AUNTY RHONDA DIXON.
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FIRST NATIONS CULTURAL LEADER
Aunty Rhonda Dixon-Grovenor is a Gadigal/ Bidgigal Elder and has been employed as a professional performer and Cultural Arts Educator within the Education system for corporate bodies, Cultural Festivals and other organisations such as Remand Centres and Correctional Centres.
At 17 years of age, Rhonda Dixon-Grovenor was singing alongside Jimmy Little and has since performed with Yothu Yindi, Kev Carmody, Paul Kelly, Archie Roach, Black Fire and Tiddas.
In the past seven years, Rhonda Dixon-Grovenor has been an active participant as a writer/director, researcher and actor in plays such as TRIBUNAL, produced by PYT Fairfield and performed at the Sydney Opera House, Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art, and POSTS IN THE PADDOCK, which was performed at Carriageworks and a short documentary about the play was shown on Message Stick.
Rhonda Dixon Grovenor has a Diploma in Music, Centre for Studies in Aboriginal Music and a 1-year scholarship at (UCLA) University of California, Los Angeles, studying ethnomusicology, a Cert IV in Workplace and Training Assessment, a Master's in Aboriginal Studies (Social and Emotional Wellbeing), and is currently a board member of Weave (formerly South Sydney Youth Service) and Moogahlin Aboriginal Theatre. Rhonda Dixon Grovenor’s mission in life is to live (not as a good woman) but as a powerful, passionate, and outspoken woman and to share her knowledge and skills to educate and empower others.
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