Mixit is all about people. Meet our Alumni, our Youth Leaders and the support team that have made Mixit what it is today.
Youth leaders
Mixit has a dynamic Youth Leadership programme. This programme offers motivated individuals an opportunity to step up into roles where they face new challenges and opportunities to grow their skills.
Youth Leaders take on organisational and planning responsibilities, gain experience of creative facilitation skills, manage the digital media aspects of the project, have the opportunity and support to initiate events and projects that inspire them. The youth leaders are an integral and dynamic team within Mixit and work hard together to make a difference.
Laya Rasooli
Youth Leader
Laya is a Mixit youth leader who began participating in the Mixit project in late 2020. She loves Mixit's energy and cosy atmosphere. The friendly environment encourages activity and creativity.Laya is currently pursuing a degree in Architecture and a minor degree in Creative Technologies. Additionally, she works as a product marketing designer. La...
Faizan Loun
Youth Leader
Faizan started coming to Mixit in 2019, and was appointed as a Youth Leader in 2020. He is excited about learning new things, working with the Mixit team and to having fun with his fellow Youth Leaders. He says " When i come here, whatever is intense or unhappy, I let it all out. Everyone enjoys what they are doing and we are all friends at Mixit. ...
Oumaima Ahmat Abdallah
Youth Leader
Oumaima has been coming to Mixit for 5 years, and is the third in her family to become a Mixit Youth Leader. She is in year 12 at Mangere College and loves learning new languages, fashion design and watching Kdramas. After school Oumaima wants to become a fashion designer and actress because she really enjoys exploring her creative side, and wants ...
Team
Nicole Beer
Financial Manager
Nicole joined the team to both hold and develop our Financial Management needs. She brings an extensive background of accounting and financial know-how supporting a wide range of community and charitable organisations including Tuilaepa Youth Mentoring (who mentor Pacifica youth at risk), Hibiscus Hospice and the YES Disability Centre. She has also...
Munashe Tapfuya
Outreach Activator
Munashe joined Mixit as a participant before going on to become a Youth Leader, and later a member of the inaugural Alumni Squad. She has a degree in Performing Arts and continues to pick up performance opportunities – predominantly on screen. She’s also currently undertaking part time Post Graduate studies in Social and Community Leadership. As ou...
Operations Leader
Could this be you?
Our Operations Leader is a friendly individual with excellent communication skills, lots of IT savvy and a self starter. They’re a team player, organised and keen to contribute to both the running of our Core Programme and the excellent dynamics of our Engine Room. We’ve not found them yet, but we know they are nearby and can’t wait to introduce t...
Board members
Mark Easterbrook
Trustee - Acting Chair
Mark works as a Writer and Creative Director in the advertising and design industry, as well as volunteering his time for arts and charity organisations. As a creative thinker, he aims to join the dots between ideas and people to help build Mixit’s connections and tell our story. As a Mixit trustee, he brings a calm, optimistic approach to what we ...
Fardowsa Mohamed
Trustee
As a teenager Fardowsa was a Mixit participant, then Youth Leader before she left Auckland to take on medical studies. She’s now a medical doctor working for Auckland Hospital with an interest in surgery. Around her busy professional life she is a respected poet, and continues to train in martial arts, she currently has a red belt in Kung Fu. Fardo...
Kaviesha Abeysinghe
Trustee
Kaviesha joined Mixit as a teenager before becoming a part of the Youth Leadership Programme. More recently she has become an active member of the Alumni, co-facilitating Mixit workshops in schools and in other regions around NZ. She is currently studying to be a Primary school teacher, after graduating with a Science degree and working in a labor...
Alumni squad
Mixit Youth Leaders graduate into our Alumni team. The team actively engage on many levels – as Ambassadors, on the Board, mentoring youth, performing for external events, creating music (check out our videos) and participating in continued training to creatively lead and manage outreach opportunities.
Ilham Akhlaqi
Alumni quad
Ilham Akhlaqi joined our Alumni Squad in 2021. She recently completed a Bachelor of Creative Technologies at AUT, and is currently completing her Masters. She hopes to pursue a career that allows her to draw upon her interest in technology as well as art and design.
Izadine Ahmed Abdallah
Alumni squad
Izadine joined Mixit as a teenager who was shy and un-confident but wanted to find positive ways to step up in his life. Mixit gave him the platform to find his voice and he quickly started to fly. He’s a great ambassador for Mixit, always encouraging other young people to come along and join the crew. Izadine loves Spoken Word Poetry and is always...
Kaviesha Abeysinghe
Alumni squad
Kaviesha read about Mixit in her local paper as a teenager and ventured into the project determined to find opportunities for herself and her sister. She has always been involved with traditional Sri Lankan dance and discovered at Mixit the stimulation of different kinds of contemporary art forms and never looked back. She initially thought she wou...
Selected guest artists
Bianca Hyslop:
Choreographer & Performer
Jahra Wasasala:
Multi-Disciplinary Artist
Katy Burton:
Choreographer & Performer
Chris Graham:
Theatre Director & Performer
Sparrow Phillips:
Artist
Eve Gordon & Dust Palace:
Performers & Aerial Acrobats
Eddie Elliott:
Choreographer & Performer
Ben Crowder:
Actor
Elijah Kennar:
Choreographer & Performer
Andi Crowne:
Photographer
Chris Jannides:
Choreographer & Director
Bert Van Dijk:
Theatre Director & Performer
Margaret-Mary Hollins:
Theatre Director & Performer
Alexander Holloway:
Stage Combat
Chris O’Connor:
Composer & Musician
Moss Patterson:
Choreographer
Emily Carter & Natalie Keane:
Costume Stylists
Felix Becroft:
Performer & Musician
Mel Bailey aka Kloos:
Performer & Musician
Sarah-Jane Blake:
Visual Installation & Designer
Tawanda Manyimo:
Theatre Director & Performer
Muhammad Ali Kanwal:
Musician & Performer
Ella Becroft:
Photographer & Graphic Designer
Helen Todd:
Lighting Designer
Ahi Kahrunahran:
Theatre Director
Yair Katz:
Musician
Tama Jarman:
Theatre Director & Performer
Don McGlashan:
Composer & Musician
Ilai Amar:
Film maker
Gaby Thomas:
Choreographer & Performer
Mike & Bronwyn Baker:
Ariel Acrobats & Circus Tutors
Justin Haiu:
Choreographer & Performer
Katy Parker:
Visual Theatre Artist
Paulo Rotondo:
Director & Writer
Ebon Grayman:
Performer & Aerial Acrobat
Megan Bardsley:
Graphic Designer
Malia Johnston:
Choreographer & Director
Daniel Ortiz Rodreiguez:
Composer & Musician
Global connections
Mixit has a growing network of similar inspiring creative organisations that work with young people and marginalized communities. We are interested in making new connections, partnerships and opportunities with like-minded groups. If you have a project and want to link up with Mixit reach out, start talking and join our global connections map.
CAN – Community Arts Northwest, Manchester
can.uk.comProject Phakama, London
projectphakama.orgContact Theatre, Manchester
contactmcr.comRichard Mille Replica
.richardmille.toOvalhouse Theatre, London
ovalhouse.comCounterpoints Arts and Platforma, London
counterpointsarts.org.ukCoHealth Arts Generator, Melbourne
cohealthartsgenerator.comMulticultural Arts Victoria, Melbourne
.multiculturalarts.com.auThe Open University for Refugees, Singapore
initiativeour.orgHelp us continue mixing. Donate now.
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