About Morgan

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Morgan Jai-Morincome (BA Educational Theatre, Grad Dip Ed. Drama, MA Communications - Cultural Performance) is an independent community arts worker living in Canberra who draws on her skills and experience in creative dance and movement, sound and drama to facilitate shared creative experiences between people of all ages and diverse abilities. She is married and is the mother of two young boys.

 

Between 1998-2000 she was the Education Officer for Oxfam Community Aid Abroad in the ACT managing an in school performance program raising awareness in young people about social justice issues through the arts, delivering professional development sessions for teachers and developing and performing role plays in primary and secondary schools.

 

Over the last eleven years she has worked with a range of community organisations as a facilitator with adults and young people as well as the ACT Department of Education as a teacher (special education, drama, english, dance). She has also been involved in a wide range of community arts projects as a performer (singer, dancer, actor) and event coordinator.

 

In 2005 she founded the community based women's integrated dance performance project now known as The Radiance Dance providing inclusive creative dance experiences for women with and without disabilities. This project continues to thrive and grows from strength to strength supporting women in the ACT region to access dance and develop skills based on their unique forms of movement.

 

In 2007 The Radiance Dance Project was awarded the ACT Adult Learners Week Award for Outstanding Program. Morgan was also selected to present the work of the project as a leading example of inclusion of people with disabilities in the arts at the inaugural ArtsActivated Conference in Sydney jointly hosted by Accessible Arts NSW and The Spastic Centre.

 

In 2008 The Radiance Dance Project was a finalist in the ACT Adult Learners Week Award for Outstanding Program. Morgan was invited to deliver a theoretical/ experiential workshop at the national Adult Learning Australia conference in Perth in October - the theme of the conference was social inclusion: engaging the disengaged through life wide learning.

In 2010 Morgan has presented inclusive arts education workshops at Arts Up Front Education Conference & the Art in Partnership Community Arts Symposium in Canberra.

 

Morgan currently works part-time as a lecturer in the School of Education at The Australian Catholic University in Canberra in addition to her independent community arts project work.

 

 


 
 
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