World MAP - Music & Arts Project

Sebastian Flynn - Director 

World MAP is a Brisbane-based cultural music and arts project designed by festival director, programmer and diverse arts specialist Sebastian Flynn.

World MAP is aimed to support people from culturally diverse backgrounds to develop their projects and assist them in resourcing their work and creative activities. 

World MAP is also designed to answer the need for additional assistance for performers and artists in the post pandemic environment where the arts have born an extremely significant loss.

World MAP provides assistance to diverse artists and communities in developing funding avenues, securing paid artistic work and developing arts industry relationships to create opportunities. 

World MAP also serves the broader community, in providing a fee-for-service agency with access to a wide range of professional performing artists (see below) from diverse cultural backgrounds, presenting the unique art forms of their country of origin and music especially across all genres.

World MAP Director, Sebastian Flynn has over 20 years experience in the diverse arts sector and has developed connections with a broad range of professional standard performance artists whose services can be secured for any occasion including Government, Council, multicultural sector,  corporate and community. 

Sebastian has served on the board of the Music Council of Australia and has been on the judging panel of the Australian Event Awards for the past eight years.

World MAP event directing and diverse programming services can also be secured on a contract basis for major festivals and events.

World MAP previous experience, employment and engagements have included:

  • Programming & Production Coordinator - Brisbane Multicultural Arts Centre (BEMAC) 2000-2005

  • Director - Queensland Multicultural Festival 2006-2010

  • Managing Director - National Folk Festival, Canberra - 2010-2013 

  • Senior Manager Major Events - Multicultural Australia 2013-2020 

  • Designer & Facilitator - Culture Compass Cultural Intelligence Program - Federal Govt 2015-2019

Diverse Cultural Artist Connections:

  • First Nations Welcome to Country Dance Didgeridu and Fire Ceremony

  • First Nations Acknowledgement of Country and Didgeridu

  • Afghan Music & Dance

  • American Appalachian Music

  • American Bluegrass Music 

  • African Music & Dance - Kenya Ghana

  • Argentinian Tango Music & Dance 

  • Asian World Dance 

  • Bolivian World Dance 

  • Bosnian Contemporary Music

  • Brazilian Music and Dance

  • Bulgarian Vocals, Winds & Strings 

  • Caribbean Music 

  • Chinese Opera 

  • Colombian Harp - Solo and Quartet

  • Congolese Contemporary Music

  • English 17th Century Music & Dance

  • English Morris Dance

  • Ethiopian Dance & African percussion 

  • French Edith Piaf Style Vocals 

  • Iranian Music and Dance

  • Iraqi and Syrian Music

  • Irish Dance - River Dance Style

  • Irish Uilleann Pipes & Winds

  • Irish & Scottish Dance Music 

  • Indian Gypsy Jazz Music 

  • Indian Classical Music and Vocals 

  • Italian Opera - Soprano & Tenor 

  • Japanese Koto & Shakuhachi Music

  • Japanese Taiko Drumming

  • Latin American Music

  • Middle and Near Eastern Music 

  • Multicultural Choir

  • Parisian Swing Jazz

  • Romanian Folk Music

  • Rwandan Music and Dance

  • Scottish Bagpipes 

  • Spanish Flamenco Music & Dance 

  • Syrian, Egyptian, Middle Eastern Dance

  • Tibetan Music and Dance 

  • Turkish Music & Song

  • Ugandan Slam Poetry

For further information and bookings of any of the above artists, or to discuss World MAP programming services please contact:

Sebastian Flynn

sebflynn@gmail.com

www.sebastianflynn.com.au

0414 986 240