Elly is an experienced Program Manager with a passion for creating spaces for connections to grow and for people to be heard. She joined the CAN team in March 2020 as Lullabies Project Coordinator and in 2021 moved into a Program Manager role, overseeing both CAN’s Lullabies and Place Names projects. Currently Elly manages all CAN's programs.

Since 2012, Elly has worked in a variety of project coordination and facilitation roles in the arts and community sectors including supporting young people to develop social action projects to advocate for their rights and create positive systemic change.

In 2020, Elly coordinated CAN’s Noongar Lullabies from Home project, bringing Noongar artists and families together online to learn and celebrate Noongar language through the creation and recording of lullabies.

Lidia is originally from Brazil. She is an enthusiastic and vibrant community worker who loves connecting different people through the culture and arts. Her career has been built on the development of multicultural and vulnerable communities, where she found her purpose in sharing her knowledge to impact the world around her positively. Her inspiring story is a testament to the power of believing in your journey.

Lidia is currently producing the Lullabies Belmont Project.

Lidia loves to meet new people! She also loves travel, bare-feet and listening to good live music.

Irma is a Bibbulmun/Yamatji yorga with a work background in the performing arts, screen, and not-for-profit sectors.

Irma is the Co-Producer for the Lullabies Belmont Project with Lidia Castro.

She is involved with the Moorditj Footprints Nyoongar Stories of East Perth Project. Irma serves on the WA Screen Industry Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Group (DLG); Screenwest, the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) WA Committee & National Performers Committee; and the Australian Writers Guild, WA Committee.

Geri Hayden has been a strong leader in the Community Development and Cultural Advisory space, working with Aboriginal Education Policies, SWALSC, and CAN as both Narrogin Coordinator and Chairperson of the Aboriginal Advisory Group. Since 2010 Geri has also been involved in CAN’s doll making projects, which have evolved into a form of cultural transmission, encouraging strength of identity and pride. Now an accomplished textile artist, make time during the lunch break to join Geri to yarn and create your own dolls from recycled and found materials.

“It was like the dolls helped us talk old times. A lot of us didn’t know where each other come from and who is the families and what families are together. The dolls helped us get a sense of belonging and they started to put people together.” - Geri Hayden

Della Rae Morrison is a Bibbulmun woman of the Nyoongar Nation of the South West of WA, with 30 years experience in the arts in Australia. Della first started with Jimmy Chi's Aboriginal musical Bran Nue Dae in 1989 and spent the next 30 years enjoying stage and film, recently winning PAWA Best Actor Award for Hecate 2021. Della is an award winning songwriter and the Musical Director of Madjitil Moorna Aboriginal languages choir.

Kobi is a 27-year-old Bibbulmun Noongar who was born and raised in Perth. While working at the UWA Centre of Social Impact and Propel Youth Arts WA, Kobi spends his spare time playing music, being involved in various music projects such as Moombaki, Koondarm, Koorlong, Madjitil Moorna and Endeavourous, these are projects that earned him the 2018 Perth NAIDOC Youth of the Year award.