Dakota has over 8 years experience being engaged across a range of not-for-profit, government, education and cultural institutions. Dakota has been working as a freelance consultant, educator and practitioner since 2020. This has involved the independent design, management and delivery of a range of programming and professional services including workshops, training, learning resources and interactive sessions with a ranging emphases on narrative practice, cultural resilience, shared wellbeing, environmental care and restoration.
Publishing History
2024
Tell Me Like You Mean It 7, Cordite Poetry Review
2023
A Line in the Sand, Red Room Poetry
Cordite Poetry Review, issue 108
2022
Best of Australian Poems 2022, Australian Poetry
Rabbit Journal, Issue 34
Art Monthly Australasia, issue 33
2021
Wonderground Journal, Issue 2
SoftStir Magazine, Issue 2
10 Men Magazine, issue 18
Red Room Poetry, online, Poem Forrest
Exhibition History
2022
Here + Now III, Wollongong Art Gallery, 2022
Performance
New York University (NYU), New York
State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW), Sydney
Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Sydney
Vivid Festival, Sydney Opera House, Sydney
Revolution Renegade, Sydney
Yours and Owls Festival, Wollongong
Enough Said Poetry Slam, Wollongong
Emerging Writer’s Festival, Melbourne
Melbourne Writer’s Festival, Melbourne
UNTOLD MPavillion, Melbourne
Art on Bundjalung Market, Kyogle
Practitioner History
Workshops:
Scarborough Public School
Fairymeadow Demonstration School, Poem Forest
Red Room Poetry, Poem Forest
Moruya Public Library, Eurobodalla Shire Council
Wellbeing Sessions:
KidsUni Staff
FlexiSchools Staff
MC, Guest Lectures & Keynotes:
Wollongong Reconciliation Conference, 2023
AHMRC, Suicide Prevention Conference, 2021
Connexions Reconciliation Conference, 2021
University of Wollongong, 2021
University of Wollongong, Reconciliation Event 2018
University of New South Wales, 2017, 2018
Brachychiton Acerifolius, 2022
Mosaic of Secrets, Wollongong Botanic Gardens, 2021
Water & Smoke III, Wollongong Art Gallery, 2022
Fairymeadow Demonstration School, Poem Forest Workshops, 2023
KidsUni Wellbeing Session, 2022