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Meet The Project Alchemy Artist Team – Sammy Hawker

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Meet The Project Alchemy Artist Team
The Rebus Team is delighted to announce the PROJECT ALCHEMY ARTISTS!
Please give a warm welcome to Sammy Hawker (Photographer/Documentary filmmaker) who will be delivering an artist led bushfire project in the ACT.

Sammy Hawker is an Australian based visual artist working predominantly on Ngunawal, Ngunnawal, Ngambri country [Canberra, ACT]. Sammy works primarily between the mediums of documentary video and traditional analogue photography and her w

Meet The Project Alchemy Artist Team – Hangama Obaidullah

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Meet The Project Alchemy Artist Team
The Rebus Team is delighted to announce the PROJECT ALCHEMY ARTISTS!
Please give a warm welcome to Hangama Obaidullah (Painter/Photographer/Writer) who will be delivering an artist led bushfire project in the ACT.
Hangama came to Australia from Afghanistan as a refugee in August 2003. At that time she spoke no English, but in October that year she began her English language studies and progressed rapidly. She enrolled as a mature age student at St Mary’s Senior High School, Sydney, NSW, graduating with her Higher School Certificate in 2009. She received an Award for Excellence, Major Works, and a Commendation Award for her HSC body of artwork. Hangama has since developed her arts practice in painting, drawing, photography and writing.

Book now for our first ACT Playback Theatre show

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Rebus Theatre’s Playback Ensemble is touring their new show ‘At The End Of Our Street’ throughout September and October as part of Project Alchemy, a cross disciplinary arts project to build resilience across south-east Australia.

Playback Theatre is a form of improvisational theatre in which audience members tell stories from their own lives and watch as actors and musicians enact them on the spot using movement, music and words, but without script or rehearsal. It can be moving or funny according to the stories shared.

Upcoming information sessions for artists applying for Project Alchemy artist

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Just a friendly reminder that we are holding two information sessions via zoom for artists interested in applying for a paid position to attend artist residencies, receive training, and develop a community arts event as part of Project Alchemy. We are seeking practising regional artists from theatre, film, visual arts, dance, music, writing, and photography, with an interest in arts leadership.

There are 15 paid mentorship placements available (three per region) and a share of funding to run community arts projects (total 10k per region plus artist fees).

Callout for Project Alchemy artist Expressions of Interest

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Award winning mixed ability theatre company Rebus Theatre is seeking expressions of interest from regional artists to take part in Project Alchemy, a cross disciplinary arts project to build resilience across south-east Australia throughout 2022-2024. We are seeking practising regional artists from theatre, film, visual arts, dance, music, writing, and photography, with an interest in arts leadership.

There are 15 paid mentorship placements available (three per region) and a share of funding to run community arts projects (total 10k per region plus artist fees).

Seeking Expressions of Interest for iDrama Kids!

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Rebus Theatre and the ACT Down Syndrome Association are partnering to present a new theatre program of weekly drama classes for 8 – 12 year olds with intellectual disabilities beginning in Term 4 2022. Classes will be run by experienced teaching artists as participants play theatre games, build confidence, make new friends and learn acting and performance skills. Participants learn skills in movement, voice and storytelling.

Cultural Diversity in Canberra Arts: let’s make it happen!

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Cultural Diversity in Canberra Arts: let’s make it happen!
A workshop to share and built a better future for Migrant and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) artists in Canberra.

Are you an artist who migrated to Australia or a CALD artist wanting to contribute to Australia’s contemporary culture? Whether you are continuing your creative career or trying to re-start it here, we would love to hear from you!

Callout for Actors and/or writers with lived experience of mental ill-health for ‘Just Hearing’ project

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Callout for Actors and/or writers with lived experience of mental ill-health to create and perform interactive theatre to help educate the legal community. These are paid positions.

Just Hearing is a project of Rebus Theatre that uses the Forum Theatre model of interactive theatre. It is a commission from Canberra Community Law in partnership with Legal Aid ACT, to help lawyers work better with people who are experiencing mental distress. It is a three-year project with short performance seasons around October and March each year, until March 2025.

The Wrap on Chemical ReaACTion

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Last week Rebus took over the Japan Theatre at Questacon to rehearse and perform Chemical ReACTion, an interactive Forum Theatre show about the dilemma’s of science communication. The show was a huge success with audiences and theatre critics alike expressing their appreciation for the unique experience.

Rebus acknowledges the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people as the traditional custodians of the land on which we live and work, and pays our respect to elders past, present and emerging. 

We practice radical empathy through theatre and other arts to stimulate healing and provoke social and environmental change. Together with our donors and friends, Rebus is embarking on a bold new path to reach more of our marginalised than ever before. Play your own part by making a tax deductible donation to support our mission here!

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