Who’s Holding My Dream 2009
Between 2000 and 2009, Somebody's Daughter devised and performed 19 original plays, staged 296 performances to more than 50,000 people, presented at 42 conferences, guided 416 community workshops, and prepared and mounted 19 art exhibitions!
For nearly three decades Somebody’s Daughter Theatre (SDT) has been working with communities of the disadvantaged to produce high quality theatre, music and art. Working with women in prison and post release and marginalised young people, this unique company has used the arts as a driver to break intergenerational cycles of abuse, addiction and institutionalisation of the most disenfranchised in our society.
The Company regularly works in collaboration with education, health and welfare agencies to establish strong community partnerships. In 2000 the Company’s first ‘official offspring’ HighWater Theatre – a creatively led education program for young people outside the mainstream school system - was developed in Albury/Wodonga.
A signature of the company is that it works intensively with communities for the long-term. SDT has proven itself a national leader in community arts and an outstanding model of effective social change:
The creative model working - where often all else has failed.
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