Margie Fischer
Jewish Australian artist and LGBTIQA+ advocate
Margaret Charlotte Fisher, known as Margie Fischer, is a Jewish Australian artist and LGBTIQA+ advocate based in Adelaide, South Australia. She was a co-founder and artistic director of Vitalstatistix and Feast Festival, and received an order of Australia for "significant service to the festival sector, and to the LGBTIQ community".
Early life
Fischers parents were Austrian Jewish refugees who survived the Holocaust, lived in Shanghai and migrated to Australia in 1950's. Some of her family had died in concentration camps. Fischer was born in Sydney, Australia. She describes herself and her family as "progressive" Jews, and spoke Yiddish and Austrian at home. Her brother died at 27 years old when Fisher was 27. Fisher moved in Adelaide in the early 1980s where she met her partner Ros Bent.
Vitalstatistix
Fischer was co-founder of National Women's Theatre Company, Vitalstatistix, with Roxxy Bent, Ollie Black. The organization is based in the heritage listed Waterside Workers Hall, and creates work from a feminist perspective and supporting women artists.
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