Loved the Arts, Music and Culture. Tonight is White Night Festival. But come May 27 last year, Melbourne was catapulted into lockdown for the sixth time and the festival was cancelled after just one night. And Paul Yore's neon crush of bright lights and tacky ephemera grows richer the more time you spend staring at it: it feels like a shrine to Melbourne's post-lockdown self. The idea that we actually have a festival happening is very exciting, it was really fun with local-only line-ups when the borders were closed, but now therell be a new type of stimulation in Melbourne, so, having these artists back, it feels kind of its great. All rights reserved. Few of the previously announced shows have been dumped entirely; others, such as This, by David Woods of Ridiculusmus fame, have been pushed back. White Night is much more than that, although, it's a little hard to explain exactly what it is. The actor at the centre of the Geoffrey Rush vs The Daily Telegraph defamation trial is finally finding fame and acclaim for the right reasons: her art. As in Bendigo, the tunes will be flowing through the night, ranging from local talent playing beneath the stars, to top Aussie drag acts taking the stage for Drag City. He and Fox have created a program that features a refreshingly diverse mix of international artists, including Sui Hu Yu (Taiwan), Slime Engine (China), Rianto (Indonesia), Sampa the Great (Zambia), Mette Ingvartsen (Denmark), Masego and Shabazz Palaces (US), and Arab Strap and Baxter Dury (UK) not to mention their Japan in Focus music strand, which includes Midori Takada, CHAI and Buffalo Daughter, among others. White Night + Melbourne International Arts Festival = Rising "It's this massive and quite eccentric event that's really built for winter and it's been created in a way that the Bowl has never been seen or experienced before," says Fox. Cancelling a festival is as much work as putting one on. The overnight art party that is White Night is heading backto Victoria in. One show I see asks the audience to wear masks; for the others, masks are optional and the exception. We acknowledge and pay our respects to their cultures and traditions, and to Elders past, present and emerging. On the theatre spectrum, Rising will always give a stage to those who mightnt have found one anywhere else, with shows like First Nations-inspired The Return, or even a show by Emmy award winner Lynette Wallworth. RISING first came into the world back in 2020, but for obvious reasons, had to pull out at the last minute. Same with sludge metal I dunno if BORIS really have ever paid too much attention to their labels, but they are so much more accessible to pure hard rock and metal fans than the term sludge suggests. Not too often would you be able to catch a visual art experience or theatre experience like you would at RISING. Rising Festival 2022 opening night review - The Age Gay Pride 2022 in Santiago, Chile is taking place . a magical marine experience with neon sharks, dolphins, crabs and octopi on the Geelong Foreshore. But ultimately, it was easy to see that they seemed a bit peeved by technical difficulties at the end when they left the stage without a word. At Arts House, dance company Marrugeku will finally bring Jurrungu Ngan-ga (Straight Talk) to Melbourne, in which nine culturally diverse performers explore the idea of Australia as a nation of jailers, with input from Yawuru law man Senator Pat Dodson and Kurdish-Iranian writer Behrouz Boochani. The first attempt to launch Melbournes Rising festival an amalgamation of the Melbourne International Arts Festival and White Night was cancelled in 2020 due to the first coronavirus wave. They received more than 1,100 applications. "When we started thinking about Rising, we were looking at where the natural atmosphere and culture [is] within Melbourne, as opposed to trying to recreate that somewhere else," she says. Shout out to my Footscray ballers, indeed. White was born in Clifton Hill, and as a young man was at the forefront of the experimental rock scene in the band Venom P Stinger, which featured Mick Turner on guitar. White Night Melbourne 3.5 39 reviews #243 of 787 things to do in Melbourne Cultural Events Visit website Write a review About Following the trend of progressive cities around the world, the City of Melbourne began hosting the White Night event in 2013. A digital arts hub tucked away in a Chinatown car park. "There can often be a fear of design by committee, but I think that's a fallacy. Rising Festival review: New Melbourne festival had world-class arts, but it was the small moments that made the biggest impact. White Night to light up Bendigo, Geelong with heavy metal First Nations artists including Kait James, Billy-Jay O'Toole and Jenna Oldaker will illuminate Johnstone Park with their projection art, while a school of neon sea creatures are set to descend on the Geelong foreshore. This is likely an area that will continue in years to come, where artists from all backgrounds will curate a section of the show. Through Kings Domain, a lantern-lined path delivers you to the entrance and a warm humming soundscape carries you over the threshold into a dreamlike night garden. In both versions, Wallworth recounts her teens and early adulthood as part of a radical Christian cult, referencing the increasing lobbying power of evangelicalism, says Obarzanek, and its influence in current popular politics, specifically in regards to Trump, and probably in regards to [Scott] Morrison as well. At Golden Square, a car park in the centre of Chinatown that has been turned into a gallery of video works, I walk out of a room and come across opera singer Scotty So, slowly making their way through the space while singing an incongruously high soprano I later read in the program notes that So is lip-syncing. "That's something we've been working on at every level: from the board to the curatorial team, to producers, to working with our Kulin Elders directly.". Supporting EXEK had played their ennui-laden, krautrock-heavy, spoken word anti-spectacular without issue. Rising suffers, perhaps, because it sits in the shadows of White Night and Melbourne Festival, when it . Registration is fast and free. Framed as a workday, 8/8/8: WORK is one part of a 24-hour triptych that examines the influence of capitalism on self-worth and which Fox describes as "truly ambitious". It was meant to be the third festival, a new offering combining the Melbourne International Arts Festival and White Night that was announced in 2019. What if a sheep's ear tag meant you could track your woolly jumper right back to the source? The pair applied for the position jointly and were appointed in May 2019, after the Victorian government announced it would combine two existing festivals: White Night and Melbourne International Arts Festival (MIAF). The inflated aliens are underwhelming; when a choir appears above the ice-skaters, it is a nice divertissement but little else. Traversing the citys iconic theatres, parks, public spaces, band rooms and bridges, over 12 nights Melbourne will come alive with an array of both free and paid, adult and family focused events; transformative public art installations; large-scale performances; intimate works of theatre and dance; and an expansive program of music acts from across Australia and around the world with the first major international festival lineup the state has seen actually happen in more than two years. Book Now. Exploring White Night in Melbourne - A Backpackers Tale So is the third time the charm? Three of Melbournes most beloved venues, the Forum, Max Watts and Melbourne Recital Centre, play host to some of the worlds most forward-thinking contemporary music acts, including Kelly Lee Owens, Baxter Dury, Lucy Dacus, Arab Strap, Masego, Shabazz Palaces, Sampa the Great and Andy Shauf. White Night Melbourne 2019. never truly eventuated. When: March 17-26, 2023. "I think it's one of those things that will be talked about for many years to come," says Fox. "The subject matter is so pertinent to us right now, with Indigenous incarceration rates being higher than ever. Although originally slated for 2020, the festival was postponed because of COVID and rescheduled for mid-2021. Jordan Peterson | Events It can almost be too easy to just look at the negatives, but theres almost no question that we did have some silver linings over those years as arts industry workers and festival directors had to adapt and find new ways to do what they do best, with RISING finding some new ways to go about things after the struggles in lockdown, and the limits and restrictions that are still in place. . . "There [are] multiple ways that the community can get involved in Rising and it's something we really [focused on]," says Fox. 2023 Broadsheet Media. Albert Wolskis vocals crawl through as if filtered through VHS, cassette and floppy disk. We were devastated, but we knew we were on to a good thing, he says. As . Smack bang in the centre of the longest continuous Chinatown in the West stands Golden Square RISINGs swirling artcarpark. In addition to Golden Square, there are two other tentpole public works in the program that, Fox says, have been curated for audiences to experience on their way to and from festival shows: Monochord and The Wilds. Fox and Obarzanek have also made a point of programming works that are immersive or ephemeral in nature. Over at the Forum, a whopping 10 sound systems have been set up for Heavy Congress, a temple to Jamaican, Colombian and Afro-Caribbean sound system culture. The sheer scale of The Wilds will prove a highlight for most people this winter, with Sidney Myer Music Bowl transformed into a festival in-and-of itself thanks to the massive array of inflatables, careening over pathways and sprawling down embankments. In HIJRAH, Indonesian choreographer and dancer Rianto dives deep into the history and culture of Sulawesi, while a powerful and mesmerising multimedia dance production from Marrugeku, Jurrungu ngan-ga reflects on the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in custody, and the years-long detention of refugees. We come from quite different backgrounds but [we] have a shared sensibility," says Fox. Multiple. Fox says the reason other 2021 works didn't make it into this program mostly boiled down to venue and artist availability. Video art is the focus throughout, with mixed notability as always, but there are certain exhibits that pack a serious punch. Arab Strap were supported in truly mature fashion by Georgios Xylouris, who sings and plays the Greek lute, known as a laouto, is from the island of Crete. The Rising festival opened on Wednesday evening with a selection of events that might have drawn large crowds in an ideal world but as winter descended with full force, early signs of the city actively embracing the festival were hard to find. As Woody puts it, due to things having changed so much in the last few years, now the festival has to be curated in new ways, which has unearthed some innovative ideas. RISING will be our biggest winter attraction, and we cant wait to welcome hundreds of thousands of festival-goers to this exceptional event that we have waited years for.. The Golden Square program will return to Chinatown with artist Paul Yore creating Seeing is Believing, a rooftop structure that riffs on shrines, funhouses and megachurches. Just the idea that a festival can actually go on after whats happened is exciting. In the dance program there is Stephanie Lake's exhilarating Manifesto, pairing nine drummers with nine dancers, and Marrugeku's Jurrungu Ngan-ga (Straight Talk) which reportedly sold out after the rapturous response on opening night I couldn't get a ticket. WHITE NIGHT MELBOURNE - All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go - Tripadvisor Sat 8th October, 2022 7:00pm - 1:00am Multiple locations in Bendigo Show All Buy Tickets The late-night festival of light, art, music and entertainment returns to regional Victoria, with immersive projections, interactive installations, street food stalls and more. Apollo Hammersmith. Perhaps our expectations were a little lofty, given how highly we rate the group their records typically traverse the minutia of emotional breakdown from a panoramic array of angles. "You can tell who's had COVID," he says. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. One person adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray set to hit stages in June. In must see dance, Stephanie Lakes thunderous latest work Manifesto features nine dancers and nine drum kits and drummers performing a tattoo to optimism in precision concert to unleash rebellion, command obedience, radiate wonder and show tenderness. Paul Yores 2019 work Its All Wrong But Its Alright. The second attempt lasted just one day, when the Victorian government enforced a seven-day lockdown; within five days, it was extended and the festival was shut down entirely. Arts festival was cancelled in 2020 and 2021, but organisers have high hopes for this year, which will see 801 artists, musicians and theatre companies present 84 projects. May 13 2018 - London UK. Hence, why RISING marked their return to Melbourne for the first time in 20 years, a little older, larger and increasingly circumspect, but no less powerful. Theres some well-known stuff and some obscure stuff in there, but its all worth checking out, its got everything from more avant-garde to contemporary art.. With so many amazing shows, it may be too difficult to choose, thats where the team at Rising come in, their website is a hotspot for recommendations and assistance. The late-night light and projection festival is back. The Return, a Malthouse theatre show with a First Nations cast that includes Jimi Bani, Ghenoa Gela and Guy Simon, will premiere at Melbournes Rising festival in June. White Night Festival (Biela Noc) 2022 in Slovakia - Dates - Rove.me In acknowledging the significance of 'place' to the festival, Fox says: "[We] couldn't make a culturally relevant festival connected to place without really strong First Nations curation and leadership within the organisation. The Picture of Dorian Gray runs until July 31 at Arts Centre Melbourne. These and your usual accoutrements (warm whiskey, projection lighting, greenhouse seating, intimate exhibits with lengthy lines, ethereal sound effects pumping through speakers, a food parlour and shmancy Lighthouse restaurant) make The Wilds well worth the price of admission. The pandemic reduced Melbourne from cultural capital to city under siege and Rising was caught out twice: postponed in 2020, it opened for one day before lockdown in 2021. "Nothing like it has been seen in Melbourne before and I think most people would be unfamiliar with the idea that [Melbourne has] a really amazing sound system culture," says Fox. Here's what happened next, Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander), A bride complained she didn't get enough money in her 'wishing well'. Fox and Obarzanek made the decision to redirect 2020 funding to commission a suite of new works via a call-to-artists. Live video footage of the performance is