We are thrilled to announce that The Wholesome Hour is back! It’s a re-run! This video is guaranteed to cheer you up. It is full of funny-funny-funnies and earworms that will infiltrate your mind to have you eating tofu and digging holes all day long. Available for 30 days on La Mama’s Facebook page from this Friday at 4:30pm. “Watch this with your kids. Please.” – Michael Brindley.
We are also adding two extra school holiday sessions for the online workshop Concoct with Your Imagination on Thursday 23rd at 10:30 am, for kids between 7 – 9 years old and 12 pm for kids between 9 – 11 years old.
Have you ever wondered how actors prepare in lockdown? Scroll down to get some tips* from some theatre veterans in a new weekly series called An Actor Prepares in Lockup.
WHAT’S ON SNAPSHOT:
THIS WEEK
- La Mama for Kids Online: Mer-Play, Supported by Cassandra Fumi.
[Sep 7 – 21] - La Mama for Kids: Online Workshop: Concoct your Imagination, Facilitated by Loukia Vassiliades. [Sep 1 – 23]
- La Mama for Kids Online: The Wholesome Hour Returns, Created by The Wholesome Hour [Sep 17 – Oct 17]
NEXT WEEK
- La Mama for Kids Online: Mer-Play, Supported by Cassandra Fumi.
[Sep 7 – 21] - La Mama for Kids: Online Workshop: Concoct your Imagination, Facilitated by Loukia Vassiliades. [Sep 1 – 23]
- Poetica Online. Curated by Amanda Anastasi [Sep 21]
An Actor Prepares in Lockup
Episode 1
Performed by Maureen Hartley Clare Larman Louise O’Dwyer and Brenda Palmer
Tech by Joe Eidelson
* We may have exaggerated when we said tips but it is guaranteed to make you LOL
LA MAMA FOR KIDS EOIs
Seeking: Artists with big ideas for little people
Send your proposal by September 30th
Are you an artist with a practice that centres children and young people? Do you run workshops? Make engaging performances for young people? Or maybe you haven’t engaged with young audiences before, but you have an idea for younger audiences?
Send an EOI to our La Mama for Kids Producer, Sophia Constantine, kids@lamama.com.au by September 30th, 2021, for projects in Feb – May 2022.
WHAT’S ON: LA MAMA ON DEMAND
TODAY
La Mama for Kids: Mer-Play
Sept 7 – 21
For young people run by young people.
Half an hour of movement, games, activities, and general joy on Zoom.
Facilitated by the cast of The Mermaid. Join us every Tuesday for half an hour as we move our bodies.
This week Theo Boltman and An Dang will run the session.
Theo is a 15 year old performer, activist and ballet dancer. They have performed since 2017 around Australia and Europe. They started their activism in 2018 through their volunteer work with the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, School Strike 4 Climate and Melbourne Youth for Refugees. They also produce a podcast called Beyond the Echo Chamber.
An is an actor, dancer and singer with a background in circus where she trained with the National Circus of Vietnam as a contortionist. An has a passion for both theatre and film and is currently undertaking training at institutions across Melbourne such as Melbourne Actor’s Lab and MTA, while also studying languages at university.
Facilitated by Allegra Di Lallo, An Dang, Theo Boltman, Casper Plum, Flora Feldman, Marshall Morgan, Asha Randall-Sheppard, Ella Simons, and Frankie Willcox.
Supported by Cassandra Fumi
Pay As You Feel
WEDNESDAY
La Mama for Kids: Online Workshop
Concoct your Imagination
What do you get when you mix invisible ingredients and a big dash of YOUR imagination?
A cooking contest with a twist!
Come! Bring some drama and make reality tv (zoom) history.
Led by teaching artist Loukia Vassiliades, a qualified actor and experienced teacher online and offline. Lou is passionate about sparking a unique creative contribution and joy through exploring, nurturing and connecting.
Image by Aurora Vassiliades Morrison
Max: 10 participants in each group
Thursday 23rd
10:30 am for 7 – 9 year olds.
12 pm for 9 – 11 year olds.
Pay As You Feel
La Mama for Kids: THE WHOLESOME HOUR RETURN
Sep 17 – Oct 17
It’s a re-run! The Wholesome Hour are a Green Room Award winning kids comedy troupe! This video is guaranteed to cheer you up. It is full of funny-funny-funnies and earworms that will infiltrate your mind to have you eating tofu and digging holes all day long.
Against all odds they made this smash hit ‘Episode One’ in 2020 as a co-production with La Mama for Kids Online and support from Creative Victoria and City of Melbourne.
‘Watch the show, watch the show, sometimes you should watch the show.’
(Fans out there will get this in-joke.)
Available for 30 days on La Mama’s Facebook page
Watch it for Free!
Available from 4:30pm Sept 17th
NEXT WEEK
La Mama Poetica ONLINE
Sep 20 | 7.30pm
La Mama Poetica September was sold out as a live event, but now that we have moved online we have MORE TICKETS AVAILABLE!
Our amazing line-up includes Jennifer Mackenzie, Michael Leach , Maxime Banks & Kevin Pearson!
OPPORTUNITIES
HYPERLOCAL EOI
Applications close 20th September
HYPERLOCAL now accepting EOIs from Victorian based artists!
Inviting artists to work ‘hyperlocally’ with Performing Lines, and presenting partners Abbotsford Convent, Dancehouse, Darebin Arts, and The Substation. Work can be new, re-imagined, physical, and/or virtual. Successful artists will be given time, space and resources.
BRUNSWICK DESIGN DISTRICT’S MAKING SPACE RESIDENCY PROGRAM
Applications close 6th October
Making Space will offer a residency at one of these partner venues – Blak Dot Gallery, BRUDI (Brunswick Design and Innovation Centre),
Brunswick Library, Brunswick Town Hall (Seat at the Table), Coburg Library, Siteworks and Schoolhouse Studios.
Open to individuals and groups in the arts and creative industries, a variety of spaces are on offer to suit different practices.
Each residency includes the use of a space for 1-5 months duration and a small stipend for the resident of $1,000 to support the
development of a creative project or idea.
Brunswick Design District (BDD) is a partnership between Creative Victoria, RMIT and Moreland City Council.
Residencies will take place from December 2021- 3 June 2022.
La Mama Theatre is on traditional land of the people of the Kulin Nation. We give our respect to the Elders of these traditional lands and to all First Nations people past, present and future. We acknowledge all events take place on stolen lands and that sovereignty was never ceded.
La Mama is financially assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council – its arts funding and advisory body, Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government initiative, the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, and the City of Melbourne through the Creative Partnerships Program.
