Your premier LGBTQIA+ arts and culture festival

19 JAN – 9 FEB

194 events • 22 days midsumma.org.au 2020 1 2 3 #midsumma midsumma.org.au Welcome

About Midsumma Judy Small Aaron Martin Foley MP Sally Capp Rachel Slade Midsumma Festival Co-Chair Minister for Creative Industries Lord Mayor of Melbourne Chief Customer Experience Officer & Midsumma Festival is Australia’s premier queer arts and cultural O’Shannessy Minister for Equality Executive Co-Sponsor, NAB Pride organisation, bringing together a diverse mix of LGBTQIA+ artists, Midsumma Festival Co-Chair performers, communities and audiences. In Victoria, we begin every year with a The colour and joy of the Midsumma Festival We’re back again this year and we’re looking celebration of pride. shines in January and the City of Melbourne forward to another successful Midsumma Every January, Midsumma Festival expands over 22 days of summer Welcome to Midsumma Festival 2020! We are thrilled to welcome you with an explosion of queer events that spring forth from the welcomes the brilliant atmosphere and Festival. It’s always a great time of year to on behalf of the Midsumma board as its first co-chairs. We recognise Each Midsumma, Victoria’s LGBTIQ underground, fringe, and mainstream, at the very forefront of local, community pride it brings. connect and celebrate with our community. the amazing contribution to the festival of our predecessor John communities come together to celebrate national and international queer culture. The Midsumma Festival Caldwell and assure you we will do our best to fill his rather large shoes. and share their lived experience through More than 284,000 people took part in the As we enter our eighth year of partnership program shares with you the lived experiences of those voices at the an eclectic program spanning exhibitions, 2019 festival, with 118,000 enjoying the we continue to witness growth in festival margins, the expression of queer history, and the celebration of new Midsumma is 33 years old and the program prepared by our fabulous theatre, cabaret and music, to film, dance, Midsumma Carnival at Alexandra Gardens. attendances and the deepening of the rich ideas that come to life through world-class art and performance. Midsumma team is as exciting, challenging and affirming as ever. spoken-word and social events for all ages. stories being shared. Congratulations to the Each year the curated Midsumma Presents component goes from This festival unites people through arts and Our festival program is made up of diverse art forms and genres, Midsumma team for putting together such a strength to strength, highlighting new creative voices and important The Midsumma Festival kicks off our culture and brings our city to life. Please including visual arts, live music, theatre, spoken word, cabaret, film, diverse and exciting program of events. stories that might not otherwise be seen or heard. Following on state’s cultural calendar with a diverse come and enjoy fabulous music, film and parties, sport, social events and public forums. Featuring 194 events from the tremendous success of the signature project BODY last showcase of work by more than 5000 dance, the talks and sports and everything At NAB, we continue to be advocates of in 2020, with involvement by over 5000 culture-makers in over 94 year we are thrilled to again produce a mini festival within a festival, artists featuring nearly 200 events across that is Midsumma. inclusion for sexuality and gender diverse different venues across Melbourne and greater Victoria – ‘Queer Unsettled’. This project will shine the light on diverse Queer Melbourne and regional Victoria. communities. We strive to build an inclusive to anticipated audiences of over 284,000. The City of Melbourne cherishes our perspectives from across our region of the world. environment for our employees and This year is extra special with Pride March reputation as a welcoming and inclusive Although the primary three-week festival is held in summer each customers where everyone can be their We hope you will take the opportunity to take in as much of it as your celebrating its 25th anniversary, giving us a city. We encourage fairness and respect and year, we work year-round to provide artists, social-changers and whole self, regardless of how one identifies. bodies, minds and hearts can manage. Sleep? What sleep? Come and chance to reflect on how far we have come have proudly supported Midsumma for many culture-makers with support and tools to create, present and This year, we’re focussing on unlocking the celebrate our diverse and wonderful community with us from Carnival in the journey for equality and inspiring us to years. By making visible, and celebrating promote their work. power of intersectional stories. to Pride March and beyond – there is much to discover! build upon a history of achievement. countless stories, Midsumma encourages Over 33 years we have evolved with our communities and respect for people of all backgrounds. To all the volunteers and artists, thank you for Happy Midsumma Festival 2020! The Victorian Government is proud to partner repositioned ourselves as a relevant cultural influencer and thought injecting the festival with energy and passion. with events such as Midsumma Festival, as Almost half of the events are free and leader, while keeping learning and diversity at our heart. We have I look forward to joining the festivities. one of the many ways we are supporting attendance numbers continue to grow. experienced rapid growth in audiences, breadth and scope of artist our LGBTIQ communities. Celebrations For everyone attending, whether it’s your and community engagement, and depth of artistic partnerships. I congratulate the organisers and wish all like Midsumma send a loud message, that first time or if you’ve lost count, we hope taking part, a spectacular Midsumma 2020. While we stay committed to our roots, we have matured to become in Victoria – who you are is not only good that you continue to celebrate your true one of Australia’s most significant queer arts organisations, enough, it is worth celebrating. authentic self. supporting generations of LGBTQIA+ cultural voices, developing A huge thank you and congratulations to Happy Midsumma! artists and facilitating important artistic conversations that help everyone involved in this year’s program shape queer art and culture for the future. – from the staff and volunteers, to the Welcome to Midsumma Festival in the new decade. performers, the artists and the audiences who bring their sparkle and joy to Midsumma each year.

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Welcome Acknowledgement Cover Image Navigating Event Listings of Country Thank you to the Midsumma 2020 cover artist, Elwyn Murray, and faces Midsumma acknowledges that (clockwise): Rainbow Chan, Stone Subgenre Cabaret Access Aboriginal Australians are the first Motherless Cold, Sally Goldner peoples of these lands. We pay our and Joel Creasey for representing respects to all Aboriginal Australians, Midsumma Festival 2020. The artwork Leather Lungs: Son past, present and emerging, and we was selected as part of a competitive recognise their continuing spiritual tender process. Elwyn Murray is a Title and cultural connection to the land. Melbourne-born Toronto-based visual of a Preacher Midsumma Festival takes place artist. His creative practice combines between High Summer and Late engraving, embroidery, works on paper, Summer according to the Wurundjeri video and interactive installations. calendar of seasons, on whose land elwynonline.com A master of falsetto and stiletto much of this festival is taking place. Karen Bryant with a phenomenal vocal range Chief Executive, Midsumma Festival spanning over four octaves, this Faces of Aboriginal Melbourne Recital Centre - Primrose daring deviant marries savage wit, Welcome to Midsumma 2020! Location Pride Midsumma Potter Salon, Southbank outrageous innuendo, and a voice Why are festivals so important? Well, at their very core, festivals share stories and our stories are Festival 2020 Date 31 Jan Duration 1hr to die for, to drag you screaming the keepers of our history, the celebrations of our At the 2019 Victorian NAIDOC Pride with laughter into an explosion of present and the change makers of our future. Time Fri 7pm Night, two people were crowned powerhouse party anthems by The Midsumma is about diverse communities, the Faces of Aboriginal Pride for Tickets $31 full | $25 conc Midsumma Festival 2020. The Weather Girls, Aretha Franklin, and creatively celebrating inclusion in the most Warnings meaningful of ways, letting new ‘voices’ move celebratory night showcased Aboriginal Stone Motherless Cold Latecomer lockout | Drug references Tina Turner. Description and Torres Strait Islander performers aka Tré Turner us, challenge us, and entertain us. Presented by Presented by Ben Anderson and and emerging community leaders as "The voice of our generation." Laid out before you is a smorgasbord of cultural they battled it out for the crown. Melbourne Recital Centre treats. So, leap beyond known fancies, indulge - WeekendNotes in new experiences, meet new talents and share We are proud to introduce to you Image credit Image: by Sanjeev Singh new perspectives. the winners for 2019/2020: Stone Motherless Cold aka Tré Turner and Please pass on, or recycle this guide responsibly Thanks to everyone who has helped bring this Astro aka Adam Francis. program to you, especially of course to all the thousands of artists and event producers whose stories, creativity and talent passionately fill the pages that follow. Symbol Key Disclaimer Midsumma makes every effort to ensure all We are thrilled to present this program to you. If Astro aka Adam Francis Wheelchair access English no barrier this is your first Midsumma, welcome and Happy details are correct at the time of printing, however, details are subject to change where Midsumma! For those of you who have long been Auslan interpreted Open captions members of our family, we hope you will deepen Stay in Touch necessary and without notice. Please check event listings at midsumma.org.au for up-to-date your journey with us. Take up my challenge and Keep your eyes on our social media platforms and subscribe to our e-news Audio described Closed captions details. All rights remain with event producers, see just how many events you can experience for ticket discounts, giveaways and more. over the 22 days that Midsumma shines! Assistive listening Relaxed performance including moral rights. Midsumma Festival is an Subscribe to e-news at midsumma.org.au/subscribe open access program and does not have direct I suggest you block out your calendar between Tactile tour Over 18 only control over many of the individual events, or 19 Jan to 9 Feb. We look forward to sharing it all Join us on… changes made to these, within this program. with you. @midsummafestival @midsumma Family friendly Food available #midsumma @midsumma @MidsummaFestival Visual rating Bar

