2023 Composer Luke Styles performed his orchestral interpretation of Renee’s poem ‘Perspective Passes Over Us’ as part of the show ‘Custodians of the Sky’ at the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac Museum in Paris.
‘A new 40 minute work to inhabit the heavens and the earth, exploring our imagining of the universe through music and poetry.
…The text in Custodians of the Sky comes from living Australian writers. At the start and throughout the work are the writings of indigenous astronomer Bill Yidumduma Harney and Hugh Cairns from their book Dark Sparklers. Five poems emerge as songs in the following order; Stars by David Malouf, Skywatchers by Margaret Bradstock, Perspective Passes over Us by Renee Pettitt-Schipp, Moon by A. Frances Johnson, The Moon via telescope by Margaret Bradstock.’
https://www.lukestyles.com/events/2023/4/15/custodians-of-the-sky-wp-t6cwd
2023 Hear about Renee’s collaboration with Adelaide musician, Jen Lush, turning Renee’s poetry into stunning new songs on the album, ‘Hum of the Mettle’ here: https://rtrfm.com.au/story/jen-lush-and-renee-pettit-schipp/
Or listen to the album here: https://jenlush.bandcamp.com/album/hum-of-the-mettle
2023 ‘Tracing Gondwana’, a unique collaboration between Renee and printmakers Monika Lukowska, Nikki Green and artist Janine McCrum, was exhibited during September and October 2023 at Albany Town Hall.
Read more about the exhibition in the review by Melanie Mckee here: https://www.printcouncil.org.au/tracing-gondwana/
2023 Renee’s poetry was featured at Red Room Poetry’s WA Showcase at Fremantle Town Hall: https://redroompoetry.org/events/wa-poetry-month-showcase/
2023 Renee judged the Ballina for Refugees Poetry Prize https://www.echo.net.au/2023/10/winners-of-ballina-region-for-refugees-poetry-competition-announce/
2023 Renee judged the Liquid Amber Poetry Prize alongside poets Anne M. Carson and Rose Lucas https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2023/08/11/and-now-the-winners/
2023 Renee launched ‘Shelter’, artist Verity Byth’s deeply affecting exhibition about homelessness in a climate ravaged world, showcased at Contemporary Arts Spaces Mandurah (CASM). https://www.veritybyth.com/shelter
The exhibit also included work responding to Renee’s poem, ‘Backpack’: https://www.veritybyth.com/shelter/backpack
2023 Alongside the Hon David Templeman, Minister for the Arts, Renee presented at the West Australian Premiers Award at the State Library of WA
2022 Learn about Reneé’s collaboration with printmakers Monika Lukowska and Nikki Green (photo: Nic Duncan) for the exhibition ‘Tracing Gondwana’ here: https://www.midlandjunctionartscentre.com.au/exhibitions/tracing-gondwana
2022 Hear more about how ‘Tracing Gondwana’ drew on connections with local Elders, as well as working with the team at Gondwana Link, here: https://heartlandjourneys.com.au/storytellers/renee-pettitt-schipp/
2021 ‘Legacy’ was an exhibition at Collie Art Gallery involving ten artists from the Great Southern region and Northwest USA. Find out more here: https://www.collieartgallery.org.au/portfolio/legacy/
2021 A rich collaboration for Denmark Festival of Voice:
http://www.jenlush.com/poetry-music-project/
https://www.denmarkfestivalofvoice.com.au/music-of-poetry
…has lead to Adelaide musician Jen Lush and Reneé Pettitt-Schipp to build on their rich symbiotic relationship with the performance ‘All the Stories We DO Not Know’ at Nanga Music Festival: https://www.facebook.com/renee.schipp/videos/396227435388198
2021 ‘Baba Yagan’s Cauldron’ was a rich collaboration of musicians and poets as part of the 2021 Brink Festival.
