ILBIJERRI Theatre Company in North Melbourne, Victoria | Non-profit organisation

ILBIJERRI Theatre Company

Locality: North Melbourne, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9329 9097

Address: 5 Blackwood St 3051 North Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.ilbijerri.com.au/

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25.01.2022 WANTED: Emerging First Nations Theatre Designers and Technicians! Want to work on an ILBIJERRI show and get paid to learn from some of the best? ILBIJERRI has two paid roles for trainees to join our RISING production of Heart is a Wasteland [written by John Harvey, directed by Rachael Maza] in one or more of these areas:... - Set & Costume Design - Lighting Design - AV Design - Sound Design - Production Management - Stage Management - Producing Key Dates: Weekly design and production meetings in April. Rehearsals in Abbotsford (Melbourne) 3 - 28 May 2021 Production week and season at Malthouse Workshop as part of RISING from 31 May - 5 June 2021 Attendance times can be negotiated but you must be willing to work at least part time hours. For more about the show: https://rising.melbourne/festival-prog/heart-is-a-wasteland Interested? Tell us a little about yourself and what theatre role you would be interested in learning about. No experience necessary - just enthusiastic interest! Please include the subject HEART TRAINEE APPLICATION and send to [email protected] by COB Thursday 8 April.

24.01.2022 The ILBIJERRI Ensemble final presentation for the year is going online in a few hours! Exciting! Register now before we go live at 5:30pm this afternoon! The Ensemble mob have each selected or created a piece in which they resonate with and what represents them as artists. Come along and watch these talented mob do their thing! Register online with the link below and you will be sent the Zoom details:... https://ilbijerri.us9.list-manage.com/track/click See more

23.01.2022 COMMUNITY MEETING CALL OUT!!! We’re inviting Saibai communities to come have kaikai and yarn about the upcoming production, Biw a Githalay produced by ILBIJERRI Theatre Company and Bamaga Productions. This is a children’s theatre work introducing the vibrant language, culture and people of Saibai Island. Biw a Githalay is in its early stages of development and we’re inviting community members who are interested in the project to contribute, listen and/or yarn about the w...ork's development. To RSVP or for more info, please contact: Mayella Dewis [email protected] Or Laila Thaker [email protected]

22.01.2022 HUGE NEWS This is an epic and historical win for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and performers. The respect deserved particularly around sorry business and cultural practices are finally being recognised in the industry! Thank you to everyone involved for getting this very important and well overdue agreement across the line ** REPOST @withmeaa ** 10 days paid cultural leave and cultural consultants aimed at First Nations employees have been negotiated in... the new Michael Cassel Group EBA! Michael Cassel Group congratulations on being industry leaders. Please share this post to show your support Thanks to the amazing negotiating team: Nathalie McLean Marty Alix Samuel Gaskin Tigist Strode Chloe Dallimore James O’Connell Stephen Mahy #MEAAequity #rightsideofhistory #ICMEAA @withmeaa @elaine_crombie

14.01.2022 BLACK TIES free online revision session for the VCE Drama Exam Join director Rachael Maza and educator Meg Upton for a live revision session in preparation for the written exam. The session will draw on a selection of images and scenes from ILBIJERRI Theatre Company and Te Rhia Theatre's BLACK TIES, from the season in the Pavilion at Arts Centre Melbourne as part of AsiaTOPA. ... The session will explore: the representation of characters within a performance conventions, dramatic elements and production areas within a performance the use of performance styles the actors’ use of expressive and performance skills the establishment, maintenance and manipulation of the actoraudience relationship Bring your questions (and memories) ready to engage in a rich and interactive revision of BLACK TIES. Date: 9 November 2020 Time: 11am 12noon Bookings and enquiries: [email protected] Image by Tiffany Garvie

11.01.2022 After a year of not being able to travel to our communities, "BIW A GITHALAY" co-produced by ILBIJERRI and Bamaga Productions has finally resumed its creative process! Our community engagement trip to Brisbane, Bamaga, Seisia, Thursday Island and Saibai Island started off with a brilliant gathering on Meanjin country last Sat 6 Feb. Thank you to the Saibai cultural leaders and communities for joining us For more information or to join in on the discussions, please get in touch with us [email protected] or [email protected]

10.01.2022 Calling all Playwrights, Music Composers, and Dance Choreographers! Yellamundie Festival 2021 Applications are now open until 11.59pm Sunday 4th October 2020

