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Help us shape NORPA’s new young theatre makers program

 

Want to perform, create, and have fun on stage? NORPA is dreaming up a brand-new youth program for ages 12 – 26, and we want YOU to help shape it. We’re working on what the program will look like, and your input will help us make it the perfect fit.

It could include things like:

• Acting, improvisation, movement, and character development
• Exploring devised theatre-making and collaborating with creatives
• Working with industry professionals and NORPA’s Artistic Director, Julian Louis
• Building skills, confidence, and stage experience
• Creating and performing in a NORPA production

Interested? Fill out our short survey, tell us what excites you, and go in the draw to win a $20 gift card. Your input will help us design a program that’s the perfect fit.

Photo: Lift (2023) by Kate Holmes

Presented by NORPA, we have invited local primary students to take part in Future Feast — a creative learning journey that nurtures imagination, connection and care for the Earth.

Guided by professional artists in Drama, Dance, and Visual & Video Arts, students engage in hands-on workshops that explore themes of disaster, resilience, and renewal. Through movement, storytelling, and collaborative performance-making, they draw on their lived experiences and hopes for the future.

At the heart of Future Feast are the voices of young people. Through hands-on creative practice, students reflect on their relationship to community and Country while building skills in collaboration, expression, and reflection.

Their artistic responses will also contribute to a broader regional dialogue, feeding into NORPA’s major creative project for the year — Dinner Party at the End of the World, a powerful multi-artform work inspired by community responses to natural disaster.  

Teachers are supported throughout with curriculum-aligned resources and opportunities for professional learning alongside experienced artists.

This is more than a creative arts workshop — it’s a shared imagining of a better future, made possible through creativity, care, and collective action.

Future Feast received funding from the Australian Government through the Northern Rivers Recovery and Resilience Program, administered by the NSW Reconstruction Authority, and delivered by NORPA.

Future Feast was also presented in partnership with the Diocese of Lismore Catholic Schools Office – NORPA’s Education Partner.

 

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Part theatre and part interactive research project, Laboratory of Light provides a theatrical lens through which teachers and students will engage with the Science syllabus.

THE PERFORMANCE

Luminous is fascinated by light. Where does light comes from? How does it travel? What is it made of? Luminous spends the nights conducting experiments in the garden shed, or as they call it, the Laboratory of Light.

Through live experiments, live music and magical scientific discoveries, the performance evokes a sense of wonder for the world around us and how it works.

THE EXPERIENCE

The adventure begins with the arrival of education resources prior to attending the performance. Resources are delivered via Google Classroom with in-character audio files guiding students through self-directed experiments and activities. Resources include worksheets, info sheets, and a quiz, using science as a tool to understand and engage with the world.

On the day of the performance your class will spend time with Luminous in the Laboratory of Light. The performance will feature original contemporary music compositions. 

Presented by NORPA in partnership with the Catholic Schools Office, Diocese of Lismore.

Download the info sheet

SCHOOL PERFORMANCES 2025

HOTA: Thu 14 Aug, 10am & 12.30pm
50 mins (no interval)

SUITABLE FOR
Years 4—7 (age 9+)

CURRICULUM LINKS
Science Stage 3 and 4 (with links across Stage 2)

RESOURCES
Pre & post-show engagement and teacher resources

COST
Adult $30
Child $27
Students $30
HOTA Artists & Teachers $27
Student Group (6+) $27

ENQUIRIES
02 6622 0300
[email protected]

 

GALLERY

Photos by Kate Holmes

Theatre for schools with NORPA

Do you remember the first time you experienced the magic of live theatre? Ask any playwright, actor or theatre maker and it’s often their early exposure to the theatre that had a profound effect on them.

NORPA creates original productions that provide a theatrical lens through which teachers and students can engage with the syllabus, from Science to History to the Arts.  

For more information please contact our Education Coordinator or Box Office.