Jeltje - Poet/Performance Artist
Jeltje was born in Amsterdam, Holland and then migrated to Australia with her parents and two sisters in 1963. She has been writing and editing with Collective Effort Press (Melbourne) since 1978. She is perhaps best known for her poems that mention her (now deceased) cat Sefi (Persephone). >>details

Russian Soup Inotrope Productions
Directed by John Bolton, created and performed by actors Greg Ulfan and Joseph Sherman – both of Russian Jewish backgrounds, Russian Soup is an innovative and highly moving theatrical and music performance based on the great 19th and early 20th century literary masters such as Gogol, Chekov, Dostoevsky and Babel. >>details

The Viet Boys from Down Under, directed by Huu Tran and starring Dominic Golding, Rad Rudd and Khanh Nguyen, is a cross-cultural and experimental multimedia theatre project. Told through poetry, lullaby, music, martial arts and karaoke, Viet Boys reflects Vietnamese youth sub-cultures, explores male sexuality, power, and depression in cosmopolitan Melbourne. >>details