I hope this e-news lands in your inbox as you are putting that out-of-office on!
I get it, it’s the end of the year, and if you are reading this email, you’re skimming it at best. So you can scroll ahead to what you want to read, here’s what’s within:
Funding: the good stuff and the bad stuff
2023 with APT: some highlights from our year
2024: things we’re looking forward to
APPLY NOW: opportunities and programs open over summer that you don’t want to forget about
The Good and Bad Funding Stuff
It would be remiss not to congratulate and commiserate with our fellow arts organisations who received the news of Creative Australia Multi-Year Funding last week. For those who have been successful, well done. May this security build your creativity and impact. For those like us, it is tough. Simple as that. It has been a year of underlying anxiety as we work hard to alleviate the precarity of the work we do.
We will put the out-of-office on, take a breath for a week or two, and return in 2024 for a red-hot go.
2023 with APT
To end on a high, here are some recent highlights!
This list is not exhaustive; to give a complete recap of all the things we did this year would be exhausting, and we are exhausted.
Retreats
We took 12 playwrights on retreats and supported the development of their plays through in-room developments and one-on-one dramaturgy.
APAF
Co-hosted the theatre breakout session at Theatre Network Australia’s Australian Performing Arts Forum in Brisbane- back in the room with our national colleagues, after so long apart.
Developing the Dramaturg
Supported 6 new Dramaturgs, with skills development workshops, mentoring and paid internships with theatre companies.
lutruwita
Supported an outstanding cohort of artists in lutruwita/Tasmania in playwriting and dramaturgy skills development.
Australian Theatre Festival
Co-produced a panel of Australian playwrights talking about their work with the Australian Theatre Festival New York.
APT Baby
Our General Manager/Administrator, Lauren, created a whole new human. Welcome baby Nell.
2024: here for more!
Big things happening at Creative Australia: the formation of Writers Australia, which will include playwrights. We can’t wait for the details.
The appointment of BIG theatre brains Wesley Enoch and Courtney Stewart to the Board of Creative Australia.
All the new Australian works on our stages next year! I am starting my year off with Ilbijerri’s Big Name, No Blankets – can’t wait.
APPLY NOW!
Some of our programs and opportunities for 2024 are open now and have closing dates early in the new year. Apply now or put that reminder in your calendar.
La Mama
Pathways Program
Piloted in 2023, La Mama’s Pathways is back with a revamped writing intensive + mentoring program.
We acknowledge that we live and create on unceded lands. We pay our respects to the First Peoples of Australia, and to their elders past, present and future.
