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The Basement
Multi-award-winning Indigenous writer and poet Samuel Watson weaves new works throughout the festival.
Pop Up
A feminist multi-arts pop up performance featuring live classical music and sound art.
Examining patterns formed among and within repeating structural units of Proteins.
The Gallery
Will we have to imagine life without water? Our planet’s water cycles are under threat and we have the data to prove it.
Formed by Ben Dalton (Hungry Kids of Hungary), Born Joy Dead exposes audiences to the experimental side of rock.
10.30–11.00pm Carpark Stage
Dynamic cohesion ignites with energy and intensity.
9.45–10.15pm Carpark Stage
Drop in & out of this performance installation come endurance test inspired by the Greek myth Sisyphus.
9.00–11.00pm The Gallery
Step into a strip club after hours, when the patrons have left, and see it from a sex workers perspective.
9.00–10.00pm The Basement
A science fiction love story through a blend of folk, electronic and classical music intertwined with abstract imagery.
9.00–9.30pm Carpark Stage
Lusty grooves, magnetic vibes and the delicious vocals of Georgia Mae are paired with the vibrant poetic visions of Katy McHugh Design. Katy McHugh will compile a video of different collage pieces, all original works, are made specifically for this event.
8.15–8.45pm Carpark Stage
A piece about mathematics, the beginnings of the universe and the fundamental indeterminism of the quantum world.
8.00–8.30pm Sue Benner Theatre
Unravel assumptions we have about femininity, STEM and glitter.
Join Eamon and Melissa as they pit wits against each other in a cyclone of smoke, flames and gleeful mayhem.
7.15–8.00pm The Studio
Wander around, talk about love, gender, science, and sentient microfungi.
A birthday hug from Mum. A high five from your sister. A chance to learn from the one who knows you the best. Imagine if you had to wait hours for the one thing that most young people get to do everyday: talk to their parents. Waiting and Searching shares the untold stories of young people who are navigating their way through life and the unfair rules and regulations of the criminal injustice system. A part of Backbone’s 2high Festival at Metro Arts.
6.00–6.30pm Sue Benner Theatre
This audacious proposal will explore, through a physical theatre drama, the behaving of a brain in a multi linguistic environment.
5.30–6.15pm Sue Benner Theatre
Installation inspired by stories and letters, previously untold, unwritten and silently contained within. Now brought into the world.
A portable structure using tangible and hybrid interaction to ask “Where do you feel safe in Brisbane?”
Foyer
The I am vital selfie reminds EVERYONE that they are vital! #IamVital
Next to basement
Our community has a pulse that spans time and space. Tap into the history and present of this festival and venue.
4.30–5.30pm Carpark Stage
Have some down time away from the hussle and bussle. Mmmmm nice.
Left alone, we become submerged in our thoughts. For some, this means freedom. For others, it is inescapable, overwhelming, suffocating.
4.00–4.30pm Sue Benner Theatre
What are the conditions necessary for intimacy beyond the mutual desire to connect? A one-on-one encounter.
6.00–10.00pm The Cutting Bar
Emotional, instinctive and honest – let Phoebe lull you into a peaceful serenity before breaking all the rules.
3.30–4.00pm Carpark Stage
A blind punch of intensity through mellow seas, an experimental electronic project that combines hip hop, folk and pop influences.
2:45pm-3:15pm Carpark Stage
Where do we start with all this Feminism stuff? If you are new to feminism, start here. All questions welcome.
2:00pm-3:00pm The Basement
A new theatre work looking at regional young people’s relationship with the internet, handheld devices and families.
2:00pm-2:45pm Sue Benner Theatre
Eden St James and Gala Vanting’s masterclass explores spaces of liminality, the intersectional and the emotive.
12:30pm-1:30pm The Basement
With the influx of media, information freely flowing and safety alerts on high, step inside to see what it is like to be a child in today’s society.
12:00pm-12:30pm Sue Benner Theatre
Welcome to “If You’ve Got It”, the game show that exploits the problems of real women for your entertainment.
6:30–7:15pm The Basement
Shadow blisters is a generative animation using data and imagery reflecting the concept of the ‘shadow blister effect’, a natural phenomenon whereby shadows are known to bulge outward and towards each other.
Local purveyor of dirt encrusted r’n’b, Airling is fast becoming one of the most talked about young artists in the Australian music industry with her own twist on modern pop music.
