HARAMBEE

About HARAMBEE

HARAMBEE is an Ausdance Vic project in partnership with Kwabo Events, as part of VicHealth’s Shifting The Playbook program.

By creating opportunities for artists and communities to lead, contribute and be visible, we aim to strengthen cultural representation while ensuring that the arts sector better reflects the diversity of the communities it serves. People from POC backgrounds remain significantly underrepresented across Victoria’s dance and performing arts sectors. Too often, programs, policies and employment pathways have not been designed with the cultural knowledge, aspirations and lived experiences of these communities in mind. This can contribute to exclusion, culturally unsafe environments and reduced opportunities for participation and career progression. HARAMBEE Creative Futures directly responds to these systemic challenges through a combination of organisational capacity building, community-led programming and workforce development initiatives.