🧡 We had an absolute blast working on “Hello Coonamble” with our dear friends at @outbackarts 🧡 It was a joy to create alongside the wonderful Drew, Alira and Lena, @naisda_dance_college Practicing Artists, The Tiddas Dancers from Coonamble High School, as well as the incredible Lily Shearer from @moogahlin 🧡 Working with Hannie Rayson and Michael Cathcart was a joy, and seeing the community of Coonamble share their stories on the stage of @theplazaoutbacknsw was nothing short of magic ✨
@abcaustralia will share a story of this experience on Backroads during March - so keep an eye out! In the meantime, Hannie has written this article for the Sydney Morning Herald to share a sense of our time together in Coonamble.
You can read the article in the link in our bio (paywall), or check our Facebook for the transcript 🧡...
🖤💛❤️ please enjoy this short meditation of the incredible @ericaa_dixon leading the students of Bourke Distance Ed during their performance yesterday 🖤💛❤️ @garwoeidhamin.mayan @naisda_dance_college @bwsode_pc...
We’ve just finished up with the School of Distance Ed kids in Bourke, and oh what a joy it was 🥹🥰
Narelle, Sarah and OTYP Artist Louise Moriarty were joined by the incredible @naisda_dance_college Practicing Artists Drew Walker and Alira Morgan (we missed you, Lena Parkes), as well as recent grad, the wonderful Erica Dixon, who has been working with us this term teaching dance online to these isolated kids. They’ve also had the pleasure of being taught drama and script writing online by our amazing Alyson Evans, all the way from Darwin! And as always, we are in awe and full of love and gratitude for our community partners and mentors Lily Shearer and Megan Kelly from @moogahlin 🧡
We got to work with these amazing kids to celebrate their school year with a hilarious and thoughtful performance, plus meet frogs, hang out with the legends at @yellowbellybourke, marvel at Baiame’s Ngunnhu in Brewarrina, and drive through an epic outback storm to get to Walgett.
Thanks for having us, Bourke! See you this morning for your turn, Walgett kids! 🌾🧡 @bwsode_pc...
Three OTYP staff are coming from three different parts of NSW on the way up to Ngemba and Gamilaroi/Gomeroi Country to visit Bourke and Walgett for the Bourke Walgett School of Distance Education Creative Arts mini-school this week 🧡
Stay tuned for more of what will be an incredible (and hot!) creative week with some of the most remote students in NSW 🌾🎭🧡 #outbackoutreach #ngembacountry #gamilaroicountry #gomeroicountry...
