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Sam Cook

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🪃An Aboriginal Australian arts, entertainment and tech professional now USA based. 📍LA Based 📬 DMs open to connect. 🎤I am a cross-artform practitioner, educator, arts manager, music manager and leader in Indigenous Arts. 🎶A retired musician, I was the Director of The Dreaming Festival and a programmer of the Woodford Folk Festival. 🎭Artistically, I’m a playwright, writer, visual artist and graphic designer. Administratively, I’ve worked in publishing ahead of becoming the CEO of a leading Australian Theatre Company before launching my company The KMBA Creative Agency. 🎼Manager of Zennith - Australian Musical Dynasty, recognized in the Reggae Hall of Fame in Jamaica 🇯🇲 . 6️⃣th Member of Artivist Entertainment alongside Maya Jupiter, Veronica Gonzales, Grammy winners Quetzal Flores, Alberto Lopez and Aloe Blacc. ✊🏾 🏆Recipient of the UK Arts Council Fellowship in 2007 and 2011, winner of National Aboriginal Youth of the Year in 1999 and Broome Aboriginal Artist of the Year in 1998, I was the founding Aboriginal columnist for Artshub and Tracker, founder of Australia’s Blak History Month, founder of #SOSBLAKAUSTRALIA and co-founder of Kaltja (pronounced Culture), a dynamic nanotech driven ecology to create a sustainable lane for our tangible and intangible underserved economies. Memberships/Affiliations ◽️United Stages ◽️Australians in film ◽️Australian Music Alliance ◽️International Association of Blacks in Dance www.kmbacreative.com www.blakhistorymonth.com www.artivistentertainment.com www.zennithmusic.com www.kaltja.com I do it all, because I can.