2025 - Grant Round 1
Ignition Recipients
3 x $5,000 plus in-kind studio access

GOLD MOUNTAIN WIVES 金山婆
BINGYAO LIU (SMALL RIPPLES THEATRE INC)
'Gold Mountain Wives' is a musical that brings to life the untold stories and friendships of three Chinese women in Geelong in the early 1900s.

CO(M)MOTION
BEN ANDREWS & EMMA ROBERTS
A surreal kinetic conversation using motion-responsive sound and projection to explore vestibular disability and the nested ecologies of movement that surround and permeate us.

TOGETHER
KARLIA COOK
TOGETHER is an inter-cultural dance performance that conjures the ancestral presence of human and non-human kin, through the meeting and co-existing of four pan-indigenous dance artists.
Jump Start Recipients
2 x $3,000 plus in-kind studio access

WHERE WE MEET
NATALIE O'DONNELL
Where We Meet is a concept exploration and development of what will become an engaging and vibrant theatrical experience. Conceived by Geelong creatives the proposed outcome will celebrate unique stories and experiences inspired and drawn from women local to Geelong and its surrounding region.

SHOWDOWN!
EMMA J HAWKINS & LEISA PROWD
Showdown! a light-hearted, physical theatre piece. Supposedly, everyone has a doppelganger in this world, and we are each other's. We eye each other across the void, wondering what makes us appear the same to others, but so different to ourselves.
Proudly Supported By Major Artistic Partner

Innovation Partner
