Between Our Stories - Stevie Zhao - Episode 3

Between Our Stories - Stevie Zhao - Episode 3

In this episode we chat with Stevie Zhao.

'Mingyu ‘Stevie’ Zhao (he/they) is Chinese-Australian multidisciplinary artist with roots in performance poetry. Stevie learnt to develop a voice to move others, after breaking free from the expressive repression of traditional Chinese culture.

After being transfixed by the works of Shane Koyzcan, Rudy Francisco, Alex Luu, and G. Yamazawa, he too has sought to present the beauty of life to others with a garnish of a call for change. His original artform was spoken word poetry. His original art practice was a combination of revisiting what life was like growing up as a Chinese boy in Australia, and exploring his cultural identity as a queer, Chinese-Australian.

As a spoken word artist, Stevie has performed for the likes of Writers SA, Context Writers Festival, Red Room Poetry, and Soul Lounge Adelaide. Making his acting debut in Soul Lounge Adelaide’s 2021 Fringe show JOURNEY, he was then taken as an understudy in Does It Please You? by Too Dumb Blondes in the 2022 Fringe season. Stevie also played the role of a Heaven’s Gate member in Wickedly Good Productions’ After All This, which concluded the 2022 Rumpus Theatre season.

Stevie now finds himself floating around different creative spaces, trying to find where he belongs.'

Between Our Stories

Between our stories started as a small group of us friends wanting to tell stories from the most authentic place we could, we wanted to explore the substance of our stories and what lied underneath if we just took the time to dig a little deeper.

As we started to explore what this means we found that there are others that are also on the journey too.

Our invitation for you is to join us to dig a little deeper and see what our own stories are offering to us, and how our experiences overlap and give rise to the space of the in between

Thanks for joining us as we explore the spaces between our stories.

 

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