Milk Crate Theatre effects social change through the power of performance.
Milk Crate Theatre provides a vibrant and inclusive space where artists of all backgrounds can come together to create provocative and transformational performance works.
Through deep and meaningful creative engagement, individuals build confidence, skills and connections; facilitating increases in self-reliance, empowering aspirations and providing a gateway for future social and economic engagement.
Our work offers audiences a new lens through which to view some of society’s most pressing issues, both challenging and expanding perspectives to inspire positive change in the world.
Our community of Collaborative Artists are people whose voices are under-represented. They are generally living with, have experienced or are at risk of homelessness; living with mental health or disability support needs; have experienced domestic violence or come from culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
We work with arts, social purpose, government, corporate and funding partners who can increase our participant and audience reach and impact.
We put our Artists at the heart of everything we do, providing a safe and accessible environment for the community to connect and personally develop through creative practice.
We use a range of creative practices to develop skills and foster confidence and provide platforms for expression and open discourse for social justice and change.
We create an environment where the experiences, feeling and rights of everyone are respected and valued.
We work collaboratively within our creative processes, and in partnership with arts, social purpose, government, corporate and funding partners to further our reach and impact.
We challenge our Collaborative Artists and audiences; pushing the boundaries of what art can be and disrupting conventional viewership paradigms.
We facilitate programs that are not based on respite or therapy but have a firm focus on the arts to enable and build capacity. Professional and Collaborative Artists work together to explore social themes from an art base we do not ask people to go into typecasting or to tell their personal stories of trauma to inform the depth of the work we produce. We are diligent about the avoidance of rehashing, retelling or re-traumatisation.
We do this by delicately balancing a strengths-based and trauma-informed approach in all our work. We are inspired by the Social Model of Disability and the Dignity of Risk.
