About 4,000 Ukrainians have arrived in Australia since the invasion began and now face a festive season far from home and loved ones
This time last year Tetiana Pyshna was on stage. Her 13-year-old daughter, Anastasiia, was playing the lead in Thumbelina and Pyshna was playing her mother.
It was the first time they had performed together and hundreds of people from around Kremenchuk, their home city in central Ukraine, had come to see them.