The Crush Collective mice have teamed up with PACT to throw a party for the hoard! Emerging artists, alternative milk enthusiasts, musos and stallholders will all be coming together to celebrate the launch of Mouse Mag, a magazine run by mice for mice. Come grab a drink and celebrate what it is to be a mouse, part of a hedonistic community of scamps that indulge in arts and culture in the fringes! We usually find ourselves in abandoned warehouses, empty bookshops, garages, and stoner bedrooms, engorging ourselves on every little lo-fi morsel of music, dance, visual arts and interactive shenanigans we can get our greasy paws on. This time the mice are moving into PACT!

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Details:

Date: 19th August 2023
Time: 6 pm - Late
Location: PACT Centre for Emerging Artists - 107 Railway Parade, Erskineville, 2043
This event is Auslan interpreted
PLEASE NOTE: As this is an all-ages event, please ensure you bring a form of digital (Service NSW accredited) or physical identification (ID). All IDs will be checked upon entry. Only Government-approved forms of identification will be accepted.

About Mouse Mag

Mouse Mag is a new magazine commissioned by PACT Centre for Emerging Artists that celebrates all things mouse. All pages have been created by members of Crush Collective, who have found the ways in which both artists and mice relate to the world. We’ve discovered that both mice and emerging artists relate as shy, cheeky daydreamers. The Mouse Crew of Crush Collective have scurried through the streets of Erskineville for pub crawls, fashion shoots and Instagram pics. Through articles, poems, quizzes, and horoscopes, Mouse Mag brings you the ins and outs to what it means to be in your Mouse Era.

About Crush Collective

Crush Collective is a performance and mixed media collective run by Bella Whitcher, Leah Herbert and Ellen Houghton. The aim of Crush Collective is to produce contemporary works and a gig culture for emerging artists within local communities. Crush Collective first began hosting Theatre Nights at Society City (2021-2022), allowing new writers and artists to present their works in progress and share a drink together. The collective was then a recipient of Wollongong Council’s Creative Wollongong Quick Response Grants (2022), where Crush Collective provided community writing workshops to women. The culmination of writing from the workshop participants was then adapted into a show at Society City, titled Feral Women (2022). This sellout show allowed actors and non actors to showcase their work to the community. Crush Collective also produced an interactive multimedia event titled girlblogging (2022) at the University of Wollongong. The Collective now runs Writers Night (2023) and Crush Nights (2023) at Merrigong’s new venue at 93 Crown St, allowing writers and artists from all practices to come together and work on projects with a community of artists. Crush Collective will soon be presenting Gen Z Journals (2023), an interactive doomsday party at 93 Crown St at the end of August and girlblogging (2022) at Qtopia’s Live At The Bandstand event in September.

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.

Access Information

PACT is committed to the health and well-being of our employees, artists, and visitors.

PLEASE NOTE: If you have any access requirements you would like to discuss prior to purchasing a ticket, such as Audio Description, please contact communications@pact.net.au prior to the event.

PACT is a fully accessible space with a small ramp at the entrance, flat floors throughout and dedicated wheelchair-accessible toilet and accessible street parking (non-dedicated). The closest accessible train station is Newtown Train Station (15 mins). PACT is committed to making our projects and performances as inclusive as possible for everyone to enjoy. If you have any suggestions or would like any information in another format, please don’t hesitate to contact us:

Phone 02 9550 2744 or email info@pact.net.au
National Relay Service ask for PACT on 02 9550 2744