How do we honour our mental health and wellbeing?
How do we honour our mental health and wellbeing?
It's Maintenance May!
Touch Compass is Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading professional arts organisation whose work is disability-led. We deliver high-quality performances and art activations, youth and community classes, workshops, and professional development.
Touch Compass provides a platform for disabled artists, choreographers and production crews to advance their skills and capabilities to create, produce and deliver innovative and authentic creative experiences face-to-face and online for local, national and international audiences. Through Touch Compass, individuals and organisations can grow their disability consciousness and awareness, champion diversity and inclusiveness.
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Alter State Digital Launch (2021), Stephanie Awheto, multilingual sign language interpreter
Alter State Digital Launch (2021), Stephanie Awheto, multilingual sign language interpreter
Work
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Our works are disability-led, exceptional professional arts performances and arts activations.
We are multidisciplinary, ranging from dance and movement performances to theatre, digital films, visual arts, festival engagements and site-specific installations. Through our work we explore the intersection of culture and disability, and showcase Te Ao Māori (the Māori world), Va Pasifika (the spirit of Pasifika) and high-quality innovative disability-led performance. Our work can be found in venues throughout Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally.
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Education
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Our education classes are fun and engaging, offering a solid foundation of dance, movement and togetherness for our students (tauira).
Two different offerings - our Creative Class (rangatahi and teina - youth and young adults) and our Contemporary Class (pakeke - for adults) - ensure that our creative whānau - disabled and non-disabled - grow together, working towards developing their skills in performance and enhancing social connection. These classes also have public showings throughout the year that give whānau, friends and family, and community audiences a chance to see first-hand what they've learned. Join a class today!
See the listings for the classes for more information, or contact office@touchcompass.org.nz
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It's Maintenance May!
Maintenance May is a time to pause, reflect and focus on self-care, as the days grow shorter and Aotearoa transitions to winter. Our Touch Compass whānau share personal self-care stories, with photos, reading and audiobook suggestions!
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Our free Matariki Educational Resource is out now!
Touch Compass is pleased to present and deliver to you the free educational resource Matariki : Ko koe ko au, ko au ko koe (I be you, you be me)!
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Mana Whaikaha Hautūtanga Disability Leadership "Nothing about us without us, led by us"
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