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Both our adult and childrens drama groups performed at City Housing’s Matariki Celebrations. The children performed a devised work inspired by the children’s book The Brothers and Sisters of Matariki, while the adult group – The DIY Collective – performed a devised work celebrating ancestors and stories of the past.

In partnership with City Housing we have begun a weekly drama club with kids from the Rintol Street Apartments. We will be working with this group to craft a devised piece of theatre for City Housing’s Matariki Celebrations.

Voice Arts Trust has been invited to travel to the Cook Islands to deliver a devised theatre project with young people at risk of exclusion in the educational environment. This project will happen in September over an intensive nine day period.  We will also be running a number of professional development workshops for those working within inclusive education.

This community engagement performance project is designed to connect, celebrate and surprise your community. It brings together people from a range of diverse agencies and organisations that work with and for community. They are staff, volunteers, and clients.  They are guided and supported to create a collection of one-minute stories inspired by their own life and their work in the community. Engaging, surprising, and challenging audiences can expect the unexpected when they come to an In A Minute performance – it is intimate and thoroughly unique. We are delivering this project in Hutt with support from the Hutt City Council.

This project is a series of workshops with community volunteers from City Housing.  The focus is on speaking publicly and presentation skills. For many volunteers speaking to groups of people is part of their role in the community, and it is a challenge for the best of us at the best of times. We will be building confidence, capacity and skills in this area, and preparing some participants to present at the annual Neighbours Day celebrations.

Thanks to funding from the Hutt City Council, Voice Arts Trust is developing a number of community and workplace creative engagement projects. If your group or organisation is interested please email claire@voice-arts.org.nz

The first half of this year we will be working with our Tenant drama group to create a performance exploring the theme “Who Are We!” We will be using spoken word, drama and song to capture stories that explore blood lines, ancestors, those who have gone before.  The group will be performing for the wider community as part of Matariki celebrations.

The cast of ‘He Aha Te Utu – The True Cost’ performed for the first time in front of a packed audience at Parliament. The response was overwhelming, the audience deeply moved by this powerful, unique devised theatre work.  A compact 23 minutes, this performance piece explores the role of women in WW1. We thank our partners on this project – the British Council and the Goethe-Institut. We have additional support from the Wellington City Council to tour this performance. If you are interested in booking this show for your work or community group, please email: claire@voice-arts.org.nz

Click here to watch a short documentary about our community volunteer project. See our facilitators in action and hear from the participants about their experience of Voice Arts Trust.