Across Mandarin and Cantonese speaking countries, when someone is in the middle of the hard work, you shout it: 加油. Add oil.
Watch Performing Lines Artist Joe Paradise Lui show us how adding oil makes delicious performance with bold flavours, backed by research and development. We partner in risk and celebrate for bold flavour centred on Lived Experience.
Care to join?
Give to Performing Lines today and fuel transformative performance.
🧧🔗Link in bio.
📸 @chan_darius
🦄 @unicorn_manes_bymykey
#eofy #加油 #addoil #ausarts #oilcrisis
📣 Performing Lines publishes our 2025 Annual Report ✨
🎉 559 creatives employed
🎉 12 new works premiered
🎉 19 creative developments
🎉 10 tours here and overseas
🎉 16 sector development programs
🎉 Across 249 performances and 10 national and international tours, our work engaged audiences and participants in 20 cities and towns across Australia, and 14 international cities in 9 countries.
We’re often so immersed in the work—the process, the people, the outcomes—that we don’t always pause to tell our story. These numbers speak to the collective impact of artists, producers and presenters working together across the country. 🥂
🔗 View the full Annual Report and Financial Overview via link in our bio 💛
#performingarts #theatre #independentartist #annualreport #addoil
📣 Registrations Open: 2026 NSW Producers Exchange
Join us on Wednesday 10 June for the 2026 NSW Producers Exchange, centred around the theme Risky Business and Safe(r) Spaces.
This year’s Exchange brings together producers, artists and arts workers from across the NSW performing arts sector for an evening of practice-led ideas, firsthand reflections and sector connection.
The event will include a short panel discussion exploring how we can support bold, challenging artistic work while creating genuinely safe, ethical and responsible environments for everyone involved. The discussion will be followed by networking.
📅 Wednesday 10 June 2026
⏰ Doors open 5:30pm for a 6pm start
📍 PACT Centre for Emerging Artists, 107 Railway Parade, Erskineville NSW
🥂 Drinks and light snacks provided
Free event, but RSVP is essential as capacity is limited.
🔗 RSVP by Wednesday 3 June via the link in bio.
Panellists to be announced soon.
#performingarts #theatre #sydney #creatives #panel
Last night was a joy and tonight is your chance to experience the fire.
Join us tonight at 7pm for M’ap Boulé, an intoxicating fusion of storytelling, ritual, rhythm and revolution.
Consummate storyteller Nancy Denis brings vulnerability, wit and fierce spirit to the stage in a powerful celebration of culture, resistance and connection.
🔥One more night. Don’t miss it.
When: Sunday 3 May, 7pm
Location: Black Box Theatre, The Old Ambulance Station, Nambour
Video by @gdocs.co
📣 Kolyang Program 2026 WA-SE Asia Lab — EOIs Open ✨
Performing Lines WA is thrilled to announce the return of our residential Kolyang Artist Lab, a four-day program supporting artists to develop project ideas and expand their practice. Facilitated by Sandi Woo @sandiwoo , the Lab brings together nine artists working across live performance to engage with several mentors. The Lab will take place from 30 July to 2 August and is open to artists at all stages of their career. This year, the Lab will host seven WA artists and two Indonesian artists.
📅 EOIs Open: Friday 1 May 2026
📅 EOIs Close: Sunday 24 May 2026
📣 Notifications: Wednesday 3 June 2026
👆🔗 Read full details and apply now via the link in bio
📸 Midfield, delivered by Fremantle Biennale, Performing Lines WA and STRUT Dance – Image by Thomas Earnshaw
#performingarts #westernaustralia #independentartists #kolyang #lab
🔥 M’ap Boulé opens at Horizon Festival 2026 this weekend ✨ @horizonartfest
🎶✨ M’ap Boulé — Haitian Creole for “I’m on fire” — is a play with songs tracing Nancy Denis’ @thenancydenisshow journey to embrace her Black, Queer, Haitian and Australian identities, carried by the pain and joy of her self-liberated ancestors — a celebration of culture, connection, resistance and spirit 🔥🕯️
★★★★
“M’ap Boulé is a gift of vital life, a celebration, a revolution. It ignites, and we all catch alight.” — Sydney Morning Herald
★★★★
“It is the emotional connection to the songs that will stay with you after you leave the theatre.” — Time Out Sydney
📍 Black Box Theatre, The Old Ambulance Station, Nambour QLD
📅 2–3 May 2026
🎟️ Final tickets remaining 🔗 grab yours now via the link in bio.
Come feel the fire. 🔥🕯️
#HorizonFestival #MapBoule #SunshineCoast #LiveTheatre #WhatsOnSunshineCoast
🎉 Congratulations to the team behind LEGENDS (of the Golden Arches) on their wins at the Performing Arts WA Awards 💛 @performingartswaawards
We’re proud to celebrate these outstanding achievements:
🏆 Outstanding Costume Design
Nicole Marrington @nicole_marrington_costume
🏆 Outstanding Stage Design
Cherish Marrington @ishmarrington
LEGENDS (of the Golden Arches) by Joe Paradise Lui @the.china.cupid.in.paradise & Merlynn Tong @merlynntong — presented with @perthfest and produced by Performing Lines WA @perflineswa
A huge congratulations to Nicole, Cherish and the entire creative team for this richly imagined and visually striking work. ✨
#performingarts #independenttheatre #creatives #westernaustralia #artsandculture
🔥 The fire continues… come experience M’ap Boulé at Horizon Festival 2026 ✨ @horizonartfest
Nancy’s 5 Ways M’ap Boulé connects to culture — Part 2 @thenancydenisshow
4️⃣ FOUR
“I talk about The Ancestors. In this renaissance of people connecting and understanding our old ones from before and how they live through us, we celebrate those who walk beside us, guiding us and caring for us.”
