Kaz Therese is an interdisciplinary artist working across theatre, visual arts and dance, with a practice grounded in performance, activism and community building. They are an award-winning theatre director, programmer and cultural leader.   

Kaz’s work has often involved the activation of new spaces, connecting communities and artists to broaden the experience of contemporary art and its audience. They founded FUNPARK in Mount Druitt in 2014. FUNPARK has repeated its success as part of the Sydney Biennale in 2020 and Sydney Festival in 2022. 

Working with major arts organisations in Australia and around the world, Kaz’s art explores urgent topics including Australia’s refugee and First Nations policies, gender and intersectional feminism and youth issues.  

Kaz grew up on Chestnut Crescent in Bidwill and spent their childhood exploring what was once farmland and is now suburbs.

We are Blacktown is a UTS Impact Studios production.
Producers: Britta Jorgensen, Jane Curtis, Celine Teo-Blockey 
Executive Producer: Olivia Rosenman
Sound design: Melissa May
Research: Jackie May
Podcast artwork: Alexandra Morris
Theme music: Beaming by FRIDAY

Kaz Therese is an interdisciplinary artist working across theatre, visual arts and dance, with a practice grounded in performance, activism and community building. They are an award-winning theatre director, programmer and cultural leader.   
Kaz’s work has often involved the activation of new spaces, connecting communities and artists to broaden the experience of contemporary art and its audience. They founded FUNPARK in Mount Druitt in 2014. FUNPARK has repeated its success as part of the Sydney Biennale in 2020 and Sydney Festival in 2022. 
Working with major arts organisations in Australia and around the world, Kaz’s art explores urgent topics including Australia’s refugee and First Nations policies, gender and intersectional feminism and youth issues.  
Kaz grew up on Chestnut Crescent in Bidwill and spent their childhood exploring what was once farmland and is now suburbs.
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We are Blacktown is a UTS Impact Studios production. Producers: Britta Jorgensen, Jane Curtis, Celine Teo-Blockey  Executive Producer: Olivia Rosenman Sound design: Melissa May Research: Jackie May Podcast artwork: Alexandra Morris Theme music: Beaming by FRIDAY

Portraits of Blacktown community leaders and people working for change. You'll hear from a doctor who is sounding the alarm about how dangerous heat can be for human health, a basketball coach whose players have made it to the big league, a Dharug traditional owner whose art and stories are telling the true history of the area's first people, and many more Blacktown legends.   

Experience stories of strength and thriving communities, straight from Sydney's West. And to see pictures of each of these people, visit https://impactstudios.edu.au/weareblacktown

We are Blacktown is part of a place-based audio project by Impact Studios, supported by the Paul Ramsay Foundation. The project, Welcome to Blacktown, sought to learn about Blacktown’s many and varied communities, together with the innovative and inspired social change work that is happening there. Over six months, the Impact Studios team conducted almost 100 interviews with people connected to Blacktown, exploring and investigating the question of how communities thrive. The interviews were rich, broad and non-extractive. We sought to understand the full context of what each person was doing. We listened to them tell stories of their lives, on their own terms: their families, their passions, their work and what motivates them to do it, their challenges and achievements. 

We are Blacktown is produced by Impact Studios at the University of Technology Sydney, in partnership with The Paul Ramsay Foundation. 

Portraits of Blacktown community leaders and people working for change. You'll hear from a doctor who is sounding the alarm about how dangerous heat can be for human health, a basketball coach whose players have made it to the big league, a Dharug traditional owner whose art and stories are telling the true history of the area's first people, and many more Blacktown legends.   
Experience stories of strength and thriving communities, straight from Sydney's West. And to see pictures of each of these people, visit <a href="https://impactstudios.edu.au/weareblacktown">https://impactstudios.edu.au/weareblacktown</a>
We are Blacktown is part of a place-based audio project by Impact Studios, supported by the Paul Ramsay Foundation. The project, Welcome to Blacktown, sought to learn about Blacktown’s many and varied communities, together with the innovative and inspired social change work that is happening there. Over six months, the Impact Studios team conducted almost 100 interviews with people connected to Blacktown, exploring and investigating the question of how communities thrive. The interviews were rich, broad and non-extractive. We sought to understand the full context of what each person was doing. We listened to them tell stories of their lives, on their own terms: their families, their passions, their work and what motivates them to do it, their challenges and achievements. 
We are Blacktown is produced by <a href="https://impactstudios.edu.au/">Impact Studios</a> at the <a href="https://www.uts.edu.au/">University of Technology Sydney</a>, in partnership with <a href="https://www.paulramsayfoundation.org.au/">The Paul Ramsay Foundation</a>.

A series of immersive portraits of Blacktown community leaders and people working for change. You'll hear from a doctor who is sounding the alarm about how dangerous heat can be for human health, a basketball coach whose players have made it to the big league, a Darug traditional owner whose art and stories are telling the true history of the area's first people, and many more Blacktown legends.

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