Use #midsumma in your own posts when you’re out and about at events Three ticket discount For full details on all access Symbol Keys so we can share your pics. please visit midsumma.org.au/access 6 7 You & I Leather Lungs Image by Image by Contents Katie Bennett Sanjeev Singh Ticketing 36 68 Ticketing Information 44 10 Thomas Jaspers is Revolting Once Upon a Access Events & Information 54–55 Drag Story Time Signature Events 45 Image by Nayt Housman Midsumma Carnival 12 Midsumma Pride March 14 Faguette Film 61 Kids & Families 67–70 Pacific Essence: Tales of a Migrant Plantation Queer Unsettled: Midsumma Major Project Park Lounge 18 Flat-Earthers: The Musical Documentary Screening: Becoming Colleen All In Family Circus Midsumma Presents Music 47–49 Picnic at Forest Glade 20 Flesh Coloured Panties Presents... MQFF @ The Drive-In Brass Monkeys Midsumma Hubs Bowie Ball Queer Zine & Art Fair GIRLKING / The Venusian Slip Underground Queer Cinema Presents: Weekend Children Are Stinky Theatre Works Hub Chlorophyll Rainbow Pride in Altona 23 Hello! Hi! My name is Shannon. Quick question: How To Be A Rockstar Arts Centre Melbourne Hub how does an adult make new friends? FAMILI 24 Talks, Tours & Workshops 62–65 Kid-aoke Gasworks Arts Park Hub How Gay Am I? Fem Fantasy Parties 78–82 24 A Conversation with Friends Midsumma Carnival Families Precinct The Hare Hole Hub Jinxed! Goddess Grooves @ the Wesley Anne 3D: Deaf, Draws, Drinks 25 AIDS Memorial Garden Walking Tour Once Upon A Drag Storytime Chapel Off Chapel Hub Joel Creasey in The Boy, George Homophonic! ADAM 25 Ama-Zine Adventures in Remaking History Over 60 / Under 10 the Show Rainbow Families at The Melba Spiegeltent Judy Garland: A Star is Born Kira Puru at Heide ADAM & EVEryone 26 Bearing Witness Through Creative Writing Queerspawn Midsumma Westside Lashes MGLC 30th Anniversary Launch with Lachlan Philpott ADAM's Pool Party 26 QWere Street 2020 Leather Lungs: Son of a Preacher POWER ft imbi the girl: Women and Culture x Gender ALL SORTS Rainbow Families Storytelling Workshop Non-Binary Artists in Music Performance 28–45 Leopard Print Loincloth Fabulous Fitzroy on Foot All The Queens Men Trivia Night Rainbow Family Dance Club .CHURCH. Love By The Hour POWER ft HANDSOME: Women and Feral Queer Camp Blanke Pop Non-Binary Artists in Music Rainbow Family Free Workshops #Hypocrisy – Imogen Stirling Mama Alto: Torch Songs Feral Queer Camp: Picnic in the Park Drop Deadly Gorgeous: The Pageant Queer-A-Go-Go Rainbow Family Storytime #TayLurking Man Up! Half Baked: Two Quirkshops for the Girls at Sea Rainbow Effect Sing-A-Long Dragtime 20 Fabulous Years of Tammie Brown Midsumma Extravaganza Fabulously Bent with JulieMc McNamara GIVE ME LIFE The Robot A Place at the Table: New Stories of the Familiar New Balance In Conversation: ACT UP with Monica Pearl Homo Erotica Visual Arts 51–59 & Brenton Geyer Tumbles and Tricks ACEtravaganza NOW this body WHAT Miss Gay & Miss Trans Australia International 2020 Awakening Living Out Loud Adam by Frances Poet One Pan Cooking Motafrenz Magical Mystery Tour Company of Men Exhibition 2020 Nevo Zisin: Desert Island Reads Youth 71 After Dark Over The Rainbow Cabaret Nocturnal x Midsumma: Lunar New Year Disco Creating Community in Melbourne's West Over 60 / Under 10 Escape Velocity: We Are Who We Are Archer Magazine's First Nations Issue Launch PO PO MO CO presents Summer of the 17th Doll NudeManFest D.R.A.G. Pleasure & Sub Cultures – Documenting Mad Hatter Tea Party As One Poorly Drawn Shark NUDIES Nude Masquerade Ball Dark Sepia Melbourne's Leather Scene Midsumma Carnival Youth Precinct with Minus18 Queen Bette Bearlesque Punking Dramatics Popchops Presents: Cool 4 the Summa Dis-Morphia Teens Flying & Fun Queer Playwriting Award Showcase Belinda Hanne Reid: Love, Rorem Teach-in: Assemble, Advocate & Activate Queer Pool Party Frontier Big Glittery Sh!tshow Queer Quickies with Monica Pearl Sunday at the Baths: Queer Soirée Future Histories Community & Culture 74–75 Birdoir Queer-aoke The Gays Are Revolting Live The Cat Eats Dickalicious Inner Threads A Summer Mass BLOW Rapid Fire Trans and Gender Diverse: Questions and Answers Westgay Let's Eat Cake Gay Stuff Markets Boobs Rust Updating Our Stories, Healing Our Lives Love, Hugs + Kisses Hits and Giggles Boys Night Out: Work in Progress Showing Sugarbabies: A Boylesque Musical Waacking Intensive Sports 84–85 Midsumma and Australia Post Art Award Midsumma Carnival Cavemen by Angus Cameron SWEETie Glam Slam at the Australian Open Out Midsumma Pride March Circle That Time Everything Went Well and Midsumma Carnival Sports Precinct We Were Totally Fine Out Is Out Confessions of a Mormon Boy Nomads Parklands and Heritage Tour The Boy I Paid For PINK Confetti: Pretty, but a bit of a mess Nomads Scenic Urban Cycling The Campaign Postcards from the Edge Daddy Serve It, Smash It, Love It The Feather in the Web Queer in Kingston Dahlin! It's The Jeanne Little Show The Rise and Fall of Saint George Sensitive Sweethearts Information Dean Arcuri is Yours Sincerely Sugarbabies: Sight for Sore Eyes A Boylesque The Top Secret Violin Case Our People & Patrons 87 Deep Soulful Sweats Musical. Image by This Bitter Earth STATEMENT and (an) Archive of Yearning Our Valued Partners Doing Gender: Old-school Storytelling, Fred Lemarche 89 Sweat New School Stories Thomas Jaspers is Revolting @theboyproject Venue Maps The Campaign in Process Dolly Diamond & The Jack Earle Big Band Unmasking Prince Charming CBD 91 The Naked Ambassadors DRAG A THON Untouchables 36 North 92 Lashes What a Drag! 2020 – Back to the 80's The Sky After Rain South Elton John: Your Song Image by 93 Under the Dome of Heaven Endings/Beginnings When the Light Leaves Evan Fowler West/East 94 Venus in Thorns Photography Eyes Wide Woke Whoop Dee Doo: Another Late Night Revue 39 You & I What Remains 8 9 Ticketing Information #midsumma

