Utp is delighted to invite you to a showing of She Rested, a work in development by Aimée Falzon.

Date: Friday 23 August

Time: 2-4pm (including post-show conversation)

Location: RS1, 5 Olympic Parade, Bankstown

She Rested is a concert and a ritual, a story and a song.

Drawn from her real-life experiences of motherhood, She Rested is a work by performer-composer Aimée Falzon, with collaborators S. Shakthidharan and Eddie Abd.

She Rested remembers that the parent is also born with the child. It reveals how ushering in and nurturing a new life also become acts of obliteration, transformation and rebirth for the parent — whether they like it or not.

Bearing witness to this transformation, the work blends mythology with domestic life, live music with storytelling, contemporary feminism with the goddesses of all our pasts. She Rested documents the rite of passage new mothers go through, which is too often unrecognised or made invisible. This performance-ritual welcomes the new person that emerges through the fire.

Content warning: suicidality and postnatal depression

If you have any questions about the content of the show, please get in touch with Jessica at jessica@utp.org.au. If you feel affected and need to exit the room, please feel comfortable doing so.

For more information about She Rested, visit our website.

This project is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.

About the Artist:

Aimée Falzon (she/they) is a composer, singer, music producer and performer. Aimée mixes Maltese, Scottish and Libyan blood. She grew up amongst the hills of remote NSW, singing to cattle, getting lost in the bush and riding her horse across the gullies to her grandparents' – where she would sing in their madrigals choir and learn to play piano.

Aimée’s musical composition/performance and sound design credits include: Karim for National Theatre of Parramatta in 2024, 宿 (stay) for Sydney Festival 2022, Juxta EARTH interactive installation in Bankstown Biennale, Nothing for National Theatre of Parramatta in 2023, Sex, Drugs and Pork Rolls with Utp and Sweatshop for Sydney Festival 2021, When The Tide Comes In (2016), a series of audiovisual performances at Carriageworks, Riverside Theatres and then online; Rizzy’s 18th Birthday at Carriageworks, which was adapted into feature film Riz that premiered at Sydney International Film Festival (2015); and outdoor live art work The Other Journey at Parramasala Festival and Ten Days on the Island Festival in Tasmania (2013). In the latter three works she was also the production designer and visual artist.

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- Access Notes -

TRANSPORT

Public Transport – Utp is located very close to Bankstown train station. It is 300 metres, and about a 7-minute walk away. There are several crossings on this walk. Please beware that the Dale Parade car park generally has cars coming in multiple directions.

Parking is available at the Olympic Parade car park and Marion car park nearby. There is also a minibus drop-off zone at Dale Parade, 25 metres to the Arts Centre's main entrance.

If you arrive after 6:30 and the front automatic door is closed, please access the Arts Centre via the back gate through the Olympic Parade car park.

VENUE

Wheelchair Access – You can enter the Arts Centre via the front of the building at Dale Parade. There is a lift that can take you from ground level to the courtyard. There is a ramp to get to all rooms but there is no ramp into the inner grassy courtyard. The step down from the courtyard is around 10cm high.

We will maintain wide and clear pathways at this event.

Accessible and all-gender bathrooms are in the foyer of Bankstown Arts Centre. There are also two more that can be accessed via Rehearsal Rooms 1, 2 and the Theatre. They are equipped with a handrail and an assistance button. A baby-change station is available in the foyer bathroom.

Guide Dogs and support animals are welcome at Utp and Bankstown Arts Centre. You can take them into RS1.

For detailed access information to the venue, please visit the Access page on our website.