About us

Panimo is a creative arts organisation that helps facilitate community development and growth through networking events and workshops. We work with people predominately between 18-25 and aid them in facilitating and building genuine connections within the arts community so that they can find lasting career prospects within the arts. We help young people workshop their new work, offer support groups and community events so that new artwork can be tested and experimented. Panimo is a platform that helps young people emerging into the arts sector stabilise their career and create the best work!

Why you should join 

Need a leg up? Finding it hard to break into the arts? We know. We're here to change that. Welcome to a world where it's not about who you know, but what you know and what you can do. Panimo is here to help you with the hard part: getting your foot in the door, so you can focus on doing what you love: creating.

Snapshot of Panimo

An ATYP x Nightingale Content production, RoomWorks was a one-week challenge that paid 10 young writers and 10 young actors to write and perform an original 1 - 2-minute monologue in teams of two, which was screened in a digital scratch night on July 18th. The program aimed to provide young artists the opportunity to connect with others in the community, network with more experienced creators and hone their respective skills during this period apart.
Panimo was proud to be the networking facilitator for the RoomWorks participants. The RoomWorks team jumped on our website to check-in, connect and ask questions throughout the program in their dedicated RoomWorks group and also provided industry Q&A's with the mentors and panelists for everyone to tune in. We even hosted our Networking Differently session on Zoom for the after-party!  

Backdoor Bookclub

Backdoor Bookclub is an new ongoing initiative in which emerging playwrights – whose works are not necessarily at a staged-reading level of development – can submit their work via the Panimo platform, where the Panimo team will select a piece and host a discussion about the work with the writer and industry creatives. This project provides young artists a space in which their writing can be fostered and honed; they will also receive dramaturgical feedback and support from both their peers and industry creatives.

Panimo Podcast 

In the lead up to RoomWorks, founders Jack and Jodi spoke with established professionals from across the industry about all things arts: acting, directing, dramaturgy, making your own work, and much more. These conversations provide a valuable insight into the industry and how an artist can find their place within it.

• Jane Fitzgerald - resident dramaturg at ATYP
  
• Dom Mercer - Artistic Associate at Belvoir St Theatre
  
• Jay Emmanuel - actor, playwright & director
• Anna Houston - actor, playwright & director
• Carissa Licciardello - director (Belvoir Emerging Artist Resident)
• Paige Rattray - Associate Director at Sydney Theatre Company
• Leila Enright - Associate Producer at Darlinghurst Theatre Company

All of the above episodes are available on our website.