HYPERLOCAL | EMERGENCE: Workshops with Latai Taumoepeau
How do neighbourhoods bind together in times of increasing weather events? How can a community adapt and build resilience together? Who are my neighbours? Where does food grow in my area?
PACT's Hyperlocal: EMERGENCE workshops are led by award-winning artist Latai Taumoepeau working with emerging artist and educator Paris Taia and local SES emergency services volunteers. Inspired by Latai's own climate change advocacy for Pacific Island Nations, the program will fuse live art with emergency preparedness, allowing young people and their guardians an opportunity to learn critical emergency response skills while also exploring the importance of community and local resources.
The workshop series is perfect for the young person who is passionate about our response to climate change and wants to explore how the creative arts can help give voice to their concerns for the future. Working with Latai and Paris each day, participants will also meet with guest artists and workers from the local SES, with each workshop dedicated to a theme: emergency events; access and shelter; food and medicine; and flood. There are four workshops that each run for four hours on April 17, 18, 19, and 22.
The workshops are recommended for young people aged 9-15, and the last workshop on the 22nd is for a young person with their guardian to do together. Sign up for all four workshops in the series as a package deal! Make sure to register your spot before it's too late!
Latai is a well-renowned performance artist whose practice is strongly influenced by her homelands, the Kingdom of Tonga, and her birthplace of Sydney, Gadigal land. Recently Latai was awarded the 2022 ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art, and has had several works displayed at Queensland Art Gallery, including ’The Last Resort (2020)’, 'Dark Content’ (2018) and ‘Repatriate (2015)’. Inspired by her own climate change advocacy for Pacific Island Nations, Latai’s Emergence program aims to fuse live art with emergency preparedness, allowing kids and parents an opportunity to learn critical emergency response skills while also exploring the importance of community and local resources.
Emergence is part of an ongoing series at PACT called Hyperlocal: Conversations with the Neighbourhood, exploring our relationships to place and environment.
Key information:
April 17: $25 (youth only)
April 18: $25 (youth only)
April 19: $25 (youth only)
April 22: $40 (youth and parents)
Full series package: $85 (for all four workshops)
Time: 11 am - 3 pm
Duration: 4 hours
Location: PACT Centre for Emerging Artists - 107 Railway Parade, Erskineville, 2043, NSW.
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