Part of the City Activation Team, my current role involves venue management of the MET temporary activation precinct as well as supporting, marketing and producing a range of creative placemaking initiatives as part of a wider activation strategy for the new Maroochydore City Centre.

The Takeover Project is an initiative developed during my time on the Board of the Old Ambulance Station. Funded by ArtsCoast, I was responsible for the ideation of the program, procurement of initial funding, securing three year funding through the Creative Industries Investment Program and producing the first year of the program. Designed to give control of artistic spaces back to artists, the paid residency opportunities in the Black Box Theatre, The Galleries and The Old Ambo RAMP allow creatives to play and experiment with an idea or a creative process leading to at least one public outcome.

The Bunker Spoken Word is a collective passionate about poetry, performance and the spoken word. Run by Tim Loydell and Toni Wills since 2018, The Bunker hosted poetry events, workshops and produced spoken word theatre. In that time, The Bunker gained a national reputation of outstanding quality working with artists such as Joelle Taylor (UK), Dominic Hoey (NZ), Anthony Anaxagorou (UK) and Hollie McNish (UK) to name a few.

In response to COVID-19, a new initiative, Isolating in the Bunker – a video series for the now – was launched. Selecting brand new video content through a submission process, the video work is hosted on our website. This project helped support artists to continue to make and present new work during the recent period of lockdown restrictions.

The Bunker premiered its first spoken word theatre production, How to Spell Love, with poet Anisa Nandaula, at Metro Arts for Brisbane Festival in September 2020. A three channel video installation has been created from this work and is available for touring.

More information can be found on Facebook and Instagram or via our website.

The Bunker Spoken Word is currently taking a break from events.

Anywhere Festival celebrates performance anywhere BUT a theatre.

Founded in Brisbane in 2011, the festival continues to grow in size and strength to bring the extraordinary world of performance into everyday spaces.

In 2017, the festival came to Noosa and the Sunshine Coast and grew year on year, somehow still delivering a program (over six months) during a COVID affected 2020.

As Creative Producer for six years, I programmed and successfully delivered a full regional program between 2017 and 2022. I stepped down from the role in June 2022 to take on other projects.

In 2023, Anywhere Festival continued in Brisbane and the Moreton Bay region.

The Refinery Sunshine Coast is a creative incubator program designed to transform creative ideas into sustainable businesses.

Run in partnership with Suncentral, Sunshine Coast Council and the Sunshine Coast Creative Alliance, my role as Program Co-ordinator for the 2021 program required programming, event management, workshop facilitation, mentorship, reporting and delivery of the eight week program to a talented cohort of 15 creatives.

This successful program is currently in its 5th iteration as Refinery 5.0 and is run by the Sunshine Coast Creative Alliance.

Peer Assessor, Arts Queensland (2023)

Keys to the City Activation (2019) – Project Design, Workshop Facilitator, Delivery of People’s Day Event (for SunCentral Maroochydore X Peripheral Arts)

LGBTI Elders Story Crafting Workshop Series (2019) – Workshop Facilitator and Project Producer and Exhibition Curator (for Peripheral Arts)

Grandparents as Parents Film Project (2018) – Funding Procurement, Script Writer and Producer (for Suncoast Community Legal Service Inc)

Belong Social Cohesion Story Crafting Workshop Series (2018) Workshop Facilitator and Performance Director (for Belong x Peripheral Arts)

Eumundi Art Street (2017) – Project Design and Producer (for Horizon Festival X Peripheral Arts)

Play in a Day (2017) - Project Design, Producer and Workshop Facilitator for a 24 hour playwriting and performance workshop for teenagers (for Horizon Festival)

Piano Forte (2016) – Playwright and Producer for Sunshine Coast Theatre Tour, Film Production and Radio Play (for Suncoast Community Legal Service Inc) including teaching notes.