WHISPERS & ROARS
Regional Songwriting Workshops
The Whispers & Roars Program creates opportunities for arts participation for girls aged 8-18 in targeted rural communities. Designed and delivered by emerging musicians, Whispers & Roars is a songwriting program that facilitates cross-age singing and songwriting workshops, creating more city-country connections. Now in its 5th year, the next iteration of Whispers
& Roars focuses on guiding new songwriters into professional career paths.
100 WOMEN. 100 STORIES.
100 Stories 100 Capes is a large-scale community project created across 3 years. In the lockdown, young women from The House interviewed 100 cape-makers: cross-age women from remote, regional, metropolitan and urban communities in every Australian state. The 100 interviews have been composed into an hour long choral work for a 100 woman choir to sing. The developing work will be designed for audiences to navigate an installation hearing their stories, housed within red capes and interspersed with music and stories.
OUR WORK IN COLLABORATION
WITH YOUNG PEOPLE
TOY CHOIR
Toy Choir is an introduction-to-music program dedicated to excellence in choral ensemble work and the development of young artists in singing, songwriting and performance. Toy Choir was established in Sydney, and is now offering the program in Gunnedah and Deniliquin, offering high quality music education to girls in regional towns and cities.
Toy Choir is bursting with happiness, hearing the sweet and joyous harmonies of young girls voices with infectious and rhythmic ukulele strumming. Girls aged 9–16 learn to develop their voices and build confidence to take space and have their stories heard. Key to the program’s success is spreading joy and peer–to–peer learning. As soon as students are capable they become teachers, creating a cycle-of-learning: learn–do–teach–master.
EMERGENC/Y
Six young House Ensemble members will continue working with esteemed composer Felicty Wilcox on this new work. This contemporary opera comprises voices, instruments, electronics, and interaction design.
The work creatively addresses deficits in the representation of female and gender diverse opera-makers and rewrites traditional operatic narratives that cast them as victims of gendered violence.
TENDER YOUNG
CREATURES
Tender Young Creatures is an example of our youth-devised shows, based on Little Red Riding Hood and the ensembles lived experience of walking alone at night. Created in collaboration with an ensemble of girls and young women aged 12-18, we use distinctive methods of rapid devising and group music creation to develop groundbreaking immersive choral works. Our 2026 show will use the same methods to create a show based on the fairytale of Rapunzel, ready for performance on stages and art spaces across Australia and internationally.
CHASING THE WIND
Chasing the Wind is a new theatre show exploring climate change and disaster, created in collaboration with leading theatre companies across Europe. With an original score and energetic group movement, the show received positive feedback for its cross-generational appeal and moving story. Following a successful European tour in 2025, we're leveraging international networks to create mainstage performance opportunities in 2027 and beyond.