WA is made up of lots of different cultures that overlap and intermingle - and chances are your playlists are no different!
This hangout is a chance to chat with expert performer / composer Pavan Kumar Hari and explore the cultural influences on your favourite beats.
About Pavan Kumar Hari
Pavan Kumar Hari is a composer, performer, dancer and director who creates vibrant, dynamic, expressive and dramatic music for theatre, film, dance and the concert hall. Pavan has been performing since the age of three in dance and music productions, and has always loved the performing arts. He began to study dance and music in Perth at Saraswati Mahavidhyalaya, the Indian School of Performing Arts. He then progressed to study Composition and Percussion at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, where he plays percussion and piano, and is currently completing the fourth year of his Bachelor of Music degree (Honours). Pavan recently won Best Composition or Arranging in the Performing Arts WA Awards for his work in Black Swan Theatre Company and Barking Gecko Theatre Company's production of 'Fully Sikh'. Pavan’s compositions have featured in main stage dance and theatre productions around Perth and at the WA Academy of Performing Arts. Many of his works have been premiered by the award-winning Defying Gravity percussion ensemble. Pavan has been a member of the Western Australian Youth Orchestra, Western Australian Charity Orchestra, Western Australian Wind Symphony, and Defying Gravity Percussion Ensemble, and recently took part in the Australian Youth Orchestra’s National Music Camp. He has also performed with the Perth Symphony Orchestra as a guest artist on the Indian drums known as tabla.
About KickstART Virtual
22 - 29 May 2020
For 10 years KickstART has been the flagship event for Youth Week WA, however things are a little different in 2020.
As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent live event cancellations, Propel Youth Arts WA is presenting KickstART Virtual: a week-long online festival of free workshops, talks, and hangouts, specifically tailored to young creative people in WA, and developed by Creative Coordinator Kobi Arthur Morrison with the Youth Week WA Planning Committee.
KickstART takes place on Noongar Boodjar. We acknowledge the ownership and are grateful for the custodianship of the people who originate from the Whadjuk nation. We acknowledge the traditional owners of country throughout Australia. We pay our respect to Elders past and present. We are committed to reconciliation and supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people.
KickstART Virtual is presented by Propel Youth Arts WA and is funded by the Government of Western Australia through the Department of Communities and the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries. KickstART is also sponsored by Lotterywest and the City of Perth.