Creative Geelong podcasts give voice to creative community

A NEW podcast series by Creative Geelong Inc, in partnership with the City of Greater Geelong (CoGG), hopes to shine a light on the clever and creative projects and ideas already thriving across Greater Geelong.

“Geelong Clever and Creative” features short, engaging interviews with the locally based movers and shakers who represent the changing faces of Geelong, and embody the key aspirations of the community-led Clever and Creative 30-year vision released in 2017.

The first five episodes launched this week and include conversations with Jacqui Bennett, who started popular, inspirational Facebook group Humans in Geelong, Matthew Fletcher of local startup group Entrepreneurs Geelong, and LGBTQI+ and disability advocate Kirrily Hayward.

Geelong mayor Bruce Harwood said the podcasts celebrated the Geelong people that were shaping the local clever and creative community.

“These podcasts will further promote the talent and impressive work going on in the Geelong region to an even broader audience.”

Creative Geelong president Jennifer Cromarty said the Clever and Creative vision inspired Geelong to be a place of creative collaboration and allowed locals to embrace Geelong’s potential as a creative city of design.

“These podcasts will help tell the Geelong story to the world.”

Future episodes will explore Geelong’s burgeoning food industry, rich creative potential and hot topics like sustainable development and transportation.

The series is hosted by local radio producer Simon Finch and recorded at radio station 94.7 The Pulse and Creative Geelong’s Makers Hub in Centrepoint Arcade.

Listeners can subscribe on iTunes by searching for “Creative Geelong” or listen online at geelongmakers.com.au/podcasts.

Creative Geelong is a not-for-profit organisation that supports and highlights the economic and social impacts of the creative industries for Geelong.

It received a $100,000 grant last year from CoGG and the state government for the Makers Hub project.