How can I get Exchanges Babes-in-Arms Exchanges can be organised up to 48 hours Children under two years old may be admitted my Tickets? prior to the commencement of the event to some events without a ticket, provided by contacting Midsumma. Please note they sit on the lap of their parent or guardian. Online that exchanges can only be arranged from Excludes 18+ events. 11am to 4pm, Monday to Friday. Exchanges Purchase tickets quickly and easily by can only be issued for the same event, for Free Events searching for the event at midsumma.org.au tickets of same value or lower and must and selecting ‘Book Tickets’. We accept VISA Many of our events are free of entry charge. be issued by Midsumma prior to the dates and Mastercard only. Tickets are available However, some still require you to secure of the sessions. For more information visit online until one hour before an event’s start- your place by booking. No fees apply for midsumma.org.au/ticketing time, unless otherwise specified. ticketed free events. Entry to non-ticketed free For details about the exchange policy on events is subject to venue capacity and at the Call Us events taking place at Arts Centre Melbourne discretion of venue staff. Our friendly ticketing team are available please see artscentremelbourne.com.au most weekdays from 11am to 4pm on Terms and Conditions 03 9296 6600 for enquiries and bookings. A booking fee of $5.25 is applied per The office will be closed between Christmas Discounts and transaction (not per ticket) for all online and New Year but online bookings are and phone bookings through Midsumma. available over this period. Midsumma Concessions Latecomers admitted at the discretion of Festival is National Relay Service Ready. the venue. Refunds will only be given in relayservice.com Concession Tickets accordance with the LPA guidelines and at the discretion of the Event Producer. Refunds We accept a range of concession cards – Pop-up Box Office at will not be issued for change of mind or for a full list of concessions visit Midsumma Carnival missed performances. Midsumma takes no midsumma.org.au/ticketing. You will responsibility for tickets issued through third Another reason to love Midsumma Carnival at be required to show proof of concession party ticketing agencies. Alexandra Gardens, 19 Jan. Dance, celebrate when entering the venue. and grab your Midsumma tickets. Privacy Policy Previews Credit and debit card transactions only. Midsumma takes your privacy very seriously. Shows may offer discounted tickets for To view our Privacy Statement, visit At the Venue performances early in the season. If you midsumma.org.au/privacy-statement purchase these tickets please be mindful Purchase tickets at the venue’s box office, that there may be a few production ‘kinks’ from one hour prior to the show. Tickets are to iron out. subject to availability. Contact the venue directly to confirm venue opening times. Groups Some venues may be cash only. Some events may offer a discount if you Ticket Delivery purchase tickets as a group! So grab your friends and colleagues and book together. All tickets will be emailed to you directly. Save If an event offers a group discount, it will be paper and show your Print@Home tickets on MORE OUT listed as a price type on their event listing. your smart-phone at the venue. Phone ran out of battery? Simply turn up! Venues will have a door list, photo ID required. Three Show Package Choose three eligible events to collect Our Valued Ticketing Partner a 10% discount at the checkout. Visit midsumma.org.au/discount for full details. AND PROUD

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Midsumma Carnival Precincts & Stages Midsumma Catch stellar acts on our Main Stage and Picnic Stage all day, Carnival including drag, disco and DJs. Main Stage From sunrise to sunset, experience the hosted by Lou Wall ultimate Midsumma celebration & Art Simone

Kick-starting the 22-day festival is the much-loved Midsumma Carnival – an array of artists and performers, things to do, eat, see and immerse yourself into. From morning until late into the warm summer night you will experience a taster of Midsumma Festival’s full program.

As you wander around the 55,250 square metres of Midsumma Youth Precinct Families Precinct Carnival, you will experience three performance stages, 28 food with Minus18 11am – 4pm trucks and 190 stalls made up of queer-friendly businesses, core 11am – 5pm For the whole family – activities with ArtPlay, Hares & Hyenas reading corner community organisations and services for you to browse and even Sparkly queer youth take over their own and acts galore with hosts Po Po Mo Co. grab a free giveaway! precinct at Carnival, with live music, DJs, With special activations by ArtPlay: activities and lots of glitter. With precincts equipped for the whole community (including a parade I See You Like This, with artists Jessica for your pooch), you will find something to keep everyone of all ages Wilson and Matilda Woodroofe. Using entertained all day. Party in front of the Main Stage, chill at the Picnic your face as their canvas, children Stage, entertain the kids in the family domain, tackle the sports precinct, become the art director of a bizarre stay cool in the under 18s zone with Minus18 or relax in the Tea Tent – a photo portrait. space for older LGBTI people. With safe spaces for families, friendlies, Face Paint by Children, with artist queer kinds and groupies you know there’ll be something to suit Dan Goronszy. A socially engaged arts experience where the children everyone as these specially curated events lead us into the evening of Find out about LGBTQIA+ are facilitators of the stall, painting T Dance featuring a fantastic line-up of sassy sounds and DJs. clubs, watch displays and join in. the faces of adults, other children and themselves. Still want more? Create your own dazzling performance for an audience Sports Precinct of 45,000 people in the lip-synching competition hosted by Frock 11am – 5pm Hudson (sign-up online via midsumma.org.au/carnival or on the day) or bring your doggo for the cutest comp-paw-tition on the queer culture calendar. T Dance 6 – 10pm Midsumma Carnival is a glass-free event and we’re conscious of our T Dance T Dance will be hosted by your favourite trio footprint on the environment. So bring your sustainable vessels and features: of subversive drag, The Beastie Girls, as well as paper straws. every foodie’s wet dream, Aysha Buffet. With Cupids Cut a diverse line-up of DJs and performers across Slap on the sunscreen, sashay into your Sunday best and get ready for two stages, check out the Midsumma Festival DJ Gay Dad a full day of festivities that shimmy into the Midsumma night. website for the full line-up. HipHopHoe

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Image by Virginia Selleck Midsumma Pride March Celebrating 25 years, Marching with Pride In 2020, the 25th anniversary of Pride March will grace the streets of St Kilda on Sunday 2 February 2020.

The march sure has grown, from the original gathering of 11,000 people, to estimated audiences in 2019 coming in at 53,000.

To celebrate this milestone achievement of Melbourne’s queer community, we will remember that Pride March is about affirming that we’re fabulous, and we’re loved, and we’re diverse and we’re proud.

Join the spectacular act of unity that is Midsumma Pride March!

Parade, pride and party come together to celebrate 25 years of gender and sexuality diversity. Whether you join the fanfare by foot or by wheel, with workmates or with family, with friends or with lovers, and as ally or as queer, Midsumma Pride March is a time for you to celebrate who you are. Pride March is Midsumma Pride March will commence at 11am from Ian Johnson Oval, and sashay the kilometre-long route, taking over Fitzroy St. Revving up the rally is the much-loved pre-march procession celebrating 25 years by Dykes on Bikes followed by thousands of marchers led by Midsumma’s Rainbow Aboriginal Pride.

The celebration continues after the march with post-Pride of Pride in Victoria Celebrations at the end of the parade route inside Catani Gardens, where you can enjoy the afternoon festivities of a seaside soiree, Marching fine food and drinks, and the cultural celebrations of queer communities, all beside the sounds and performances on the with Pride Summa Pride Stage. Come show that after 25 years marching 25 years ago, Melbourne’s for Pride still is as relevant as ever! LGBTQIA+ community took to the streets in a show of solidarity and pride. Back Midsumma Post-Pride in 1996, the first march Pride March Celebrations took almost the same route along St Kilda’s Fitzroy St, Fitzroy St Catani Gardens Participate St Kilda St Kilda transforming the strip into a show of community pride. The first Pride To march in March in Melbourne, was all thanks to a small but mighty team that Sun 2 Feb 11am march starts Midsumma Pride was Pride March Victoria. 4pm post-Pride March 2020, register celebrations close In 2015, Midsumma became the custodians of Pride March, to yourself or your group continue its celebrations for Melburnians. We have come a long way, FREE via midsumma.org.au and in 2020 we will remember that Midsumma Pride March is about affirming that we’re fabulous, and we’re loved, and we’re diverse and Midsumma Pride March safety before 2 Dec 2019. barriers proudly supplied by we’re proud. We march in solidarity for those who cannot.

