In 2008, Keiko Aoki celebrated 10 years as Director of Global Japan Network, an organization dedicated to producing cross-cultural arts projects by Australian and Asian artists. Aoki has worked in a wide array of media and with many different events including the Aichi World Expo (Japan) in 2005 and the Mix It Up program at the Arts Centre (Melbourne) in 2006. During her time with Hong Kong Arts Festival and Hong Kong Fringe Club Aoki organised a symposium on international arts funding models, gave a presentation on contemporary Australian dance and began the development of collaboration and exchange programs between performers and venues in Hong Kong and Australia.

Supported by Arts Victoria and the Australia Council.

Vanessa McRae is Exhibitions Manager at the Institute of Modern Art where she recently curated the national touring exhibition Supercharged. Her arts management experience spans over 10 years and includes work as an Arts Coordinator in remote Aboriginal communities, manager of the National Exhibition Touring Services for the Northern Territory and Curator at Latrobe Regional Gallery. Vanessa used her residency with Videotage in Hong Kong to research alternative models for the presentation of new media art and develop exchange projects between Chinese and Australian artists.

Funded by the Australia Council.

At the time of her residency Lena Nahlous was Director of Information & Cultural Exchange, an organisation working at the intersection of arts, culture, technology and community.  During her time in Hong Kong, Nahlous worked closely with new media arts organisation Videotage within the Cattle Depot Artist Village.  She participated in Videotage’s activities and assisted with events, submissions and research.  In addition she attended arts and new media training, exhibitions, performances and events, and undertook research for Kowloon Stories, an oral history/storytelling/mapping project.  Using Videotage as a base, she met with and interviewed a broad range of key people working within the arts and cultural sectors and talked about community cultural development and digital media in a NSW and Australian context.

Funded by the Australia Council.

Prior to her residency Christina Soong worked as the Marketing and Development Manager of Chunky Move Dance Company. Soong undertook her residency with the Hong Kong Fringe Club in the weeks leading up to and during its annual City Fringe Festival.  She programmed a series of contemporary dance films and was invited to Guangzhou by the City Contemporary Dance Company to take part in a regional contemporary dance forum.  Major outcomes from her residency include the promotion of Chunky Move to Hong Kong organisations and the extension of her marketing/fundraising skills into the new area of programming.

Funded by Arts Victoria and the Australia Council.

Santha Press is an accomplished event organiser and performer with ten years experience covering every aspect of events from conception and creative development through to the co-ordination of production. She has co-ordinated events in various capacities at the Melbourne Fringe Festival, St Kilda, Canberra and Woodford Folk Festivals, and has musically directed and composed for large scale outdoor comunity events. As a performer she has toured her award winning one-woman show Song For A Siren to the 1999 Hong Kong City Festival and the 2000 Adelaide Fringe Festival. During her residency Press returned to the Hong Kong City Festival as an arts manager to assist with the co-ordination of its outdoor events program in 2000/2001.

Funded by the Australia China Council and the Australia Council.

At the time of her residency, Virginia Hyam was the Executive Producer of the Studio Space at The Sydney Opera House. She has previously been Director of the Melbourne Fringe Festival and has also worked in the youth arts sector in program development and Festival project management. During her residency Hyam worked with the Hong Kong Arts Centre on an international conference program as well as on the development of the 2001 Little Asia Exchange project, which involved the touring performance works between key Asian centres, including Tokyo, Manila, Taipei, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing and Shanghai. This widened her engagement with a diverse range of artists, organisations and producers across Asia working in multimedia, dance and theatre.

Funded by the Australia Council.

At the time of her residency Anna Marsden was the Administrator at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. She had previously worked with performing arts companies and festivals in Queensland such as Renegade Theatre Company, Brisbane Film Festival and the Brisbane Biennial of Music and as co-host of the 4ZZZ radio program Art To Lunch.  During her residency, Marsden worked with the Hong Kong Fringe on the 2000 Star Alliance City Festival, particularly in the area of marketing, and made contact with various artists and managers across art forms.

Funded by the Australia Council and Arts Queensland.

Simone Lourey is an arts manager with a background in publicity, public relations and marketing.  Following a cadetship as a journalist with Leader newspapers in 1990, she worked as an Administrative Assistant with the Melbourne Writers Festival and a Programming Assistant with the Victorian Arts Centre.  Between 1993 and 1995, Simone was editor of StopPress, the Arts Industry Council Journal, and Artspeak, the National Campaign for Arts Australia journal. During her residency she worked with the Hong Kong Fringe Festival in a number of marketing capacities and ran the Spotlight on Melbourne program with great success.

Funded by the Australia Council and Arts Victoria.

At the time of her residency, Lorena Felicetti was the Cultural Development & Marketing Program Manager, Acting Youth Planning Officer, City of Melbourne. Felicetti has extensive administrative and management experience in the field of arts and culture.  Specialising in heritage, community arts and public art with an emphasis on visual and performing arts, Felicetti has worked predominantly at local government level.  During her residency she worked with the Urban Council of Hong Kong in the Festivals Office.

Funded by the the Australia Council, City of Melbourne and Arts Victoria.

Sarah Miller is a producer, curator, teacher, and artistic and executive director across the visual, performing, hybrid and new media arts. Her residency which was hosted by Spiral, Wacoal Arts Centre, Tokyo, was part of the Australia Japan Arts Network (AJAN), a program for senior arts managers to

Funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade in partnership with the Australia Council.

At the time of her residency Geraldine Tyson was with 24 Hour Art in the Northern Territory.  She spent three months at the Hong Kong Fringe Festival.

Funded by the Australia Council.

At the time of her residency Alison Bennett was with Craft Victoria.  She spent three months at the Hong Kong Museum Of Art.

Funded by the Australia Council and Arts Victoria.

At the time of the residency Nadeyn Barbieri worked at the Bemac Centre in Queensland.  Barbieri spent six months at The Urban Council Of Hong Kong working on the Hong Kong Arts Festival and International Arts Carnival.

Funded by the Australia Council and Arts Queensland.