Join Amicus Community Services and Lifely for the “Stand Up for Inclusion: Comedy Show”  because inclusion deserves a spotlight and yes, a good laugh too.

🗓 Date: Wednesday 3 December 2025 

⏰ Time: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

📍 Venue: Academy of Creative Arts Theatre, Bendigo South East Secondary College, 56 Ellis Street, Flora Hill VIC 3550

👉 Featuring performers with lived experience of disability or neurodiversity: Oliver Hunter (Headliner), James G Warren and your host Ben Reid.

They’ll bring hilarious, honest and heart-warming stories that proudly say “nothing about us without us”.

🎟 Tickets are free (gold coin donation appreciated) – wheelchair accessible venue, Auslan interpreter provided, accessible parking onsite.

📲 Book your spot now

Bring your mates, your sense of humour and let’s celebrate inclusion together.

More about the acts

Ben Reid (Host) – Local actor and regular performer with Bendigo Theatre Company. Ben served on the City of Greater Bendigo Youth Council in 2023 and is a young man on the rise.

James G Warren – Winner of Class Clowns at the 2013 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Since moving from Hobart to Melbourne, James has developed a relaxed style and sharp timing that keep audiences laughing from start to finish.

Oliver Hunter (Headliner) – Oliver has been sharing stories about life with a disability for over ten years. When not on stage, he works as a disability awareness consultant, advocate, keynote speaker, and podcast host. Or, as he likes to say, he is “the guy you get when you cannot afford Dylan Alcott.”