Sometimes, life throws you a curveball. In our last show for 2023, we’ve invited our line-up to tell us stories of change. It might be a transformation they initiated, or a transition that happened to them. New paths can be invigorating and exciting, or confusing and downright scary. Regardless, the only constant in life is change, so this November, come hear a night of stories about forging your own path, wherever where that path takes you…
Our performer line-up:
Team 20s: Christina Zheng is like petrol station coffee, an unfiltered hot mess. She is also excelling at failing adulthood. Christina has performed at the Sydney Fringe Festival, Sydney Comedy Festival (supporting Jenny Tian and Pat Golamco). She is also a RAW Comedy NSW State Finalist.
Team 30s: Irene Nicola has performed in the cabaret space independently across Australia with her original one-woman shows, A Postmodern Striptease (2013-2017), Revenge, (2018) and multiple award-nominated Apocalypse Please (2019-2023). Irene was also a finalist in the Sydney Cabaret Competition (Sydney Cabaret Festival 2019) and performs regularly at Bamboozle Room's Talk and Tease.
Team 40s: Amanda Walsh is an author, teacher, and mental health advocate. Passionate about public Mother and Baby Units since her experience with postnatal psychosis, Amanda's book, 'A Mother’s Mind,' and her story of pain, discovery, and ultimately healing were featured on SBS's The Feed. Amanda lives with her husband and family in Sydney’s inner west.
Team 50s: Sonya Lovell, host of the podcast Dear Menopause regularly interviews experts and commentators in the fields of women’s health while challenging societal stigmas and taboos and advocating for better education and resources for women. A natural and passionate advocate for women’s rights and equity, the irony that her school reports stated “talks too much” is not lost on her!
Team 60s: Jenna Price is a visiting fellow at the Australian National University and a Sydney Morning Herald and Canberra Times columnist who has worked as a journalist for 40 years. She has a PhD in political sociology. She's the child of two refugees who were Holocaust survivors. Married, three adult kids. One of the cofounders of Destroy the Joint, which runs the Counting Dead Women campaign.
Team 70s: Kate Rowe. Pommy by birth, Aussie by choice, ageing lesbian feminist, 78er, clean and sober 45 years, childhood sexual abuse and rape survivor, travel adventurer, health and exercise nut, retired triathlete, ukulele player, tactless direct talker and all-round pain in the butt with a sense of humour.
Generation Women is an award-winning cross-generational storytelling night founded in New York in 2017, Sydney in 2018, and Melbourne in 2020. Each month, six women of note read an original piece on a theme. Of those women, one is in her 20s, her 30s, her 40s, her 50s, her 60s, and her 70s+.
Hosted by Louise James Produced by Donna Logue, Hopepunk Productions. Created by Georgia Clark.