Blue Joy Theatre Company with City of Belmont
Artists: Mohammed ‘Ayo Busari’, Shelby McKenzie and Ken Meyer
Location: Belmont
Project Partner: City of Belmont
Work In Progress: An outdoor, devised theatre and cross-disciplinary project that explores micro-gestures of memory, care, and resilience in overlooked public spaces. Rooted in community storytelling, their site-responsive research focuses on liminal everyday sites, footpaths, bus stops, laundromats, and street corners, where people pause, pass, and persist.
About the artists:
Blue Joy Theatre Company was founded in 2025 by Mohammed 'Ayo Busari”, Blue Joy Theatre is a collective of independent artists, creatives, and collaborators based in Boorloo (Perth). They are theatre makers, producers, writers, directors, and performers driven by the power of storytelling. They exist to amplify underrepresented voices, foster cultural exchange, and challenge the norm across both traditional stages and bold, experimental spaces. Their work is collaborative, community-rooted, and fiercely creative.
Mohammed 'Ayo Busari' is a Nigerian-born, award-winning interdisciplinary artist, creative producer, writer, performer, researcher and disability support worker based in Boorloo (Perth). His practices spans poetry, devised theatre, sound, visual storytelling, and socially engaged artmaking, rooted in co-creation, cultural memory, and the power of lived experience. Through his work, Ayo explores themes of belonging, migration, identity, and connection across emotional, cultural, and spatial divides.
Shelby McKenzie is a performer, theatre maker, and movement artist. They graduated with first-class honours from WAAPA, where they focused on embodiment in live theatrical performance. Their thesis, Moments in Performance; developing an aid for articulation and reflection has been published through the Edith Cowan University library. Shelby is a bilingual/bi-modal artist studying towards a diploma in Auslan, with the intention to incorporate the language into their practice.
Ken Meyer is a German-born, half-Japanese, emerging multidisciplinary artist working across digital and physical mediums. Ken investigates the boundaries between subjective and objective reality through digital media, 3D sculpture, projection, immersive audiovisual experiences and experimental music. His work draws on metaphysical and scientific concepts, exploring phenomena such as wave interference and fluid dynamics as parallels to consciousness. Using 3D software to simulate light refraction and dispersion, he transforms digital forms into sculptures, projections, soundscapes and performances.
About the Project Partner:
City of Belmont is a place where cultures blend, creativity thrives and opportunities flourish. Nestled between the CBD and the Perth Hills, with the Swan River and Perth Airport in its borders, you are always close to what you need in the City of Belmont.
Delivering a range of services, facilities and spaces for residents and visitors, the City of Belmont has a unique mix of people, cultures and businesses coming together to connect as one community.
Whether it’s the chance to connect, learn, thrive or simply to belong, opportunities are everywhere in the City of Belmont.
Where The Light Rests, Ken Meyer, 2025, Fremantle, Fremantle Biennale, spatial sound, light, water, raku ceramic. Photo by Ricky Gestro.