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Patrick Gunasekera (he/him) is a Sri Lankan-Australian independent artist, producer, and cultural safety mentor, based on Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar. He practices in theatre, dance, music and writing, and his work often subverts western art canons with queer, disabled, and brown contexts of community care, collaboration and resilience. As an actor, dancer, pianist, and singer his performance practices revel in the dynamic embodiments of marginalised people.

Patrick's past creative work includes After Lili (Audible Edge Festival 2024), Unapologetic (co-created with Adam Kelly and Daley Rangi, commissioned for People with Disabilities WA Inaugural State Conference 2020), and short works Risk pas de deux (The Blue Room Theatre in partnership with STRUT Dance 2024), Towards Warmth (Make-Shift Evenings 2024), After Silence (On John Cage) (Outcome Unknown 2023), and Freight (The Blue Room Theatre 2019). He was also a devisor and performer in recital (perhaps. a theatre company 2023 & 2024), Ngalaka Bininku (WA Youth Theatre Company in partnership with Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company 2020), yourseven (WA Youth Theatre Company in partnership with PICA 2018), and House of Joys (KAN Collective 2018). He grew up studying western art music, and was a tenor in the Perth Pride Choir from 2016 - 2017. His writing has been published in Archer Magazine, Cordite Poetry Review, Australian Poetry Journal, Voiceworks, Pulch Mag, Midsumma Blog, and the anthologies Growing Up Disabled in Australia (Black Inc. 2021), To Hold the Clouds (Centre for Stories 2020), and Wave After Wave (Centre for Stories 2019).

Patrick developed and facilitated a workshop on consensual storytelling called Autobiographical Storytelling for Deaf and Disabled Artists in residence at PICA in 2023. Since 2024 he has co-ordinated and taught a disabled-only dance class, originally supported by a STRUT Dance Space Grant and called Mobility Aid-Using Dance Jams. In 2025, as part of Audible Edge Festival's Night School, he curated and co-facilitated an all-disabled critical workshop series called Crip Constellations. His teaching practice is drawn from his background in peer education, and centres bodily autonomy, emotional safety, and non-hierarchical facilitation.

Since 2019 Patrick has worked in arts journalism at Seesaw Magazine, writing about the work of other disabled, migrant, queer and young artists. He is a also a cultural safety mentor, often working with independent artists and arts organisations of all sizes locally and interstate to develop healthier relationships with marginalised artists and audiences.

You can donate to Patrick's current choreographic work here: https://chuffed.org/project/127391-a-new-ballet-by-underrepresented-artists

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Disabled-Only Dance Class (Open Level)
Thu, 10 Jul, 3:30pm - 5pm AWST  + 11 dates
Disabled-Only Dance Class (Open Level)
King Street Arts Centre, Perth WA, Australia
Interdisciplinary Dance Class (Open Level)
Sat, 12 Jul, 9:30am - 11am AWST  + 11 dates
Interdisciplinary Dance Class (Open Level)
King Street Arts Centre, Perth WA, Australia
Disabled Cultural Safety: Training for Dance & Physical Theatre Teachers
Sun, 17 Aug, 1pm - 7 Sep, 4pm AWST 
Disabled Cultural Safety: Training for Dance & Physical Theatre Teachers
The Blue Room Theatre, Old Office, Perth WA, Australia
Disabled Cultural Safety: Pay-what-you-can Introductory Crash Course for Dance & Theatre Independents
Thu, 28 Aug, 5:30pm - 8:30pm AWST 
Disabled Cultural Safety: Pay-what-you-can Introductory Crash Course for Dance & Theatre Independents
The Blue Room Theatre, Old Office, Perth WA, Australia

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