Let’s connect with laughter, resilience and connection on the lands of the Tubba-Gah (Maing) Wiradjuri people in Dubbo. Join in storytelling workshops, listen to live readings and short films that celebrate who we are and our connection to each other and the country we are living on. Let’s create stories inspired by your real-life experiences or your imagination – which could be relationships, climate change, living on the land or other issues you are navigating. All women are welcome to join in, whether you have written anything before or not.
CONNECTION: DUBBO WOMEN TALKING
Where: ArtClub Studio, 13b Bultje Street Dubbo
When:
Choose one or more dates.
Thursday 14 March 5.30 – 8.30pm
Friday 15 March 5.30 – 8.30pm
Saturday 16 March 9am – 12.30pm
Cost?
Workshops: $15.00 registration fee includes refreshments.
Discount for 2 workshops: $25.00
Discount for 3 workshops: $30.00
The fee contributes to administration fees.
Who can come?
Everyone is welcome. We walk alongside First Nations women and welcome women from diverse communities, including women from LGBTQI+ communities. Content is suitable for ages over 18.
What happens at the workshops?
Come and have a yarn, share or create a new story.
If you can speak you can write. If you have a story to tell, you are welcome to these storytelling sessions (of course, writers are also welcome!) During the workshops, we will work together to share ideas and stories, with the aim of developing them into monologues that may be performed by actors and musicians at a live reading event on Sunday in Dubbo.
Maybe the stories are inspired by your real-life experiences – with relationships, climate change, drought or other issues that you are facing. Maybe the stories come completely from your imagination! Our workshops bring women together in a safe, friendly space to collaborate and create magic from ideas and words.
You’ll be surprised what happens when we get together and get creative. There’s a lot of laughter, but also stories that inspire us about how we live our lives, about how we navigate the people and the place around us, and how sharing can make all the difference as we face the future.
The workshops will be in small groups (maximum of 15). They begin with a focus on the place where we live, collecting sounds and colours, conversations and experiences from our area. Then we turn to storymaking and shaping a short piece. In the middle of it all we share refreshments, jokes, and connections.
Choose your session or come to them all! The most important thing is to register.
Any questions? Email us at create@studio138.com.au or monologue@optusnet.com.au
WHO WE ARE
The workshops are fun and inclusive, facilitated by Voices of Women Artistic Director Lliane Clarke and Dubbo writer and performer Kalina Davis, supported by Studio 138 Dubbo producer and director Erifili Davis.
Since 2018, Voices of Women has been empowering women to build confidence and connect with each other through cross cultural creative writing and performance workshops, public readings, live shows and short films. Inspired by women’s life stories, the organisation supports and inspires women across Australia and internationally to share their story, to make sense of our world, deepen our understanding, break down barriers and experience compassion and joy.
Through five annual story call outs and an extensive workshop program, Voices of Women has encouraged over 1,000 women in Australia and internationally to create and share their story in short monologue form. Voices of Women has presented workshops and live readings and performances in Dubbo, Wagga Wagga, Macksville, Nowra and Sydney.
The organisation is supported by Australian Federal, state and local government bodies, private donors and foundations and an extensive network of collaborating arts organisations.
Read more about Voices of Women here.
Read more about Erifili Davis here.
CONNECTION: LIVE READINGS AND SHORT FILMS
When:
Sunday March 17, 3pm.
Where:
Dubbo Venue details to follow.
Cost: $20.00 registration fee includes refreshments.
Suitable for ages over 18.
Bringing together the stories from the workshops, we present live readings by professional actors and musicians, with music especially written in response to the stories. Have a refreshment and chat, and watch some stunning short films, with a focus on films made by local women.
PROGRAM
Connection: Stories by Dubbo Women
Stories from local women, with Dubbo actor and performer Kalina Davis, and music in response to the stories and performed live by award-winning composer and musician Elizabeth Jigalin. Directed by Lliane Clarke.
Refreshments and Interval
Talks and Short Films:
Shannon Barnes
Shannon is a proud Ngiyampaa Wangaaypuwan woman, and is the founder, Sole Owner and Managing Director of Boomalli Consulting. She will draw on her experience of storytelling in this presentation about oral storytelling from a traditional perspective, how this supports traditional cultural ways and how to connect women in a contemporary time.
Erifili Davis
Dubbo-based filmmaker Erifili is a member of Dubbo Filmmakers and board member of Wesley House Players in Dubbo. She presents an award-winning short film made with a local crew and cast, shot in Dubbo.
Lliane Clarke
Lliane Clarke is Artistic Director of Voices of Women presents the short showcase version of the award-winning feature film Entanglement. “We asked women across the globe what the word Entanglement meant to them. 300 women responded.” The film has been screened around the globe, including at the United Nations Womens Conference in Rwanda, in New York as Award Winner, Best Documentary at New York Arthouse Film Festival, 2023 and in London’s Curzon Cinema as Award Winner, Best Screenplay, London Independent Story Prize 2023.
REGISTER NOW. PLACES STRICTLY LIMITED!
Program supported by FRRR Foundation for Regional Rural Renewal,
presented by Voices of Women and Studio 138 Dubbo.
Any questions? Email us at create@studio138.com.au or monologue@optusnet.com.au
