Performing Lines

Performing Lines is pleased to share that UNWOMAN (the Protest) by THE RABBLE is coming to Her Majesty's Theatre Ballarat this August. 🎤🐚✨

A live performance event celebrating the multitude of experiences around birth, in/fertility, pregnancy and parenthood, the work welcomes participants from all walks of life to share stories informed by lived experience, personal reflection, relationships, community and the broader contexts of their lives.💛

Sign up to deliver your own testimony, or come along as an audience member to witness this special event.

💡Interested in participating, but would like to learn more? Join us for the upcoming community information session next Wednesday.
📅 Wednesday 24 June 2026, 5:30pm
📍 Civic Hall, Ballarat
🎟️ Free event. Learn more and register via link below🔗
https://bit.ly/Unwoman-Pro
🎤 UNWOMAN (the Protest): Saturday 22 August 2026
📍 Her Majesty’s Theatre Ballarat

📸 Pier Carthew

🔥ATTENTION Artists Based in Lutruwita/Tasmania🔥
Applications are now open for the 2026 Performing Lines Tas Regional Artist Residency.

Taking place from 1–4 October at Gold Rush Inn in Queenstown, on the west coast of Lutruwita/Tasmania, this well-established and highly respected Residency is an opportunity for Tasmanian artists at all stages of their careers, and from all areas of the performing arts, to come together and explore new performance project ideas.

Offering artists time, space and professional support to deepen their creative inquiry and connect with peers in a collaborative setting, the Residency has been a popular event on the island’s creative calendar for the past 13 years.

⏰ Applications close: Midnight Thu 16 July 2026
📣 Successful applicants notified: Thu 30 July 2026
🔗 Apply Now via link below✨
https://bit.ly/PLTAS-RAR

✨Performing Lines is excited to share that Rinse is coming back to Sydney Opera House this September.💙

Following a critically acclaimed international tour across Europe, the UK and Canada, including a landmark premiere as the first Australian work ever presented at Festival d’Avignon, Amrita Hepi’s striking solo dance-theatre work returns home for a strictly limited season.

Created by Bundjalung and Ngāpuhi artist Amrita Hepi with acclaimed theatre-maker Mish Grigor, Rinse combines a highly physical dance vocabulary with evocative text, approaching the history of dance through a powerful decolonial lens.

📅 10–12 September 2026
📍 Playhouse, Sydney Opera House
🎟️ Book now via link below🔗💧
https://bit.ly/RinsePL

🔥 Performing Lines is thrilled to bring M’ap Boulé back to Sydney, lighting up winter at 2026 Bondi Festival on Bondi Beach.🌊

M’ap Boulé — Haitian Creole for “I’m on fire” — is a powerful play with songs by Nancy Denis, telling the story of a child born of immigrants growing up in a country called Australia. Blending storytelling, original music and poetry, this deeply personal work explores identity, culture and belonging with warmth, wit and emotional depth.🎶🕯️💛

Nancy will also be sharing space with local artists and creatives through her Spirit, Body, Soul Workshop, an intensive creative performance workshop exploring community, embodied practice and authentic storytelling.✨

🔥 M’ap Boulé
📅 Saturday 18 July📍Bondi Pavilion Theatre

✨ Spirit, Body, Soul Workshop
📅 Thursday 16 July📍Bondi Pavilion, Yalagang Room

🎟️ Tickets are heating up. 🔗Book now via the link below.
https://bit.ly/M_apBoule

✨ Performing Lines is proud to announce the 2026 Kolyang Program participants.

This year, 18 artists will take part across three key initiatives: Practising Mentorship, Studio Boosters and WA–SE Asia Lab.

Evolved in response to independent feedback and sector need, the 2026 Kolyang Program supports performance practitioners through mentorship, creative development, residency opportunities and industry connections.

Take a moment to meet the participants via link below. 💛🔗 We look forward to sharing more from the participating artists as their Kolyang journeys unfold later this year.
https://performinglines.org.au/announcing-the-2026-kolyang-program-participants/

We want to hear your story.
This August, UNWOMAN (the protest) comes to Her Majesty’s Theatre, a powerful live work shaped by real stories from our community.

We’re inviting people to share their experiences of fertility, infertility, pregnancy, and the choice to have (or not have) children, conversations that are deeply personal, and too often unspoken.

Not sure where to start? Join a relaxed, no-pressure info session on 24 June to learn more. From there, you can take part in workshops and, if you choose, see your story become part of a live performance and artwork.

No performance experience needed, just curiosity, honesty, and a willingness to connect.
If being on stage isn’t for you, you’re still warmly invited to be part of the audience for this FREE performance.

🎟️ Free event — bookings essential
👉 Sign up via the link https://bit.ly/43oq9ie

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the 2026 NSW Producers Exchange this week.✨

Held at PACT Centre for Emerging Artists, the event brought together producers, artists and arts workers from across the NSW performing arts sector for a warm and thought-provoking evening of discussion and networking over drinks and nibbles.🥂

Special thanks to Kween G and Brooke Webb GAICD for generously sharing their insights and experiences, and to Wanyika Mshila for facilitating such an open and engaged conversation around how terms like “social cohesion” and “safe spaces” are being used across the current arts ecosystem.💬

We’re grateful for the care, honesty and generosity shared in the room, and look forward to continuing these conversations with our NSW peers and the wider performing arts community.💛

📸 Lucy Parakhina

💛 LEGENDS is coming to Brisbane Festival 💗

Performing Lines is excited to announce that our award-winning show LEGENDS (of the Golden Arches) by Joe Paradise Lui and Merlynn Tong is coming to Brisbane Festival this September, fresh from winning two Performing Arts WA Awards for Outstanding Stage Design and Outstanding Costume Design.✨

This funeral will be the death of them.

A rip-roaring ride plunging two best friends into the depths of the Chinese afterlife, LEGENDS crosses genres, realities and theatrical convention with infectious zest. It’s a powerful, deeply personal examination of the Chinese cultural experience and the enduring power of friendship, revealed through a hilarious yet subtly moving lens.

📅 17–20 September 2026
📍 Cremorne Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC), Brisbane QLD
🎟️ Book now via the link below
https://performinglines.org.au/projects/legends-of-the-golden-arches/