About the Event

City of Belmont residents are invited to join a guided community conversation with Blue Joy Theatre Company, exploring everyday interactions with familiar public spaces.

Through facilitated discussion and structured prompts, participants will reflect on routine movement and perception, considering questions such as:

• What places do you move through each day?
• What sensory details consistently stand out (sound, light, texture, movement)?
• What small actions or encounters shape your sense of connection or disconnection?

Together, we’ll reflect on memory, perception, and connection to place, what you notice on your daily routes, what stands out, and what often goes unseen. We will audio-document and analyse the responses to identify shared patterns and site-specific insights, which will directly inform the development of a new performance work.

Participants are invited to share their perspectives and contribute to a creative project in the making, reimagining everyday environments as living archives of experience.

Light refreshments will be provided.

All Participants must be 18+

About the Project

Echoes in the Pavement is a socially engaged, interdisciplinary project by Blue Joy Theatre Company responding to the SPACED KTN#4 theme Gestures. It explores how subtle, everyday actions, such as walking, waiting, or exchanging a glance, shape our connection to place and reveal the emotional and social dynamics embedded within public space.

Through community engagement and site-responsive practice, the project investigates how these small gestures carry memory, culture, and meaning, and how they accumulate to influence how we experience and understand our environments. Grounded in the Know Thy Neighbour framework, the work seeks to reframe familiar spaces and foster dialogue across diverse communities.

At its core, the project centres listening, reciprocity, and creation, positioning artistic practice as a way of engaging with people and place through care, attention, and exchange.

This project is commissioned by SPACED and City of Belmont as a part of Know Thy Neighbour #4: Gestures. Any queries about this event can be directed to Rebecca Riggs-Bennett: [email protected]