Wunder Gym x Melbourne Fringe Festival 2025 – Wyndham City + Hobson Bay

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Now in its fourth iteration, this bold and timely community arts program invites 24 emerging creatives to take part in Transcriptions, a unique project responding to this year’s theme of personal truth and collective storytelling.

Led by acclaimed artist and mentor James Nguyen, Transcriptions will delve into how memory, migration, and identity are shaped by the stories we inherit and those we’re never told. Through family records, forgotten archives, official documents, and whispered histories, participants will explore how art can recover, remix, and reframe the narratives that shape us.

Together, we’ll uncover what lies between the lines, what is redacted, mistranslated, or deliberately erased and create new artworks that give voice to silence and space to untold stories.

As part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival, the program will culminate in a compelling multi-site public exhibition, transforming spaces across Hobsons Bay and Wyndham City into sites of personal transcription. Locations to be announced soon.

This is your chance to be part of a boundary-pushing project that challenges how we see ourselves and others through humour, performance, language, and imagination.

Apply now to be part of Transcriptions and contribute to a deeply moving, highly original exploration of identity and memory.

In the interim, find out more information via the Wunder Gym website and apply via the Smartygrant application form.