29/04/2026
It’s getting hot in here 🔥
LAVA IS ON THE WAY 🌋
So incredibly proud of the and .caldera team…this is going to be GREAT!
We are excited to officially announce the incredible 3 recipients for EOI One & a heartfelt thank you to everyone who submitted an application! ❤️
A big congratulations to! 👇🏽
🔥 Zemzemeh: Is a cross-disciplinary sound and performance project by Siyavash Doostkhah and Greta Kelly, working at the intersection of environmental sound, traditional instruments, electronics, and spatial performance. Their practice draws on field recording, electro-acoustic composition, and site-responsive performace to explore themes of place, memory, ritual, and cultural continuity.
📸 Image by Sally from Creative Caldera
🔥 Kinship Doobai Dancers: Is an Aboriginal women and girls led dance collective spanning Tweed and Byron shires. While the dancers have shared cultured practice together for over a decade, KDD formally came together in 2023 to strengthen collective leadership.
📸 Image by Rebecca Hatfield
🔥 The Mound Collective: Is a collaborate practice between artists Geraldine Balcazar Cabrera and Chelsea Jewell, working at the intersection of performance, sculpture, choreography and care-full exchange(s). The collective bring together Jewell’s background in spatial design and visual art with Balcazar Cabrera’s choreographic and embodied performance practice to explore how bodies move through, tend to and coauthor an experience of place and landscape.
📸 Image by Byron From Creative Caldera
This project was made possible by a Regional Arts NSW Project Grant by the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund, which supports the arts in regional and remote Australia. 🫶🏽
On another note, Lava Arts Festival website goes live later this week and we can’t wait for you to view our program! Make sure you keep an eye out! ✨️
💬 Creative Caldera, Bundjalung Country, Northern NSW Artist, The Tweed NSW, Visit NSW
