Get Your Geek On - Theatre Show and Workshops
Theatre Meets Innovation at Bulmba-ja!
SATURDAY OCTOBER 18TH
11AM – 5.15PM
Join JUTE Theatre Company and Launch Y(E)P for a jam-packed day of performance and hands-on workshops that celebrate creativity, problem-solving, and big ideas.
The Play: Get Your Geek On by Isaac Drandic
Meet Djirra, a 12-year-old science whizz inspired by Indigenous inventor David Unaipon. With fizzing volcanoes, walking robots, and plenty of laughs, Djirra is on a mission to create the world’s greatest invention – if she can outsmart her classmate Kevin first!
Workshops
Alongside the play, take part in dynamic theatre and innovation workshops:
- Confidence and public speaking boosting theatre-based workshop delivered by JUTE Theatre Company
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship based workshop delivered by
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- The Problem Solvers: Designing Solutions That Make a Difference (Problems Worth Solving)
Identify meaningful challenges within your community and discover innovative ways to design solutions, fostering creative problem-solving skills. - Build a Side Hustle: From Idea to Action (Creating a Side Hustle)
- Explore how to turn your passions into real-world business ideas, learning the basics of launching a small project or business.
- The Problem Solvers: Designing Solutions That Make a Difference (Problems Worth Solving)
Who is it for?
Young people primary school aged, early high school.
Price:
$5 per session only!
PROGRAM SATURDAY 18 OCTOBER 2025
| Time | Theatre | Studio B |
| 11am | Get Your Geek On | |
| 11.45am | End of show | |
| Break | ||
| 12pm | Theatre Workshop | The Problem Solvers workshop |
| 1.15pm | End of workshop | End of workshop |
| Break | Break | |
| 1.30pm | Build a Side Hustle workshop | |
| 2.45pm | End of workshop | |
| 3pm | Get Your Geek On | |
| 3.45pm | End of show | |
| Break | ||
| 4.00pm | Theatre workshop | |
| 5.00pm | End of workshop | |
| 5.15pm | Building closed. |
THE PLAY: GET YOUR GEEK ON
Synposis
12-year-old Djirra is a science whizz; she knows how to make a robot walk and volcano pop bright coloured fizz. Her hero is David Unaipon- you know the bloke who’s on the Australian $50 note! He was an Australian Indigenous inventor, and just like him, Djirra wants to make an invention that changes the world for the better … the world’s greatest ever invention! But what?? Djirra is excited that the school science fair is coming up and she wants to take out top prize with a great invention. She’s got some competition, though. Her classmate and archrival in the invention game, Kevin, will do anything to take that first prize instead of her.
Creative Team: Get your Geek on
Actors: Maurice Sailor and Maci-Grace Johnson
Stage Manager: Sam Gray
Creative Producer: Monica Stevens
Playwright: Isaac Drandic
Director: Raymond Blanco
Set, Props & Costume Designer: Simona Cosentini & Simone Tesorieri
Composers: David Hudson & Nigel Pegrum
Proudly supported by the Advance Queensland initiative.
JUTE Theatre Company is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.