Northern Rivers companies focus on flood recovery

After devastating floods at the end of February, artists and arts organisations in the Northern Rivers are now focused on rebuilding and recovery.

16 Mar 2022

Richard Watts

Muddy brown water dominiates the phot, which shows a theatre half-sumerged by floods.

Performing Arts

NORPA in Lismore was inundated by floodwaters, March 2022. Image supplied.

‘People talk about resilience in theatre companies, and I must admit, I’m pretty tired of that word at the moment,’ said Julian Louis, Artistic Director of Northern Rivers Performing Arts (NORPA).

NORPA’s home at Lismore City Hall was inundated by floodwaters in late February, during an extreme weather event that saw central Lismore submerged under more than 14 metres of water.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts