Building on Santha’s passion for inclusive participation, The VoiceMob Project was the key project Santha delivered in her role as Cultural Development Officer at Yarra Ranges Council. Operating as Project Coordinator, Co-Director and Musical Director, the project brought together singing leaders across Yarra Ranges, and performance improviser Nick Pappas to co-direct, to develop singing and … Continue reading The VoiceMob Project

Santha collaborated with artists from diverse backgrounds to help create the 2015 Shearwater Festival, directed by Professor Laura Brearly. She created the moves for the Shearwater Flashmob Dance and composed the music and scored Heartbeat of the Earth, a theme song created for the event. You can find the dance videos here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7N_jzEwP1k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0fJGBhZ5oI Want to know … Continue reading Shearwater Festival 2015

Santha has been documenting projects, bands and events for the past few years armed with a domestic video camera and simple editing program. You can find her films here: https://www.youtube.com/user/PandaPandaPictures1/videos

Santha spent 15 years (1996 – 2011) of her working life composing for, musically directing and/or directing large-scale outdoor theatre events working with companies such as Burning Sensations (Vic), Y-Space (Vic), Outback Arts (NSW) and South West Arts (NSW). She is slowly gathering documentation from these projects and will include them here as she does… Image: … Continue reading Musical Direction / Composition / Sound Design

Santha traveled to Natimuk over many years to work on: Space & Place (Horsham and Moe) Cirque de Silo A River of Time (as part of the Horsham ‘Art Is …’ Festival) http://www.yspace.com.au/ Image: Space & Place with ‘Y-Space’. Commonwealth Games Cultural Program. Morwell 2006