Creative / Event Producer

Amarantha's joy for seeing a creative vision actualised, couple with her adept organisation and excellence with managing relationships makes her a pocket-rocket of a producer.

She gets things done and has the people working alongside her feeling good as they do. Her experience has mostly been in local government council and for the not-for-profit sector that focuses on people from CALD backgrounds, which fits her values of place-making and community building.

As a creative producer, she has managed a skills development program for artists of colour through Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV), and produced events for the arts and culture teams at Darebin City Council and Wyndham City Council. She is also the creator and producer of Labrish, the community engagement program for the 2024 season of the play, "The Hate Race" at Malthouse theatre.

As an Associate Producer at Darebin City Council, Amarantha co-produced the opening and closing events for FUSE Spring 2022 and FUSE Autumn 2023. FUSE is the City of Darebin's bi-annual multi-arts festival the transforms Darebin into a creative hub. Events she has worked on include: Ganbu Gulin, FUSE Block Party, The Molly Hadfield Social Justice Oration, Out of the Park Picnic and The Last Dance.

In a concurrent similar capacity with Wyndham City Council's arts and culture teams, Amarantha has supported exhibition openings of Ivy Mutuku and Wani Toaishara. She has produced Between Us panel event, connected to Ivy's exhibition on the topic of friendship, and has helped establish operations of the new community arts space, The Annex.

As an independent event producer, she is the creator of the Coils and Combs event: a Black hair and arts social for owners of textured, Afro and curly hair.

EVENTS BY AMARANTHA

COILS & COMBS

An arts social for owners of textured hair / Afro and curly hair that featured an African comb art exhibition, a Afro and Afro pick photo exhibition, Jamaican food and music, a panel discussion on the intersection between hair, art and identity and an interactive workshop on textured hair care. There were products on sale by local Black-owned hair businesses.

The event was curated by Elvies Curly Hair Studios, Amarantha, Maleik Njoroge, and Sandra Githinji Studios.

Coils and Combs tooks place at Bittersweet Studios in Footscray.

It was a fun, relaxed, vibing afternoon for the Black and POC community.

MOMENTS FROM COILS & COMBS -
Nov 2024 @ Bittersweet Studios, Footscray

Highlights from the Spoken Word events produced at Malthouse theatre as part of, Labrish, the community engagement program for the season of the play, The Hate Race (Feb to March 2024) . Amarantha produced and MCed both events. They were joyful afternoons of poetry and readings that shared about the experience of being Black in Australia or growing up Black in white spaces, while enjoying Jamaican food. They closed with entertainment by Kwabo Events dancers and Jungle City Projects.