After three jam-packed years sharing Dining Room Tales with communities across rural Victoria and South Australia, we are doubling down on the next phase of our strategic vision: forging links between our local rural context and rural/remote contexts abroad. We're aiming to raise $50,000 to pursue our Rural/International agenda across 2025/6, and Creative Australia will match that amount $1:1 through Plus1.

That's right, Creative Australia will match your donation to our RURAL/INTERNATIONAL 2025/6 campaign $1:1 ... Donate $50, we get $100. Donate $500, we get $1000. 

By donating you'll be helping us to share locally made Dining Room Tales work (from rural Aus) with rural/remote communities internationally. You'll also be helping to develop new works with artists from rural/remote contexts abroad, who we then plan to bring home for extended engagement down under.

Like to help us out?

ABOUT
A is for Atlas is an independent performing arts company creating socially connective, interdisciplinary contemporary performance works. Our signature Dining Room Tales is a ‘global-local’ social art practice centred on food, diversity, and the role food-sharing plays in building the spirit of our communities. You are invited to spend an evening around the dinner table and inside the life and practice of an internationally acclaimed artist, as they prepare a communal meal. In between moments of formal and informal performance, you become entangled in the very process of creating an artwork. 

​WHY SUPPORT​
Dining Room Tales is driven by the idea that communities who engage with each other often, and with empathy, are healthier communities. It is a practice of humanity and of art, shaped by a sustainability framework. We emphasise slowness and intimacy to cultivate social resilience. Food, performance and storytelling are used to open space for new thinking and relationship between participants. Critical conversations become possible. About who we are as a society, and the future we approach together.. 

We have been developing and deploying this practice around the world since 2011 (13 original works shared in some 124 performance events with 57 communities across nine countries), growing understandings of small-community activation, the impact of filtering diverse knowledge inputs into slow social settings, and connecting hyper-local action across global distance. 

We're making deep impacts. 80% agree that Dining Room Tales contributes to a more resilient and harmonious community, and an astounding 45% say that Dining Room Tales inspired them to make changes in their life or community – like making more time to connect with family, friends and neighbours (2023 Impact Study in partnership with The Patternmakers). 

Donations of $2 or more are tax deductible. Please feel free to contact us to discuss your support. 

All donations to our RURAL/INTERNATIONAL 2025/6 campaign will be matched $1:1 by Creative Australia through its Plus1 program!

ENDORSEMENTS...

"A unique contribution to our cultural sector, with lasting impacts on the communities it engages." - Adriano Cortese, Seoul Marginal Theatre Festival/Ranters Theatre

“Top quality socially engaged creative practice.” Jill Morgan AM, Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria

“Of tremendous benefit to our communities” Ruth Gstrein, Former Mayor/Corangamite Shire

“A boon for the district” Richard Riordan MP/Member for Polwarth

“Stimulates the diversity of experience within the district” Dan Tehan MP/Member for Wannon

"The antidote to fear and misinformation and hatred." - Alison Croggon, ABC Arts 

"Suffused with hospitality at every level" - Cameron Woodhead, The Age 

"5 Stars" - Artshub

"Just wonderful. No other words needed. Go." - Audience member

“I’m writing with tears in my eyes, so it says everything I am feeling now. The worst part is it ended.” Audience Member

“You have to go! It will change you.” Audience Member

“Nourishment for body and soul.” Weekend Notes