Hub Residents
Hubster Residency Program
The ICE Hub is home to some of Western Sydney’s leading creative entrepreneurs and cultural producers. We are currently incubating 9 resident enterprises. Around ICE, they’re known as Hubsters.
Find out more about how these enterprises are innovating within their communities:
Adam Dunn
Swarm Creative is headed by Adam Dunn, also known as Swarmy (check out more info here). Adam has over 15 years experience in MCing, graffiti art and hip hop culture. Swarm Creative offers hip hop tuition via workshop facilitation, providing a range of enjoyable experiences for clients. Swarm Creative also offers design and motion graphic solutions with an urban feel for print or screen.
Mike Chin
Mike Chin is Tokyo Love-In (check out more info here) an award-winning, world-class multimedia artist synchronizing visual elements splashed across massive screens & performing live with world music artists and electronic global beats to produce a unique, sophisticated sound. As part of the creative collective Plum Jungle, Mike works with Pete Longworth (photographer) and Christopher Baron (film). Together they have produced arts media works like, ‘Life on Top of Hyde Park’, and commercial work for clients like, The Residence, City of Parramatta, and international campaigns for Tourism NT.
Hugo Moline and Heidi Axelsen
We work with people to make better places. Community participation in the creative process is at the heart of what we do from conception to completion of projects across the fields of architecture, art, urban design, community space and the production of learning tools.
Jerome Valencia
Director of Critical Hype (Check out more info here), a street dance company and online community. Critical Hype organises events such as Prodigy and “360”, the Sydney event of the Australian Hip Hop Championships. Critical Hype is also involved in bringing street dance to community and dance festivals.
Michelle Cotterill
Founder of Kavorter, a transmedia enterprise specialising in strategic planning and production across media platforms. By preparing stories and ideas for transmedia extension incorporating game play and personal devices, Kavorter offers a richer experience for users and a greater opportunity for clients to explore stories, themes and worlds.
MC Trey
MC Trey has established herself as a prominent artist within hip-hop & urban music in Australia. Her unique style offers a fresh serve of positive, melodic & insightful rhymes & rhythms about life, love & her experiences. Off mic, Trey is a passionate youth arts worker, facilitating hip-hop music workshops for young people around Australia for over 10 years. These programs aim to further-develop participant’s writing, communication and performance skills and encourage young people to tell their stories through hip-hop music.
Ravi Kambhoj
Ravi has recently moved to Sydney from New Zealand, where he was the Director and Promoter at Urban Fusions [link to http://urbanfusion.co.nz/index.php/about/]. Ravi has already made his mark on the city, curating the film program at Paramasala (check out more info here) in 2011.
Saber Baluch
Saber Media (check out more info here) provides video production service for projects including documenting special events, promotional videos and music clips as well as mentorship in writing and directing short films.
Applications are open for Hub residency all year round. If you’re interested in having your enterprise incubated, contact the ICE Hub coordinator Kate Taylor on kate.taylor@ice.org.au for an application.
