'This is How We Survive' featuring Will Small & Rob Waters (Tamworth)

This is How We Survive invites the audience into an immersive exploration of human resilience, integrating short cinematic pieces, immersive sound design and poetic storytelling.

Will Small weaves his powerful performance poetry and thoughtful storytelling around three portraits of human survival:

Helen, who grew up without a mother, and became a midwife, supporting mothers and babies in the earliest moments of survival and strength represented by the space of birth.

Rob, a Gomeroi man who survived a fatal car accident at 15 years old, and knows what it means to ‘be survival’ as part of the oldest surviving culture on earth.
 
Roje, who lived in a refugee camp between the ages of 4 and 12 before arriving in Newcastle and eventually becoming a registered nurse. 
 
As a whole, This is How We Survive explores human resilience across time, cultures and geographies, providing a powerful reminder of the strength and persistence humans are capable of, even when faced with significant adversity.

This special showing ofThis is How We Survive will also feature live poetry from Gomeroi poet Rob Waters, the 2023 Australian Poetry Slam National Champion. The performance will also be followed by a free lunch.

This project has received funding from the Hunter New England Central Coast Primary Health Network (The PHN).