https://www.facebook.com/theskyrunsrightthroughus/photos/a.2206115612952121/2981952742035067/
2020 Reneé was honoured to work with KSP to judge the 558 entries received for the 2020 Katherine Susannah Pritchard poetry competition. https://www.facebook.com/theskyrunsrightthroughus/photos/a.2206115612952121/2896598393903836/
2020 Reneé joined around one hundred and eighty women from all over WA to take part in Annette Carmichael’s dance production raising awareness about domestic violence. https://www.facebook.com/AnnetteCarmichaelProjects/photos/a.1419702261481592/2657721111013028/
2020 Poetree in your Pocket Denmark Arts. Tastes, poems, stories and tales from writers in the region. https://soundcloud.com/user-77656228/renee-pettitt-schipp-redtails
2019 ‘Seeking Sanctuary’ https://vimeo.com/370464725 and ‘Memories Dreams Reflections – Fathers and Daughters’ https://vimeo.com/381614417 (short films with Rob Castiglione)
2019 ‘Ecopoetics’ Panel Discussion: Killian Quiqley & Caitlin Mailing (University of Sydney) in conversation with Nandi Chinna and Renee Pettitt-Schipp
2019 ‘New Shoots WA’ (poetry performance), Red Room Company, Perth Poetry Festival https://redroomcompany.org/projects/new-shoots-wa/
2019 ‘Environmental Activism and Community resistance in the Roe 8 Campaign’, (Guest Lecturer, Centre for Human Rights), Curtin University
2018 ‘Thonglines’ (presentation of poetry by asylum seekers) Denmark Festival of Voice
2018 ‘The Sky Runs Right Through Us’ (music and poetry collaboration with Jenny Gaunt and Ashley Schipp) Denmark Festival of Voice
2018 ‘Paying Attention is a Moral Act’ (seminar with Rosemary Sayer), 28 March, Curtin University, Western Australia http://humanrights.curtin.edu.au/events/research-seminars/
2018 ‘Poetry Land Two’ (poetry reading with Ross Gibson, David McCooey, Shevaun Cooley and Charlotte Guest), Perth Writer’s Festival, 24 February
2017 ‘Sanctuary: another word for refuge’, (performance with UNESCO Chair Alison Phipps and spoken word artist Zainab Syed), St John’s Church, Fremantle https://charitydos.com.au/do/20939-sanctuary-another-word-for-refuge
2017 ’22 Pillars’ (spoken word performance created and directed by Jennifer Kornberger), High Tide, Fremantle Festival
2017 ‘The Poetics and Politics of Paying Attention on Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Island’ (paper), Poetry on the Move, Canberra
2017 ‘Watching a Beetle’ (poem exhibit) Gallery 1897 https://the1897windowgallery.com/watching-a-beetle/
2017 ‘Environmental Activism and Community resistance in the Roe 8 Campaign’,(guest lecturer), October 2017, Curtin University
2017 Paying Attention as a Moral Act (collaborative paper) The IAFOR International Conference on Global Studies, The NH Collection Barcelona Constanza, Barcelona
2017 Shoot (song collaboration) for album The Night’s Insomnia (Jen Lush) https://jenlush.bandcamp.com/track/shoot-renee-pettitt-schipp
2017 ‘Blurring at our Borders; unlearning identity through topography’ (paper) Writing Place, Pushing Genre: Adventures across South Africa and Australia, Curtin University
2017 Poetry Reading Collaboration, Almost Corner Bookshop, Susan Bradley Smith and John Cabot University (Rome)
2017 Sunday Session (poetry and music collaboration) KSP Writers’ Centre
2016 In the Shadow of a Palm Tree (poetry and music collaboration) and Composing Country (poetry workshop) Denmark Festival of Voice
2016 ‘Blurring the Boundaries: Where Form Meets Theme’ (paper with Liz Byrski) Directions and Destinations MCCA Research Symposium, Curtin University
2016 The Littoral Zone (collaboration- poems, songs and art from the soil and water of Perth)
2015 Rhyming the Dead, Red Room Company http://redroomcompany.org/projects/rhyming-dead/
2015 Forest of Poets, Perth Poetry Festival http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandarts/perth-poetry-festival/6698550
2015 Fusions exhibition (in collaboration with OOTA and Applecross Senior High School)
2015 Laughing in One Language – Three Years in the Indian Ocean Territories (multi-media presentation and poetry), Grounding the Sacred Conference, ACU University, Sydney.
2015 Artist in Residence Shark Bay (in support of Bare Foot, Black Tie Festival, Gascoyne in May
2015 Artist in Residence – Kalbarri (in support of Zest Festival)
2015 Feature Poet Voicebox (March) 
2014 Radio National – Feature Poet, Poetica programme, Radio National (‘Tidalectics’ – 6 December)
2014 Feature Poet – Perth Poetry Festival
2014 Meniscus Exhibition – The Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery (poetry) 
2013 Landscapes Real and Imagined – Kidogo Arthouse (poetry) 
2013 Suburban Archaeology exhibition – Ellenbrook Arts (poetry)
2013 Multilingual poetry event – PICA (poetry and images)
2012 In the Shadow of a Palm Tree (multimedia presentation of poems) and Memorialisation and the Crisis of Collective Memory on Christmas Island, CREATEC Symposium: Catastrophe and Creativity, Edith Cowan University
2011 Thonglines poetry exhibition and presentation (VicTESOL Conference – Melbourne Convention Centre)
2011 Thonglines poetry exhibition – Clancys Fish Pub Fremantle (co-curated)