Voice Arts Trust is nurturing a new relationship with Pablos Art Studio, where people who have had an experience of mental illness are supported to create their own visual art. Later this year, Voice Arts will deliver a series of drama workshops, offering Pablos clients a new and very different creative experience and another medium for self expression.
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Tenants in Wellington City Council Flats come from all corners of the world, all walks of life, and their stories reflect this wonderful diversity. Voice Arts Trust is delighted to be partnering with City Housing to support a number of art and social projects engaging tenants and bringing their stories to the wider community. We have completed the Te Ara Hou Storytelling and Mosaic Pilot Project and later this year begin work with tenant artists as they prepare for a public exhibition of their work.
In 2008, the Museum of Wellington invited Voice Arts Trust to deliver a community based theatre project utilising the Museum space as a theatre. Following the success of this project, Voice Arts Trust has been once again invited to create a community based performance work, this time in support of an actual exhibition.
The exhibition “Death and Diversity” represents a partnership between the Museum of Wellington, the Office of Ethnic Affairs and Voice Arts Trust. The exhibition along with the performance project will engage diverse ethnic groups in the Wellington region to explore the theme.
Participants aged 16-25 years, from at least four diverse ethnic communities and from the host community will come together to creatively explore the rituals and practices of death from a personal and cultural perspective. They will be guided towards the creation of a performance piece that speaks to that exploration and also reflects the group’s diversity and the experience of sharing, learning and working together. The performance will be staged at the Museum of Wellington within the same space as the “Death and Diversity” exhibition driving interest in and supporting the work created by the ethnic communities involved
