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PACT

Locality: Erskineville

Phone: +61 2 9550 2744

Address: 107 Railway Parade 2043 Erskineville, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.pact.net.au

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25.01.2022 Dear PACT family, We hope you are well and travelling okay during these uncertain times. We have some important news to share with you. Despite being recommended for funding, PACT recently received some disappointing news that we have been unsuccessful in our application to CreateNSW for multi-year funding. This is a disheartening outcome, however Create NSW has strongly encouraged PACT to apply for annual funding and we intend to do so once these guidelines are released. We... are working with important members of our political, artistic and local community to seek support for the organisation and our strategy moving forward. Significant project funding support from Create NSW, the Australia Council for the Arts and the City of Sydney, has allowed us to offer tailored support to our artists during this delicate time in their career and despite the difficulties COVID-19 has presented for live performance across the sector. You can read more about our current projects and programs here: https://tinyurl.com/y3p9wfq2 The PACT team would like to thank you, our loyal community, for your continued support. HOW YOU CAN HELP: We’re encouraging people to show their support by sharing a photo or story of their fondest memories at PACT using the hashtag #WeNeedPACT as well as tagging us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. We look forward to seeing your photos and stories pop up in our feeds. We’ll update you again soon with more details on what the future holds for PACT.

24.01.2022 Theatre Network Australia is currently looking for independent artists and creatives in the performing arts to fill out a survey about their working trends. This second edition will build on longitudinal data collected in 2017 and assist ongoing advocacy and provide benchmarking to assist indies in quoting for freelance work. It will be available as a public report in the coming months for everyone to use. The survey will take between 25-45 minutes to complete, if you’ve got the time, click on the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DOIT2020 For any questions, get in touch with [email protected]

21.01.2022 FORM Dance Projects is calling dancers, choreographers and film makers 21 & under to apply for Sydney's most exciting youth dance festival. This year Sharp Short Dance goes DIGITAL! so get your camera and be ready to show the world your best dance moves, choreographic & cinematic ideas.

19.01.2022 Here's our 2020 Residency Artists, the 'Lost All Sorts Collective' explaining why #WeNeedPACT!

17.01.2022 We're loving seeing all your stories and photos in our social feeds this week about why #WeNeedPACT! As you can see from our own photo memory below, PACT is an inclusive place for us to come together as a community, to share new creative ideas and tell our stories. Once Covid-19 restrictions are lifted, we will need spaces like this, more than ever. That's just one of OUR reasons why #WeNeedPACT - we'll be sharing more with you soon.

15.01.2022 PACT is thrilled to announce the Australian solo artist and collective selected for our PACT Residencies Program, and the emerging producers selected for our PACT Emerging Producers Program, both of which will be held across 2021. PACT’s Residency Artists are Gabriela Green (Solo) and Ka-llective (Collective). PACT’s Emerging Producers are Claire Holland and Claudia Roosen. Congratulations to all the successful artists and producers! To learn more, head here: https://tinyurl.com/5xc8d9ae

14.01.2022 Check out this great ABC News feature about PACT Alumni artist, Georgia Cranko!

14.01.2022 A huge thank you to everyone who attended PACT Fridays: LIVE! It was a joy to welcome you back into our space and share with you what our residency artists have been working on all year. In case you missed it, we filmed snippets of the performance 'Fraid by Lost All Sorts Collective, take a look! Video by Dom O'Donnell.

07.01.2022 This month our Dance Residency Artist, Riana Head-Toussaint has contributed a moodboard featuring ten images that have inspired the new work she is developing at PACT, titled InspoCam. This assortment of images is part of a collection I’ve amassed that seem to me to align with the concepts or feelings I’m trying to explore in ‘InspoCam’. Some of them are quite obviously linked, while others are more opaque. I do quite a lot of theoretical reading, writing and verbal unpacking when I make work; so I find this image-based exploration to be a helpful complementary mode of contemplation. It’s not as precise more instinctive and free. It’s kind of like giving form to unconscious thoughts. I also sometimes share the images with collaborators, to help them get a sense of mood. - Riana Head-Toussaint

07.01.2022 Today we celebrate the life and work of Eddie Mabo which opened the way for the Native Title Act (1993). Mabo Day recognises the fight for justice for Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders. Marking the end of #Reconciliation week and the anniversary of the Mabo decision when the high court overturned the doctrine of Terra Nullius or ‘land belonging to no-one’ and recognised Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as traditional owners of their land. #maboday #alwaysw...asalwayswillbe #landrights #EddieMabo See more

06.01.2022 Our EP/CEO Nuala Furtado caught up with ArtsHub earlier this week to chat about the future of PACT, have a read!

