16/3/2020
To the members of the CentreStage community
Recently, in the past 72 hours, CentreStage has made difficult but essential decisions for the benefit of the Geelong community.
These guidelines represent our best judgement, at this moment, about practical steps we can all take to reduce risk for ourselves and for each other. These decisions have been extremely hard for us to arrive at and for our volunteers to process. However, we trust that you will respect our choices given these challenging circumstances.
Once again, I hope we can be sensitive to each other’s burdens in this situation and make accommodations to support one another where we can. And I count on every member of our community to make sure that the discrimination, shunning and bullying that sometimes accompany an outbreak never occur at CentreStage or within our community.
The upcoming production of Priscilla the Musical scheduled for July 2020 will be postponed until further notice. Our anticipation is to re-stage this musical in early 2021 with the kind support of the Geelong Arts Centre and Origin Theatrical who have demonstrated their unwavering support for CentreStage over the past week.
We continue to encourage our network to actively engage with the Arts Wellbeing Collective (a complimentary service) and Beyond Blue for assistance whilst navigating this difficult situation.
We Thank you for understanding during this tough time and encourage you to not give up on the arts. Love theatre, be creative and support those most vulnerable around us.
Sincerely,
David Greenwood
Managing Director.
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