The Village by The Kids: Self-Guided Audio Adventure

Claudia Chidiac (she/her) is a cultural worker and creative producer. For twenty years, she has worked with diverse communities creating intimate and large-scale experiences. From 2010 – 2014 she was the Creative Producer of Performance and Music and Theatre Producer/Curator at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre (CPAC), where she was responsible for creating and producing the award-winning Way Out West (WOW) Festival for Children (2011-2013 and 2017-2020). From 2005 – 2010 she was the Artistic Director and Executive Officer of PYT Fairfield. In 2006, she was awarded the Australia Council for the Arts Community Cultural Development Young Leaders Award, and in 2004, the Arts NSW Western Sydney Artist Fellowship.

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

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.

Nitin Vengurlekar is a writer and performer from Revesby who works across a range of contemporary performance practices. He has performed his nonsensical prose and 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

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