Tiara Shafiq

Current

• Creative Productions Service Provider at The Merch Girl
• Emerging Performer at The Merch Girl
• Circus Artsworker Trainee at Vulcana Women's Circus

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Past

• Vacation Research Experience Scholar at Queensland University of Technology
• Assistant Stage Manager at Woodford Folk Festival
• Secondment at Zen Zen Zo

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Education

• Queensland University of Technology
• Up With People - WorldSmart Leadership Program
• Limkokwing University College of Creative Technology, Cyberjaya

Recommended

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Connections

339 connections

Industry

Performing Arts

Websites

• My Company

Tiara Shafiq’s Summary

Tiara Shafiq is a young cosmopolitan from a multicultural background, currently immersing herself in the world of creative performance. She has spent a few years as a strong advocate for alternative education, youth empowerment, and social enterprise, and is now using those skills to enhance her performative work.

She is currently setting up The Merch Girl, a creative productions services business that works on the auxiliary tasks - administration, stage management, artist liaison, front of house, and so on - that accompany every production, performer, and producer. She herself performs long-form and short-form regularly with Edge Improv, and is training in circus (with Vulcana Women's Circus) and burlesque (with the Scoundrelles).

Tiara likes to explore, experiment, and educate herself in the alternative and unusual. This has seen her shave her head for cancer research, write novels in a month, be acquainted with a dominatrix, perform an impromptu fandance...the list goes on. She is a nomad at heart and loves to make connections between unrelated ideas, people, and concepts. When not near the stage she spends her time reading stacks of books from the library, keeping up with the world online, or checking out a current festival or show.

Tiara Shafiq’s Specialties:

Stage management, performance, speaking, artist liaison, visioning, production management, front of house, research, networking, website management, online public relations, community building and management, personalization, online identity, liaisons, writing, journalism, editing, idea generation, small project management, crew representation, connecting with people, scriptwriting, media development, alternative education, organization, youth, travel, cultural diversity, youth empowerment

Additional Information

Tiara Shafiq’s Websites:

• My Company

Tiara Shafiq’s Interests:

Performance, performing arts, burlesque, circus, improv, youth, creativity, stage work, travel, alternative education, community development, community cultural development, intercultural communication, new media, alternative lifestyles, subcultures

Tiara Shafiq’s Groups:

Amnesty International, Girl Guides, Up With People, Up With People International Alumni Assocation, QUT Student Guild, International House Brisbane, International Young Professionals Foundation, Youth Arts Queensland, Mensa Australia, Scoundrelles, Vulcana Women's Circus, Edge Improv

•    NetSquared
•    BlogHer
•    Coworking
•    Speakers and Panelists
•    Australian New Media
•    BizBash—Event Planners Gather
•    Global Entrepreneurship Week
•    Event Planning & Management - the 1st Group for Event Planners
•    Ashoka - Everyone a changemaker
•    Film & Theatre productions
•    Queensland University of Technology ALUMNI
•    Up with People Alumni
•    Music and Entertainment Professionals
•    Entertainment Industry
•    Film and Theatre Connection
•    85 Broads
•    Sponsorship by the International Sponsor Council
•    TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
•    twitter innovators Innovation & Creativity Network of Tweeters
•    Official Small Theatre Group
•    Seth Godin's Triiibes.com
•    Circus Performers
•    Event Management Resources Australia
•    Location Independent
•    Idealist.org
•    Brisbane Creative Industries
•    Cabaret
•    Ditch the MBA - Apply for Seth Godin's Exclusive Internship
•    Project Australia
•    Pursue the Passion
•    JobAngels
•    ChariTweeps
•    Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing
•    STAGE (Supporting Theatre Arts Growth Everywhere)
•    Bindarri
•    startupschool
•    Anthill Online
•    Brightest Young Minds Foundation Australia
•    yGen Club
•    Change the World Australia
•    Careers in Event Planning & Management

Tiara Shafiq’s Honors:

3rd Place (New Talent), Cabaret Burlesque Brisbane, June 2009
QUT Alumni Student Leadership Award, July 2008
AYA Dream Malaysia Awards, Youth Category (Nominee), September 2007
International House Achievement Award, September 2006
Featured in Off The Edge (Malaysia), September 2006
Featured in Seventeen (Malaysia), October 2005
JobStreet.Com - Student Of The Month, October 2004
Semifinalist, Hitz.FM Radio Icon, September 2004

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