Pride March 2019 – Image by Suzanne Balding Images by Virginia Selleck and Angela Bailey

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Nocturnal x Rainbow Effect Drop Deadly Midsumma: ft Rainbow Chan Gorgeous: Queer Presented by Lunar New Midsumma Festival and The Pageant Immigration Museum Presented by Midsumma Festival, Year Disco 31 Jan Abbotsford Convent and by Jonathan Homsey featuring Weird Alice Unsettled Pangina Heals and Chrissy Chou Immigration Museum 9 Feb Rainbow Chan’s glitchy Produced and presented by Midsumma Festival Presented by Midsumma Festival Abbotsford Convent and Melbourne Museum pop beats and sweet Provocative and unearthing, Queer Unsettled synth melodies in the Weird Alice hosts eight artists celebrates stories from Pacific womxn of colour, 7 Feb Immigration Museum’s competing for the title of Queer Indigenous perspectives, Drag Race darlings from Melbourne Museum hidden city courtyard. Supreme. Pageants are no longer just about beauty and superiority. Thailand, dance stars from Taiwan, asylum seekers Celebrate Lunar New Year in true This comedic take at pageant from Iran and queer diaspora communities as RuPaul style. Punk and waack (or culture has a queer twist. they take up space through storytelling, live music, dance however you like) under the disco balls inside Nocturnal and Image by Image by multi-disciplinary moving-image installations, experience Melbourne Museum Acacia Christensen + Hyun Lee immersive performance, new work exhibitions, after dark. See pg 82 for details. Pg 49 Pg 79 Kyla Parry Dark Sepia Presented by Midsumma the unpacking of daddy issues, and a punking How to Enter the Competition Festival and Incinerator Gallery and waacking dance-off after dark. Got what it takes to compete in this 21 Jan – 22 Mar disco? Minimal experience necessary, Daddy Kira Puru at Heide sass required. To register, select Image by Chaiharn by Joel Bray Presented by Midsumma Incinerator Gallery Ratavan ft Pangina Heals. Festival and Heide Participate when you purchase your Presented by Midsumma Festival Courtesy of Drag Museum of Modern Art entry ticket. Pg 82 and Arts Centre Melbourne Race Thailand 9 Feb 4 – 8 Feb Heide Museum BLOW FAMILI Arts Centre Melbourne of Modern Art by FAFSWAG and Jaycee Tanuvasa by Ripley Kavara aka Wahe According to the ABC ‘Daddy A force to be reckoned with, Kira Puru demonstrates that we are is recognised for her dynamic live Presented by Midsumma Festival, Presented by Midsumma Festival living in a blak queer cultural performances and genre-defying writing FAFSWAG and Abbotsford Convent and Abbotsford Convent renaissance.’ Hilarious, style. Witness this vocal powerhouse in 8 Feb 6 Feb provocative and featuring the stunning gardens of Heide Museum Exploring trust, listening and his trademark confection of of Modern Art. respect, an exhibition of carving, Abbotsford Convent Abbotsford Convent conversation, dance and all-you- tattooing, drawing, painting, can-eat audience participation. Experience a celebration of Indigenous A live performance, EP launch, and recycling and printmaking by femmes and Pacific womxn of colour showcase of queer Pasifika and First Melbourne-based visual artist, told through cultural drag, vogue Nation musicians featuring Wahe, Image (right) by Tama Sharman born dance and ballroom culture. Samoan Lay the Mystic, Luscious, Kalala, Pg 33 Image by James Henry Pg 48 Tama Sharman Pg 52 in Aotearoa. performance artist Jaycee Tanuvasa Lonelspeck, Iki Finau, Bella Waru, assembles a cast of misfits and movers Meleika Gesa & Fatafehi. to take up space through sisterhood and solidarity with local artists and The Sky After Rain Pacific Essence: A Sight for Sore Eyes performers, set to a backdrop of live by Pierra Van Sparkes and Indiah Money electronic and vogue music, designed Tales of a Migrant Presented by Midsumma Festival and Blak Dot Gallery collective آسمان بعدShadows ازby Blame Theباران & (by DJ duo TH1R§T3EN (Auckland Yumgod (Melbourne). Plantation 23 Jan – 9 Feb | Blak Dot Gallery Presented by Midsumma Festival, by Amao Leota Lu Manningham Art Gallery and Centre A site for queer First Nations mob: to see for Contemporary Photography Presented by Midsumma Festival ourselves, to see each other. A sanctuary and and Immigration Museum multi-disciplinary exhibition at Australia’s leading 9 Jan – 15 Mar contemporary Indigenous-run art gallery. Manningham Art Gallery, 9 Jan – 2 Feb 23 Jan Centre for Contemporary Photography, Immigration Museum Pg 32 Image by Jermaine Dean Pg 48 Image by Naomi Lee Beveridge 17 Jan – 15 Mar. A fusion of culture, performance, Experience true stories of three queer Iranian art, dance, fashion and storytelling diasporas in this poetic and haunting multi- shared through the lives of LGBTQIA+ disciplinary video installation. individuals from the Pacific diaspora.

Image by Bo Pousima Afeaki Image by Indiah Money, Pg 58 Pg 75 Inukihaangana Pg 51 Whispers on Boon Wurrung

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CHURCH. 2019. Image by Suzanne Balding Escape Velocity: Midsumma and We Are Who We Are Australia Post Midsumma by St Martins in collaboration with Minus18 Art Award Presented by Midsumma Festival Presented by Midsumma Festival and Arts Centre Melbourne and Australia Post Arts Centre Melbourne Presents No Vacancy Gallery 8 Feb 29 Jan – 9 Feb Watch on the big screen the Escape The annual Midsumma and Australia Experience fresh collaborations Velocity films created by trans and Post Art Award is widely recognised as gender non-conforming young people the leading queer art award, exhibiting between Midsumma Festival and that have been viewed online hundreds LGBTQIA+ visual artists from across of thousands of times. And, make your the country. some of Victoria’s outstanding own film to tell the world who you are! cultural institutions and artists.

Midsumma and Australia Post Art Prize 2019. Pg 71 Image by Fabio Capiodivento Pg 53 Image by Eugene Howard

POWER – Over two nights at Chapel Off Chapel, catch the unsung heroines and queer indie influencers of music. Midsumma recognises that women and queer musicians are underrepresented, and with POWER will highlight the powerful contribution queer female and non-binary musicians make to the Australian music industry. Queer Playwriting POWER ft Award Showcase Presented by Midsumma Festival and Feral Queer Camp imbi the girl: Gasworks Arts Park Presented by Midsumma Festival and Women and Gasworks Arts Park, Studio Theatre wreckedAllprods 28 Jan 20 Jan – 8 Feb Non-Binary Experience 15 minute excerpts from four Queer School for makers, shakers and wannabes Australian finalists. Hear queer issues and voices keen to form a feral class of 2020: we’ll binge Artists in Music on stage, engage with new playwriting talent on performances across Midsumma Festival and Presented by Midsumma Festival and have your say in the 2020 Award selection. chew over what they do to us, and how.

Chapel Off Chapel Playtime Staged Readings 2019. 19 Pg 36 Image by Suzanne Balding Pg 63 Image by Angel Leggas, 3FaresMedia 24 Jan With their unique and inspiring POWER ft HANDSOME: brand of poetic hip-hop, R&B and soul, imbi the girl has Women and Non- quickly won the hearts of industry and fans. Opening the Binary Artists in Music Midsumma first night of POWER they will Presented by Midsumma Festival write their own story to the Chapel Off Chapel Extravaganza beat of their own drum. Presented by Arts Centre Melbourne and 25 Jan Midsumma Festival with Trevor Ashley Her name, a nod to her queer identity, and Enterprises and Thomas Jaspers defying people’s expectations of who they want Arts Centre Melbourne, Hammer Hall you to be – HANDSOME is an artist crafting a mix of Tomboy pop and brooding electronica. 1 Feb The night of all nights! Red carpet, glitter and a galaxy of LGBTQ+ stars! Including performances Pg 49 Image by Seamus Platt Pg 49 Image by Anna Hay from Bob Downe, Kirsty Webeck, Tom Ballard, Nath Valvo, Dolly Diamond and Drag Race Thailand’s Pangina Heals.

