Noemie Huttner-Koros
Performance-Maker, Writer and Activist/Community Organiser
Country: Australia
Cohort: CCL Australia 2023
"Creative Climate Leadership to me means dreaming of and collectively working towards liberated, flourishing futures where we can all thrive. It brings together dreaming & imagining, with collective action, and is about inviting people to engage with the climate crisis in new and creative ways."
About
Noemie Huttner-Koros is a performance-maker, writer, dramaturg and community organiser based on Wurundjeri country of the Kulin nation (melbourne, australia). Noemie’s work has taken place in theatres, galleries, protests, clubs and published in journals and anthologies. Their work engages with sites and histories where queer culture, composting and ecological crisis occur. Shows include: Democracy Repair Services, Mother of Compost & The Lion Never Sleeps. Noemie was a co-founder of Arts & Cultural Workers for Climate Action, and they have been involved in climate activism since they were a teenager. Noemie was 2021 West Australian Young Environmentalist of the Year, winner of 2020 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize and ‘The Lion Never Sleeps’ was named in Australian Book Review’s ‘Arts Highlights of 2019.
Project Highlights
Democracy Repair Services
A play I wrote about democracy, youth climate activism and shifting power. It’s also accompanied by a season of community engagement events with workshops on: community campaigning with the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, banner-painting with Arts & Cultural Workers for Climate Action and climate justice with the Climate Justice Union.
The Lion Never Sleeps
The Lion Never Sleeps is a walking performance meets audio-history tour through the streets of Northbridge (Western Australia), mapping the places and spaces where the LGBTQIA+ community danced, made community and fought during the AIDS crisis in Perth in the 1980s.
Mother of Compost
We live in an ecologically precarious time. Some of us don’t want to bring children into this world, others are worried their children won’t have a world to grow old into … but we’ve still got a whole lot of love to give. Mother of Compost invites audiences to rethink what it means to give birth and be birthed, in this gooey, camp and interactive subversion of family portraits, birthing classes and evolutionary biology.
Mother of Compost re-imagines nurturing and family-making by inviting an audience to grow and entangle, and is grounded in my practices of activism and intergenerational conversations.
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