Access Arts is proud to announce that Kim “Busty Beatz” Bowers has been awarded the Access Arts Achievement Award 2025, receiving $10,000 to support the development of her new theatre work Confessions of The Brutally Blessed.
Kim “Busty Beatz” Bowers is a Music Director, Composer, Sound Designer, Writer, Poet and Performance Maker who has been creating fearless work for more than 30 years. Of Xhosa, Chinese and Indonesian heritage and based on Yuggera Country in Brisbane, Kim creates powerful sonic worlds that sit at the intersection of music, theatre, activism and community
Confessions of The Brutally Blessed
The Award will support a key creative development phase of Confessions of The Brutally Blessed, a new theatre work that explores disability, neurodivergence, Black Femmehood, body sovereignty and ancestral memory through poetry, sound and live performance. The project will bring together a team of collaborators, including long term creative partners and community organisations, to develop script, music, access design and sensory elements from the outset.
Working with partners such as Inala Wangarra, Polytoxic and Quiet Riot Creative, Kim will use the Award to create time and space to write, compose and experiment in a way that supports her access needs, while building a framework for future presentation and touring.
We cannot wait to see how Kim will use the Award to undertake key creative development, that integrates access design and sensory storytelling.