COMMUNITY SPHERES


Creative arts workshops building community and hope for the future.

“Community Spheres is one of the best creative experiences I have had.”
— Participant

WORKSHOP CONTENT

  • We make art, move and dance together.

  • We share our stories, cultures, languages and food.

  • We converse and contemplate our shared place on the planet.

  • We explore identity, belonging, home and future.

  • Most importantly its about seeing great creativity in action!

  • Workshop content is delivered over six sessions, we build group trust, we share stories with each other and our invited communities.

  • Participants own all rights to their visual art and dance works created in the workshops.

OUR ARTISTS

Workshops are facilitated by professional dance and visual artists.  

Program Director | Annalouise Paul

Artist-Facilitators | Natalie Tso, Imogen Ross, Thi My Le, Giordano Biondi, Dorcas Maphakela, Renata Commisso, Jiawei Zhu.

 
 

VENUE PARTNERS


WALKER STREET GALLERY & ARTS CENTRE, DANDENONG - OCTOBER 2023

BLUE MOUNTAINS CULTURAL CENTRE, KATOOMBA - JULY 2022

CASULA POWERHOUSE ARTS CENTRE - WOW FESTIVAL - SEPTEMBER 2022

MID MOUNTAINS NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE, LAWSON - OCTOBER 2022

HOUSE OF WELCOME, GRANVILLE - OCTOBER 2022

BLACKTOWN ARTS CENTRE - SEPTEMBER 2020

BANKSTOWN ARTS CENTRE - SEPTEMBER 2020

 
“It was beautiful to feel free. I enjoyed the whole process of looking at movement as a communication form.”
— Participant 
“You’re building Social Capital through Dance. I don’t know anyone else who is doing that.”
— Jasmina Bajraktarevic-Hayward, STARTTS
 
 

OUR PARTNERS

Mother Tongue® Community Spheres is championed by Adès Family Foundation.

Funds have been received by the NSW Government, Multicultural NSW with support from SEVA International, Australian Cultural Foundation and STARTTS.

Photography Credits: Nicola Bailey, Robert Knapman, Paula Majstorovic- Ninkovic.

Videography Credit: Nick Addison Photography