Pg 37 18 19 midsumma.org.au Midsumma Hubs We are proud to introduce to you our Midsumma Hubs for the 2020 Festival. These Midsumma Hub venues are dedicated to providing you with a diverse showcase of events, across the 22 day festival, to enrich your Midsumma Festival 2020 experience. Never miss a beat, with Midsumma Hubs there is something to see or do every day of the week.

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Bearing Witness Through Creative Writing Pg 63 Theatre 27 – 31 Jan Birdoir Pg 31 Works 28 Jan – 1 Feb Leopard Print Loincloth Pg 36 4 – 8 Feb Hub New Balance Pg 37 Located in the heart of St Kilda, Theatre Works 4 – 8 Feb transforms into a playful, provoking and proud Midsumma Festival Hub in 2020. Showcasing Poorly Drawn Shark Pg 38 work from around the country, Theatre Works 19 Jan – 26 Jan invites you to join us for an unstitched patchwork of queer lives in queer times, a tender confession Queer Quickies about how a man and his cheekbones can upend Pg 38 your entire life, a hilarious and brutal takedown 1 Feb of Australia’s fetishisation of Asia and, of course, This Bitter Earth high-glamour cabaret performed by a troupe of Pg 41 hideous human-bird hybrid freaks. The Theatre 19 Jan – 2 Feb Works Midsumma Hub will be a unique, exciting and uniting place. And it will be gay. Really gay.

Theatre Works 14 Acland St, St Kilda Image by presentedbybub 21 Boobs #TayLurking Faguette Pg 32 Pg 28 Pg 34 29 Jan – 1 Feb 4 – 5 Feb 4 – 5 Feb Arts Centre The Hare #Hypocrisy – Gay Stuff Markets Daddy Imogen Stirling Pg 74 Pg 33 Pg 28 9 Feb 4 – 8 Feb 28 Jan In Conversation: ACT UP 3D: Deaf, Draws, Drinks Pg 64 Melbourne Escape Velocity: Hole Hub Pg 78 24 Jan We Are Who We Are 6 Feb Judy Garland: A Star is Born Pg 71 The Hare Hole is Melbourne’s home 8 Feb ACEtravaganza Pg 36 of emerging artists, hybrid art forms Pg 29 23 – 24 Jan and queer ideas. For 28 years Hares & Hub Flat-Earthers: The 25 Jan One Pan Cooking Musical, Staged Reading Hyenas has embodied queer community A Conversation Pg 37 A kaleidoscope of life-affirming treats are Pg 35 engagement, giving a platform to with Friends 21 – 22 Jan waiting for you at Arts Centre Melbourne. The 31 Jan intersectional communities and artists to Pg 62 PO PO MO CO presents line-up boasts an electronic choral celebration provoke, question and be heard. Its open 20 Jan Summer of the 17th Doll Midsumma of resilience and community, a delicious content policy combined with its values of A Place at the Table: New Pg 38 Extravaganza confection of dance and storytelling, an providing a welcoming space encourages Stories of the Familiar 31 Jan – 1 Feb Pg 37 Pg 29 inspiring tale of body autonomy, an emerging work that is fresh, relevant and vitally Queer Zine & Art Fair 1 Feb 23 Jan musical comedy and a vital film project important. Our 2020 Midsumma program Pg 75 Doing Gender: Old- 1 Feb made with trans and gender non-conforming The Rise and Fall of brings together speakers, artists and school Storytelling, New young people. To top it all off is the highly Saint George performers from multiple disciplines and Rapid Fire Pg 41 School Stories Pg 39 anticipated return of the star-studded and numerous identities – from the emerging 23 – 24 Jan Pg 33 3 Feb extra-glamourous extravaganza! There really to the familiar and established, from those 29 Jan is something for everyone, so join us and Teach-in: Assemble, embedded in the queer community to Elton John: Your Song embrace these amazing artists. Advocate & Activate those who defy classification. Pg 34 Pg 65 8 Feb Arts Centre Melbourne 21 Jan Hares & Hyenas Endings/Beginnings 100 St Kilda Rd, 63 Johnston St, The Cat Eats Dickalicious Pg 34 Pg 81 Melbourne Fitzroy 30 Jan 7 Feb Image by David Harris Image by Hares & Hyenas

Awakening Adam by Frances Poet Queen Bette Pg 51 Pg 29 Pg 38 21 Jan – 9 Feb 4 – 8 Feb 21 – 25 Jan Confessions of a Mormon Boy Gasworks Chapel Pg 32 Big Glittery Sh!tshow Queer Playwriting Pg 31 Award Showcase 7 – 9 Feb 4 – 8 Feb Pg 38 Inner Threads 28 Jan Pg 53 Arts Park Cavemen by Off Chapel 20 Jan – 9 Feb Angus Cameron The Campaign Joel Creasey in Pg 32 Pg 41 The Boy, George 28 Jan 22 Jan – 1 Feb Pg 36 29 – 31 Jan Hub Deep Soulful Sweats The Campaign Hub Pg 33 in Process POWER ft imbi the girl: Gasworks Arts Park is a southside hub for Midsumma 31 Jan – 1 Feb Pg 58 For over 20 years Chapel Off Chapel has Women and Non-Binary Festival and a summer destination for high quality 20 Jan – 8 Feb established itself as an iconic Australian Artists in Music Flesh Coloured Pg 49 entertainment, provocative art and fun nights out with live theatre and music venue. Located Panties Presents… When the Light Leaves 24 Jan friends. Enjoy balmy summer evenings in our gorgeous just off Chapel Street, Prahran you will Pg 35 Pg 44 POWER ft HANDSOME: park and grab a drink from the bar before venturing 8 Feb 29 Jan – 1 Feb find a vibrant hub of theatre, musicals, Women and Non-Binary into our theatres and galleries for a veritable feast of cabaret, dance, comedy and live music. Artists in Music circus, cabaret, theatre, play readings, participatory Jinxed! You & I Consisting of three performance spaces Pg 49 performances and exhibitions. Our Melbourne exclusive Pg 35 Pg 45 and Melbourne’s most welcoming foyer. 25 Jan 21 – 25 Jan 22 – 25 Jan season of Casus Circus’ critically acclaimed You & I Come and experience Midsumma in all its Sugarbabies: A Boylesque Musical is a must-see. In their most daring and intimate work, Once Upon A glory – LIVE, INTIMATE AND ICONIC. Pg 39 this international award-winning company explores a Drag Storytime 23 – 25 Jan loving relationship between two men through daring Pg 68 acrobatics, trapeze and dance. 24 Jan Unmasking Prince Charming Pg 44 Gasworks Arts Park Chapel Off Chapel 23 – 25 Jan 21 Graham St, 12 Little Chapel St, What a Drag! 2020 – Albert Park Image by Chris Bennett, Prahran Back to the 80’s Underground Media Image by Cam Cook ft Joel Creasey Pg 44 22 8 Feb 23 All In Family Circus Rainbow Families Pg 67 Storytelling Workshop 25 Jan Pg 69 Arts Centre Melbourne and Midsumma Festival with Trevor Ashley Enterprises and Thomas Jaspers present 24 Jan RAINBOW FAMILIES Brass Monkeys Pg 67 Rainbow Family 22 – 23 Jan Dance Club Pg 69 Children Are Stinky 25 Jan The Melba Pg 68 21 – 22 Jan Rainbow Family Free Workshops How To Be A Rockstar Pg 69 Pg 68 21 – 25 Jan MIDSUMMA Spiegeltent 24 – 25 Jan The Melba Spiegeltent and Circus Oz will SIng-A-Long Dragtime Kid-aoke Pg 70 be transformed into the Rainbow Families Pg 68 22 Jan, 24 Jan Hub for Midsumma 2020. There are 5 days 21 Jan, 23 Jan of inclusive programming all designed to Teens Flying & Fun EXTRAVAGANZA celebrate what makes us feel special and Over 60/Under 10 Pg 71 encourage people to tell their own stories. Pg 64 23 Jan 21 – 22 Jan Free activities include: make your own AN ALL-STAR VARIETY SHOW OF EPIC PROPORTIONS! The Robot Family Flags, wearable art and Magazines Over 60/Under 10 Pg 70 (supported by Archer Magazine). The Show 23 Jan, 25 Jan Pg 68 22 Jan Tumbles and Tricks Pg 70 Over the Rainbow Cabaret 21 – 24 Jan Pg 38 The Melba Spiegeltent 25 Jan 35 Johnston Street, Collingwood Queerspawn Pg 69 24 Jan

