A Girls Rock! Adelaide Goodbye

Some very sad news from the GR!ADL committee:
our co-director and co-founder Hannah Fairlamb is leaving us for her next big adventure!

Hannah will be continuing her legacy of fighting gender-based discrimination in music by completing a PhD at The University of Melbourne, looking at grassroots gender equality initiatives in DIY music scenes in Australia. (Hell yeah)

In honour of her departure, we thought we’d tell you about A MERE FEW of Hannah achievements with us over the last four years.

Hannah, thank you for:

  • co-founding GR! Adelaide along with Sianne, Anna, and Elli—including connecting with Canberra and attending the inaugural Girls Rock! Australasia conference, where our sister camps shared their wisdom with us so we could start ours so strong

  • putting your brave hand up to take on a tonne of admin, policy, foundational work, and grant applications. So many of those grants were successful and enabled our very existence (and thank you for doing the ones we didn’t get too)

  • running three genuinely life-changing Rock Camp programs

  • inspiring and educating everyone at camp with your (dare we say it) iconic “Icons & Iconoclasts” presentations

  • being the GR! shed for so long, with a million random things stored on your property (everything from drum-kits to Frankie magazines en masse)

  • winning over sponsors, including our friends at Derringers and securing 40+ gift vouchers for our little rock dogs

  • being the most incredible media whiz, who always nailed the GR!Adl spiel like a pro

  • planning, hosting, and advocating for our ‘Intro to Synth’ programs in 2021, which allowed us to deliver great things for not just young people, but also a grateful adult cohort

  • representing us at Music SA's INTERFACE, MOD. TV, The Lab's Women In Music, and many many more events

  • championing merch creation (thank Hannah for your beanie, brooch, and/or waterbottle!)

  • winning 2022’s most limber leader (due to your middle of Camp downward dogs) and taking out the style icon honourable mention

  • being a superstar, now-published gender studies academic who is truly living and breathing her values, tackling inequality and discrimination from the grassroots

ALSO, we can’t help but mention that Han recorded and released an out-of-this-world EP on Bandcamp during this period (Check out Crushing/Crushed by BUCKO).

Thank you Hannah. For everything. You are the sum of so many wonderful parts, and there is no question that you have made a profoundly positive impact on the rock-filled future of Adelaide.

We can’t wait to see what you do next.

You Rock!

(Miss you already)

Love,

Your Girls Rock! family

Sianne van Abkoude