MPavilion Opening November 2020

Kel Glaister

Kel Glaister has been coaching parkour in Melbourne and Scotland since 2014, and believes passionately that parkour and movement are for everybody. Kel has worked for years to help dismantle gender bias in parkour, with Women of Melbourne Parkour and previously with Glasgow Parkour Girls and Edinburgh Parkour Women; she has also organised women-focused events like WamJam in Australia and the IWD Clamjamfrie, the first women’s parkour event in the UK. Additionally, she is a founding director of Melbourne in Motion, a parkour and movement-coaching organisation with a focus on inclusivity and diversity. Outside parkour, Kel is a visual artist with a MFA from the Glasgow School of Art.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.