For Townsville playwright and performer Shannon Jensen, a descendent of the Gunggandji people of Yarrabah, the opportunity to have her in-development play Watersong workshopped and shown at Yellamundie Festival is hugely important.
‘Being up here in Townsville … we just we don’t have anything like that. So for a regional First Nations writer, something like [the Festival] is an amazing opportunity … that you just don’t get up in North Queensland. It gives you access to First Nations writers and directors and producers that you otherwise would not have access to, and the knowledge that they’re going to be able to give me is, I hope, just going to further my play,’ Jensen tells ArtsHub.
