32˚ Brown’s Mart Performance Hub welcomes projects and proposals from theatre artists including directors, playwrights, theatre-makers, designers, producers, and other organisations with performative outcomes.

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We are designed to offer a range of services including:

• Advisory – discuss the idea for a current or future project or performance program.
• Management – what administration will it need?
• Finances – what funding and budget support are required?
• Presenters/Partners – who might team up with the project?
• Further – look at the next steps after the first presentation … where can the project go, what’s necessary to make it move to the rest of the NT and beyond?
• Network – who to speak to next?

What you should do now

1. Contact: call, email, send a carrier pigeon
2. Meet: meet with the producer at Brown’s Mart or a place of your choosing; bring as much information as you can and be ready to discuss the work in detail
3. Then: the producer will advise how the Hub may help and what the next steps are to get the project from between your ears to in front of other’s eyes.

phone 8981 6876
email creative@brownsmart.com.au
person Browns Mart Administration building, Cnr Smith St & Harry Chan Av Darwin City

About Brown’s Mart

There are changes afoot in Darwin’s longest running community venue, Brown’s Mart, at the Waterfront end of Smith St. For those unlucky enough to have never seen a local work in this intimate theatre, excuses for such may soon be fast dwindling.

32˚, a new hub for the creation and development of local theatre and performance is taking shape within Brown’s Mart’s walls, and with it come a raft of changes for the venue. Redesignated as a home for Top End theatre, from next year it will offer rehearsal and management spaces for local and independent theatre makers and support to transport works from the heads and hearts of artists onto the stage.

Alex Ben-Mayor, the newly appointed creative producer of 32˚ says that the hub will “allow artists to concentrate on what is important in the creation of new work–refining creative teams, thinking beyond the first show, growing the creative capacity of theatre makers and taking their work to new audiences.”

Alongside the work of 32˚, Sean Pardy, Brown’s Mart’s new venue manager is helping to reinvigorate the space. “We’re allocating funds for the long-awaited upgrade of technical equipment in the theatre – a complete overhaul of the lighting system with a flown rig, new lights, desk and dimmers.” With a new website on the way and whispers of getting new music into the venue (did I hear someone mention Happy Yess?), the precinct looks set to soon be a ‘hub’ of activity.