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Bringing local stories to life
For over 30 years, Theatre Kimberley has created high-quality arts opportunities with and for Kimberley communities. We connect local people with local and visiting professional artists and arts organisations.
Big Country Puppets - Emergence Celebrating Yinara - Entrance Point April-May 2025
Emergence brought Big Country Puppets to Broome with a celebration of the remarkable coastal life of ‘Yinara,’ known by many as Entrance Point. Yinara is currently under threat of industrialisation which is an ongoing concern for many of the Broome community.
The creative development was led by Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman and a cultural advisory committee - Michael Jalaru Torres, Yisah Bin Omar, Jaala Ozies along with citizen scientist Dianne Bennett. The central performance piece of Emergence was a collaboratively built giant Dofleinia Armata puppet, a rare anemone, recently discovered in the area. Twenty puppeteers were needed to operate the glowing 40-tentacle creature.
The project gathered interviews with local community members whose concerns for Yinara relate to cultural, familial and environmental connections. The breathtaking soundscape by Petris Jinunjili Torres blended the audio interviews with original music. Several hundred community members watched the free performance from the beach and surrounding rock formations.
See a short film from the performance here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7632Ex2WLk
