Sam Cook on Clubhouse

Bio

🪃An Aboriginal Australian arts, entertainment and tech professional now USA based.

📍LA Based 📬 DMs open to connect.

🎤I am a cross-artform practitioner, educator, arts manager, music manager and leader in Indigenous Arts.

🎶A retired musician, I was the Director of The Dreaming Festival and a programmer of the Woodford Folk Festival.

🎭Artistically, I’m a playwright, writer, visual artist and graphic designer. Administratively, I’ve worked in publishing ahead of becoming the CEO of a leading Australian Theatre Company before launching my company The KMBA Creative Agency.

🎼Manager of Zennith - Australian Musical Dynasty, recognized in the Reggae Hall of Fame in Jamaica 🇯🇲 .

6️⃣th Member of Artivist Entertainment alongside Maya Jupiter, Veronica Gonzales, Grammy winners Quetzal Flores, Alberto Lopez and Aloe Blacc. ✊🏾

🏆Recipient of the UK Arts Council Fellowship in 2007 and 2011, winner of National Aboriginal Youth of the Year in 1999 and Broome Aboriginal Artist of the Year in 1998, I was the founding Aboriginal columnist for Artshub and Tracker, founder of Australia’s Blak History Month, founder of #SOSBLAKAUSTRALIA and co-founder of Kaltja (pronounced Culture), a dynamic nanotech driven ecology to create a sustainable lane for our tangible and intangible underserved economies.

Memberships/Affiliations
◽️United Stages
◽️Australians in film
◽️Australian Music Alliance
◽️International Association of Blacks in Dance

www.kmbacreative.com
www.blakhistorymonth.com
www.artivistentertainment.com
www.zennithmusic.com
www.kaltja.com

I do it all, because I can.