Programmes and events: leadership, coordination and delivery support

Alisha led Intercultural Centre programming and operational delivery with staff, volunteers, facilitators and community partners. Her work included IC Nights, youth music production workshops and family learning programmes, including Wurundjeri storytime and English–Spanish dance and learning activities. Responsibilities included programme schedules, facilitator liaison, bookings, budgets, Eventbrite listings, running sheets, risk assessments and access arrangements such as Auslan, audio description and transport support.

Alisha led Homelessness Week activities, community expos and the 60,000 Origami Houses advocacy campaign. She co-designed and launched the Play Streets & Street Party Program and toolkit, coordinating more than 30 Council staff across engineering, urban design, communications and other functions. This work established the practical systems that supported residents to organise their own neighbourhood events.

In her Inclusion Officer role, Alisha supported Bandmates disability-inclusive participation, intercultural engagement and anti-racism activity. Her work included partnerships for community storytelling workshops, alongside accessible communications and community participation. Through the Australasia Intercultural Cities Network, she coordinated policy exchange and supported webinars, panel discussions and network activities connecting local and international practitioners.

Alisha delivered Sons of the West community health activities with the Western Bulldogs and local partners, and delivered or supported Daughters of the West. She held delivery responsibility for LGBTIQA+ portfolio activities including Midsumma, IDAHOBIT and Pride March, while providing coordination and support for broader festival and community programming. Her work also included Interfaith Network activity and the Interfaith Spring Lunch, Laverton place-based events, and support for Reconciliation Week, Cultural Diversity Week, Sorry Day and Torres Strait Islander Day.

In Arts & Events and community-development roles, Alisha supported Art in Public Places, Woods Street Arts Space, Art in Industry, Melbourne Fringe and Midsumma through artist liaison, communications, logistics, accessibility, records and reporting. She assisted Louis Joel Arts & Community Centre with successful grant development to expand LGBTIQA+ activity into a Midsumma-aligned programme, and supported promotion and delivery planning.

Through her independent practice, Alisha curated and produced Window Shopping, an exhibition and walking-tour programme with neighbourhood businesses and artists, and A Red Wine Cheers to the Intimacies of Industry at Melbourne’s Living Museum of the West. Window Shopping incorporated Auslan, audio description and accessible written interpretation.

Responsibilities differed by programme. This account distinguishes events Alisha led or produced, programmes she coordinated within Council roles, and activities she supported alongside community organisations, artists and delivery partners. Prior Council employment and independent creative practice inform Soft Infrastructure; they are distinguished from projects directly commissioning the practice.