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Studio Q <br> Drama Classes for Ages 5 - 18

Studio Q
Drama Classes for Ages 5 - 18

Term 1 resumes 3 February
Access Ensemble <br> Drama Classes for Ages 18+ Living with Disability

Access Ensemble
Drama Classes for Ages 18+ Living with Disability

Term 1 resumes 2 February

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Studio Q is so lucky to have so many talented artists that inspire our young people. Today we Spotlight Ben Webb who currently assists our Saturday Stepping up AM class, and Access Red. 🎭  Ben is a twenty-year-old screen and theatre actor based in Sydney Australia. He is passionate about acting and has a smile and energy that captures the crowd. Ben has trained extensively including at NIDA, ATYP, ITS, Hub Studio, and the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre where he currently works as an assistant drama teacher. Ben is studying a BA Education (Secondary) majoring in performance and theatre and French at Sydney University and has graduated with a Diploma of Theatre and Screen (Acting) at Sydney Theatre School. Recent acting credits include Jack Decapitated in Richmond Players’ production of ‘Titanic: The Diamond of Dream,’ Francis Flute in Shakespearience’s production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and Silvius in Shakespearience’s production of ‘As You Like It’ both directed by Timothy Weston.  Find out more about Studio Q and how you can get involved on our website. Link in bio ✨
Studio Q is so lucky to have so many talented artists that inspire our young people. Today we Spotlight Taleece Paki who currently teaches our Saturday Stepping up classes. 🎭  Taleece Paki is a Western Sydney creative and teaching artist who is passionate about theatre and empowering young people through the arts.
Since graduating from a Bachelor of Dramatic Arts in 2020, Taleece has divided her time between production designing, acting and working in various education settings around Western Sydney.
This is Taleece’s third year of working with Q Theatre and has loved every second of teaching the ’Stepping Up’ class.
At the end of 2024 she will be graduating from a Masters of Creative Industries from Macquarie University and is looking forward to pursuing a career further in theatre education  Find out more about Studio Q and how you can get involved on our website. Link in bio ✨
Studio Q is now in week 6 of term. With only a few more weeks to go lets take a look inside the classroom.  Term 1’s focus is getting to know each other and skill building. Stepping Up has been establishing their ensemble connection by working in groups to create their own scenes. This week their focus was on techniques for mastering entrances and exits, for starting and ending the perfect story. 📷 @eddysummersphotography
🕰️Throwback Thursday 🕰️  Did you know Toni Collette started in Penrith at Q's Railway Street Theatre.
Toni Collette made her first professional appearance at the Q in ‘Operation Holy Mountain’ in 1990 dir. by Helmut Bakaitis.  Did you manage to see it?  #throwbackthursday #Qlegacy #Qtheatre #penrith #history #theatrehistory #qcommunity
Studio Q is so lucky to have so many talented artists that inspire our young people. Today we Spotlight Mollie Webb who currently teaches our Ignite classes. 🎭  Mollie Webb is an actor, creative and teaching artist from Dharug Land. She is a 2021 graduate of Actors Centre Australia’s bachelor program. Her acting credits include: Girl Band (National Theatre of Parramatta), Tough Titties (Sydney Fringe Comedy / Factory Theatre), Originate (Q Theatre). 
Mollie’s recent creative work was as Assistant Director for Girl Band (National Theatre of Parramatta). Her other creative credits include: One Hour No Oil (KXT), How To Defend Yourself (The Old Fitz), The Life Cycle of Blanco (National Theatre of Parramatta), and Tough Titties (Meraki Arts Bar).  Find out more about Studio Q and how you can get involved on our website. Link in bio ✨  Photo: @sallyfleggphotography
🕰️Throwback Thursday 🕰️  Doreen Warburton co-founded Q Theatre, and was Artistic Director until 1989. She was passionate about theatre and wanted everyone to be able to be able to access it.  “I always wanted to reach people that don’t normally go to the theatre. If you make theatre accessible and reasonably priced, people will go. I don’t like elitist theatre. I always believe that you work with a community … you’ve got to be a voice for that community if possible.” Doreen Warburton  Do you have any Q Theatre memories, share them with us and we might post them on our next Throwback Thursday  #throwbackthursday #Qlegacy #Qtheatre #penrith #history #theatrehistory #qcommunity
🕰️Throwback Thursday 🕰️  After Q Theatre’s move from Circular Quay it found a new home in Penrith in the then empty Railway Street building. The Q opened in Penrith on 30 March 1977 and had a successful program of plays both in the venue and touring until it’s move to the Joan in 2005.  Do you have any Q Theatre memories, share them with us and we might post them on our next Throwback Thursday  #throwbackthursday #Qlegacy #Qtheatre #penrith #history #theatrehistory #qcommunity
Final week to get your application in!
Penrith Performing & Visual Arts is proud to support the @AccessibleArts 2024 Next Level Creative Mentorship Program.
 
This exciting initiative will provide five artists with disability with access to a creative mentorship within a leading performing arts organisation as well as $3000 in project funding to develop an innovative new project.
 
Applications are now open for writers, musicians, dancers, choreographers, actors, directors and/or producers with disability or who are d/Deaf from NSW.
 
Applications close Sunday 25 Feb.
 
For more information and to apply, visit https://aarts.net.au/news/next-level-creative-mentorships-2024/
 
#NextLevelCreativeMentorships #AccessibleArts #CareerAdvancement #ApplyNow
 
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🦆Meet the creative team of En Masse.  Shy Magsalin is the co-Creative Director of Q Theatre at The Joan, Penrith. She is a theatre maker, performer and intimacy director specialising in physical actor training and physical dramaturgies. She has worked and trained locally in Sydney, interstate and internationally across the United States, Europe and Japan. As a UWS Theatre Nepean alumni and a long-time Western Sydney resident, Shy invests in creating more opportunities for emerging Western Sydney theatre and performing artists to study and work locally. Shy is also the Artistic Director of the performance ensemble Ninefold, a company committed to examining rigorous performance-making and creating sustainable cultures for artists who want to explore ongoing ensemble work.  En Masse is a new work celebrating communal acts of goodwill, kindness and unity. Join us for a free work-in-progress showing this Friday, the 16th at 6pm. 
Register via the link in bio
🦆Meet the creative team of En Masse.  Gideon Payten Griffiths (he/they/Sydney/London) is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, curator and facilitator spanning theatre, dance, music, live-art, film, installation and bodywork. They find centre in the body as a material and emotional landscape and searches for the radically compassionate, liminal or queer space between people and all forms. Often experimental, site-specific, immersive, participatory, abstracted or sensory; he works in a range of forms, contexts and collaborations including with Sydney Festival, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney Opera House, Performance Space, AGNSW, MCA Australia, Willoughby Visual Arts Biennial, PACT, Sydney Living Museums, Kaldor Public Art Projects, Peats Ridge Festival, Erotic Living, DeQuincey Co., Shh Productions, Bakehouse/KXT and Tooth & Sinew. As a founding member of Ninefold they are proud to bring this new wave in their work to The Joan, Penrith.  En Masse is a new work celebrating communal acts of goodwill, kindness and unity. Join us for a free work-in-progress showing this Friday, the 16th at 6pm. 
Register via the link in bio  Image: Prince Bettliegend at Out of the Shadows Festival, Photo: David Goldman