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Programming with lived experience

From tackling the question "Where are you from?" to multilingual performances, these initiatives champion for visibility and understanding.

14 Sep 2023

Celina Lei

Performing Arts

‘Fam’ by Where are you from? (WAYF) aims to raise awareness around diverse identities. Image: Dheklan Pitaliadda with his family. Photo: Jess Brohier.

How do you answer the question “Where are you from?” Often the person asking has already formed a set of preconceptions about your identity based on such attributes as appearance and accent.

Where are you from? (WAYF) is a project created by Melbourne curator and writer Sabina McKenna, designed to raise awareness about BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) experiences through art and storytelling.

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Celina Lei

Celina Lei is an arts writer and editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne.