Sophie Haviland is my sister and she has a great new website, www.sophiehaviland.com! Such a plug might be seen as shameless nepotism, but this site is a window into a whole world of collaborative art projects which most people will not know about, and is well worth a visit for anyone interested in international collaborative...
Jenny Savigny has been doing a number of interesting projects in Canberra (Australia’s capital city) for a number of years, using creative methods such as theatre and writing to work with issues to do with mental health. In the past she’s developed and toured performances in schools about experiences of eating disorders, and recently...
Radio National (Artworks program) today had a story about an interesting form of theatre called Verbatim Headphone Theatre. The Artworks webpage about the story says: “Stories of Love and Hate uses a technique called Headphone Verbatim Theatre, which was begun by the London based Non-Fiction Theatre in 2000 and is pioneered in Australia by the...
Community Prophets has been getting a lot of press this month for their Voices from the Cape project, which worked with children in the Arukun community in Cape York Queensland in a participatory video, animation and music project in 2008.
Over the past weeks I have had a number of conversations with Yang Kun, a visiting research fellow at the Research School of the Humanities at the Australian National University, from Yunan in China. He has been involved with Yunfest, an independant documentary film festival in China, as well as in Participatory Visual Education...