2024
La Mama Pathways 2024
La Mama Pathways is designed to offer multiple entry points towards career development and capacity building in the performing arts.
This program broadly offers opportunities for skill building, access, engagement, development and outreach in line with La Mama’s primary vision and mission.
Pathways aims to open doors and empower the next generation of artists and arts-workers, sharing La Mama’s legacy, whilst fostering our future creatives and cultural ecosystem.
The grant goes towards supporting the following:
CONNECT will offer the opportunity for networking as well as consultation to shape future programs. These sessions are free and open access events, bookings are required.
WRITING INTENSIVE is a theatre writing series in partnership with Australian Plays Transform (APT). Entry to this program will be via application, and an external selection committee will decide the final cohort.
EMERGE is an open access program for theatre makers aged 18 – 26.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SERIES offering open access, free professional development on topics to be determined by our community.
MENTORSHIPS will be offered for producers, stage managers, and other creatives.
DRAMATURGICAL SUPPORT will offer one on one sessions with experienced dramaturgs for selected writers who submit scripts to our open, free script appraisal service.
For more information, please contact Myf Powell, Development and Pathways Manager at [email protected]
La Mama Connect 2024
La Mama Connect offers space for artists to learn, network and grow community.
La Mama Connect aims to build a strong and supportive network within their creative community and foster a nurturing environment for collaboration and growth.
Session: Saturday Sept 21, Learning Program Roundtable
with La Mama Learning Producer Maureen Hartley & Stacey Carmichael (a/lone – La Mama Education Program 2024)
Session: Wednesday Sept 25, Have Your Say
A Community Forum held live and online. Help us envision the future of La Mama.
Writing Intensive 2024
La Mama Pathways Writing Intensive is a professionally tailored skills development initiative for emerging and mid-career playwrights and theatre-makers based in Melbourne. Designed with our experiential knowledge of making contemporary theatre, and with generous assistance from John T Reid Charitable Trusts, the 2024 program represents an evolution of, and is informed by, our thrillingly successful 2023 Pilot program.
Emerge 2024
For theatre makers aged 18 – 26 running throughout our 2024 Winter Season as part of La Mama Theatre’s Pathways Program.
Free to attend, Emerge provides young artists with dedicated time and space to make and develop their own work. No previous training is required – all you need is a commitment and openness to meeting new people, learning new skills, and engaging in a creative process.
Emerge ran over 10 weeks with weekly workshops on Saturdays from 20 July to 14 September, culminating in a one week performance season from 16 – 22 September 2024 at the La Mama Courthouse.
Emerge 2024 was facilitated by guest artists and long-term collaborators Liv Satchell & Xanthe Beesley. Across the ten weeks, Liv and Xanthe will share their individual and shared practices in devising, generative writing, movement, and dramaturgy. They’ll lead participants in theatre making experiments that weave together body and text to create an original performance work.
Professional Development Series 2024
13 FREE Sessions across 5 nights and 4 days
50 presenting experts
All sessions are free
All sessions live and livestreamed
All evening sessions Auslan interpreted