2022

PETA COY

'Salome Redux' was created by four female interdisciplinary artists; Peta Coy, Tina Mitchell, Shura Baryshnikov & Helen Yee through as part of Siti Company’s Residency for new works in New York 2016. A hybrid dance theatre piece with live music and live streaming technology, based on the infamous character Salome. Set in the wrestling ring, WWE style, it is an exploration of internalized misogyny in contemporary society. How women explore, repress, and destroy themselves and each other in their quest for authentic self-expression.

LIBBY BROCKMAN

'Roaring' is an immersive theatre experience where audiences are invited to explore 1920s Geelong. Using history as a mirror, and with a pretence of fun and frivolity, Roaring will delve into ideas of power, corruption, and untold female stories.

CONNOR MOREL

'A Lovely Day To Be Online' (working title) is one-person-pop-musical-turned-existential-crisis about a young adult realising the effect that social media is having on him. It addresses how it affects his relationships, his local community, and his broader understanding of how the world functions.

MISS CAIRO

Breasts Become Her (BBH) is a solo cabaret show written and performed by Miss Cairo, a queer transgender cabaret artist of colour which poses the question: At what point am I considered a woman?

CHRISTIAN CAVALLO

The Mentor is Amanda Redfern: a one-time Hollywood star whose life has spiralled in later years. When she begins tutoring young actor Jordan Ridley, the two discover a vastly different set of perceptions across themes of sexism, ageism, respect, consent, and mental health; their methodologies as actors fuelled by vastly different lived experience.

ATLANTA EKE

Dance and video project 'Querty' will see Surf Coast-based dancer and choreographer Atlanta Elke experiment with her interior and exterior interfaces and expand previously developed movement material by asking the questions; where is the surface of a dance? How does the dissonance between the seeing and feeling of the physical body program new pathways?

AMANDA FIRENZE

'The Privilege-O-Meter' will be an interactive street artwork that will aim to ultimately encourage as many residents of Geelong as possible to take a privilege quiz and learn about how privilege works (or doesn’t) for people in our community.

BELLE HANSEN

The World According to Dinosaurs is an interrogation of globalism through the lens of paleontology, world events and what we had for dinner last night. A culmination of the stories we tell ourselves about existence. Fact, fiction, wives’ tales, white lies, myths, learnt behaviours, common misconceptions - it’s all part of the human narrative.

STACEY CARMICHAEL

How do we connect to others? Has this changed given the current global climate? How do we connect to self, others and the world outside ourselves? How do we connect as artists to explore concepts and ideas? What is that point of connection where our different art forms and artistic expressions meet? Using group devised theatre processes and assembling a group of creatives from varying artistic backgrounds and training; Stacey aims to bring together a group of theatre makers to use these questions as a launching point for exploration and play!

GEELONG PLAYWRIGHTS

Geelong Playwrights will use their Creative Engine support to build a feasibility study and funding case for their vision for a new play writing festival in Geelong. Over five weekends, the Greater Geelong Play Festival would look to local venues across the state to provide playwrights with an opportunity to showcase new, original plays in competition. Culminating in a final for the winners of each ‘heat’, the festival would seek to adopt a non-traditional judging format, with a small panel of judges and both in-person and online audience members voting on the performances.

DAN BINGHAM

'Magic Adventures' by Dazzling Dan is an innovative, interactive video project akin to ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’.

Dan’s Place to Make grant will continue on the work he started with us in his 2021 Jump Start grant.

MARTA ELIZABETH LOPEZ

Representing the Geelong Latin American community through stage, theatre performances and audio-visual art at PAKO FESTA, Marta aims to be the catalyst for creating interest from other organisations to support the continuity of her group's projects at large and, in turn, be able to initiate the creation of other art projects.

CAROLINE MEADEN

Building on ideas seeded during a 2021 Creative Engine residency, Caroline will continue developing her practise at the intersection of dance, language, and acting, alongside 5 dancer/collaborators.