Sarah Liversidge

This year’s season of Sydney Dance Company’s New Breed is everything it purports to be. This is dance of the highest calibre, performed at a scale and with a level of skill and training that only the most well-funded production houses and companies can produce. No doubt, in the context of large state-funded performance companies, it is at the more innovative end. This year’s crop of young diverse choreographers know their stuff. The performances are affecting, disciplined and bear all the hallm

This week we feature an interview with Mei Mak as part of our series to spread awareness of liver health. Mei Mak is a lived-experience speaker and HEPHero who has been involved with LiverWELL since 2017. Mei Mak’s advice for people living with hepatitis is to be brave and curious. She urges people to try not to feel shame about having a liver condition and encourages them to seek out information and education about liver health. Mei was diagnosed with hepatitis B after a routine blood test. H

This October marks Liver Awareness Month 2022, where we highlight the importance of liver health and raise awareness of liver diseases, such as hepatitis. Across the month, we feature a series of videos and interviews that profile those working in liver health, and those with lived experience of liver disease. Articles and video interviews are by Sarah Liversidge, Journalism student from RMIT University. This week, we feature Chloe Pedley, Manager of our Health Promotions Team. Chloe Pedley b

Melbourne- based theatre company Elbow Room’s new sci-fi work, Technique, was originally conceived in 2013 as the third part in a trilogy exploring the role of the religious impulse in the contemporary world. As writer and director Marcel Dorney informed the audience on the night, this current performance will be developed further for future iterations. Technique is the story of Ellen, as told by herself and played by Elbow Room’s co-artistic director Emily Tomlins. She is a scientist engaged