Speakeasy Scratch Night: Change

Bridget Webster and Sophia Derkenne: Loose Change
An interactive invitation by Bridget and Sophia to explore how we as a little collective on scratch night conceptualise, feel about and enact giving.

Isabel Knight: In Train
An exploration of public space, private thoughts, loneliness and the potential of connection that surrounds us daily. 

Gabrielle Fallen: AQUAMARINE
A young trans girl going swimming for the first time in years, on the first day of autumn, in a Gadigal cove. Can you waste a summer?

Zadie Kennedy Mccracken: Kid Wonder
In a basement under a gay club, Mila and Marko are hiding out from life. 

This is a night of works in progress. The content may include coarse language and adult themes.

This event will run for approximately two hours and will include a mix of performance excerpts, opportunities for silent reflection, and conversations between audience members facilitated by VIMH co-Artistic Directors Liv and Jules in response to the ideas presented around concepts of 'change'.  

This framework of collective thinking that will be developed across the evening is strictly opt-in - if you just want to support a friend by sitting up the back, that's completely okay too! 

There will be space to get up and move around, and to take breaks as and when you need.  

the voice in my hands (VIMH) is a Darebin-based theatre company focussed on new work development and support for independent artists, led by Co-Artistic Directors Julian Dibley-Hall and Liv Satchell. VIMH is well-known for their community gathering practice, creating open access opportunities where experimentation feels safe and practice is rigorous and inclusive. They were instrumental to Small and Loud, a popular and long-running scratch night that ran in various venues across Melbourne prior to the pandemic.