Moogahlin Performing Arts

28/08/2026

📣 Applications for the 2026 Australian First Nations Retreat and Development Program close this Monday!
Open to Australian First Nations Playwrights at all career levels, the Retreat provides time, space and dramaturgical support for writers developing new works for the stage.
📅 Applications close at 11:59pm AWST Monday, 31 August 2026.

Produced in partnership with Ilbijerri Theatre Company, Moogahlin Performing Arts and Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company the Australian First Nations Playwrights Retreat and Development program has played an important role for First Nations Playwrights and play development for over a decade.

The program takes six playwrights to a regional residency where the playwrights are provided the time and space to think, write and dream big with the support of two dramaturgs and the APT team.

Upon returning home from the retreat, playwrights enter a bespoke playwright-led development period.

https://apt.org.au/program/australian-first-nations-playwrights-retreat-and-development/

26/08/2026

Join the growing Moogahlin Team!!!

As we prepare for our ambitious 2027 artistic program, we’re looking for new people to join our team across Sydney and Brewarrina.

We’re recruiting for five roles:

•⁠ ⁠Yellamundie Festival Director
•⁠ ⁠Producer/Senior Producer
•⁠ ⁠Admin and Projects Coordinator
•⁠ ⁠Fundraising and Comms Coordinator
•⁠ ⁠Regional Projects Assistant

These roles will help us deliver First Peoples performance works, creative development, regional programs, touring and community-based projects across NSW, Australia and internationally.

Most positions are First Peoples Identified roles, with the Fundraising and Comms Coordinator role open to all applicants and First Peoples candidates particularly encouraged to apply.

Yellamundie Festival Director Applications close Monday 14 September at 5:00pm (AEST).

All other applications close 22nd of September 5:00pm

Full job descriptions and information on how to apply are available on the jobs page at the Moogahlin Performing Arts website.

Questions? Email [email protected]

https://www.moogahlin.org/jobs

Please spread the word through your networks and share these opportunities with anyone you think would be a great fit for the Moogahlin family.

26/08/2026

We’re incredibly proud to share that Moogahlin is one of seven First People organisations featured in Overflow, a major First People's-led opening exhibition at the new Powerhouse Parramatta.

Our contribution, Big Rivers, No Fish Feast, brought together young people, Aunties and artists through school and community workshops combining circus, workshops, contemporary cultural dance, knowledge sharing, performance and storytelling.

As part of the school workshops, students with guidance and knowledge sharing from community Elders designed and painted carp bins supplied by Brewarrina Shire. With an accompanying performance led by Kamilaroi choreographer Shae Duncan, alongside Flying Fruit Fly Circus artists Catherine Daniel and John Nyagah. The performance reflected the stories of the river, the impact of carp and the importance of protecting native fish and local waterways.

That development came together on Country at Baiame’s Ngunnhu Festival 2026, where local young people joined artists for an outdoor circus and dance performance at Weir Park.

Now that story will become part of Overflow, with acclaimed Kamilaroi filmmaker Ivan Sen documenting the workshops, creative development, community and performance for the exhibition.

We’re proud to be sharing this exhibition with:

Baramadagal Community
Gamay Rangers
The Goondee Aboriginal Keeping Place and Museum
Jagun Alliance
Joonga Land and Water Aboriginal Corporation
Naru Indigenous Corporation

A huge congratulations and thank you to all the young people, Aunties, artists, schools, community members and partners who made Big Rivers, No Fish Feast.

Creating the opportunity to share the dire story and raise awareness of our suffering water.

📍 Overflow — Powerhouse Parramatta
📅 Opens Saturday 7 November 2026

25/08/2026

Do you have a story to share? Applications close Monday, 31 August.

25/08/2026

📣 Applications for the 2026 Australian First Nations Retreat and Development Program close this Monday!

Open to Australian First Nations Playwrights at all career levels, the Retreat provides time, space and dramaturgical support for writers developing new works for the stage.

📅 Applications close at 11:59pm AWST Monday, 31 August 2026.

