Ralph Eya (Rap)
Nomad
Artist (writer/performer/filmmaker/visual artist etc), Arts Manager/ Administrator, community organizer, Educator / Facilitator
Global Cultural Relations Platform, European Union Cultural Innovators, Salzburg Global Seminar Arts for Good Fellowship, Singapore International Foundation Artists at Risk Connection
Ralph Eya’s professional discipline intersects and integrates community organizing, alternative education, and art practice via creative public activations. Spanning a decade of leadership and changemaking work locally and internationally through organizational service, multisectoral engagements, and independently produced collaborations, they direct, manage, and lead innovative projects that influence social progress and cultivate decentralized artmaking, collectivism, and co-creation. They have shared their praxis with the Jeju Foundation for Arts and Culture and Gwanghwamun Art Festival in South Korea, the World Conference on Statelessness and Inclusion through Empathy and Risk Organization and The Hague Creative Court in the Netherlands, the Global Assembly’s Cultural Wave for COP26 in Glasgow, Make a Difference Festival in Hongkong, and with various institutions in their country like the Austrian Embassy, United Nations, UNICEF, British Council, Japan Foundation, and National Commission for Culture and the Arts for programs that focus on rights and cultural participation of children and youth, indigenous peoples, women, and LGBTQ+ community. Their work has gained recognition of the Urban Prize for Social Im