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PAST PROJECTS


EXPLORE 28 YEARS

Since 1992, Big hART’s layered projects have provided innovative solutions to
complex disadvantage in over 52 communities nationwide.

 * 2010 - 2020
 * 2000 - 2009
 * 1992 - 1999

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NAMATJIRA PROJECT

2009 – 2016, Alice Springs, Hermannsburg NT and nationwide

Make – a theatre production, sell-out exhibitions of watercolours including
London and Parliament House Canberra, audiences with Queen Elizabeth, Prince
Phillip and Prince Charles, painting masterclasses, public talks, media stories,
community development workshops, a watercolour app, a soundtrack CD, and work in
the Hermannsburg School.

Build + Drive – intergenerational knowledge sharing, justice for the Namatjira
family, capacity for Western Aranda communities and change regarding the chronic
under funding of Aboriginal art centres.

The Legacy project is ongoing. See Namatjira Documentary / Trust

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YIJALA YALA

2011 – 2015, Roebourne, WA

Make – A range of content was created with the Roebourne community across genres
such as video, performance, games, interactive comics, and concert. These
included highly awarded and well reviewed works such as Hipbone Sticking Out,
Neomad, Murru, and Smashed Films.

Build + Drive – To builds skills and opportunities for Roebourne that reshape
its story, build futures for its young people, and value its cultural heritage.

The Legacy project is ongoing. See New Roebourne

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BLUE ANGEL

2013 – 2015, Hobart TAS, Sydney NSW, Melbourne VIC, Adelaide SA, Rotterdam NDL

Make – A site-specific performance work, created for Tasmania’s Ten Days on the
Island Festival, staged in 9 venues. Involving international artists such as
Peter Greenaway, along with Mikelangelo (The Black Sea Gentlemen), Kerry
Armstrong, Nate Gilkes and many others.

Build +Drive – There are 1.3 million seafarers working on the oceans, around
700,000 are essentially invisible slaves. Blue Angel Project comprised many
different strategies to help highlight the hidden story of contemporary slavery
at sea.

The Legacy project is ongoing. See Blue Angel International

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PROJECT COSMOPOLITANA

2013 – 2015, Cooma, Monaro NSW

Make – An album of songs by The Black Sea Gentlemen capturing the stories of the
Snowy Mountain Scheme and the alpine region. A theatre performance Ghosts in the
Scheme was based on stories by the elderly residents, many of whom arrived in
Cooma displaced from Europe after WW2 – to build the Snowy Mountains Scheme.

Build + Drive – At a time of national debate regarding refugee policy, this
project set out to tell the hidden stories of success that made this country
when our doors and borders were open wider.


TO A DIFFERENT DRUM

2014, Wynyard TAS

Make – A whole-of-school engagement in creativity (pilot project). TADD was a
large scale production based on movement and percussion, which involved bringing
a professional creative and technical team to work in one of the poorest
schools, in the poorest electorate in the country.

Build + Drive – Creativity at the centre of engagement in education.

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INVISIBLE STORIES

2014, North West TAS

Make – Short films created with people who are isolated from the mainstream
community due to disabilty.

Build + Drive – Invisible stories piloted the use of narrative as a protective
mechanism in the community. By mentoring young people to tell these stories it
increased understanding and empathy in the community for the most vulnerable.

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MUSEUM OF THE LONG WEEKEND

2012 – 2013, Canberra, ACT and nationwide

Make – A national project created for the Centenary of Canberra. Vintage
caravans from across the country converged on Canberra in multiple convoys over
a week, stopping and camping, cooking and talking together en route. On arrival
they created a pop up museum on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin, celebrating
the importance of leisure to the national wellbeing.

Build + Drive – artists were paired with caravan owners to bring aspects of
their leisure memories to the fore as an installation in their vintage van. They
owners then hosted the public in their exhibition, telling their story.


WINTER BED VIGIL

2013, Canberra ACT

Make – An outdoor bed installation where members of the public sleep and watch
films made with homeless people in Canberra.

Build + Drive – Awareness and change regarding the issue of homelessness in
Canberra’s winter. Created in partnership with community groups effected by
bushfires in the Canberra region.

