Tap into your creative expression with our iDrama program tailored specifically for adults with intellectual disabilities! Our current programs in Braddon and Downer are packed to the brim so we’re starting a third class in Term 4.
Enrol now to secure your spot! Don’t miss out on this empowering experience!
No prior acting experience necessary! Our iDrama program has served as a gateway to countless opportunities, including paid theatre work with Rebus!
AnOther Home has come to a close — and what a powerful few days it’s been.
Across four days at Woden Library, young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds came together to explore creativity, culture, and performance — many for the first time. Through theatre games, storytelling, and devising their own scenes, they built confidence, made new friends, and shared their voices in a safe, joyful space.
Survey responses from families told us what we hoped to hear — that their children felt more confident, more connected, and more included in their community. One parent told us:
“Thank you for your time and support + encouragement with our children.”
Another shared: “Good food, good fun!” Read more…
‘Stages of Empathy’ Canberra Opening Night is SOLD OUT! We’ve added an extra show on Friday August 1!
A bold, immersive theatre experience that is also a free, innovative training program.
When: 7.00 – 8.30pm Friday 1 August 2025
Where: Ralph Wilson Theatre, Gorman Arts Centre, Braddon ACT
Cost: Tickets are free, but places are limited – register now
Join us for a powerful, one-of-a-kind theatre experience: Stages of Empathy – Rebus Theatre’s most ambitious and transformative production yet.
Fresh from a national tour at community organisations, Stages of Empathy lands in Canberra for a special public performance – and you’re invited.
Through immersive, interactive storytelling, this groundbreaking show challenges assumptions, sparks conversations, and builds bridges. It shines a light on the experiences of autistic people, people with intellectual disabilities, and psychosocial disabilities.
A creative school holiday program for youth from migrant or refugee backgrounds aged 8-12.
This free four-day theatre program offers a fun and inclusive space to explore creativity, build confidence, and connect with their community through drama and performance.
AnOther Home is a collaborative school holiday initiative led by Rebus Theatre in partnership with Libraries ACT, Multicultural Hub Canberra (MHub), Red Cross ACT, and St Vincent de Paul Society ACT (Vinnies).
Out of the Shadows
A series of innovative community workshops to tackle the loneliness pandemic in the ACT
Ever found it difficult to talk about your mental health and feeling lonely? Fair enough, most people do. That’s why we’re trying something new in the ACT to reduce loneliness and combat the pernicious stigma that surrounds it. We’ve partnered with the Foundation for Social Health and the Centre for Social Impact to test a new approach to tackling the loneliness epidemic through a series of innovative community workshops.
Stages of Empathy is open for bookings! Announcing our new, free innovative training program making community activities more inclusive and accessible for autistic people and people with psychosocial disability and intellectual disability across the ACT, NSW and VIC.
Rebus Theatre is delighted to present our latest project: Stages of Empathy. This is a transformative, interactive training program designed to help community groups – including sports clubs, arts collectives, hobbyist organisations and special interest groups – become more accessible for autistic people and people with intellectual disabilities, and psychosocial disabilities.
That’s a wrap for our face-to-face Community Consultations for ‘Stages of Empathy’. But fear not! If you dream of community activities that are more accessible & inclusive and you missed the consultations, you can still have your say! Just fill out one of our brief surveys below to share your ideas about what that world should look like.
Announcing award-winning Rebus Theatre’s ‘Stages of Empathy’ community consultation sessions for autistic people and people with psychosocial & intellectual disabilities & employees or members of relevant support organisations.
Join the second cohort of of our ‘Expressive Pathways’ program in February! Don’t miss out on this free program for Young Adults (17-25) with neurodivergence or intellectual disabilities, looking to enter the workforce, or expand their work-ready skills. This program is only open to people who have left school already.
Wednesdays from 10am-12:30pm (9 weeks during school terms) starting Wed Feb 12 at Ainslie Arts Centre.
We are super excited to announce that our ‘Acting Out: On Screen’ is back in the Summer school holidays!
ACTING OUT: ON SCREEN – A free school holiday film program for LGBTQIA+ Youth aged 12-17 years
When? 10am-4pm 10am-4pm Tuesday Jan 28-Friday Jan 31
Where? Woden Library’s ‘The Hive’ Recording and Rehearsal Studio, Corinna Street in Phillip.
Acting Out – On Screen is a 4-day intensive school holiday film program providing social connection and creative expression opportunities to LGBTQIA+ youth aged 12-17 years. The program is led by film/theatre tutors and trained support workers who identify as LGBTQIA+who will guide the participants in writing, directing, shooting and editing their own original short film.
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!
The Rebus Staff Wellbeing Program is supported by Hands Across Canberra in partnership with the Chief Minister’s Charitable Fund and the Canberra Foundations Collective.
