Performing Lines Tas at 20: ‘For the survival of the human race, arts and culture are medicine’

As Performing Lines Tas marks a milestone, what will it take to secure Lutruwita’s cultural future for artists, producers and presenters?
Performing Lines Tas. Image: Michael O'Neill.

Sinsa Mansell, proud pakana senior producer of performing arts company Performing Lines Tas, says there was beautiful synchronicity at play when it came to honouring 20 years of the Lutrawita initiative championing the work of the island state’s remarkable independent artists.

‘We already had our annual sector day booked in for the end of March, as the only organisation here bringing the performing arts sector together, from festival directors to venues, business managers to independent artists,’ Mansell reveals. ‘At the same time, the national company had been going through an exceptionally deep archival process and was stunned to stumble upon Performing Lines Tas’s original lease.’

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Stephen A Russell is a Melbourne-based arts writer. His writing regularly appears in Fairfax publications, SBS online, Flicks, Time Out, The Saturday Paper, The Big Issue and Metro magazine. You can hear him on Joy FM.