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NGAPARTJI NGAPARTJI

2005 – 2010, Alice Springs NT, Ernabella, SA, National Festival Tour, Rotterdam

Make –  A layered, 5 year project involving an award winning theatre piece, a
national tour, performances in London and Garma festival, an online language and
culture teaching site, community workshops and a documentary.

Build + Drive – The project pushed for a National Indigenous Language Policy and
recognition for Indigenous victims of the Maralinga atomic testing.


WE VOTE SOON

2011, Wynyard TAS

Make – An online live broadcast by young people, who are close to voting age,
putting their concerns to politicians, created with professionals in a high
school.

Build + Drive – Encouraging young people to value and engage with democracy,
and politicians to engage with the next generation of voters.

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NYUNTU NGALI

2009 – 2010, Mimili, Ernabella SA, Alice Springs, NT

Make – Cross-cultural theatre work for young people set in a post-apocalyptic
world. Co-production with Windmill National Children’s Theatre, and presented by
Sydney Theatre Company.

Build + Drive – Encouraging inter-cultural dialogue between young people.
Increasing visibility and opportunities for Pitjantjatjara performers, and
extending community legacies from Ngapartji Ngapartji.


TWO STRONG HEARTS

2010, Wynyard TAS

Make –A whole of school engagement project, providing the opportunity for
disadvantaged rural young people to explore potential careers and involvement in
the creative industries. A large scale performance piece for a cast of 80. In a
town with a population of 5000, 2300 attended.

Build + Drive – With lower than average school retention rates, this project
piloted new approaches to engagement in education, with a focus on the creative
industries.


DRIVE

2007 – 2009, North West TAS

An award-winning documentary about autocide and risk-taking by rural young men.
Drive also produced teacher’s notes and web episodes and screened in festivals
internationally.

View the DRIVE documentary here


GOLD

2006 – 2009, VIC, NSW, QLD

A series of workshops, videos and installations looking at drought, water and
depression in the Murray Darling Basin. GOLD worked with urban young people and
brought them together with farming families, concluding with a photographic
installation at Carriageworks in Sydney.

To see some video content from the GOLD Project, go here


DRIVE IN HOLIDAY + RADIO HOLIDAY

2005 – 2009, North West TAS, Melbourne VIC

These 2 large projects combined caravans with media – radio and video, to tell
the hidden story of Tasmania’s fragile shack communities. The team of
story-collectors and performers were made up of single teenage mothers. It was
presented as part of Tasmania’s Ten Days on the Island Festival, toured
statewide twice, and travelled to Federation Square as part of Melbourne
International Arts Festival.


LUCKY

2005 – 2009, North West TAS

An extended project working with at-risk young mothers and their children
through a suite of strategies that created new pathways and networks for
participants, engaging them in the community.


JUNK THEORY

2007 – 2009, Cronulla NSW, Hobart TAS, Adelaide SA

A floating video and sound installation on a Chinese junk in Sydney Harbour,
created with young people from the Sutherland Shire in response to the Cronulla
riots, and promoting community inclusion. Presented as part of Sydney Festival,
Adelaide Festival and Tasmania’s Ten Days on the Island Festival.


THIS IS LIVING

2007 – 2009, Statewide TAS

A project to value the elderly, This is Living combined older people in the
community with skateboarders, with workshops running simultaneously in 5 towns
across Tasmania. Toured for the Tasmanian Ten Days on the Island Festival.


LOVE ZOMBIES

2008 – Wynyard, TAS

A creative industries collaboration with Wynyard High School, piloting whole of
school approaches to Arts in Education. The approach gained the eye of
evaluators and educationalists. In a town of 5000, 2000 attended.


NORTHCOTT PROJECT

2004 – 2006, Sydney, NSW

A public housing, community development and violence prevention project in a
notorious housing commission estate in Surry Hills, Sydney. This partnership
with Housing Dept. and the Police resulted in a large site specific, hybrid
theatre work for the 2006 Sydney Festival, short films and two award winning
documentaries.

You can watch the documentary 900 Neighbours here.


CHAMBERS CRESCENT THEATRE

2006, Darwin NT

A legacy project following on from Nuff Stuff in Darwin, supporting an
intercultural theatre program for young people.


STREET SURVIVOR MELBOURNE

2001 – 2004, Melbourne, VIC

An innovative gaming platform, exploring reasons why young people flee their
homes.


KNOT@HOME

2001 – 2004, NSW, VIC, WA, TAS

A complex, long-term project examining different concepts of being without a
home, from refugees to street kids. Resulted in a festival performance piece, an
8 part SBS documentary series, a website and teachers notes. Presented at the
Sydney Opera House,  and as part of Melbourne International Arts Festival.

To see some video content from the kNot@Home Project, go here


SLEEP WELL

2003 – 2004, Bourke NSW

A project working with young Indigenous mothers – helping to provide support,
build connections and new pathways.


THE BED VIGIL

2002, Melbourne VIC

Linked to kNot@Home, The Bed Vigil invited high profile people and the general
public to register with the project and sleep in a bed on the streets, to help
raise awareness of rough sleepers. The Bed Vigil opened Federation Square as
part of Melbourne International Arts Festival, with people sleeping and watching
short films made with people at risk of homelessness, 24 hours a day.


RU&I@1

2002 – 2004 Sutherland Shire, NSW

A partnership with Hazelhurst Regional Gallery in the Sutherland Shire, working
with young people and artists, creating installations, short films and artworks.


NUFF STUFF

2001 – 2005, Darwin NT

A theatre performance created in the notorious Don Dale Juvenile Justice Centre.
In a breakthrough moment, inmates were allowed to perform in the Darwin
Entertainment Centre, and the general public were welcomed into the prison to
watch the performance.


HANDLE WITH CARE

2002 – 2004, Northern NSW

Part of the NSW Drug Misuse Prevention Strategy, it involved a wide variety of
workshops, engagement strategies and events with young people.


STEPPING STONES

2003 – 2004, Bourke NSW

A project working with NSW Health, delivering health and social participation
outcomes for young mothers.


24HR SHIFT

2001 – 2003, West Coast TAS

A series of arts based workshops with isolated young people, resulting in public
recognition of the issues they faced.


WRONG WAY GO BACK

2000, Darwin NT

A workshop program with young offenders in Don Dale Detention Centre, resulting
in the performance of Nuff Stuff at the Darwin Entertainment Centre.


HEAPS OF ROCKS

2000, West Coast TAS

A performative video installation created with isolated young people at risk.


HAPPY WATER SAD WATER

1999 – 2000, Manly Beach NSW

A performance installation working with Sydney’s Chinese community, in
partnership with Manly Gallery, exploring xenophobia and drowning. The
performance toured to Adelaide Festival as part of ‘Big hART Works’.


HURT

1998 – 1999, NSW, VIC, TAS 

An AFI award winning fictionalised documentary. This unique film, worked across
vast geographies with young people to tell stories of hurt, showing in film
festivals internationally.


SLR 5000

1998, West Coast TAS

A performance piece created in workshops with isolated young people exploring
the issue of family violence.


SCISSORS, PAPER, ROCK, CEREAL

1997, Illawarra NSW 

A theatre performance at Theatre South in Wollongong, from a workshop process
with young people who had witnessed extreme violence.


GUNS TO PENS PROJECT

1996 – 1997 Wagga Wagga NSW, Canberra ACT

Working in juvenile justice centres, young offenders learned to turn the wooden
rifle butts into pens, live on stage, as part of a performance piece.


INKWINGS, THREE MEN WALK INTO A BAR

1994 – 1997, Burnie TAS

A performance piece created with single teenage mothers exploring the issue of
family violence. Inkwings workshops also taught young mothers good early
childhood play approaches.


PANDORA SLAMS THE LID

1993-1994, North West TAS

Workshops and a touring theatre work for young people exploring HIV and
intravenous drug use.


GIRL

1992-1994, North West TAS, Canberra ACT

A workshop program with young offenders to create a large theatre performance,
exploring the inner turmoils and issue that lead too offending behaviour.
Performed at the National Festival of Australian Theatre, Canberra.

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Contact: Sam Hawker | National Producer | sam@bighart.org



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