COMMUNITY PUBLIC PROGRAMS:
ON THE TABLE / THE GREEN BEE
ON THE TABLE
IN COLLABORATION WITH REBECCA JENSEN
On The Table is a weekly event for artistic exchange and collaboration run by Caitlin Dear and Rebecca Jensen at Dancehouse, Melbourne.
Each week’s session is hosted by a different artist or collective who are invited to put something ‘on the table’ for everyone to examine together. The program features artists working with different styles of dance, approaches to choreography, methods of bodily practice and relationships to movement.
On The Table particularly aims to highlight artists who work with dance in combination with other fields (for example gaming, science, therapy and visual art). Anyone from these intersecting fields are encouraged to come along!
Sessions range from workshops and in-progress performance showings to open artistic explorations. Artists might share choreographic material, a practice, an idea, a framework, a question, a score, a reading or any manner of provocation.
Everyone is invited to take part in the tasks at hand. Participation can be as little or as much as desired and you are free to come and just watch.
On The Table is free to attend and everyone is welcome whether you’re a professional dancer or you’ve never danced before.
Please wear comfortable clothing that you can move in and bring a water bottle.
For any questions or to submit an idea, please contact onthetable.contact@gmail.com
Working for the climate in art and action.
Open to all, the Green Bee is a series of free workshops facilitated by local artists, activists, scientists, environmentalists and community groups, to connect like-minded people to take climate action.
Join this series of working sessions to create and take climate action through a mix of art, advocacy, action, discussion, and practical support of local campaigns. Through this collaborative work, The Green Bee aims to build meaningful connections, future collaborations, support networks, and friendships.
The Green Bee is for everyone; whether you’re a curious beginner or a seasoned artist/activist.
This program is a partnership between Caitlin Dear and Rebecca Jensen, and Dancehouse.
The project is supported by City of Yarra.
Image: Green Bee#1 at Collingwood Children’s Farm. Photo by Matt Krumins.
GB EVENTS - 2023
An evening of radical perspectives on ecological art, activism and philosophy.
Hear from anarchist scholar and ecological activist Professor Yin Paradies. He will speak about decolonial approaches to activism and Indigenous perspectives around time, progress and environment.
Think with Ecological Gyre Theory (artists/researchers Chantelle Mitchell and Jaxon Waterhouse) about human/more-than-human entanglements. They will give a lecture-presentation that extends upon key themes of their work and attends to the communicative capacities of wind.
There will be time at the end to mingle with like minded thinkers, activists and artists to form new connections and alliances amungst community.
GB EVENTS - 2022
Art: Caitlin Dear
Action: Land care along the Birrarung Marr
Partner: Collingwood Children’s Farm
Art: Rebecca Jensen
Action: Advocacy and campaigns with Yarra Climate Action Now (YCAN)
Partner: Dancehouse
Art: GEOFADE (Devika Bilimoria and Luna Mrozik Gawler)
Action: Caring for and Connecting to Country with Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation
Partner: Collingwood Children’s Farm
Action: Political lobbying & letter writing workshop with Friends of the Earth
THE GREEN BEE
IN COLLABORATION WITH REBECCA JENSEN