APAX 2025: Sessions on Demand
Over 400 delegates including many new faces came together in Garramilla I Darwin this August for APAX 2025: a week of connection, provocation, reflection and future thinking.
Scroll down to watch key sessions from the program including:
- It’s Not Them, It’s Us (this video is for members viewing only)
- Arts Market #1
- Arts Market #2
- Arts Market #3
- Arts Market #4
- Sector Hotspots
- Sector Updates
- Panel: The New Presenters
- Panel: Strengthening Community Engaged Practice
- APAX Conference Opening and Keynote Address
- We Need New Models (this video is for members viewing only)
- Blak Lines to Blak Futures (this video is for members viewing only)
- Competing Desires and the Sustainability Imperative (this video is for members viewing only)
- Thinker in Residence recap and APAX close
Audiences have changed, but has our industry kept up?
In this provocative speech, Amy Maiden, Chief Executive of international entertainment consultancy Anthem, challenges the sector to face its greatest threat: not algorithms, economic headwinds or late-booking audiences, but our own resistance to change.
Meet your hosts and get stuck into a range of pitches and showcase performances.
In this session:
Yandha Djanbay (Go Slowly) | Merrigong Theatre Company
TINA – A Tropical Love Story | BRG Productions
ENDLING | Legs on the Wall
The Next 14 Seconds | Cluster Arts Global
Keep Your Head Up | re:group performance collective
Creation Creation | Windmill Theatre Company
Dalegada (Long Ago) | Payanggatha
Crossing the Divide | Shock Therapy
The Censor | Cassandra Fumi and Vidya Rajan, produced by Performing Lines
1 minute digital shorts:
Where to Hide a Star | Australian Chamber Orchestra
Casting Off / Party Ghost | A Good Catch / Doubletake supported by Cluster Arts
Endling and ColdVoice | Playable Streets and Barking Spider Collective
In Their Own Words | Rachel Beck and Hey Dowling Productions
Echo Mapping | Intimate Spectacle
The Lost Balloon / Bolster and Lee / The Bubble Canteen | Clint Bolster
Think of this session like a double-bill – we’ll have a leg stretch break between sessions 2 and 3, but it’s a hearty line-up this afternoon. You won’t want to miss it!
(But maybe bring some water in with you!)
In this session:
Sing on Country | Jessie Lloyd
The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave | Oli Mathiesen, with Lucy Lynch, Sharvon Mortimer
Gardener’s Apprentice | Force Majeure
Hymns for the Witching Hour | Brown’s Mart
Wilds | ROOKE
MONOLITH | Joel Bray Dance
Back to Square One? | The Rebel Alliance
Fever Dream | Curious Legends
1 Minute Digital Shorts:
The Nervous Atmosphere | Chamber Made
Little Blue Dot | Lemony S. Puppet Theatre
I Hide in Bathrooms | Astrid Pill produced by Insite Arts
Lucas Proudfoot & Friends | Cluster Arts Global
Progress Report | Alison Currie and Alisdair Macindoe produced by Insite Arts
Unwoman (the protest) | THE RABBLE produced by Performing Lines
Following a quick leg stretch, Arts Market Session #3 will kick off with a preview of day two, before the next line-up of pitches and showcases.
In this session:
Yirrkala Project (working title) | Branch Nebula
Company Update | Gravity & Other Myths
Camp Culture | Dale Woodbridge Brown produced by Cluster Arts
Te Tangi a te Tui | Te Pou Theatre & The Dust Palace
1 Minute Digital Shorts:
The Mixed-Race Tape | Nexus Arts
Hometown | Spare Parts Puppet Theatre
It’s a full day, but you won’t want to miss this final run of pitches and showcases… what if the next unmissable work is presented… and you’ve missed it?
In this session:
Fuccbois: Live in Concert | Soft Tread Enterprises
The Box | Nathan Maynard and Rob Braslin by Mudlark Theatre
An Imaginary Life | Humphrey Bower & Libby Klysz
HIGH VOLTAGE | Joseph O’Farrell (JOF)
Company Update | GUTS Dance Central
Guewel | 13:12
POD | Luminous Productions
Hall Stories | Damian Callinan
1 Minute Digital Shorts:
Sally Chance Dance produced by Insite Arts
The Robot Dog | Melbourne Theatre Company
New research, projects, and initiatives for the sector, by the sector:
– First Nations Workforce Development Framework
– Creative Climate
– Kindred People, Monash University
– QUT – Advancing Digital Innovation in Live Performance
– Changing a name – DEC to AANT
The latest news, updates, research and ideas from Creative Australia and PAC Australia.
Experienced practitioners in CACD and community engagement in discussion about the linkage between participation and audience development, and where a commitment to resourcing this work could take the performing arts sector to grow stronger communities and build new audiences across Australia.
Hear from Thinker in Residence Kevin du Preez, Provocation from Erica McCalman and Keynote Address from Andy Packer.
We need new models… but what does this really look like? Who’s pioneering in this space, and what we can all do rather than waiting for a top-down response? Be the change.
Blak Lines to a Blak Future will bring together our presenting partners, Artistic Directors of contemporary dance companies, and producers for an essential conversation on how we engage with First Nations dance within our communities and in a touring context. The discussion will explore place-based solutions to grow audiences, diversify programming, and build a sustainable, engaged, and self-determined future for our ecology.
This panel builds on the provocations and priorities set at the 2024 inaugural Blak Futures gathering, continuing the dialogue with those presenters who have remained most active in championing Blak work.
To achieve sustainability in all its forms often requires balancing competing desires and confronting those challenges with the urgency they demand. We’ll pick apart the issues of our finite resources, the juggle to meet our current needs, exploring how we can ensure abundance into the future.