Community • Joy • Sustainability
About
Community•Joy•Sustainability
Founded by Izabella Louk, Blinking Light is a theatre company on Gadigal land, dedicated to creating bold works of theatre that build community, spread joy, and further the fight against climate change.
Sustainability
Sustainability is at the forefront of everything we do.
The contradiction between theatre and a desire to be more environmentally sustainable is a hard one to navigate. Between costumes and set pieces that are discarded after a show, lights that use more electricity in a night than you might in a month, and pages upon pages of printed scripts and paperwork, most traditional theatre practices are not green. Blinking Light strives to demonstrate that it is possible to radically limit emissions and still produce a work of great artistic merit, and in doing so lead by example for sustainable Australian theatre.
In order to achieve this goal, we've set ourselves sustainability goals. Designing sustainability into our work from the get-go, we aim to make sure:
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90% of materials used in our productions have had a previous life.
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All other materials are sourced sustainably.
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Damaging/toxic materials are avoided.
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Mileage associated with production is conciously reduced.
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90% of materials are reused/recycled post-show.
Blinking Light recognises that if we want theatre to last into the future, we must incorporate environmental sustainability into our artistic practice right now.
Left: Bumping-in the set of Much Ado About Nothing, which was entirely sourced second-hand from our community.
Photo by Troy Kent.
Community
At it’s core, we believe theatre is a community act; a place for people to come together, and impossible without the support of a community.
We would not be here today without the support of the community, who embraced us and our mission from the get-go; rallying around us, championing our work, and cheering us on every step of the way.
A huge thank you to these generous donors who have helped us to bring sustainable and joyful theatre to Sydney stages:
Anonymous, Fleur Bayley, Riley Bradford, Zoe Brown, Jessica Carmona, Bethany Castle, Giselle Elfman, Emily Eve, Carla Hedley, Peter Howie, Hamish James, Mikayla Jones, Margaret Kirby, Daniel Learmont, Lorna Lutzke, Rachel Nagy, Zoe Poulos, Ivana Tinkle, Tommy Waterworth, Suzanne Wilding-Hart, Rachel Woolley, Catherine Yelland, Michael Yelland, Philippa Yelland.
Right: Thanks to our community partnership with Sydney Heritage Fleet, we were able to conduct research for our production of Much Ado About Nothing aboard the James Craig Tall Ship.
Photo by Troy Kent.
Joy
"This show made me believe in love again" is the greatest review we've ever received.
We are so honoured that people entrust us with an hour or two of their time, and we do not take the responsibility to entertain lightly.
We create theatre that moves you.
So whether you're joining us in Old Messina for a
sea-shanty or two, or on a thrilling escapade around Scotland in 1935, we hope you leave the theatre feeling even just a tiny bit different about the world than to when you entered.
Left: Cast of Much Ado About Nothing
Photo by Troy Kent.
Blinking Light acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners and custodians of the land on which we gather. We pay our respects to Elders past, present, and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.
It always was, and always will be,
Aboriginal Land.