Ande Kindyrd ‘The Hair War’ Andreea Kindryd is a storyteller in the campfire tradition: she just sits and talks from her experience. At 75, she’s had plenty. Fresh from her solo show, ‘Slavery to Star Trek’ in the Sydney Fringe Festival and Ediburgh Comedy Festival, Ande believes that world peace begins at home and that it begins with ourselves and the people we love.
Mikey Leung ‘Positive Light’ Mikey Leung is a media producer and moonlighting travel writer with a passion for travel to developing countries, particularly Bangladesh. After discovering the ‘climate change victim’ identity that Bangladesh had, he sought to revise it by enlisting the help of some of its most talented photographers. The resulting crowdfunded, crowdsourced coffee table book mobilised 700 images and 150 photographers, who all agreed to participate in creating a vivid photographic artwork that describes the beauty of human potential, rather than the pit of despair typically used to describe Bangladesh. By changing the country’s negative image, Mikey believes that tourism and economic development could form the basis of a better future for the country.
Chris Wright ‘Ode to Eramus’ Chris Wright is a poet who believes in blurring the lines between poetry and politics, research, rhythm and rhym. An anthropologist by training, Chris has blended his passion for words and social justice to create performances made to move UN negotiators, raise awareness on environmental destruction and highlight small towns and street clowns. Tonight, he will be flying in from Sabah, Malaysia to debut some of his latest pieces and share his vision for poetic collaboration in the future.