Name: Joycelin K Leahy
Email: beyondart@bigpond.com
Web Address: www.beyondpacificart.com.au
Contact Details: 7 Praeger Street, Chapel Hill QLD 4069, Australia
or
P.O Box 811. Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Phone: + 61 7 37200570 Mob: + 61 438107768
Nationality: Born in Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea citizen.
Australian Resident - Brisbane based.
Education:
MA Museum Studies, University of Queensland - completed - ready to graduate in December, 2009.
2008 Post-Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies, University of Queensland
2007 Business Certificate IV, NEIS Program
2006 Graduate Certificate Program in Writing Editing and Publishing, University of Queensland
2005 Certificate II in Business-Business Success Group, Brisbane
1984 Diploma in Journalism, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby
Professional Development Certificate in Director's Course
Small Business Management Course
Police Officers' and Community Relations Course
Introductory and Middle Management certificates
Business Management Cert II and IV - Australia
Professional Associations:
Member of Business and Professional Women's (BPW) Club (An international women's organisation that promotes women issues). President twice and Vice President, as well as other executive positions.
Member - Queensland Writers
Member - Art Workers Alliance
Executive Member - Australia Association of Advance Pacific Studies (AAAPS)
Executive Member (Australia) Pacific Art Alliance (PAA)
Languages:
Bukawac, Yabem, Tok Pisin and English
Conferences and Festivals:
Trade exhibition and export networking for Pacific Islands in Pacific Islands Center-Tokyo Japan.
1994 World BPW conference for Empowerment of Women in Bangkok
1996 South Pacific Arts Festival for Arts and Culture - Apia, Western Samoa
1998 World Festival for Island Cultures in Cheju, Korea - for art and cultures
1996 Young Entrepreneur APEC Seminar in Ottawa, Canada
1997 Export Promotion: Represented PNG in Investment Trade Mission to Los Angeles
2000 PNG-Fiji Trade Fair in Suva
2000 South Pacific Festival for Arts and Culture - Noumea, New Caledonia.
2002 World Travel Show, Yokohama, Japan.
2003 Trade exhibition and export networking for Pacific Islands in Pacific Islands Centre, Tokyo Japan
2006 Melanesian Arts Festival in Suva, Fiji - as a cultural industry researcher with Pacific Trade and Investment Commission (PITIC).
2006 Pacific Museum Conference in Brisbane and Canberra - worked as a research assistant with the conference and participated as a Pacific Islander.
2008 Melanesian Symposium - Wellington, New Zealand
Countries of Work Experience:
Papua New Guinea, Australia, Fiji, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Palau, Kiribati, Japan, Korea, USA,
Other:
Lions Youth of the Year (PNG)
Asian Cultural Council Award (Japan)
World Health Organisation Awards for Photography of mother and children promoting breast milk
PNG Arts Exhibition Award for Best Photography
Red Cross Award for raising most funds
Certificate for assisting with Independence/Events committee
Certificate for assisting Lions Club for various charity work
Certificate for writing children's' stories and assisting with school journals for PNG Education Curriculum
Certificate for assisting PNG Sports Federation for fundraising
Nominated as PNG Business Woman of the Year
Summary of Expereince:
Current:
Consultant: Community and Social Investment/Eco Development project - Suki, Gogo and Middle Fly are, PNG. (PNG Sustainable Development Project Limited, Ok Tedi Mining Limited and CMCA Women's Association. PNG.
Team member: South Pacific Commission Evaluation of the South Pacific Festival of Arts
Team member (of 5) producing "Living Art", a travelling exhibition of contemporary works from Papua New Guinea in the last 50 years with National Museum of Australia, Canberra.
Curator: Pacific Storms - an exhibition on Climate Change and other environmental and social issues affecting Pacific islanders with new artwork from 30 artists across the Pacific to be held at Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery from June 3rd to July 13th 2009. The exhibition will open in Brisbane in October 2009.
Executive member Pasifika Craft Network - setting up craft linkages for pacific crafts people with World Trade Organisation
Valid until January 25th 2011