Saga Sisterhood

Saga Sisterhood is a transformative performance project for women from communities who identify as South Asian that come from non-performer backgrounds but all have something to say about love, friendship, belonging, family and identity. We are now in the era of political wars against particular identities where the only thing we might have left is our human stories.

This project emerged from a creative development led by Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa with the valuable storytelling training by Sisonke Msimang and directing from Shirley Van Sanden. Funded by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries this project was designed to train women of South Asian heritage for live performance with the aim to support new and emerging performers and those who had never considered themselves as potential performers.

Four storytellers were chosen to perform their stories for the stage at The Centre for Stories and The Blue Room Theatre as part of the Winter Nights Festival in mid-2019. In November 2019, three storytellers performed at the Mapping Melbourne Festival.

We thank The Blue Room Theatre and photographer, Tasha Faye, for providing the photographs.