Claudia Chidiac is a creative producer and arts worker. For twenty years, she has worked with diverse communities and organisations creating intimate and large scale experiences across Greater Sydney. She is the founder and curator of Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre’s Way Out West (WOW) Festival for Children (2011-2013 and 2017-2020). Chidiac is the creator and producer of The Village by The Kids, a series of audio walks and tours of neighbourhoods, created by children for an intergenerational audience. Its premise is to centre children as producers of their own narratives and to support and encourage children to present their perspective of their community, by introducing the audience to local stories both real and imagined.

In 2008 Claudia was one of the Australian delegates selected to participate in the inaugural Next Generation Symposium as part of the 16th ASSITEJ World Congress and Performing Arts Festival. In 2006, she was awarded the Australia Council for the Arts Community Cultural Development Young Leaders Award.

Danielle RG is a western Sydney community artist known for her mural work throughout western Sydney schools and communities. Danielle is a leader in developing community art-based projects with a social and mental health impact for the past 17 years.

Nitin Vengurlekar is a writer and performer from Revesby who works across a range of contemporary performance practices. He has performed his nonsensical prose, poetry, and full-length theatre works at various festivals and literary/alternative comedy events around Sydney including Late Night Library, Parramasala, Bondi Feast, Batch Festival, Griffin Up Late, and the Sydney Writers’ Festival.

He has previously performed in and written material for Bankstown Art Centre’s large-scale community-based works The Prophet: Remix and The Night Sky. In 2018, he hosted audiences for Right Here Right Now, a multi-site project in the heart of Blacktown, presented by Urban Theatre Projects. He recently completed a PhD in Theatre and Film Studies at the University of New South Wales.

Nick Wishart adapts and re-purposes existing and emerging domestic technologies and intuitive physical interfaces to create new audio/visual interfaces. Wishart uses embedded electronics, sensors, audio-visual production and circuit bending to create interactive devices such as the bio-luminescent jellyfish featured in ERTH’s Prehistoric Aquarium as well as an RGB-sensitive chameleon commissioned for Vivid at Taronga Zoo 2016.

Nick also creates unique electronic instruments using circuit bending techniques and is a founding member of the all toy band Toydeath. Formed in 1995 Toydeath have played throughout Australia with notable performances at the Sydney Biennale 2010, Big Day Out, The Great Escape as well as international tours to Europe, USA and Asia.

Lalor Park Public School is a community-based school which focuses on meeting the particular needs of our students. There is a strong emphasis on literacy development particularly in the early years. The integration of students with special needs is a feature of the educational program. A strong emphasis on the welfare of students exists with a combined caring approach from all staff, parents and the wider community.