SPECTRUM

As the only circus show programed in Midsumma’s 2018 festival line up, Spectrum promises to deliver big on spectacle, with it’s electric mix of skills and trickery. Beginning in a world devoid of colour, Spectrum explores the vast world of sexuality and gender, while making it’s way across the colour spectrum. Created by Uncovered Circus…

PERFORMANCE

19/12/2017

LET THEM EAT CAKE

An architecturally abstract, lush in its sonic component and audaciously indulgent gathering, Let Them Eat Cake is a festival like no other. It takes plays at the Werribee Mansion, paying homage to it’s rich history of decadence and splendour. This festival is a coming together of all the vast facets of electronics and sound, together…

MUSIC

15/12/2017

WE WERE THERE

Giving voice to 15 different real-life women, through a performance given by four Melbourne actors, We Were There is unique in its perspective on HIV and AIDS. It explores the real lives and untold stories of the sisters, mothers, wives, friends, volunteers, and medical professionals who cared for those living with HIV and AIDS in…

PERFORMANCE

14/12/2017

LIFE AND MUSIC

In 2018, Bassekou Kouyaté and his band Ngoni Ba will once again be bringing their electric take on African music back to our shores. No traditionalist, though arguably one of the worlds greatest ngoni players, he takes to this instrument, an ancient form of lute as if it were something found in contemporary rock and roll music. Adding electric guitar…

MUSIC

12/12/2017

QUEER TAROT

As explained by local artist Florence Rockwell “The traditional tarot deck imagery is super heteronormative, of only white people and not inclusive of any one outside of the gender binary. There’s very little representation in existing decks for a queer person to relate to. The queer tarot decks that do exist are mostly out of…

FILM

08/12/2017

WE ARE LIGHTNING!

For Melbourne, the closure of live music venues continues to feature as a hot, contentious and worrisome trend. You only need to think back 7 years and remember the mass protest, which saw over 2000 people take to the streets in response to the closure of Collingwood’s Tote Hotel. The magnitude of these venues…

PERFORMANCE

04/12/2017

SONG FOR A WEARY THROAT

Spellbinding is the word that first comes to mind upon reflection of this work. As stoic as it is fragile, it exists between two places. Though neither are fully illustrated, one belongs to the individual, the other to the collective. From moments of quiet pause and solitude, a single figure breaks from this lull, spilling…

PERFORMANCE

27/11/2017

A GARDEN OF PLEASURE

A place where imagination and magic coalesce into sensory wonder, The Pleasure Garden is an immersive, creative arts and music feast, It will bring to life Cantani Gardens on the St Kilda Fore Shore, with a diverse and unique musical programme, roving performances, immersive art works and installations. With the likes of Mickey Space and Fat Freddys Drop…

MUSIC