2023 - 2024
UK
New Earth Theatre is the UK’s leading national British East and South East Asian touring theatre company, creating work informed by the artists and communities of East and South East Asian heritage living and working in the UK. This grant amplifies the story and legacy of Chinese seamen in Liverpool through engaging a wide range of people to research this history and leading a series of workshops, in response to the research, to generate creative responses and build a creative community around the story.
Support for a research and community-building project centered on facilitating relationships between multidisciplinary artists and history bearers (descendants, land stewards, family archivists and institutions). The research project will focus on 3 different themes: personal archives, family associations, the history of railroad construction and mining.
Creating artistic renditions of Chinese diasporic experiences
Enabling artistic research into the historic experience of Chinese people in Australia from the 1850s Gold Rush era