2023 Grant Recipients

QUEER FUTURES FUND

Darcie Cliff

QUEER AND DEADLY

Creative Arts Weekend

The Queer and Deadly workshop weekend will feature a number of 'write your story’ and ‘express yourself’ workshops, focussed around creative and performing arts, including writing, performance and painting, with the opportunity for participants to showcase their story/artwork at a performance evening. In terms of sexual violence with Indigenous, queer peoples, coming together and partaking in creative workshops is a really important way for youth to rebuild kinship relationships with their wider community which can encourage healing as a collective. Healing gives survivors back to themselves and with Queer, Indigenous youth being a part of the most marginalised groups in Australia - we want them to know that our event is a safe place; there's no need to fight or hide anymore.

Lulkbudia Mclean

DEADLY DECKS PROGRAM

DJ Workshop Program

Deadly Decks is a grassroots program empowering young Mob in WA to explore their creativity and expand their musical expression through the artform of DJing. Coordinated and facilitated by 2 Lubly, Boorloo (Perth WA) based DJ duo, Lulkbudia (Miriwoong Gadjerong) and Sarah (Malgana, Nhanda,Yamaji), hailing from the Kimberley and Midwest regions of WA. Deadly Decks includes a series of skill sharing workshops and a showcase event for participants across regional, remote and metro WA to build their confidence and share their talent.

Imbi Nassi

-GOOD COMPANY-

Tool-kit (in a zine) and single drop

imbi is a trans artist moving through the mediums of poetry, music and mysticism. in this offering, he presents a melodic musing on trans-masc yearning accompanied by a zine-form tool kit of personal revelations, interpersonal conversations and honest poetic reflections from themself and members of the queer community of so-called-sydney. in an attempt to share useful practices they have learnt both collaboratively and independently, imbi hopes to capture and convey the powerful moments shares and celebrated amongst queer family in this colony, reminding young queers of the decadent connections that await them and offering some help in the process of finding kin

Audley Anderson

FOUND

Documentary

A doco/factual series archiving, imagining and creating queer chosen families. FOUND follows existing chosen family relationships, finds and breaks down the barriers to forming queer intergenerational connections, and strengthens community by creating accessible avenues for finding family.

Aud Mason-Hyde

DREAMLIFE

Publication
independently published magazine

DREAMLIFE is an independent magazine, which, from inception to distribution, is lead by a team of transgender, gender diverse and non binary people. The concept of DREAMLIFE is to take up a beautiful space with a physical manifestation of trans community, joy and resilience, countering the harmful anti-trans narratives so often played out in media.

Jay Van Nus

RUMBLE
A parable of trans teenhood

2D Animated Short Film / music video

Rumble aims to keep young trans people company in what can often be a scary and lonely time - the queer teen years. To create an immersive experience, talented trans and ally musicians will create a sound mix to accompany an animated short film depicting some of the highs and lows and even euphoric ecstasy I encountered in my own trans journey, and navigate from feeling lost to a part of something beautiful!

Sarah Carroll

CHERRY

Pilot of Webseries

Award winning show from the fringe circuit Cherry will be turned into a short form online series about growing up in Western Sydney and grappling with their queer identity in the early 2000’s all with a bubblegum pop candy lens and a lil bit of...okay maybe a lot of Katy Perry.

Te Bajao

BECOMING GHOSTS

Dance

In October this year, movement artist Te Bajao (Ate Cheska) will perform their debut solo show 'becoming ghosts' at Queen Victoria Women's Centre as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival. Brought to you by a team of queer and POC creatives, 'becoming ghosts' pays homage and surrenders to the supernatural, drawing influence from creatures in Filipino folklore such as Aswang, as well as iconic psychological thriller and horror films such as Suspiria and The Grudge.

Bailey Montgomerie

COMPOSE QUEER LAB

Composer Lab / Public Performance / Album / Video Recording

Compose Queer Lab is a specialist composer lab that enables emerging queer musicians to unapologetically insert their own identities and experiences into new classical music works. In 2024, Divisi will select three young queer composers to develop their craft through a paid opportunity to compose for Divisi and work with queer industry professionals to create brand new innovative and uniquely queer musical works.

Malaika Green

YASMIN

Album

"Yasmin" by Malaika Mfalme is a 9-track soul/folk album about love, loss, grief, and the journey of self-acceptance. Named and created for the late Yasmin Stelling (@yasminstellingmusic on instagram if you wish to tag) Malaika has produced a soulful homage to their late partner with the intent for her to live on through this work. Designed with a looping pedal, guitar, cajon, bass, keys, and pickaso bow (@pickasobow), the album is layered with harmonies and nods to Malaika's Tanzanian heritage. The album will be dropping very soon with support from Offbeat Collective (@offbeatcollective_) and Wear It Purple (@wear_it_purple). Watch this space for more info about the album and Malaika Mfalme {Angel King}!

