Together with the Glenorchy City Council, the  TTC runs workshops in Glenorchy with a group of local people all aged 60+.

This group of about 15 people bring a wealth of knowledge and experiences, to work together with highly talented theatre artists over the next few months, in an exchange that we expect will be a culturally rich and productive project.

The Generations Ensemble Theatre (GET) grew out of a project opportunity within the 2009 Ten Days on the Island Festival in Hobart’s northern suburbs. The project participants were very engaged by that experience and had a strong desire to set up a permanent ongoing intergenerational theatre ensemble, accessible to a broad range of older people in the local community. They successfully applied to the Australia Council to support ongoing skills development workshops for the latter part of 2009 and early 2010.

Those workshops have been very well supported by older people in the local community, with participation growing from the original 12 to 18 active participants. Through that process they have established a partnership with the Tasmanian Theatre Company and a small scale performance was presented in conjunction with the Glenorchy. We hope to continue these presentations in the future.

GET are planning, with TTC, for a performance season to coincide with Seniors Week later in 2010 called Stories Across Time. It is an opportunity to build the capacity of the group to represent a very positive image of older people in the Tasmanian community.