Faust International Youth Theatre

"This journey made me realise that there are many, many ways to contribute to the arts  landscape – you’re not a failure, you just need to find the one that best works for you." During this period, we would like to share with you a series of interviews from our leaders, other creative members in our community and behind the scene glimpses of our youth theatre. Kat Roma Greer is the founder of Micro Galleries, a free global arts initiative and virtual creative hub that uses art as a vehicle to create positive social change. This includes creative interventions in public spaces, workshops, art tours and more, working together with communities who are in some kind of social or creative need. Kat is also a former Faust Leader who led our teen programmes almost a decade ago. Caught in the act in Kathmandu, Nepal Secret Origins I grew up in a pretty low socio-economic area in Australia. It was a sport-focused town, and I  even went to a sports high school, but weird

"Everyone was saying that the song cheered them up which I felt like is one of the best things you can do when you’re performing." During this period, we would like to share with you a series of interviews from our leaders, other creative members in our community and behind the scene glimpses of our youth theatre. Kathy Mak is a writer and performer whose recent musical parody performance of the song TORN about recent hardships in Hong Kong went viral across the globe. She shared with us her approach to creating and performing.  Caught Between Two Cultures I was born in Hong Kong and have been back and forth New Zealand and here since I was 7 years old. I always have culture shock whenever I move ba ck to another country. Even now I always feel like thoughts, values and behaviour is a unique mixture of HK and western culture. Performing at the Australian Bush Fire Fundraiser Event that started it all About that Torn Parody… I prepared the