Spark LIVE Auckland tour

Spark LIVE - Glass Ceiling Arts Collective’s new multi sensory theatre production for audiences with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities is touring Auckland this month and we need your help!

We want to remove the financial barriers that people with disabilities often face to access the arts by providing low cost ticketing at $10 for patrons and free for caregivers.

To do this we need to raise $5,000 to ensure we cover the shortfall for our costs for our Auckland tour.

Productions that support access to the arts for this community are extremely rare and we are one of only two companies across Aotearoa New Zealand that make this type of theatre. We know multi sensory theatre is desperately needed, how do we know? Well, our Auckland season sold out within 4 days with no promotion other than one email across our Disability networks. And we currently have a large wait list for shows. Any money raised helps us to ensure we can share this work far and wide so that as many people get to experience it as possible.

SPARK tells the story of a teenage girl, with a heart condition isolated from the world during a pandemic as her mother tries to keep her from getting ill. Kate and her mum struggle to navigate their new normal as Kate longs to be reunited with her friends and most of all her beloved horses. Spark takes audiences on a journey of hope, love and the incredible connection between a human and their horse.

Starring Jackie Clarke (Christmas in the Park, Once, Mamma Mia), Lily Mae Ivatt-Oakley (Down For Love) and Hamish Davies (Shortland Street, Matariki Glow Show) with music by Sam Jones (Rhythm and Vines, Soundsplash).

This production will wow audiences with its rich multi sensory story scape with things to touch, taste, and smell. Combining film, live music, bold staging with original songs by Sam Jones, this event is highly accessible so that audiences with PMLD can connect to the story in their own individual way.

Please help us bring this work to audiences across Tāmaki Makaurau so that audiences with PMLD get to experience theatre that is made for their unique perspective.