✏ Apply here: https://apt.org.au/program/australian-first-nations-playwrights-retreat-and-development/

24/08/2026

Congratulations to Waverley Stanley Jnr, whose work, The Lottery, first developed at the 2025 Yellamundie Festival, will be read at Weesageechak Begins to Dance 39 on Turtle Island this November!

The Lottery will be the third Yellamundie Festival Work-In-Progress to be read at Weesageechak over the past 10 years. Our model, Your Stories With Our People, with our first Moogahl Storyteller Ambassador, William (Billy) McPherson with CUZ, followed by Henrietta Baird with The Weekend.

Your Stories With Our People model creates opportunities for our people to have their stories read by First Nations actors on Turtle Island or Māori actors on Aotearoa, that is reciprocated in the international First Nations Exchange model with Moogahlin hosting international First Nations and Māori playwrights at Yellamundie Festival.

We’re thrilled to see another work from Yellamundie festival continuing to grow, travel and connect with First Nations audiences and artists internationally.

Congratulations Waverley — we can’t wait to see where The Lottery goes next! ❤️

20/08/2026

And we have a winner from the Deadly Funny Brewarrina Heat! Congratulations Cheryl Crawford and all those that participated as comedians and audience. It was a Deadly Funny night.

Brewarrina, thanks for bringing the Deadly Funny! Congrats to Cheryl Crawford for winning the heat. A massive thanks to our host Leon Filewood, and to Brewarrina Aboriginal Medical Service, Moogahlin Performing Arts, and Brewarrina Shire Council for supporting the event!

L-R: Robbie Dungay, Trish Frail, Dianne Kelly, Cheryl Crawford, Lily Shearer, Leon Filewood.

20/08/2026

Aroha Pehi, after three wonderful years with Moogahlin Performing Arts is moving foward with her career as a community creative producer, model, workshop facilitator and performer.

Aroha began with us as an Admin and Projects Assistant, before transitioning in the past 18 months into Intern Producer shared between Moogahlin and Bangarra Dance Theatre. She grew quickly as an administrator and producer.There was no task she couldn’t dive straight into.

During that time Aroha also performed with Jannawi Dance Clan, tore up fashion runways across that country, and even moonlighted as an actor in the Yellamundie Festival.

Raa’s time as Intern Producer has come to an end at Moogs but we are so thrilled to have spent the past three years growing together and can’t wait to see all that’s yet to come.

All the love from the Moogs WhānauAroha Pehi, after three wonderful years with Moogahlin Performing Arts is moving foward with her career as a community creative producer, model, workshop facilitator and performer.

Aroha began with us as an Admin and Projects Assistant, before transitioning in the past 18 months into Intern Producer shared between Moogahlin and Bangarra Dance Theatre. She grew quickly as an administrator and producer.There was no task she couldn’t dive straight into.

During that time Aroha also performed with Jannawi Dance Clan, tore up fashion runways across that country, and even moonlighted as an actor in the Yellamundie Festival.

Raa’s time as Intern Producer has come to an end at Moogs but we are so thrilled to have spent the past three years growing together and can’t wait to see all that’s yet to come.

All the love from the Moogs Whānau

11/08/2026

Great opportunity for First Nations Playwrights.

11/08/2026

Coming from across Australia and the Asia-Pacific, our Q***r Development Lab artists have arrived in Sydney for two huge weeks at PACT!

The program will see this dynamic group of artists from diverse backgrounds and performance disciplines come together to build creative skills, develop performance ideas, and forge industry connections within an intergenerational community of q***r makers.

The first week offers workshops led by experienced artist facilitators, introducing collaborative methodologies for performance-making, while the second week focuses on preparing for two public showings.

The showcase is a much-loved celebration that has sold-out three years in a row!! So book now, before it’s too late: https://performancespace.com.au/whats-on/q***r-development-program-showcase-2026

📆 Thursday July 30 & Friday July 31

Presented in partnership with . Supported by Moogahlin Performing Arts , Wear It Purple, Basement Theatre, Taiwan in Sydney , Creative Australia and Create NSW.