10.00–10.45pm Carpark Stage
Ambient rock music takes shape through the powers of light and shade, visually representing the essence of her music.
Fierce Mild form compelling songs speaking of the sinister and absurd. The narratives unfurl amidst rich soundscapes and intense visualisations.
Quintessential Doll combines brooding synths, glitchy beats and atmospheric strings with evocative poetry and visuals.
7.30–8.00pm Carpark Stage
Through various styles of dance, the human body will symbolize and explore life, preservation, metamorphosis, decay and death.
7.00–7.30pm Sue Benner Theatre
In a brave new world what is sex and consent? How do we navigate this brave new world and still have genuine encounters?
6.00–7.00pm The Basement
What happens when we embrace our vulnerability and allow it to fuel our actions and words when connecting with others?
Versatile and immersive, they have the capability to make you dance, contemplate life and dance again.
5.30–6.00pm Carpark Stage
Experience music through both science and artistic understandings with Joel Gilmore, Vocal Manoeuvres and instrumentalists.
5.00–6.00pm The Studio
An interactive live projection work illuminating how humanity is moved by the unseen, the space between and contagious blindsight.
5.00–5.30pm Sue Benner Theatre
Blur the lines between art and music. Don’t expect to be wooed with love songs; this is pseudo-nihilistic sound.
4.30–5.00pm Carpark Stage
Exploring the oppressive nature of freedom of speech online, using verbatim comments from media articles.
From The Origin of the Species to Andrew Wakefield’s notorious paper, join the discussion on big science texts led by Joel Gilmore.
3.00–4.30pm The Studio
This workshop takes you through the basics of making a one-page zine and turns your experiences into peepable zine goodness.
2.30–3.30pm The Basement
I am doll parts. What are the risks in relying on celebrities to speak for the communities they are heralded as representing?
1.00–2.00pm The Basement
Celebrating inclusion through dance, this performance works to introduce society’s inexperience of disability.
12.00–12.30pm Sue Benner Theatre
Introducing Cinematic Folk, the musical and visual that is Ella Fence, the front woman of her all female trio.
‘Yóste’ is the solo electronic project of 20-year-old Brisbane producer Kurt Sines.
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Carpark Stage
5.00–5.45pm The Studio
Fracture. Buckle. Dislocate. Three collections of solo dance and circus performances that leave artists honest, open and bare.
7.00–9.30pm Carpark Stage
Surveillance Party is a digital record label and warehouse party crew based out of Sydney’s infamous cultural hub, Newtown.
7.00–10.00pm The Basement
After traversing the globe alongside Marcia Hines in Velvet, spend an intimate moment with Brendan as he leaves you wondering just what each second of passing time and heart beat is worth.
6.00–6.45pm Sue Benner Theatre
Out of body experiences are really not in keeping with lab safety guidelines, but Doctor Quixote brings back such stories…
5.30–6.00pm The Basement
Mathew works as a drag queen. One night the Diva Lolly Bishop appears at the club and she’s not happy.
4.15–5.00pm The Basement
Part Ted talk, part physical theatre, part stand up comedy. Was Einstein really a genius or just good at listening to ideas? Enter the world of The Idea.
Lana and Eloise are the mess. On Eloise’s couch the pair discuss their meaningless lives, loves, jobs and complaints.
3.00–3.50pm The Basement
Burn out? Post show blues? Fatigue? Injury? Raise awareness about the mental and physical challenges of working in the arts.
2.30–3.15pm The Studio
If mothers know best, grandmothers know everything. A play created with an Indigenous grandmothers group with plenty of stories to tell.
2.00–2.30pm Sue Benner Theatre
Exploring feminism and how it relates to the differently-abled woman with sass, charm, musical interludes and a sunny disposition.
1.45–2.30pm The Basement
Where do you feel safe in Brisbane? Our panel of inspirational women discuss a variety of tools to keep you and our community safe.
1.00–2.00pm The Studio
An introspective, heartfelt and playful look at what happens when you stop trying to force yourself into boxes that don’t fit.
12.30-1.15pm The Basement
Climate Change: The most important and overlooked issue of our time?
12.00–12.45pm The Studio
A funny and personal look at life after the high school gates close. Follow a group of friends as they party and talk their way onto The Simpsons.