5️⃣ FIVE
“For all you spiritual girlies looking for the answers, M’ap Boulé, through song, spoken word and chit chat, explores the rollercoaster journey of the health of our minds and the important practice of finding joy.”
📍 Black Box Theatre, The Old Ambulance Station, Nambour QLD
📅 2–3 May 2026
🎟️ Tickets selling fast 🔗 secure your seats now via link in bio.
Come feel the fire. 🔥🕯️
#HorizonFestival #MapBoule #SunshineCoast #LiveTheatre #WhatsOnSunshineCoast
📸 @purpleflower_productions@iolanthelovesyou@s1mkaur@u.should.coco@mua_felicity@thatsmotherellietoyou@studiokilla .
🔥 Meet Nancy Denis in M’ap Boulé at Horizon Festival 2026 @horizonartfest
Nancy Denis @thenancydenisshow is a bold multidisciplinary artist working across theatre, television, film and music. Her work spans Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir, Ensemble Theatre and Hayes Theatre Company, with screen credits including ABC’s Cleverman, Netflix’s 600 Bottles of Wine and Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby.
She is the creator of the touring original play with songs Ma’p Boulé, a work exploring her Haitian ancestry, originally developed in collaboration with Urban Theatre Projects @utp___ and now produced by Performing Lines @performinglines . Nancy continues to develop new work as both performer and director.
✨ Catch M’ap Boulé at Horizon Festival 2026.
📍 Black Box Theatre, The Old Ambulance Station, Nambour QLD
📅 2–3 May 2026
🎟️ Tickets selling fast 🔗 secure your seats now via link in bio.
Come feel the fire. 🔥🕯️
#HorizonFestival #MapBoule #SunshineCoast #LiveTheatre #WhatsOnSunshineCoast
📸 @purpleflower_productions@iolanthelovesyou@s1mkaur@u.should.coco@mua_felicity@thatsmotherellietoyou@studiokilla.co
📣 Kolyang Program 2026 Practising Mentorship — EOIs Open ✨
Performing Lines WA is excited to offer five mentorship opportunities for WA-based performance makers as part of this year’s Kolyang Program. This new initiative connects emerging to mid-career performance makers with experienced industry professionals, writers and artists.
Each selected participant will engage in two paid, one-on-one sessions with a mentor. The mentorship program supports artistic development, professional exchange and meaningful industry connections. One mentorship opportunity will be awarded to an independent First Nations artist.
📅 EOIs Open: Monday 13 April 2026
📅 EOIs Close: Sunday 10 May 2026, 10pm
📣 Notifications: Monday 18 May 2026
👆🔗 Read full details and apply now via the link in bio
📸 Under Fluoros 2025 – Image by Tashi Hall
#performingarts #westernaustralia #independentartists #kolyang #mentorship
📣 Welcome our new Associate Producer VIC: Zadie Kennedy Mccracken 💛🎉
Performing Lines is delighted to welcome Zadie Kennedy Mccracken as Associate Producer, joining our VIC team.✨
Zadie Kennedy Mccracken (they/them) is a writer and performing arts producer living on unceded Wurundjeri Country. Their writing has appeared in Gems Zine and Voiceworks, and onstage for La Mama Theatre, Melbourne Fringe, and Theatre Works. As a producer, Zadie has worked with MPavilion, Darebin Arts, Pony Cam, St. Martins Youth Arts Centre, Melbourne Fringe and Melbourne Theatre Company, championing youth theatre, queer storytelling and experimental forms.
🔥Come experience M’ap Boulé at Horizon Festival 2026✨ @horizonartfest
Nancy’s 5 Ways M’ap Boulé connects to culture — Part 1
@thenancydenisshow
1️⃣ ONE
“M’ap Boulé is an Australian story — my story. We are one, but we are many, yah feel me? I have Haitian blood, but I was born and raised here, and M’ap Boulé shares this story of kinship and a DEEP respect for Country and the rightful owners of these lands.”
2️⃣ TWO
“It’s a story about a child born to immigrants (ME! Nancy Denis!) finding her sense of freedom and belonging. It’s for anyone who has ever felt like an outsider, or felt like they didn’t belong, or anyone who needs a little reminder that what they offer the world is beautiful.”
3️⃣ THREE
“On that… M’ap Boulé talks about luurve, finding love, and the inevitable and HIGHLY relatable journey of self-love.”
📍 Black Box Theatre, The Old Ambulance Station, Nambour QLD
📅 2–3 May 2026
🎟️ Tickets on sale now 🔗 link in bio.
Come feel the fire🔥🕯️
#HorizonFestival #MapBoule #SunshineCoast #LiveTheatre #WhatsOnSunshineCoast
📸 @purpleflower_productions@iolanthelovesyou@s1mkaur@u.should.coco@mua_felicity@thatsmotherellietoyou@studiokilla.co
