2024 YEAR IN REVIEW
Milk Crate Theatre has such a rich and beautiful history of making stunning performance works, and facilitating skills development programs with community. This year marked our 25th Anniversary of being an incredibly unique space for people who have varied and complex lived experience, to access artistic expression not readily available to us in many places.
We recognise our own powerful artistry, and celebrate our creative vitality!
What is most essential - across the programs and projects and workshops - is that people who work with us know that at Milk Crate Theatre, you are safe. You are acknowledged. You are seen and heard. You are valued for more than your stories of difficult lived experiences and circumstances. You are celebrated for your inherent artistry, your unique expression, your brilliant ideas, and all forms of your knowledge. You are welcome here and you belong.
Image 1: End of Year Party, photo by Jessica Saras.
Image 2: Stories Through Song workshop series, photo by Felicity Nicol.
Image 3: GENERATE - Developing Artist Program, photo by Margot Politis.
2025 will mark my tenth year with MCT, and eighth as Artistic Director. In this time, I have seen the company experience so many ebbs and flows; so many lessons and adaptations in the pursuit of constant evolution and growth. This is integral for a company like ours, because we are responsive in nature, and must always be ready to meet the needs of whoever needs us. In our 25th year I know that we have attained a beautiful balance of Arts Practice and Social Impact - we have actively co-created a shared culture of inclusivity and safety, as the support structure for challenging ourselves artistically.
Image 1: Social Impact Roundtable, photo by Jessica Saras.
Image 2: Smartphone Filmmaking workshop series with SF3, photo by Jessica Saras.
Image 3: End of Year Party, photo by Jessica Saras.
This balance is a living entity, which will continue to shift and change as the years go by, reflecting the individual humans who form part of our whole, and the artistic endeavours we seek to embark on.
Thank you to our Collaborative Artist community, without whom this company would not exist. May you continue to feed the creative impulse within you and find all forms for it's expression!
Thank you to our team of Artist Facilitators, Support Artists and Support Performers who are conduits for our work - your presence and passion enlivens us!
Thank you to our Board of Directors, funding bodies and supporters, who offer us the literal pathways to show our work to the world. Thank you to our audiences, who experience our work with us. And thank you to our Milk Crate Theatre staff - we are a small but mighty team! And I am grateful for the journey we have taken together this year in pursuit of our work.
Here's to an even brighter 2025! I am excited for us all to share in the programs and projects coming up in the year, together as the beautiful community we are.
Margot Politis
Artistic Director
December 2024
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