Project ReWIRE Recap
Ria Soemardjo (Project ReWIRE Artist) and Brie Jorgensen (Look Out Kid) chat at the Industry Speed Meetings
Published 31 October, 2019
The VMDO recently collaborated with Multicultural Arts Victoria to present Industry Speed Meetings as part of Project ReWIRE. Project ReWIRE is a new artist development initiative for mid career culturally diverse musicians, singers and songwriters produced by MAV in partnership with Joel Ma.
Project collaborator Joel Ma says, “Project ReWIRE is about creating change, building community and cajoling the Australian music industry to make room at the table. The artists participating in this program have been about their business for a while now and the majority are making a living from gigging, recording, teaching and producing. It is inspiring to work amongst so much life experience, so many cultures and musical styles, and everyone sharing the same experience of trying to work in an industry that often doesn’t look like us, sound like us or represent us adequately.”
20 Project ReWIRE artists met with 20 Industry representatives over the course of the afternoon & evening on Tuesday 29 October. Joel Ma has created a playlist of the participating artists, check it out below.
Project ReWIRE is proudly supported by Australia Council for the Arts, Creative Victoria, City of Melbourne, Victorian Music Development Office, Commonground.