SASSABY CREATIVE is the collected work of Sam Osborn-Rassaby - an artist, youth worker and facilitator working across film, theatre and music, and in the youth arts + community cultural development spaces. Sam has a focus on projects exploring identity, play, connection, stories we tell ourselves, ritual and community.
Sam is particularly passionate about how the arts and artmaking can increase confidence, allow for identity development and exploration, help build a sense of community and empower people with the tools to represent themselves and share their stories.
Sam is particularly passionate about how the arts and artmaking can increase confidence, allow for identity development and exploration, help build a sense of community and empower people with the tools to represent themselves and share their stories.
Sam has worked on projects with arts organisations, councils & schools across Australia including in regional areas and working with a range of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse young people. He has facilitated and assisted on workshops to create devised short films, theatre works, music videos & animations. Some highlights include working with Polyglot Theatre, Muso Magic and completing a placement with Drummond St Services.
Sam has worked in many roles on film productions and his music video 'Gym Junkie' was a finalist in several Film Festivals. Sam also recently wrote and directed a 25 min excerpt of an original musical 'STUCK', produced in 2023.
As a musician, Sam has performed at events including the National Folk Festival, Brunswick Music Festival; Eltham Jazz Festival; and Folk, Rhythm Life Festival as well as internationally in Brazil as part of Carnival in Recife. Sam is the founder and Co-Band Leader for Funk Collective, Headphones Jones.
Outside of the arts, Sam enjoys cooking, growing veggies, kayaking and any chance to swim in the ocean. He is also currently researching and writing a book of family recipes from his grandfather’s community. His favourite snackfruit are mandarins.
Sam studied Film and TV Production at Swinburne University and San Francisco State University, Youth Work at RMIT and Arts Education + Theatre Studies at Melbourne University.
ORIGINS of the name 'SASSABY CREATIVE'
The name for Sam's company has it's origins in a game his mother's family used to play - 'Dictionaries' - where they had to make up definitions to random words from a dictionary to try and convince the others that they were the real definition (a forerunner to Balderdash). They came across 'SASSABY' - an African antelope, and it was the only word that rhymed with their surname - Rassaby.
Sassabies or 'tsessebes' are among the fastest antelopes in Africa and can run at speeds up to 90 km/h, they're social animals and they have peculiar sleeping habits where they rest their mouths on the ground with their horns sticking straight up into the air. Male tsessebe have also been observed standing in parallel ranks with their eyes closed, bobbing their heads back and forth. Sam identifies with these traits of speediness, sleeping face down and a love for moving with others / group activities.
Sassabies or 'tsessebes' are among the fastest antelopes in Africa and can run at speeds up to 90 km/h, they're social animals and they have peculiar sleeping habits where they rest their mouths on the ground with their horns sticking straight up into the air. Male tsessebe have also been observed standing in parallel ranks with their eyes closed, bobbing their heads back and forth. Sam identifies with these traits of speediness, sleeping face down and a love for moving with others / group activities.
Also it's a great amalgamation of SAM OSBORN-RASSABY ---> SASSABY.
Photo by Wild Hardt