projected onto slate-like panels, evoking a sense of surveillance. "One of the things that has always struck me about these sorts of festivals is that they're so huge, multi-art form and multidisciplinary that it really does take a village of experts to make something that has depth in all of those areas," says Fox. "Harriet and Marcus and their whole team [are] masters of this kind of choreographed chaos and delivering quite heavy critique, but in a very absurd and hilarious way. Cherry-picking individual highlights might be the best way to experience the festival, and one exhibition you wont want to miss is Patricia Piccininis A Miracle Constantly Repeated, a grotesque and strangely sublime sculptural wonderland hidden upstairs at Flinders St Station. I think were not ready to be around huge crowds straightaway, Woody says. These brilliant headline shows would all stand up at the centre of any international festival program, but even so, my experience is really dominated by the little moments of surprise and joy moments that feel serendipitous. Unlike a festival such as White Night, which took over the city and its arts institutions, Rising seems to quietly fold itself into the gaps. With crowds of over 500,000 in the last 2 years, this 1 day all night festival (7am- 7pm) is a night of creativity and culture. The 2022 iterationcomes to Geelong on Saturday,October 8. Now she's receiving compensation, Celia Pacquola still amazed when Utopia predicts real-life bureaucratic absurdities, Strip club dancers around the world look to NZ, where a group of women are fighting for change, Wagner boss says Russian forces tried to blow up his men, China considers another peace mission, When Nene moved, she felt disconnected from her writing community. Our newsletter hand-delivers the best bits to your inbox. These three unique cities will be illuminated with White Night experiences that pay respect to each town past and present. In a monumental public work visually proclaiming the festivals commencement, a giant laser beam, almost one kilometre long, will shoot blazing light down the Birrarung (Yarra) river, coursing above the water to a nexus at Princess Bridge inMONOCHORD audio-visualartist Robin Foxs luminescent public artwork. Thats where the brand new RISING comes in. On the first floor, Tabita Rezaire's glowing video art pyramid Ultra Wet Recapitulation bounces light off aluminium foil-wrapped walls. Interview with Lou Bennett: Explore the limitations of English at RISING. Rising suffers, perhaps, because it sits in the shadows of White Night and Melbourne Festival, when it is really something entirely new. It's the children who excitedly yell "They're burning a piano!" . The festival, Rising, combines White Night and the Melbourne International Arts Festival.Arts festivals unite to create new celebration of Melbourne An arts fes. Melbourne city really lends itself to that, its an easy city to access, Woody says. Fading are the days where wed have multiple massive festivals throughout the year, each with a huge international headliner, who would often only come to play that show. "2022 is really the [first] opportunity for us to bring artists we admire from overseas, [who] we haven't been able to consider for a couple of years," he says. Entertainment Sat 8th October, 2022 7:00pm - 1:00am Multiple locations in Geelong Show All Buy Tickets The late-night festival of light, art, music and entertainment returns to regional Victoria, with immersive projections, interactive installations, street food stalls and more. The grounds are aglow with towering video projections and octopus-like inflatable sculptures. The Car Tour is the seventh headlining concert tour by English indie rock band Arctic Monkeys, launched in support of their seventh studio album, The Car (2022). The visual spectacular and cultural event debuted in this bayside town back in 2018 with over 70,000 attendees passing through the festival. Kaleidoscope is billed as an evolution of Keith Courtney's House of Mirrors, a popular feature of the final Melbourne International Arts Festival in 2019. Shepparton: Saturday, 25 June 2022 Bendigo: Saturday, 3 September 2022 Geelong: Saturday, 8 October 2022 The local Melbourne team behind the festival have been working in the scene for years, and have immersed themselves in the Aussie scene in a big way. Later in the festival, as I stand over The Hole at Birrarung Marr above the Yarra and watch audience members and artists dig a hole (they will refill it a few nights later), Dan smiles at me and says, "I've had a few moments this week where I've looked around and asked: 'Are we back?'". The visual spectacular and cultural event debuted in this bayside town back in 2018 with over 70,000 attendees passing through the festival. I would have loved to see Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsens controversial 21 Pornographies straight after, but the festivals scheduling doesnt quite work for those who like to binge on the performing arts. 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