A Theatrical Storytime with Alyson Evans

Sunday, March 7 10am to 10.30am Cost: Free Watch at Facebook.com /UpstreamAW

Celebrating literacy and art in a new and imagined way, this theatrical reading of the story book A River by Marc Martin will feature backing music and local performers.

THE ARTIST

Alyson Evans has worked around the world as a performer, theatre maker and community artist, with a particular focus on cultural development and social change. In Australia, Alyson has made theatre with remote Indigenous communities, young people, people with disabilities and mental illness, prisoners and former refugees, as well as in Cambodia, Nepal, Britain and New York. She is a freelance theatre maker, director and producer, and frequently collaborates with Outback Theatre for Young People (director/producer) and Sydney Theatre Company (teaching artist). In 2015 Alyson received the Australia Council for the Arts’ Kirk Robson Award, which recognises outstanding leadership from artists working in community arts and cultural development.