Treehouse Theatre
Description
Through group story telling in a live public theatre performance, young refugees share their personal stories.
http://treehousetheatre.org.au/ We are passionate about giving “The Refugee Experience” a genuine and empathic face.
The resilient young refugees with whom we work, offer us their life’s stories with open-hearted grace, and thus hand us the privilege and the responsibility of finding a way to give these stories voice and audience.
We long for all Australians to hear these kids. We yearn for affluent and safe Australians of every colour to feel these stories. We crave other kids of all backgrounds to connect these (genuine!) vibrant faces with the word “refugee”.
And so “The Tree of Life Project”, a theatre and mentoring project, was born, and later, Treehouse Theatre as its formal vehicle.
We are old friends, having met in our work with young refugees, Catherine as a Psychologist and School Counsellor, and Ruth as a Drama teacher and teacher of English as a Second Language.
We both love theatre, and believe in the power of stories to enliven and transform, and in the “tangled magics” (to quote Tim Winton) of live theatre to take us inside the experience of the story-teller.
Previous audiences of “Tree of Life” have testified to feeling both enlivened and transformed by the stories of “our” kids, and we listen to the sounds of audiences sobbing, and then shouting with laughter, with full hearts.
We delight in the growth of confidence and happiness in our young refugees, as they discover that Australians are fascinated by what they have to say.
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facebook.comStudying for their lives as refugee students navigate challenges of Australian education - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Remember Tree of Life 2016? Seems like these stories are familiar to all refugee kids 😢
The Refugee Crisis: Lesbos, Greece
Robin and Robert Jones have lived part-time in the village of Molyvos, on the beautiful island of Lesbos, Greece for 42 years. Their book documents the lives of the refugee children that began arriving on their shores. What wonderful hearts to share art with all.
Refugee vows to contribute
Rozita Takzare is inspiring us this week. Despite many roadblocks in her path she is determined to succeed!
Timeline Photos
Goodbye Suitcase Stories: Tangled Lives cast. We loved you! Please keep in touch 😭😭😭
The long journey from a refugee camp to an Australian school
Challenges that our casts are facing right now.
Timeline Photos
Our beautiful cast have shared some of their storm stories with us this week. Such terrible things have happened and yet they still keep smiling! #refugees #truestories
Timeline Photos
We are on at 7pm but have #soldout so if you didn't book you will have to come up to Casula in June!
Refugee’s book follows brave journey
Never let them say you can't. Congratulations on your first book!
Only 30 tickets left to 7pm show tomorrow night at Mittagong Playhouse. Better book before you loose your chance to see these wonderful refugee kids share their stories!
Treehouse Theatre — givenow.com.au
Can't make it to see us in MIttagong this weekend? You can still support us by donating here. We are currently auspiced through STARTTS meaning that it can be tax deductible!
Brisbane to help refugees resettle in Australia through tech
Brisbane pays host to hackers and humanitarians in March, all working together to find a better solution to refugee resettlement issues through tech. We can't wait to see what they come up with!
This Tortoise Could Save a Life - Ft. Alan Rickman
Delightful way to 'spend' a minute.
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