way, by attempting to become the characters in the poem. Entertaining an audience is my main aim.’

Paddy O’Brien is of Scottish and Irish heritage with a wee bit of Australian dingo.

He has performed for over twenty years in New Zealand, Canada and around Australia, winning multiple awards for bush poetry and yarn spinning.