The Merch Girl
April 22, 2009 by tim
Filed under Young people defining Brisbane
The Merch Girl, helping your show flow with style, intelligence, and effort.
The Merch Girl is not just any old merch girl – she’s here to entertain your fans while working on your creative production or event. As a burlesque, improv, and circus performer in training, she combines her love for the limelight with her skills and interests in stage management, production assistance, and media.
Whether as a burlesque maid, stage manager, artist liasion, personal assistant, or as her namesake, The Merch Girl will help your show flow with style, intelligence, and effort. She’s currently looking for projects to work with, as well as web designers to get her website up and running.
Drop her a line – me@themerchgirl.net
Add her on MySpace – http://myspace.com/themerchgirlnet
Tweet her sometime – http://twitter.com/themerchgirlnet
Jess
April 3, 2009 by tim
Filed under Young people defining Brisbane
Meet Jessica. In 2005, Jess enrolled at the Albert Park Flexi School, an inclusive learning community that supported her to do, well, whatever she dreamed of! Sure, there were no fairies or flying cars involved, but as Jess said “there’s just something special about APFS that makes you feel like you belong”.
And it was this “something special” that gave Jess the inspiration and determination to take up work experience at City Hall in 2006, then graduate at the end of the same year. But wait, there’s more! What really rocked out was Jess recently being offered employment by Council as an admin trainee.
We got a little glimpse into the world of the soon-to-be Council superstar…
Music? :: ‘Anything that isn’t country!’
Spare time? :: ‘Hanging out with friends’
Inspiration? :: ‘To see somebody from extraordinary circumstances that can transform and begin to love life when they should be hating it.’
New job? :: ‘Scared! APFS is flexible, but maybe work won’t be like that!’
You’re on a desert island, and the monkey who is the boss of the island asks you for some advice. The monkey’s got a short memory, so you only get one sentence :: ‘Even if you don’t think something’s possible, you can achieve it if you stick with it.’
