Her Journey

At the age of 20 years old, Grace started her career as the CEO and Event Planner of a youth led cultural association organising community festival, Afrodance workshops and youth led empowerment workshops. Discovering her passion for community arts and undertaking her bachelor degree in Law at the time, she then decided to specialise in Intellectual Property to become an expert Arts Manager. While working for civic and not for profit organisations as Event Manager, she graduated in 2013 with a Master degree’s in Business Law, Intellectual Property and Media Law. She then worked three years as an Entertainment Lawyer in communications agencies and broadcasting companies such as M6 WEB. During all those years, she kept being involved in the not for profit sector infusing dance in most of her projects and delivering regular Afrodance workshops.

In 2016, she decided to travel and arrived in Australia where she fully embraced her passion for community art and dance.

She then completed a Master of Creative Industries for which she wrote a thesis exploring the use of African street dances as a medium for social inclusion.

Her Mission

Using arts as a medium, Grace advocates for social inclusion, gender and cultural equity, interculturalism, women’s and youth empowerment as well as new migrants’ settlement. Wherever she goes, her drive for giving back to the community and making a positive impact in individuals’ lives through arts and collaboration is the milestone of her endeavours. From France to Australia, her projects include national music festivals (“Fête de la Musique” 2011), international youth empowerment congress (FOREJE 2014), civic volunteering programs, community dance performances (Walk against Family Violence 2018, Moomba Festival 2019) and bilingual dance workshops (French Bilingual Association). Her last production “Kwabo from Benin”, held at the Queen Victoria Market, was a participative and cultural African dance festival as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2018.