Sprung Ensemble artist workshop

Hi. Hello. Howdy.
We are the artists from the Sprung Ensemble.
We are dancers and we are professional and focused.
We’ve been working together for a long time.

We would like to invite you to this workshop.
We want to share something we have been working on.
And connect with some new people and artists.
We would love your feedback and your ideas.
And might invite you to move with us.
If you feel like it.

We want you to feel happy, comfortable and positive.
If that’s how you want to feel.
Just be who you are.

We will share things about the ‘end of the world’ and disasters.
We understand if that’s something you don’t want to be a part of.
It can get a little deep but also a bit weird.
Our imagined ‘end of the world’ includes: riding buffalos, ticking clocks, raining marshmallows, a fresh start, thick mist, deserted streets, getting sucked into a dark hole and a bird wearing a heavy backpack full of rice.

We will listen and learn to and with you.
We won’t judge you or criticise.

Kind regards,
Tara, Zachary & Alice
on behalf of the Sprung Ensemble

WHEN

Fri 5 Sep, 11am — 12.30pm (with BYO lunch after)

WHERE

The Cavanbah Centre
249 Ewingsdale Road, Byron Bay

TICKETS

FREE, bookings required.
If you would like to attend the workshop please email [email protected]

Please note: Priority for this workshop is given to d/Deaf and disabled artists, but if you’re a non-disabled artist interested in attending, please get in touch and we’ll do our best to accommodate you!

ACCESS DETAILS

The Cavanbah Centre is wheelchair accessible with ramps and single level interior.
There is ample off street parking in the onsite car park, with three mobility spaces.
The venue is air conditioned.
The session will be Auslan interpreted.

A Sprung staff member will be waiting at the main entrance of The Cavanbah Centre from 10:45am to meet you and show you through to the venue for the workshop.

Please note that while we invite everyone to join us for lunch after the workshop, there is nowhere to buy food or drink nearby, so we ask that you bring your own lunch.

Please let us know if there’s anything we can do to create an accessible/inclusive collaborative space.

RECORDING

This workshop will be filmed and is part of Sprung Ensemble’s creative development for NORPA’s Dinner Party at the End of the World project. Photos, videos and audio recordings made will be used by NORPA and the Sprung Ensemble in the creative development process and may be used on NORPA and Sprung social media, in promotional materials and potentially in a future theatre work. Please let us know if you do not want photos or videos taken of you, or if you do not want these to be used in future.

ABOUT SPRUNG ENSEMBLE

“We are all artists. See us. Hear us. Feel us. Know that we exist.” Sprung Ensemble (Bundjalung Country/Northern NSW) develops original dance and theatre works. Both a training program for emerging d/Deaf and/or disabled artists and professional performance ensemble, Sprung has presented works at Brunswick Picture House, NORPA, Plunge Festival, and Australian Dance Awards.

Photo by Thomas Oliver