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ilk Crate Theatre is the leading arts organisation in Australia working in the unique intersection of the arts, homelessness, mental health, and disability, providing professional development pathways and opportunities for collaborative artists to engage in creative practices as both performers and theatre and film creators of works. We bring communities together and work in a strengths-based approach for a positive impact on wellbeing. We work within the Social Model of Disability, believe in the dignity of risk, and facilitate programs that are not based on respite or therapy but have a firm focus on the arts to enable and build capacity. Our programs are facilitated by Sydney's most exciting contemporary practitioners, who possess the insight
felt more confident and felt a better ability to connect socially with their peers
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and competency to challenge and inspire our sommunity to work in expansive new ways. They are supported by Social Workers. They can provide personal support and connect people with other services in the community where needed. Professional and Collaborative Artists work together to explore social themes from an arts base – we do not ask people to go into typecast or to tell their personal stories of trauma to inform the depth of the work we produce. We are diligent about the avoidance of rehashing, retelling or re-traumatisation. All Milk Crate Theatre programs are designed in line with our Theory of Change. We utilise a Social Impact Measurement framework to measure our programs' impact across a number of domains of overall wellbeing.
had developed new performance-based and life skills
said that workshops had supported them to make changes in their lives