Scott Parker

TO MY FUTURE SELF

PODCAST

To My Future Self is a podcast & performance project amplifying the stories of LGBTQIA+ regional youth. Regional young people have stories to tell; stories about the joys, hopes and struggles of being a queer young person living in the country. Matriark Theatre will partner with queer community organisations on Birpai country in Port Macquarie to deliver a pilot program consisting of a podcast and live storytelling event. This program will connect queer youth, provide creative upskilling and leave participants feeling strong, confident and courageous in their identity.

Jace Reh

HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS

Art Performance Development Program & Showcase

The Collaborative Radial Intersectional Performance Spaces Disability Collective (CRIPS) is excited to announce their queer performance development program supported by the Wear it Purple Queer Futures Fund. This program will be an accessible 6-month program open to community members aged 18-25 to hone their performance skills under a roster of community mentors and industry professionals. After this intensive offering skill development in music, art, and writing, participants will work together to put on a community showcase to share the beauty of their art with the Adelaide community.

Tasha Robinson

WORDS IN WINTER FESTIVAL

Youth Workshops

Words in Winter is a day of celebration for queer youth in the Daylesford region. From special guest, Erin RIley (they/them) doing a book talk about gender writing and identity, to music performances and workshops.

Felix Jackson

A PLACE FOR US

Collaborative Community Art Workshops and Art Installation

‘A Place for Us’ is a collaborative art project for trans youth, centered around making our own safe spaces. The project aims to build and strengthen community connections through collaborating on a series of textile works that will be used to create an installation.

Cleo Rapture

EMBODIED

Burlesque Workshop

Unite, undress, and unleash your Big Dyke Energy. EMBODIED is a neo-burlesque dance workshop to explore your Queer sensuality and movement through the art of striptease. Over 90 minutes, you will journey from fully clothed to gloriously unwrapped through a curated, accessible burlesque routine; a golden opportunity to dress up, dance together, learn the art of the tease, and release your inner femme / themme fatale. Hosted by Lesbian Novocastrian dance instructor and performance artist, Cleo Rapture, this FREE workshop will step through the fundamentals of Burlesque and Striptease, with a focus on working the Queer gaze. Participants will have a safe, inclusive space to explore sensuality by moving their hips, hair and hearts, while feeling empowered and boosting their confidence.

Leah Ayres & Cody Robinson

QUEER STORIES TOOWOOMBA

Series of Community Events

Join Inclusive Counselling Collective for Toowoomba Pride ’24 rainbow poetry workshops. We will be exploring themes of queer joy and how queer identities can be expressed through poetry, storytelling, and art. You’ll be given the opportunity to submit your piece for the Queer Stories Toowoomba anthology, which we will be published and made available in physical and digital formats.

FUTURE ME FUND

Noah McCann

NOT HER

Short Film

Logline: When a struggling young person recognizes themself in a man's body rather than his own, he soon realises that identifying as his true self isn’t going to be easy. Not Her is a docu-fiction that follows the start of young Micah’s transition from female to male, alongside interviews which bring to light the lived experiences of gender diverse individuals.

Casper Horne

THE SLAY PROJECT

Gender Affirming Kits

The SLAY project is a project designed to affirm young trans and gender diverse people’s identity, while improving their mental health. This will be provided by gender affirming kits supplied with gender affirming garments and resources to improve your mental health. The Slay project aims to help young trans and gender diverse people to feel less isolated through support and connection.”

Myriam Brassard Ghadouani

ELEVATOR SPIES

Musical

Elevator Spies is a comedy musical where a random AFAB civilian stumbles across a top secret meeting and gets mistaken for a long-dead spy named Andrew Smith. 'Andrew' has to keep up appearances or risk getting killed. Think "Mulan" but with spies, deadly lies and trans guys

Thalia Wilson

PIECING IT TOGETHER

Zine

Piecing It Together is a collaborative zine that reflects on the queer asian experience in australia with pieces of work from individuals across the country!!

Edward (Eddie) Wines

GENDERBILITY

Launch Party for Zine

genderbility is a lived experience-based zine, centered around helping young Autistic and Gender Diverse people. This project aims to benefit and unify our community through the accessible art form of zines, which maintains a long-standing history in Queer and Disabled Spaces. We plan to use the Wear it Purple Future Me Fund in order to host a launch event for our resource on completion.