Boomtown, Queensland Festival of Music |
Queensland Music Festival
The Queensland Music Festival has always done things big but this year’s director, jazz trumpeter James Morrison, has gone really big. Continuing the festival’s state-wide focus there’s a large-scale community event coming up in Gladstone (18-21 July) and a huge performance in Tambo has already taken place at the end of June. Morrison is also trying to break the Guinness World Record for the largest orchestra (more than 6500 musicians) and the largest trumpet ensemble (more than 1200 players; July 13). More moderately-sized pleasures include 1001 Nights, a collaboration between physical theatre company Zen Zen Zo, Queensland Theatre Company and Persian and Middle Eastern ensemble Pezhvak (18-28 July) and the Brodsky Quartet’s Shostakovich celebration performing the composer’s entire string quartet cycle (19-21 July). The Brodsky Quartet will also team up with Brisbane’s Topology to present Elvis Costello’s Il Sogno (18 July).
Queensland Music Festival, various venues, 12-28 July; www.qmf.org.au
TeleScope online screenings, Melbourne International Film Festival
Northwest, Michael Noer |
TeleScope: Visions from the EU, online screenings, Melbourne International Film Festival, 25 July-11 August http://miff.com.au/program-categories/telescope (There’s also a selection of previous festival fare available on iTunes - http://miff.com.au/itunes)
Intra-action, MOP Gallery
Intra-action, MOP Gallery courtesy the artists |
Intra-action: Multispecies becomings in the Anthropocene, curators Eben Kirksey, Madeleine Boyd; MOP Gallery, opening 11-28 July, http://intraactionart.com/
Taking Centre Stage–Telling Indigenous stories in Australian theatres
As part of their Creative Forum series NIDA will present a panel discussion on “where indigenous arts practitioners in Australia fit into the mainstream theatre landscape” (press release). Discussion will be led by UK director Kristine Landon-Smith, currently a lecturer in Acting at NIDA who previously ran “black and minority ethnic” theatre company Tamasha, joined by Lydia Miller (Australia Council), Jane Harrison (playwright), Nakkiah Lui (playwright) and Glenn Shea (actor and playwright).
Creative Forum: Taking Centre Stage–Telling Indigenous stories in Australian theatres, NIDA Parade Theatres, 15 July, http://www.nida.edu.au/default.aspx?ArticleID=690
My Life in the Nude, Maude Davey
Maude Davey, My Life in the Nude photo Ponch Hawkes |
Maude Davey, My life in the Nude, till 21 July, La Mama Theatre, Carlton; http://lamama.com.au/
Ensemble Offspring Sizzle
Rapidly becoming an annual event is Ensemble Offspring’s Sizzle, a winter afternoon frolic at the Petersham Bowling Club. This year, curated by percussionist Bree van Rey, the Sizzle features contemporary classical music by John Cage, Erik Griswold and Elena Kats-Chernin in the mix with folk ballads by Grand Salvo and new and newly arranged works for the Bellevue Public Wind Ensemble. And of course, there’s also the lawn bowls.
Sizzle, Sunday 14 July, 3pm, Petersham Bowling Club, http://ensembleoffspring.com/the-music/upcoming-shows/sizzle-2/
Persona, Fraught Outfit
Meredith Penman, Persona photo Pia Johnson |
Fraught Outfit, Persona, based on the film by Ingmar Bergman, conceived by Adena Jacobs, Dayna Morrissey & Danny Pettingill; directed by Adena Jacobs; Malthouse, Melbourne; until 14 July; www.malthousetheatre.com.au; Belvoir 24 July-18 Aug, http://belvoir.com.au
Personal Space, Tanya Lee
Personal Space at Fremantle Arts Centre is a series of playful performative interactions with the flatlands of suburbia. In her debut solo exhibition Tanya Lee creates short videos of figures elaborately camouflaged to match the fencing of the houses they walk past. While part of the landscape the wandering figures are also essentially walled or fenced in.
Personal Space, Tanya Lee, Fremantle Arts Centre, until July 21http://fac.org.au
Instrument Builder’s Project, Yogyakarta
Dylan Martorell, Instrument Builder’s Project, Yogyakarta photo Joel Stern |
Instrument Builder’s Project, curators Joel Stern, Kristi Monfries, artists Michael Candy, Rodney Cooper, Dylan Martorell, Pia Van Gelder, Ardi M P Gunawan, Asep Nata, Lintang Radittya, Andreas Siagian, Wukir Suryadi; iCAN (Indonesian Contemporary Art Network); Yogyakarta;
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Indonesia-Contemporary-Art-Network-iCAN
Still in the loop
NAIDOC Week
7-14 July
http://www.naidoc.org.au/
Live and Deadly, Carriageworks
27 Jun-1 Aug
http://www.carriageworks.com.au/?page=Event&event=LIVE-AND-DEADLY
My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, 1 June-7 October
http://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/current/my_country
Collaborateurs, Artereal
3-11 July
http://artereal.com.au/home/collaborateurs
With Open Arms
Blindside, 10-13 July
http://www.blindside.org.au/2013/screen-series.shtml
Revelation Film Festival
various venues, Perth, 4-12 July
www.revelationfilmfest.org/
Show Off, Performance Space
till 17 July; Carriageworks
www.performancespace.com.au/2013/show-off-season/
Helium Season, Malthouse
8 June-5 Oct, see website for following productions
www.malthousetheatre.com.au/helium-2013/
Finucane & Smith’s The Glory Box…Paradise
45 Downstairs, Melbourne, 10 July -11 August
http://www.fortyfivedownstairs.com/events/
Fright or Flight, 3 is a Crowd,
Judith Wright Centre, Brisbane, 6-13 July judithwrightcentre.com/event/fright_or_flight
Anne Ferran, Box of Birds
Stills Gallery, Sydney; 26 June to 27 July 2013
www.stillsgallery.com.au
Vocal Folds, Gertrude Contemporary
21 June-20 July; performances 11 July, 18 July
www.gertrude.org.au/exhibitions
RealTime issue #115 June-July 2013 pg. web
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