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  • STILL WANNA BE A RABBIT
    Presented at Quilt Room, Trades Hall as part of Melbourne Fringe 2022 from Thursday the 6th to Sunday the 9th of October. Over the course of Yumi Umiumare career they have continued to define their performance sensibilities as both steeped in the ancientness of Butoh and Physical Theatre- as much as being obsessed with the…
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  • SCOLD’S BRIDLE
    Presented at The Butterfly Club as part of Melbourne Fringe 2022, from Monday the 3rd to Sunday the 9th of October. Scold’s Bridle- was a draconian implement used to torture, degrade and silence women. Akin to something from the dark ages- it is from this metaphoric title, that this contemporary performance begins. With Frankly holding…
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  • JAGGED LITTLE PILL
    For a certain generation, the music of Alanis Morissette is forever etched into a collective angst filled consciousness, and in Jagged Little Pill the memory of such music comes flooding back in giddy waves.  Introduced first to the all- American Healy family by Mary Jane Healy (played by Natalie Bassingthwaighte)- recording their annual Christmas message. From here…
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  • RAPTURE: BATHTUB EDITION
    Moria Finucane aside from a national treasure, possesses a rare gift that many others could only dream of holding in their own hands. It’s an ability to draw audiences in, holding them captive until the very last moments of a performance, and in Rapture: Bathtub Edition, we are once again reminded of this. Powerful, enigmatic and…
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  • HYDRA
    “The world has changed. There’s no fresh water and machines have taken all the jobs.”- this is Hydra, the latest work by award the winning Melbourne collective Double Water Sign and written by Rachel Perks and directed by Bridget Balodis. You may be familiar with the work of this company through previous productions Ground Control (2016) and Moral Panic (2018), like…
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02/01/2018

TRIENNIAL

Exploring some of the most critical issues of our time through practices  that are embracing of cutting edge technologies, from 3D printing to robotics, as well as performance, film, painting, drawing, installation and fashion design, tapestry and sculpture. The inaugural NGV Triennial offers an opportunity to engage with some of the most vital and significant…
FILM
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

PLEASURE GARDEN 2017

A delight for the senses, and a treat for the soul,  a place where imagination and magic coalesce into sensory wonder. The Pleasure Garden kicked off the summer festival season last weekend, turning Cantani Garden’s on the St Kilda Foreshore into a glittering  and immersive space where arts and music could collide.  Headliners Fat Freddy’s Drop, and Canadian…
MUSIC
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
09/12/2017

NETTI SINGS THE BLUES

With an ability to bend words to her will, and armed with a voice and musical style that transports us back to the mid nineties, an era that some quite rightly argue as being the golden age of Hip Hop, local Melbourne powerhouse Netti, is fast on the rise to greatness. As part of the…
MUSIC
09/12/2017

PROJECT 823

After receiving remarkable applause in Sydney, Perth and Tokyo for his multi-collaborative project ‘823’- Ta-ku (Reggie Matthews) now brings this cross-continental residency program to Melbourne, and the iconic Lindberg Gallery in Collingwood. Inspired by his film photography, ‘823’ shares Ta-ku’s fascination into the analogue processes of film that documents world travels and collaborations with creatives from different mediums.…
FILM
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