05.01.2022 FORM Dance Projects is calling confident dancers from Western Sydney aged between 16-30 with previous dance training in any style of dance. The WE ARE HERE Company will hold artistry, performative range and collaboration in its work, contributing and redefining the current look, approach and style of Australian contemporary dance. At its helm is Emma Saunders, a ‘formidable’ and award winning Associate Artist.

05.01.2022 Radio Skid Row 88.9FM has launched a huge crowdfunding campaign after receiving $0 for operational funding. This is money to keep the lights on and keep the voices of the most marginalised communities on the air. Help support Sydney's most radical station by donating today: https://startsomegood.com/radioskidrow2020

04.01.2022 Looking for work? Come join the PACT family - we're hiring!

04.01.2022 PACT Fridays: LIVE presented two incredible nights of exclusive new works in development by PACT 2020 Residency Artists. Photography: Dom O'Donnell More: http://www.pact.net.au/pact-fridays-live

03.01.2022 Important PACT Fridays: LIVE update: Saturday is now officially sold out! We have reached full capacity for our outdoor courtyard area on Saturday too. We still have a few tickets left for Friday night, so we highly recommend purchasing them RIGHT NOW so you don't miss out. We will update this page tomorrow if we reach capacity for the courtyard on Friday. Thank you everyone for the support! Ticket link: https://pact.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/2579

03.01.2022 Wondering what Sydney’s artists have been thinking, doing and making in these strange times? Come join us at 'Out of Iso' for four weekends of new live performance for a distanced world... Presented by Intimate Spectacle & 107, 'Out of Iso' is a mini-fest that will showcase the work of artists who have used the last few months of lockdown creatively and are ready to get back into it! Many curators are involved in this wonderful project, including PACT's Artistic Directorate member Malcolm Whittaker, and the event will be preceded by a ceremonial ‘de-weeding’ at our venue from 6pm on 26 - 28 November. See you there?

03.01.2022 Don't forget, we're now hiring new FOH staff and Venue Technicians. Get your applications in by 6 October and join our PACT family!

03.01.2022 Don't forget to join us at PACT from 6pm today for Out of Iso! We encourage you to convene at PACT for a short ceremonial prelude to ‘de-weed the isolation’ at 6pm, and then make your way to 107 Projects for the rest of the event from 7pm. The ceremonial prelude involves the rejuvenation of isolation via a planting ceremony in the freshly tended to PACT garden, lead by artists Nicole Pingon and Lucy Wylie (Lu Cid). See you soon!

01.01.2022 On the first Friday of every month, PACT releases creative development content from our Resident Artists. This may take several different forms, from blogs and vlogs, to interviews, to insider snaps of what they’ve been working on from isolation. Together with the artists, PACT has devised personalised residency plans and we’re inviting you along on the journey of the development of their new work. This month PACT Fridays features a video featurette about dance collective, Lost All Sorts! Music by: Jermaine Wilesmith

01.01.2022 During their PACT residency this year, Melbourne-based artist Alexander Powers sought to create a video dance work that continued their choreographic practice of repetition, exhaustion and duration. These three elements shape the form of their choreographic practice and are used to explore and reveal the tensions of the live body, its temporality, its cultural and sociological significance, and its place within the greater apparatus that confine its practice. In lieu of the... being able to present the video work itself at our PACT Fridays: LIVE event last month due to COVID-19 restrictions around rehearsing in Melbourne, Powers presented a filmic performance lecture that traces back the inspirations and research that has gone into this work and their residency. Pulling from the writings of Maurizio Lazzarato, Ivan Illich, Vilém Flusser and André Lepecki, as well as their mundane experience of working full-time as a data assistant, they plan to lecture, inform, story-tell and play with language and the boundaries of the work-in-progress showing. Take a look! This video was was edited and partially filmed by Ahmed Coshnow.

01.01.2022 Don't forget - we're hiring! We're currently looking for new FOH staff and Venue Technicians. Applications close 6 October.