Creating Community in Postcards from the Edge Melbourne’s West Pg 57 Pg 52 20 Jan – 8 Feb 19 Jan – 9 Feb MIDSUMMA Rainbow Family Storytime D.R.A.G Pg 69 Pg 52 24 Jan 22 Jan – 8 Feb Rainbow Pride in Altona WESTSIDE Frontier Pg 75 Pg 52 Midsumma Westside is a collaboration of Melbourne’s 8 Feb 31 Jan – 13 Feb western region Councils in partnership with Midsumma. STATEMENT and (an) It is a sumptuous slice of Midsumma Festival that Living Out Loud Archive of Yearning programs the wonderful array of events taking place Pg 64 Pg 57 5 Feb in the west. With exhibitions, tea parties, live music, 8 – 9 Feb THE performances, storytelling, picnics and even a pageant Mad Hatter Tea Party That Time Everything show, the west is set to come alive. Midsumma Pg 71 Went Well and We ANNUAL Westside invites you to GO WEST this summer! 22 Jan Were Totally Fine Pg 39 NIGHT OF Miss Gay & Miss Trans 7 Feb NIGHTS! Australia International 2020 Venus in Thorns HOSTED BY BOB DOWNE & KIRSTY WEBECK Pg 80 Pg 58 1 Feb 22 Jan – 1 Feb PLUS A KALEIDOSCOPE OF LGBTIQ+ TALENT INCLUDING NATH VALVO,

Out Is Out Westgay DOLLY DIAMOND, PANGINA HEALS, TOM BALLARD AND MORE... Pg 53 Pg 81 6 Feb – 8 Mar 18 Jan

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Cabaret Cabaret .CHURCH. 20 Fabulous Years Performance The stage is holy & this is how of Tammie Brown we pray. "Well come on Teletubby! Queerly beloved, we are gathered Teleport us to Mars!" here to worship all that glitters, all Join international drag celebrity, the shade, and those that are not activist, star of The Browns & afraid! The Toff in Town, Melbourne CBD The Melba - Spiegeltent, Collingwood RuPaul's Drag Race, Tammie 23-26 Jan 1hr 30m We've prepared a service that will 2 Feb 1hr 45m Brown in Melbourne exclusively for Thu-Sun 8:30pm have kings, kweens and everyone in Sun 6pm & 8.30pm Midsumma! betweens feeling born again, and $32 full | $27 conc | $35 door sale $45 full Enjoy the strange and wondrous have you gagging for more. This musings of this fabulously eccentric Nudity | Coarse language | Strobe is your explosive celebration of Presented by BUFF Events lights | Smoke/Haze icon as she hits the stage in a way ground-breaking circus, burlesque, Image: by Thomas Evans Photography that only Tammie can. It will be a Presented by Highway Robbery sideshow and cabaret aimed to deliciously outlandish evening of Productions leave you dripping with sin. Because music and storytelling. Image: featuring Archie Arsenic let's face it, sin is in.

Spoken Word Variety A Place at the Table: ACEtravaganza New Stories of the A variety night featuring Melbourne's best asexual Familiar artists Stories of family when the unfamiliar arrives Celebrate all things ace with a delightful line up of artists from Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas), Fitzroy Sharing our coming out stories with Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas), Fitzroy Melbourne's asexual and aspec others is one of the many ways community. Hosted by comedienne 23 Jan 25 Jan 3hrs that we make queer communities. and poet Nikki Viveca (Asexual Thu 6-9pm A Place at the Table brings people Sat 7:30pm Healing) and cabaret star Artemis $15 full | $10 conc together to hear each other speak $25 full | $20 conc Muñoz (Asexy: Proud To Be Me) this Coarse Language | References to drug of these experiences. Members of Coarse language night puts the "invisible orientation" use, sexual violence and suicide family of origin and chosen family centre stage in a joyful night of Presented by queerspace and Melbourne come together to tell stories of their story, song and more! Spoken Word very different experiences of being Image features Archie Arseni .CHURCH. at The Toff Image: by Brendan Bonsack queered and having to come out.

Spoken Word Cabaret Theatre Cabaret #Hypocrisy - Imogen #TayLurking Adam by Frances After Dark Stirling Because stalking never looked Poet A Drag Burlesque Longlist: Amnesty International so cute... at least that's what The powerful true story about Extravaganza this guy thinks! Freedom of Expression Award Egyptian trans man Adam 'After Dark' is a drag-burlesque 2018 #TayLurking is the riotous story Kashmiry extravaganza brought to you of one boy's quest to gain the by some of Melbourne's most Lost in blissful travel, Imogen If you are born in a country where attention of the amazeballs 'it girl'. experienced drag show producers. The Butterfly Club, Melbourne CBD | Hare succumbs to the spoils of Western Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas), Fitzroy Gasworks Arts Park - Studio Theatre, being yourself can get you killed, The Space Dance & Arts Centre, Prahran Nothing is off the cards or below Featuring some of Melbourne's top Hole (Hares & Hyenas), Fitzroy privilege. Returning to Scotland, 4-5 Feb 1hr Albert Park exile is your only choice. Frances 24-26 Jan 1hr 30m the belt to become their BFF and drag performers and male dancers, Butterfly Club: 20 - 25 Jan | Mon - Sat harsh reality confronts her. Online 4-8 Feb 1hr 20m Poet's Adam is the remarkable Tue, Wed 9pm joining the ranks of her elite squad! Fri-Sun 7:30pm 'After Dark' takes you on a journey 8:30pm | 1hr sympathy overflows for Western story of a young trans man having $25 full | $20 conc With acoustic covers of Taylor Swift Tue-Sat 8pm | Sat 4pm $38.50 table seating | $28.50 theatre through some of the world's famous Hare Hole: Tue 28 Jan | 7pm, 9pm | 1hr | terror victims, but not for the $25 full | $20 conc to make that choice and begin his seating Presented by Faff & Sass Productions and friends. Written and performed cabaret clubs. With performances Relaxed: 28 Jan 7pm migration crisis. journey from Egypt to Scotland, in by cabaret newbie Frankie Guida, Violence | Depictions of self-harm | Coarse language | Strobe lights | inspired by icons such as Velma $35 full | $31 conc his search for a place to call home. Kelly, Dita Von Tease, Jessica Rabbit What staggering hypocrisy. #TayLurking will leave you laughing References to sexual violence and suicide Smoke/Haze Somewhat Awkward Presented by till you gasp (and questioning Presented by Gavin Roach "...an unforgettable thunderbolt of Presented by The Space Creative & CM and Marilyn Monroe, 'After Dark' is a "Life-affirming artistry - Best of the Fest" Frankie's sanity). feeling." - The Telegraph Entertainment drag show event not to be missed! wwwww - London's Theatre503 Image: by Ali Choundhry

28 29 Performance #midsumma Performance midsumma.org.au Over two nights at Chapel Off Chapel, we pay homage Variety Theatre to the underrepresented Archer Magazine's As One queer women and non- First Nations Issue A coming-of-age opera about binary musicians of Austra- Launch a transgender woman lia. See page 49 for details. It's party time! Join some A film-maker's own coming-of-age story, told by two opera singers and Photo: imbi the girl of Melbourne's finest queer string quartet. The most-produced and First Nations artists to modern opera in America, 'As One' Testing Grounds - Clear Box, Southbank fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne CBD celebrate this much-loved haunts and challenges its audience 1 Feb magazine's latest issue! 22-25 Jan, 28 Jan-1 Feb 1hr 15m with questions about identity, Sat 3-7pm | Archer Magazine is available Tue-Sat 7:30pm authenticity, compassion and the Archer Magazine publishes lesser- at launch or via archermagazine.com.au $55 full | $45 conc | $50 group (min 8) human desire for self-love and $10 full | $7.50 conc heard voices on sex, gender and peace. identity. Our First Nations issue Presented by Gertrude Opera Nudity | Coarse language | References will be officially released at this "No one grows up easily. ... We all have to drug use, suicide and sexual violence extra-special event, with readings, issues with family. The point of 'As One' is that we all are one." - Los Angeles Times Presented by Archer Magazine performances, dancing, DJs and Image: by Hailey Moroney more. See you there!

