Meet the Board
Jacque Ashworth
Director
Jacque Ashworth is the director, youth worker and roller skate mentor. She is a multi-disciplinary artist with a background in dance, circus, music, roller-skating, sound and events management. Alongside her arts career, Jacque has worked professionally with-in the youth sector as a case manager, project officer, workshop facilitator and mental health recovery worker. Jacque has drawn on her love of the arts and skate community to help design programs for young people in a therapeutic manner, including using different mediums for story telling in trauma informed psychosocial intervention practise. Jacque is also an experienced mental health worker, having worked in trauma recovery with young people over the past decade.
Sky River
Secretary
Sky River is a Margaret River based drama teacher, community artist and theatre producer, who draws on local environmental influences and worldwide mythologies to explore human connection. Utilising a background in Theatre Studies (Griffith University) Sky is passionate about promoting healthy engagement through art opportunities for regional people and advocates the associated therapeutic benefits, including mental health, community connection and physical wellbeing. Sky leads teams of regional artists to produce original puppet shows as ‘Folk of the Puppetree’, spent many years as a primary school drama teacher and playgroup facilitator, currently works as a teaching artist for Barking Gecko and coordinates Artzability, an arts program for adults living with disabilities. An award winning and published performance writer, Sky holds BA Honours in Visual Arts and English (ECU), and nationally recognised Certificate 3 in Childcare and Education and Certificate 4 in Small Business Management. In 2021 Sky was awarded a National Regional Arts Fellowship.
David Groves
Treasurer
David Groves has over 35years experience as a chartered accountant and has recently retired from a directorship of a very large firm.
Elisha Kubinek
Social and Cultural Inclusion
Elisha Kubinek is a proud Gamilaroi yinarr and provides consultancy to The Concrete Club around social and cultural inclusion. She is passionate about providing culturally safe; trauma informed programs and safer spaces to both youth and adults.
Currently living on Whadjuk boodja (Perth) where she coordinates a new Aboriginal Women’s Healing Project and mentors youth. She has a professional background in Mental Health Recovery, Peer Support work, Program Coordination and Administration. Elisha is also a strong advocate around mental health awareness and breaking down the stigma faced by those living with mental health challenges. She is driven to working with individuals in the space of mental health and trauma recovery; as well as in the space of prevention and maintaining community wellbeing.
Bec Sheedy-Ryan
Board Member
Bec Sheedy-Ryan has spent many years being immersed in surfing and surf coaching Bec has spent the last three years thriving in the local skate community, enhancing her love of sharing and acquiring both skills and knowledge. Having a background in surfing and gymnastics has helped with tuning in to the mechanics of getting a move and the mindsets people may have when learning. There is always a road to progression.
Bec has fine-tuned her love of sharing through her passion of photography, providing mentoring through a digital storytelling program in photography.
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