Performing Lines WA

🎉 Performing Lines is thrilled to be heading to Darwin Festival this August with ARCO (Jnr & Snr) by Adam Kelly and James Berlyn 🐠

Adam Kelly is, in his own words, an autistic gentleman, and his friend is a fish called Finbar. Blending storytelling, playful imagination and interaction, ARCO is Adam’s award-winning show about living with autism, exploring experiences of rejection, celibacy and optimism with honesty, humour and heart.

📍 Darwin Community Arts, Darwin, NT
📅 Thursday 20 August – Friday 21 August
🎟️ Tickets selling fast — 🔗book now via link below
https://performinglines.org.au/projects/arco

📣 Performing Lines publishes our 2025 Annual Report ✨

🎉 559 creatives employed
🎉 12 new works premiered
🎉 19 creative developments
🎉 10 tours here and overseas
🎉 16 sector development programs

🎉 Across 249 performances and 10 national and international tours, our work engaged audiences and participants in 20 cities and towns across Australia, and 14 international cities in 9 countries.

We’re often so immersed in the work—the process, the people, the outcomes—that we don’t always pause to tell our story. These numbers speak to the collective impact of artists, producers and presenters working together across the country. 🥂

🔗 View the full Annual Report and Financial Overview via the link below 💛
https://bit.ly/PL-Annual-Report-2025-Publish

📣 Studio Boosters 2026 — EOIs Open ✨

Performing Lines WA is excited to partner with PICA - Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and City of Fremantle to offer four (4) $5,000 Studio Boosters in 2026.

Building on the success of the Booster Grants model, this initiative includes access to studio space alongside auspicing and project guidance from PLWA. Each selected recipient will be supported through a financially assisted two-week residency for creative development and collaborative practice.

The Studio Boosters program supports the progression of works in transition — from concept development and writing through to onboarding collaborators and preparing for touring.

📅 EOIs Open: Wednesday 1 April 2026
📅 EOIs Close: Sunday 3 May 2026, 10pm
📣 Notifications: Thursday 7 May 2026

👆🔗 Learn more and apply via the link below
https://bit.ly/Kolyang2026

📸 Studio Boosters 2025 Izzy McDonald – Image by Emelia Peet

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