Cabaret Cabaret Bearlesque Belinda Hanne Reid: An evening of body positive Love, Rorem burlesque! World Premiere: The Songs See some of Melbourne's sexiest and Diaries of Ned Rorem bears step into the spotlight and An intimate, cabaret-style shake away stigma, with plus sized celebration of the songs and performances that'll leave you The Melba - Spiegeltent, Collingwood fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne CBD diaries of the brilliant (and screaming for more. 8 Feb 3hrs 30m 5-6 Feb 1hr often scandalous) 20th century Sat 7:30pm It's a fabulous night for thicc people Wed, Thu 7pm composer, Ned Rorem. Acclaimed and those that love them. Come cabaret artist and mezzo-soprano $30 full $37 full | $32 conc and celebrate body positivity and Belinda Hanne Reid, along with Nudity expressions of all types in the Image: by 3Fates Media celebrated concert pianist Coady ft ultimate art of tease. Green, present an exquisite night of song, story and love. imbi the girl "passionate and poignant" - Blue Curtains Circus Cabaret Big Glittery Sh!tshow Birdoir + The turkey slap in the face you've been waiting for. Welcome to Birdoir, a surreal Strap in and strap on with Jack escape where world-weary lounge Wilde & Shona Cona for a hilariously singers warble from the confines HANDSOME sexy, jaw dropping circus spectacle, of dirty cages, decrepit fowl ruffle overflowing with glitter, cupcake what remains of their threadbare Gasworks Arts Park - Gasworks Theatre, Theatre Works, St Kilda frosting, and a butt-load of dildos. plumage, and thirsty cabaret Albert Park 28 Jan-1 Feb 50m starlings peck furiously at rancid "Hilarious, stupid fun!" - The Oz Gazette 24 & 25 JAN 4-8 Feb 1hr Tue-Sat 9:30pm cuttlefish martinis. Featuring a Tue-Sat 9:30pm $32 full | $27 conc fierce flock of Melbourne's finest cabaret, burlesque, dance and Chapel Off Chapel $30 full | $28 conc Nudity | Coarse language | Strobe comedy performance artists, Birdoir Nudity | Sex scenes | Coarse language lights | Smoke/Haze | References to drug Presented by Midsumma Festival. The City of | Strobe lights | Smoke/Haze | References use | Sexual References | Loud Noises focuses a thickly Vaseline'd lens Stonnington proudly supports POWER: to drug use on the messy and mesmerising Presented by Six Inches Uncut, Ira Luxuria Women and Non-Binary Artists in Music. oddities of all things avian. Presented by HYPERION Entertainment and Theatre Works

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Dance Cabaret Dance Theatre BLOW Boobs Daddy Dahlin! It's The This ones for the gurls, it's by Selina Jenkins Joel Bray has daddy issues Jeanne Little Show performance and it's a party! This tale of mammary proportions He's looking to live the sweet life, Dahlin! - It's Gonna Be Crazy! Brought to you by FAFSWAG, follows one woman and her two yet the sugar hits of nostalgia and A wild and zany look back at the BLOW is a celebration of Indigenous boobs through a literal hurricane fantasy are all too short-lived. One life of one of Australia's most femmes and Pacific womxn of of life changing events. Laugh of the most electric new figures in loved entertainers - Jeanne Little. colour told through cultural drag, and gasp your way through one Australian dance, Joel probes one of Abbotsford Convent - Magdalen North Arts Centre Melbourne - Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne, State Theatre The Butterfly Club, Melbourne CBD Written and directed by award- vogue dance and ballroom culture. big decision, a million opinions, a the paradoxes of our age: when so Laundry, Abbotsford Melbourne Rehearsal Room winning Melbourne playwright, Samoan performance artist Jaycee natural disaster and an 'Australian much is on offer, why are we left so 27 Jan, 29-30 Jan, 1 Feb 1hr Kieran Carroll, and performed with 8 Feb Tanuvasa assembles a cast of 29 Jan-1 Feb 1hr first', as one woman's determination 4-8 Feb 1hr 15m hungry? Hilarious, provocative and Mon, Wed, Thu, Sat 7pm great aplomb by Melbourne actor- Sat 9pm - midnight misfits and movers to take up space Wed-Sat 7:30pm | Auslan: 31 Jan 7:30pm unwittingly shakes the very Tue-Sat 8pm | Sat 2pm heartfelt, Daddy tickles the nerve $35 full | $31 conc comedian Caroline Ferguson, this $25 full | $20 conc through sisterhood and solidarity $35 full | $30 conc foundations of how we perceive $35 full | $30 conc endings of desire while prodding Presented by Type Faster Productions high energy and fantastically funny with local artists and performers, gender, body autonomy and boobs. the cavities left by colonisation. Presented by Midsumma Festival, 15+, Coarse language, potentially Adult content | Standing only | limited production shows why Jeanne set to a backdrop of live electronic Featuring his trademark confection FAFSWAG and Abbotsford Convent triggering themes of self harm, suicide, wwwww The Age priority seating (restricted view) deserves such an honoured place in and vogue music, designed by DJ transphobia, misogyny and violence of conversation, dance and all-you- Image: by Jermaine Dean Winner: Melbourne Fringe 2019 'Best Presented by Midsumma Festival and Arts Australian entertainment history. can-eat audience participation. duo TH1R§T3EN & Yumgod. Presented by Arts Centre Melbourne Cabaret' and 'Best Feminist Work' Centre Melbourne

Theatre Theatre Cabaret Interactive Performance Boys Night Out: Cavemen by Angus Dean Arcuri is Yours Deep Soulful Sweats Work in Progress Cameron Sincerely Exorcise through exercise Showing A reading of a new work Moving forward doesn't mean An open invitation for anyone forgetting where we've come and everyone to come together Tim's a cub from the country, Olympia Bukkakis is ready to and exorcise through exercise. A whereas Mike is an outer-suburbs from cut sick with the boys! guided astrological dance, DSS otter. The bear from the bush is With real life accounts from LGBT creates collective experiences for Comedic, moving and brutal, Boys called Chris. And Oscar? A wolf, Abbotsford Convent - Dorm One, Gasworks Arts Park - Studio Theatre, The Butterfly Club, Melbourne CBD elders, Dean Arcuri takes us back in Gasworks Arts Park - Gasworks Theatre, audiences to come together in Abbotsford Night Out combines drag, dance Albert Park from the wealthy inner-east. Albert Park 27 Jan-1 Feb 1hr time this Midsumma. With musical ecstatic, inclusive and unrehearsed and performance to investigate Over the years, beginning as a 30 Jan-1 Feb 1hr 28 Jan 1hr Mon-Sat 8:30pm hits from the past, find out why it 31 Jan-1 Feb 1hr performance with no spectators. sexuality, class, gender and race couple and two friends, these four Thu-Sat 8pm Tue 9pm wasn't all fun and games, but life Fri, Sat 7:30pm Framed by a tongue-in-cheek in the white Australian psyche. gay men criss-cross lives, drifting $35 full | $31 conc $10 full $20 full | $15 conc was still a party! $25 full | $20 conc approach to the zodiac, it is an Olympia Bukkakis uses comedy, from Melbourne to New York, Presented by The Butterfly Club immersive ritual for all, no dance or Adult themes movement, and storytelling to Coarse language | Adult themes London & Singapore; from saunas, Inspired by the stories of those that Medium fitness level required performance experience required. Presented by Midsumma Festival investigate how different narrative Presented by Angus Cameron and to drag shows, to beats & doofs. have come before us, Dean Arcuri is Presented by Gasworks Arts Park and styles in Australian history create Image: by Andrew Burford Gasworks Arts Park But what are they looking for and Yours Sincerely. Deep Soulful Sweats Wear clothes you can move in! the conditions we live in today. Image: By Suzanne Balding why is the sex so important? Image: by Phill Kitt

