How do neighbourhoods bind together in times of increasing weather events? How can a community adapt and build resilience together? Who are my neighbours? Where does food grow in my area?

Join Latai Taumoepeau in a fun artist-led approach to emergency preparedness. Ever wondered what you may need in an emergency kit, or what to do in a flood scenario? Get to know what you can do to be safe, meet other kids and emergency workers on a local food and medicine walk, make hi-viz fashion and generate lots of clean (renewable) energy!

PACT's Hyperlocal: EMERGENCE workshops are led by award-winning artist Latai Taumoepeau working with emerging artist and educator Paris Taia and local SES emergency services volunteers. Inspired by Latai's own climate change advocacy for Pacific Island Nations, the program will fuse live art with emergency preparedness, allowing young people and their guardians an opportunity to learn critical emergency response skills while also exploring the importance of community and local resources.

The workshop series is perfect for the young person who is passionate about our response to climate change and wants to explore how the creative arts can help give voice to their concerns for the future. Each workshop is dedicated to a different theme: emergency events; access and shelter; food and medicine; and flood. There are four workshops that each run for four hours on April 17, 18, 19, and 22. These workshops are recommended for young people aged 9-15, however, the last workshop on the 22nd is for a young person with their guardian to do together.

Make sure to register your spot before it's too late and sign up for all four workshops in the series as a package deal!

Latai is a well-renowned performance artist whose practice is strongly influenced by her homelands, the Kingdom of Tonga, and her birthplace of Sydney, Gadigal land. Recently Latai was awarded the 2022 ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art, and has had several works displayed at Queensland Art Gallery, including ’The Last Resort (2020)’, 'Dark Content’ (2018) and ‘Repatriate (2015)’.

Emergence is part of an ongoing series at PACT called Hyperlocal: Conversations with the Neighbourhood, exploring our relationships to place and environment.

Key information:

April 17: $25 (youth only)
April 18: $25 (youth only)
April 19: $25 (youth only)
April 22: $40 (youth and parents)
Full series package: $85 (for all four workshops)

Time: 11 am - 3 pm

Duration: 4 hours

Location: PACT Centre for Emerging Artists - 107 Railway Parade, Erskineville, 2043, NSW.

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About PACT

PACT’s vision is driven by the belief that emerging artists are the engines that power the arts sector, producing the most ground-breaking works of today and tomorrow. For more than 50 years PACT has provided performance makers with the time, space, and professional development needed to advance their artistic careers and drive forward the performance culture of Australia.