About Us

Southern Lakes Stories.

Queenstown Arts Organisation

Established in 2020, Shaky Isles Productions is a professional non for profit charitable organisation dedicated to creating high quality arts experiences of the people of the Southern Lakes region. Telling stories of our place for the people who live here and those who love to visit.

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The shaky isles of Aotearoa rose from the sea. The land still twists and turns, the lakes and mountains are still wild and rugged. We want our work to be like that, ever-changing, always growing, full of wonder, creating and re-creating.

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We like what is live, sharing great art experiences up close, together.

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We like story and believe knowing our own and collective stories brings us closer to each other.
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We like imagination, for our thoughts are powerful and create limitless potential.

Our Pillars.

Story

We strive to have voices heard – voices that have a strong, authentic and important story to tell. Story-telling is one of the oldest human traditions – it entertains, informs, and educates.

Community

Art achieves its full potential when community, when people, come together to share in its wonder and find common ground and connection. All of our work has a community minded focus, so together we can explore our creative voices.

Quality

We seek to develop and present live arts experiences that inspire, move, provoke and bring joy to our audiences and artists.

Imagination

Our work aims to engage the imagination. We believe an arts experience can be transformative, as well as entertaining and educational. We want to create space for artists and audiences to better understand themselves and each other through their shared experience.

ABOUT

EMMA

Founded by Emma Deakin, who has over 20years experience in the arts industry in NZ, and the UK, she is a producer, performer, writer and creative educator. The company is a reinvention, or extension, of Shaky Isles Theatre, a company founded by Emma in London in 2006, which presented NZ plays and new-devised work across the capital from 2006-2015.

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