07.01.2022 ATTENTION FIRST NATIONS PRODUCERS! APAM First Nations Industry Program is open to First Nations producers and self-producing artists, this program creates a network to share knowledge, expertise and build connections nationally and internationally. The program will cover topics including multi-artform markets, key hubs for artistic exchange, and First Nations-to-First Nations networks. Through this program First Nations industry members will experience deeper engagement in A...PAM and an expanded network as well as confidence and strategic approaches towards international engagement. Program is open to Australian, New Zealand and Canadian First Nations producers and self-producing artists. Participants will be selected from an Expression of Interest (EOI) process and will receive a free registration for the APAM Gathering as part of their participation. More info and EOI process through the link below: https://apam.org.au//first-nations-industry-program-eois-/

07.01.2022 We’re super excited to announce our 2020 BlackWrights Creators Program Participants! ILBIJERRI’s BlackWrights Program supports the development of First Nations writing projects by the amazing array of emerging First Nations talent! This year we’re not only focusing on Blak writers, but also up-skilling and supporting Blak dramaturgs so we can take that space! Our participants: WRITERS... Amy Sole Alexis West Phoebe Grainer DRAMATURGS Dylan Van Den Berg Jack Sheppard Ngaire Pigram Through-out the next 12-months, we will be supporting these emerging writers to transform and develop their ideas into new recorded ‘radio play’ works! Working within the medium and limitations of a ‘radio play’, the writers have to approach this development from a new angle. Each writer is paired up with a First Nations dramaturg, working closely alongside each other throughout this journey. We’re looking forward to see what emerges from these collaborative powerful Blak voices! The BlackWrights program runs from Aug 2020 to July 2021 and includes our writing intensive Master Labs, one-on-one dramaturgy, creative developments and a radio play production outcome! Watch this space!

05.01.2022 Ngaire Pigram is a proud Yawuru and Wajarri woman from Broome, Western Australia. A performing artist, writer, director and one time researcher, Ngaire enjoys being creative in all aspects of her life and feels honoured and blessed to have been selected as a dramaturg for the 2020 BlackWrights Creators Program. Ngaire will be supporting one of our writers, Phoebe Grainer, to create their radio play throughout the BlackWrights Program as a dramaturg. She, along with the Creat...ors Program will be attending their fifth, of 6 Master Lab sessions with Louise Gough on Tuesday night. Louise has been teaching the fundamentals of storytelling along with ensuring the dramaturgs in the BlackWrights program have tools to be able to support the writers over the 12-month program. We’re looking forward to seeing Ngaire’s growth as she helps Phoebe’s ideas flourish into a deadly radio play!

03.01.2022 Great opportunity for First Nations Producers! Fill out an EOI below!

02.01.2022 ILBIJERRI is thrilled that our production of Heart is a Wasteland by John Harvey will be on as part of the inaugural Rising at Malthouse Workshop in Melbourne’s Arts Precinct from June 2 - June 5. Tickets available 9:00am 31 March. Check out the rest of the brilliant Rising program running 26 May - 6 June 2021. Originally conceived and performed in a sell-out season by Malthouse Theatre and Brown Cab Productions, Heart Is a Wasteland combines First Peoples storytelling with ...live music, in a whisky-fueled battle of egos. It cuts to the country’s heart, recognising everyone’s individual right to love. ILBIJERRI Theatre Company’s re-staging of Heart Is a Wasteland is a brand new production in both vision and scale directed by Rachael Maza and featuring freshly conceived sets, musical arrangements by Gary Watling and adventurous audiovisual design; all reimagined to match the energy of its new young leads Nelson Baker and Monica Jasmine Karo. ILBIJERRI would like to acknowledge that we will be performing on the land of the Boon Wurrung and the Woiwurrung people, and pay our deepest respects to the people of the Kulin Nations. Image description: A young man (left) and young woman (right) are standing mid-frame in the middle of a grey concrete road, holding hands, looking happily in love, backed by a rural landscape with a blue sky, and grass. There is a yellow sign with a kangaroo illustrated to their left, reading ‘Next 25 KM’. The young man is wearing jeans, a yellow and navy blue tradies shirt unbuttoned with a navy blue singlet underneath, and tan steel-capped boots. He has long dark hair tied into a low ponytail, and a beard. The young woman is wearing a short black denim skirt, a brown belt, a light brown singlet tucked in, an orange short sleeve cardigan and tan ankle boots. She has long curly light brown hair and she is holding a guitar. Tickets: https://rising.melbourne/festival-prog/heart-is-a-wasteland #risingmelbourne

01.01.2022 Huge CONGRATS to Kamarra Bell Wykes for winning the Mark Farmer Award for advocacy for Hepatitis C for someone with a lived experience. Awarded by Hepatitis Victoria this week. Watch Kamarra's deadly acceptance speech here: