Category Community Arts

Poster of Death Defying Theatre's community theatre production in 1991, Cafe Hakawati

1991… Café Hakawati

October 28, 2012 · by · in 1990s, Community Arts, Community Theatre, Documentation, Theatre, UTP · Leave a comment

Café Hakawati was a ground-breaking community theatre process and production in Auburn, developed with local Arab Australian communities during the first Gulf War in 1991. As a speaker at the company’s 25th anniversary celebration in 2006, I remember saying that my involvement in Café Hakawati was personally significant, as it brought together previously schizophrenically separated parts of myself […]

A black and white image of the 1983 Pipi Storm show for kids: 'Behind the Shed'

1980s… Pipi Storm

October 28, 2012 · by · in 1980s, Community Arts, Theatre · Leave a comment

Pipi Storm Ltd was one of the earliest community theatre and community arts companies in NSW in the 1970s and 1980s. In the early 1980s I was part of the ‘Parks’ team, who developed community based projects in the greater Western Sydney region and conducted tours to isolated schools in regional and outback NSW. We […]