Jeremy Mayall – Creativity, Curiosity and Connection
A playful look at the connection between art, creativity, curiosity, play and the connections we build as people. Building the links to wellbeing, education and thriving imaginations, this presentation will explore how daily creative activity can help us shape flourishing futures for our communities, and the way we can use play, imagination and thinking like an artist to help people to grow and connect.
Biography
Dr. Jeremy Mayall is the CEO of Creative Waikato – a regional arts organisation. He is also a composer, performer, artist, and researcher from Kirikiriroa-Hamilton, NZ.
His creative work is primarily in music, sound art, installation and multimedia formats, with a focus on exploring the interrelationships between sound, time, space, the senses, and the human experience. Collaboration is at the core of much of his multi-sensory work, and recent projects have included work with musicians, dancers, poets, aerial silks performers, theatre practitioners, scientists, perfumers, bakers, authors, sculptors, filmmakers, pyrotechnicians, lighting designers and visual artists.
As the CEO of Creative Waikato, he works to advocate for the value and importance of arts, culture and creativity to collective wellbeing. This organisation is a strategic capability builder who work throughout the Waikato region. They celebrate the importance of creativity, wellbeing and people in working towards a Waikato Region that thrives with diverse and transformative creative activity.