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Origin Story

Creative development, workshops

2025 – Onwards

CuriousWorks and Milk Crate Theatre have teamed up for a creative workshop series called Origin Story! It is a free program, open to everyone including people who identify as neurodiverse or disabled or d/Deaf.

Calling curious minds of all kinds!
Have you been feeling blah, overworked, and stuck in a creative rut?
Keen to build new skills, confidence, and friendships?
Well, folks, gather around because we have a program just for YOU!

Enter: Origin Story.

This 6-week creative program is an all-abilities, no-experience necessary course that will unearth your artistic impulses. Origin Story is a free program, open to everyone including people who identify as neurodiverse or disabled or d/Deaf.

During these workshops, you’ll spend time with professional artists and learn all their tips and tricks. Whether you want to write, dance, act or just get in the room and start making something, we’ve got you covered!

From comic book heroes to grand odysseys to family journeys, we are constantly surrounded by stories that inspire, challenge, and push us. This program is about recognising, championing, and unleashing your inner storyteller. All ideas weird and wonderful are welcome!

When we create our own worlds, we empower our reality. So show up and see where your creativity takes you!

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Where: Fairfield City HQ - Vic Winton Community Room at 17 Kenyon St (Five minute walk from Fairfield Station)

You can check out CuriousWorks' visual story here.

When: Every Tuesday, from September 8th - October 13th 2026 + October 20 (scratch night)

Time: 2PM - 4PM

Cost: Free

Auslan interpreters will be present during the workshops.

Please note: The program is currently full. The workshops will culminate in a closed Scratch Night event which is a low-pressure opportunity for a fun works-in-progress showing for friends and family. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Miranda Aguilar at miranda@curiousworks.com.au

Meet your facilitators:

Bedelia Lowrenčev

Bedelia (they/she) is a groovy disabled actor, dancer, singer, agitator, theatre maker, producer and Access Coordinator, living and working on Darug and Wangal Land. Bedelia frequently collaborates with their Deaf twin Jeremy, as facilitators and explorers of queerness, disability and deafness. Bedelia has a keen interest in communal care, story sovereignty, reciprocity and advocacy in their arts practice. In particular, challenging the western gaze on body, community and identity, and the reclamation of CALD queerness, and relation to land. Most recently, Bedelia acted in 'With Love, Lottie', which screened at Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival, and Mardi Gras Film Festival, where Bedelia received The Emerging Performer award. Previously, Bedelia acted with Bus Stop Films in 'Screen Me', Assistant Produced Raghav Handa’s THE ASSEMBLY at Campbelltown Arts Centre, performed SOFT PLACES at the Sydney Biennale, Griffin Studio Resident, Access Coordinator at Performance Space for Liveworks, and Co-Program Coordinator: Access at Sydney Fringe Festival. Bedelia has run workshops and projects with NAVA, Accessible Arts, AGNSW, Performing Lines and the Liverpool Biennial/DADA Fest. Currently, Bedelia is in residency for their new crip musical, and mentoring the current Access Coordinator at Performance Space for 2025.

Miranda Aguilar

Miranda Aguilar is a queer Filipinx writer, creative producer and community arts worker. Miranda first joined CuriousWorks back in 2014 as a participant, working on projects including Riz (2014), Las Rosas (2017) and the first Urban Stories (2016). Their first play Let Me Know When You Get Home, was written and produced with CuriousWorks support, from its early development all the way to its premiere showing Riverside Theatre's National Theatre of Parramatta 2020/2021 season. They now run creative programs like Everything is Writing and Testing Grounds aimed at fostering creativity and connection and supporting emerging artists. They are currently developing Courting Ghosts, a feature film project previously supported by AFTRS National Talent Camp (2022) and the Untapped Development Lab (2023) presented by Australians in Film and Screen Australia. You can read more about their artistic practice on their website here.

William Uy Vu Le

Profoundly d/Deaf, William Uy Vu Le is an experienced multifaceted writer, poet and occasional performer across film, television, theatre, print, literature and online content.

Since 2013, William founded an all-inclusive casting agency committed to diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ talent with life partner Michael Turkic, touching the raw nerve on issues of equality, opportunity, fidelity and representation. He is passionate about authentic and well-developed portrayals of real people and real stories in entertainment.

In 2014-2015, William was DON'T Dis My ABILITY Ambassador for NSW Government. He raised awareness for access requirements, politically correct language and general etiquette while offering hilariously unique insights into Deaf and Hearing-impaired culture.

In 2016, William proudly narrated with his mother and grandmother (famous TV chef/food sculpture artist in Vietnam) in William Yang's "Who Speaks for Me?” alongside two other Asian families, about anecdotal miscommunication, ethnic identity and migrant diasporas. He also contributed to the 2017 Australian Marriage Equality Campaign with Bà in the form of a TVC and video, which went viral on social media.

In 2021-2022, William was a successful resident of Australia Council's "Future Leaders Program", about the resilience and fluidity of modern leadership; the mindfulness of ‘slow time’ and a profound Indigenous connection to land. In 2023, he completed the five-month intensive Australian Progress’s "Autumn National Fellowship" program about advocacy, campaigning, intersectionality, change, narrative and power for disability rights, sustainability and First Nations justice.

He has been featured in the media and online as disability advocate, including Next Sense and the ABC about his lived experiences. He has spoken at various seminars, workshops and conferences.

Having grown up in Fairfield, William is excited to be part of the 2026 Createability Internship program through CuriousWorks.

Credits

Origin Story is an arts program from CuriousWorks and Milk Crate Theatre. In 2025, the program was originally called Fetch Quest.

Co-facilitators: Bedelia Lowrenčev (Milk Crate Theatre), Miranda Aguilar (CuriousWorks) & William Uy Vu Le (CuriousWorks)

Creative Producers: Miranda Aguilar (CuriousWorks) & Felicity Nicol (Milk Crate Theatre)

Contact

Contact us here

Find us at:
Fairfield City HQ
17 Kenyon St,
Fairfield, NSW, 2165,
Australia

Mail us at:
PO Box 112,
Liverpool, NSW, 1871,
Australia

View our visual story to know exactly how to find us

02 9602 9568

ABN 49 717 992 269

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Our office is located on Darug land at Fairfield City HQ. We would like to acknowledge the Cabrogal Clan of the Darug Nation, the traditional custodians of the land. Our work takes us across Darug, Dharawal and Eora lands. Sovereignty was never ceded.