Blood. Sex. Tears was featured at the recent Women Of the World Festival at Footscray Community Arts Centre.
Michael MacKenzie happened across us and made this wonderful segment about our work.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/blood,-sex-and-tears-inside-the-grand-caravan/8397488
Check it out!
We were very lucky to be presented by Arts and Culture Maribyrnong, massive thank you to the amazing team there.
This weekend I will be the artist in residence at Whittlesea Community Festival creating shadow installations of both historic and contemporary sites around Thomastown and Lalor.
https://www.whittlesea.vic.gov.au/events-recreation/things-to-see-and-do/local-attractions-and-activities/city-of-whittlesea-community-festival/
This Thursday 19th January come and join in the fun making a giant octopus puppet out of cane and repurposed plastic bags. The Nightjar Festival in Torquay is a wonderful event full of awesome things to do and see. We will be there from 4 until 8 in the Bellarine Kids section. For more information check out Nightjar Festival
For more info: Monsters
This Saturday 18 June we will be at the beautiful Village Winter Festival in Castlemaine.
Come see what is making Gutzy! fart sooooo much! There is heaps to do!
https://www.facebook.com/TheVillageWinterFestivalCastlemaine/
We are very excited to be presenting The Grand Caravan and Blood. Sex. Tears as an installation at Regional Arts Victoria Showcase on May 17 & 18 at Plenty Ranges Art Centre.
For information: here
We have arrived in Brazil and the first performance of Ants was a hit at Australia Now 2016 Festival!
I had some beautiful moments with children as they became ants and created a far reaching pathway that snaked down the cobblestone lane at SECO Pompeia. This is the first time i have performed the show in a country that speaks a language other than English and was so excited to see that the work really does cross that language barrier.
A particular moment towards the end of the show was when us three Ants crouched down in our resting position rubbing the backs of our hands together. A group of about 10 children sat with us and did the same, then offered a little conversation with the fingertips tapping each other.
So exciting!
Come on down to Bonwick St for the opening of The Launching Board. Between 10 am and Midday on Saturday have a cup of tea with us and chat about the question the children have devised.
For an awesome program of things for children to do this school holidays check out Roola Boola
When: June 30 until July 3rd
Times: 9:30 - 2:30
Cost: Face Paint By Children is free!
The Blue Oni
In May 2015 I returned to Minami Sanriku, Japan. The once thriving town was destroyed by the tsunami in 2011. Six months after the event i went with Polyglot Theatre to offer the first of hopefully many arts projects with the community. Polyglot have been back to the town another two times, i was fortunate to be on this last one.
It was incredible to see how far from completion the town still is. Four years on, and away from the eyes of the media many of the residents are still in temporary housing. On the flat there is much construction raising the ground level by some 7 to 10 meters. The surrounding mountains are being dug out to account for all of this soil, and then on the flats made in the mountains the houses will be built. The decision has been made that only businesses will be built where the town was.
We worked in collaboration with the wonderful Acchi Cocci a team of Japanese classical musicians who have been bringing Cafe Concerts to the area since 2011.
We began an inter-generational Drawbridge project with the Komishibai, a traditional paper stroytelling performance form. Our comic artist Bernard Caleo performs in Australia with Komishibai. We linked the Elders community at two temporary housing villlages and The Ireya Elementary School in the construction of a story. We began with a traditional story that everyone knew and asked Tsugi Wa? What's next? The children added another three scenes to the story, placing themselves within it. We then performed the story for four kindergartens.
The Head Of Department of Education spoke very highly of the arts as a way for healing, and said he found it very hard to say no to these opportunities. But the children are behind, and it is difficult for them to find time within schools to be able to offer more.
The overwhelming feedback was that everyone was so pleased to see the children looking happy, that they were extremely focused.
More to come soon.....
We are currently in Cleveland at the International Children's Festival with Paper Planet. Next Stop Pittsburg with Tangle!
I made this cave entrance with a smaller tunnel for children to crawl through. Cant wait for the children to come and fill the forest with creatures and everything else they can imagine!
