Events

SeedArts believe in the creative power of community, the magic of theatre and the inherent wonder of the world around us.

  • Mullumbimby Oct 2025
    A collaboration with Byron Youth Service and Mullumbimby Neighbourhood Center to amplify the presence of these services to our community through relaxed playful creative activities and a free BBQ lunch. Youth experiencing disadvantage and challenge, their peers, family members and community service workers trialed wire walking and dj-ing, fostering confidence and connection. 

    “I can imagine myself maybe being able to walk a longer higher wire one day”

    Event participant - aged 16

  • Nimbin Central School Dec 2024 

    An arts residency program piloted at Nimbin Central as part of the schools’ Cultural Awareness program with collaborating artists Indigenous singer/ songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Tom Avery, Bundjalung visual artist Tracey Eistrech and local filmmaker Karenza Ebejer. The project extended Seeds Arts celebration of local born legend Con Colleano, Wizard of the Wire, to inspire more Northern Rivers youth. Themes of indigenous achievement, positive risk taking and belonging were drawn from The Xrossing highwire spectacular and Wizards of the Wire program designed for Lismore high school students. 

    After taking part in circus, music, mural making and movement workshops students then developed 5 scenes that captured moments from Con Colleano’s incredible life alongside and performed them with the SeedArts team for the school community to enjoy. 

    The Con Story was supported by Arts Northern Rivers through CASP funding, Rekindling the Spirit and Tricks Factory Circus. 

  • Lismore 2024

    Flow Studio evolved in response to the loss of cultural infrastructure across the Northern Rivers caused by the 2022 floods, through the vision and heart of local independent artists, Mitch King, Tess Eckert and Sam Josephine. It provided the first post flood space in Lismore for local artists to resume training, teaching, collaborating and performing and offered a program of affordable movement and somatic classes aimed to support the recovery of both artists and wider community. 


    SeedArts supported and promoted Flow Studios as our annual community event by funding and co-designing a studio launch offering free movement classes, a shared dinner and performance night. SeedArts also funded the founders to undertake strategic planning with Arts Northern Rivers Director Jane Fuller. The project continues in 2026 as the Flow Collective. 

  • Lismore Quad 2023

    Co-directed by Simone O’Briens and Kirk Page, The Xrossing is an outdoor site specific work of scale which saw 3 x 60m tightwires mounted from stacked shipping containers strung across the Lismore Quad. It features Indigenous circus artist Dylan Singh (Naarm), as Con Colleno, the greatest wire walker of all time, and a cast of indigenous and non-indigenous wire walkers from around the country. 

    Born to an Irish father and Gamillaroi mother in Lismore 1899, Colleano became an international star and highest paid performer of the Ringling Barnum and Bailey Circus in a time where the Original people of Australia were experiencing ongoing racism and oppression.

    The Xrossing was supported by Create NSW, Australia Council for the Arts, Regional Arts Aust, Lismore Council, The Quad, Arts Northern Rivers, Northern Rivers Conservatorium

  • Project description TBC

  • Lismore Quad May-June 2023

    Five days of free arts workshops designed to nurture well-being and social connection were offered in the Lismore Quad public precinct, for a community enduring the ongoing impacts of the unprecedented floods of 2022. SeedArts and a team of local independent artists undertook professional development in Creative First Aid with Scotia Monkovitch from Creative Recovery Network and modified their various practices into soothing arts based experiences that focussed on parasympathetic nervous system support. The program featured 'Wire-walking for  Well-being' amidst a host of therapeutic visual and movement based arts activities. 

    Soft Circus consolidated partnerships with Lismore City Council, Lismore Regional Gallery and the Lismore Quad, and strengthened ties with Spaghetti Circus, Roundabout Theatre, NORPA and Social Futures and developed new partnerships with local Creative First Aid alliance and the Creative Recovery Network.

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The Xrossing

SeedArts presents, The Xrossing, a daring highwire spectacle for Lismore celebrating the unbelievable story of Lismore-born, Aboriginal tightwire virtuoso, Con Colleano, the world's greatest known as the Wizard of the Wire.

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