Allow me to introduce myself

My name is Sally Gissing and I'm a Museum Education and Public Programs Officer with a passion for fusing together creative elements such as theatre, visual arts, music, dance, social media and digital technology so to form engaging and meaningful community development programs that promote the inclusion of emerging and disenfranchised groups.

I'm especially interested in developing programs that directly benefit and connect with emerging and disadvantaged groups whilst producing an end product that tells the story of the participants. The end product maybe an exhibition physical or digital, documentary, puppet show, podcast, vodcast...the possibilities are endless. This can then be publicly displayed, creating awareness and encouraging acceptance.

As a museum educator I believe Museums and similar cultural facilities are perfect spaces to host such projects and finished works and am truly excited about the potential of these cultural hubs to become vehicles of social inclusion.