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For 2024 D:Create is listed in the C&K Kindy Uplift Catalogue with three different workshops focusing on three different priority areas under the Early Childhood Education settings in Queensland.
The three programs are “Playful Concepts” , “Expressive Movement” and “Practising Change” – click on the name of each program to read a full description.

Kindy uplift offerings

Artistic Director, Deanna Borland-Sentinella shared an Embodied Futures practice workshop, alongside Timor-Leste colleague Jacinta de Sousa Pereira at the 2023 World Community Development Conference held in Darwin in June. To view the full program go to https://www.wcdc2023fromtheedge.org.au/program/

D-create’s director, connected with community art and theatre director Rosa Zerrudo from the Philippines on their first trip to Australia. D-create was then invited to share a zoom workshop for children and youth facilitators working an a performance inspired by their local river as part of the Himaya Climate Art Project they are working on. Deanna shared some physical theatre exercises that encouraged the participants to think about how they could use their bodies to express their relationship to water.

Deanna Borland-Sentinella is now a Dr! Not much good for diagnosing ailments, but can don a clown nose and be a clown Dr for you! Check out Deanna’s PhD entitled Embodied Futures: weaving Futures Thinking, Applied Theatre and Community Development in Creative and Participatory Embodied Practice here.

As part of COVID lockdown D:create’s Deanna collaborated on a video essay for the Journal of Embodiment. This is now published:

Rufo, R, Ben-David, A, Cary, CA, Borland-Sentinella, D, Phillips, LG, Owen, A, Fari, NS and AmberBeckyCreative. 2020. Embodiment and Social Distancing: Practices. Journal of Embodied Research, 3(2): 3 (27:50). DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/jer.66

 

D:create’s artistic director, Deanna was featured in the INFORM publication by Aus Dance Queensland – see pages 38-39.

Deanna Borland-Sentinella presented on their work in Embodied Futures at the 9th International Drama in Research Education Institute (IDIERI) conference in Auckland, NZ in July 2018.

The full conference program is available here.

 

Had the opportunity to speak about the power of Applied Theatre work to be used as community owned process for change at the International Social Norms and Behaviour Change Communication Summit in Bali #SBCCsummit
D:create is interested in promoting development work that starts by listening to the desires of communities and using creative means to inspire, to work in partnership with people to assist them to articulate their vision and share their stories.

Deanna was pleased to present on a panel about peacebuilding and activism at the Symposium on Creative research and development in Asia-Pacific at QUT, Brisbane.

An honour to be part of such an amazing program 🙂

Presented the activity created by D:create of Embodied Futures Triangle in Bundaberg at the Community Development Qld Conference.