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ThisGen Fellows

ThisGen empowers diverse mid-career creatives to transform the cultural sector with bold, creative approaches to leadership.
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2026 Fellows

Meet the fellows of ThisGen Fellowship 2026.

Amrita Hepi Director Amrita Hepi is a multidisciplinary artist and choreographer whose practice operates at the intersection of performance, moving image, installation, and text. Of Bundjalung and Ngāpuhi descent, her work mobilises historical fi

B.M. Anggana Cultural Leader B.M. Anggana is a producer, curator, dramaturg, and theater artist. He is the founder and Artistic Director of Sakatoya, a collective focused on arts management and ecological works. In 2019, he served as Program Mana

Lydia Ramalepa Cultural Leader Lydia Ramalepa is a multidisciplinary performing artist from Botswana, now based in Kepa Kurl (Esperance, Western Australia). Her practice spans singing, poetry, theatre, dance, oral storytelling, and acting, with a

Mabel Abatania Cultural Leader Mabel is a passionate and well connected community leader actively working at the intersection of leadership, culture and systems change. She helps people tell their stories in trauma-safe and culturally intelligent

Mireia Gonzalez Cultural Leader Dr. Mireia Gonzalez is a Spanish multidisciplinary artist, curator, and cultural leader based in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Over the past decade, she has developed an interdisciplinary practice informed by a Ph

Wendy Mocke Cultural Leader Wendy Mocke is a Papua New Guinean interdisciplinary storyteller (actor, playwright, screenwriter and visual artist). A NIDA Acting graduate, she has performed across Australia onstage and on screen. She co-wrote the Q

2024 Fellows

Meet the alumni of ThisGen 2024-2025.

Cezera Critti-Schnaars

Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson

Ghirija Jayarraj

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We pay deep respect to the sovereign Noongar nation, the custodians of this land, and to all First Peoples across these lands, skies and waters.

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Perth, WA 6000,

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