Kids Country is a project where children from Beeac Primary School explored their experiences and understanding of the land. The children developed stories to describe their environments. They develop visual interpretations as well as written and oral material to tell stories. As they created they learn how to collaborate and to develop personal and group narratives. The children’s stories were presented through live, site-specific, promenade-style puppetry performance and also presented digitally through sound. The stories have been presented on a geo-located app “Echoes” and also as a podcast on Spotify.
This residency took place on the lands of the Gulidjan and Gadubanud peoples, the traditional custodians of the Colac Otway region.
ARTISTS
Artistic Director / Project Designer - Penelope Bartlau
Set/Lighting Designer - Jason Lehane
Sound Design - Chloë Violette Smith
Workshop, Sound Design assistant and podcast developer - Callum Cheah
Assistant Performance Tech - Kyra Ryan
Deepest gratitude to Karen Cherry for her passion, vision, and commitment. Massive thanks to everyone at Beeac Primary School; teachers, staff, community, families and of course - the kids.
This Education Partnership is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria. Many thanks to the generous support of Acciona Wind Farms.
// Barking Spider Creative acknowledges the traditional custodians, Gulidjan and Gadubanud peoples, of the land on which we live, dream, work and create. We acknowledge the Ancestors and Elders, past, present and future. The sovereignty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has never been ceded//
30 апр 2022
