Pathways
La Mama Pathways
La Mama Pathways is designed to offer multiple entry points towards career development and capacity building in the performing arts.
This program broadly offers opportunities for skill building, access, engagement, development and outreach in line with La Mama’s primary vision and mission.
Pathways aims to open doors and empower the next generation of artists and arts-workers, sharing La Mama’s legacy, whilst fostering our future creatives and cultural ecosystem.
Pathway Framework For Artists
PATHWAYS IN (Year-round) presents programs that foster life-changing practice opportunities for emerging and established artists, locally and globally.
Programs include:
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CONNECT: Open access creative connection (6+local, 6+ regional per annum)
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LIFT-OFF: School Leader program activating audiences and makers (16p/a)
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EMERGE: Cultivating a confident, youthful creative cohort (20+p/a)
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CAREERS: Career activation through internships (4+ internships p/a)
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SPRINGBOARD: Partnerships with tertiary institutions (4+ Explorations p/a)
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Aligning with festivals need (responsive)
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CULTURAL CONSERVATION: First Nations grassroots storytelling on Country
PATHWAYS BEYOND (Year-round) La Mama Producers support artists to extend their work beyond La Mama, supporting sustainable careers, self-determination, and strengthening the wider sector through advocacy and leadership.
- PRODUCER LED CAPACITY BUILDING: Producers work closely with artists from application stage to clarify and support ambition, develop strategic relationships, and build knowledge, networks and targeted opportunity
- SECTOR WIDE COLLABORATIONS: Including National Independent Theatre Network, Regional Arts Victoria, Multicultural Arts Victoria and more for sector cohesion leading to artist opportunity and pathways
Programming at La Mama: 2026 Applications Open
Apply to be programmed for PLAY (SCRATCH, EXPLORATIONS, IMMERSE), HOPE PUNK CLIMATE FESTIVAL, MELBOURNE FRINGE AT LA MAMA and CULTURAL CONSERVATION IN ACTION 2026.
READ MORE ABOUT LA MAMA FULL ANNUAL PROGRAM
LA MAMA FULL ANNUAL PROGRAMFor more information, please contact Myf Powell, Pathways and Partnerships Manager at [email protected]
Pathways is funded through the John T Reid Charitable Trusts
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