Theatre Cabaret Spoken Word Cabaret Confessions of a Confetti: Pretty, but a Doing Gender: Old- Dolly Diamond & Mormon Boy bit of a mess school Storytelling, The Jack Earle Big The Off-Broadway Solo Hit "More pop than a freshly New School Stories Band opened Pringles packet!" - The Internationally acclaimed solo Doing gender, not having it A night of sumptuous sounds performer Steven Fales' true story Upside News done to you! The fabulous Dolly Diamond and about a young dad who loses Ashy will take you back to the Living, breathing storytelling and friends are joined by The Jack Earle Chapel Off Chapel - The Loft, Prahran everything when he comes out and The Butterfly Club, Melbourne CBD days of using your hairbrush as a Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas), Fitzroy Hawthorn Arts Centre, Hawthorn spoken word that speaks to the Big Band for an exuberant evening 7-9 Feb 1hr 35m what he does to survive until he 3-8 Feb 1hr microphone. With 90s music like 29 Jan 7 Feb 1hr 50m diversity, complexity and hilarity of tunes and cheek at the beautiful gets his smile back. Spice Girls, N'Sync, Vengaboys & Fri 8pm | Sat 2pm & 8pm | Sun 1pm & Mon-Sat 8:30pm Wed 7:30-10:30pm of being human in the world right Fri 8pm Hawthorn Arts Centre. Enjoy more. It follows Ashy's hilarious Sun 5pm "Bares his chest, heart and soul. A $35 full | $31 conc | $28 group (min 6) $15 full | $10 conc now. Come and be part of our $38 full | $32 conc cabaret style seating and a musical compelling and uplifting experience." true coming of age story dealing $35 full | $28 group (min 6) Coarse language | Sexual References Coarse language | Reference to sexual community performing and playing Smoke/Haze celebration not to be missed. wwwww - DNA with unsolicited advice on weight Sex scenes | References to drug use violence | Drug use and suicide references with the constraints of the binary "There's something here that every gay Image: Ashy Rose by Alexis Desaulniers- loss, low self esteem, falling in love Presented by Boroondara Arts and telling the tale of what happens Presented by Gooding Productions and man can relate to." wwwww - Gay Times Lea Photography with gay best friends, insane dating Presented by queerspace and Melbourne Image: by Elliot Moody NF2 Productions Spoken Word when you do. (UK) stories, alcoholism, money & trust "Hilarious." - Chicago Sun-Times issues and an obsession with drag. Image: by Brendan Bonsack

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Variety Cabaret Musical Dance DRAG A THON Elton John: Your Flesh Coloured GIRLKING / The The world record holding non- Song Panties Presents... Venusian Slip stop drag event A New Bisexual Musical A double bill The event that set a Guinness World Development What makes 70s music so fabulous? GIRLKING, first presented in the Record in 2017 is back for 2020. Elton John for one! 'Elton John From the Green Room Award 2019 Adelaide Fringe, aims to raise The 86's annual 'day of drag' is back - Your Song' invites you to pay winning team that brought you questions about discipline and with 10 hours of drag starting with The 86 Cabaret Bar, Fitzroy Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas), Fitzroy tribute to the undisputed worldwide Gasworks Arts Park - Studio Theatre, Baby Bi Bi Bi, comes the preview Temperance Hall, South Melbourne function in dance and expands on an afternoon 'open stage' where emperor of glam pop! Whip Albert Park of new musical 'Girls are Hot!' this question in abstracted ways. 26 Jan anyone can perform. Who will win 8 Feb 1hr 5-8 Feb 2hrs out those old flares and zhoozh 8 Feb 1hr (because they are...). 'Girls are Sun 1pm-3am | To perform in the 'open the crown & cash in 2020? Finalists Sat 7pm | Sat 9pm Wed-Sat 7:30pm The Venusian Slip guides the your hair as Matthew Hadgraft Hot' is a female focused, comedy stage' sessions register at the86.com.au then battle it out in the evening $25 full | $20 conc Sat 9:30pm $30 full | $25 conc audience through a series of surreal (ABBALive, Peter Allen Live in musical about presentation, FREE show with the 'Fellas in Frocks' cast $15 full subconscious worlds where limiting Presented by Faff & Sass Productions Inverted Commas) sings up the performativity and the roles we Nudity | Strobe lights | Smoke/Haze | performing a 5 hour non-stop drag structures begin to slip away. The Coarse language | Strobe lights | greatest party night of the decade Coarse language | This show play in and outside of our queer Latecomer lockout | Adult Themes Smoke/Haze | Long Periods of standing | show! Open to all drag styles, just acknowledges the existence of sex points of view of four differently - just like the movie, but way better communities. Expect fosse, fashion Presented by Temperance Hall References to drug use be 'bright, bold & big'. At 2pm join queer men offer ways of traversing 'cause you're allowed to sing along'. Presented by Flesh Coloured Panties and just as much contour as Image: Taylor-Ferné Morris/Anthea Dance us for a FREE sausage sizzle BBQ! masculine constructs. Presented by The 86 Cabaret Bar Productions carabiners.

Spoken Word Theatre Interactive Performance Comedy Endings/Beginnings Eyes Wide Woke Hello! Hi! My name How Gay Am I? This year's edition of Lisa- A parable of passion, poison is Shannon. Quick "Sunanda is a bright presence!" Skye's spoken word showcase! and posturing question: how does - Ilana Glazer, Broad City Featuring a diverse line-up of A storm is brewing, the dinner table Sunanda's debut solo show, How Melbourne's best queer performers, is set, the friends are familiar and an adult make new Gay Am I? is a comedic multimedia expect funny, silly, sexy, serious, sad, the stories of everyday triumphs friends? exploration of 'all the gays her life sardonic stories. Guaranteed to be are cocked and ready to go. Then could've gone'. The journey begins Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas), Fitzroy The Courthouse Hotel, North Melbourne The Burrow - Studio, Fitzroy The Butterfly Club, Melbourne CBD a must-see. These events sell out on the guest of dis-honour arrives. with an earnest story detailing her 30 Jan 1hr 30m 21-25 Jan, 29 Jan-1 Feb 1hr 15m 22-26 Jan 1hr 3 Feb, 5-8 Feb 1hr pre-books, so book ahead of time if The host has decided to invite a Adult looking for friends. Not a coming out to her conservative Thu 7pm you can! Wed-Sat 7:30pm | Preview: Tue 21 Jan sex worker to the dinner under the Wed-Sat 8pm | Sat, Sun 2pm | Sun 7pm joke. Not even really a show. If Mon, Wed-Sat 7pm | Auslan: 6 Feb 7pm Indian parents, and ends with 7.30pm $22 full | $18 conc guise of pushing the boundaries $20 full | $15 conc legitimately also an adult looking $35 full | $31 conc everyone in the audience going Hosted by Melbourne's fave $30 full | $27 conc | $20 preview of her friends. The new guest's for friends, enquire within. home gay. Think that's absurd? Wait Nudity | Sex scenes | Coarse language | sparkle-puppy muppet dominatrix, Presented by Shannon Loughnane Presented by The Butterfly Club References to drug use and suicide Coarse language | References to drug presence prompts a pissing contest till you meet all the other queerdos Lisa-Skye. A safe space, but never Image: by Lana Nguyen, Shannon Image: by Liza Nelson use over who is the most unfazed and she could've been! Presented by Lisa-Skye & The Safety Loughnane boring. Papa Lisa's in charge; see the party unravels into a pageant of House Presented by Bitten By Productions "...such a funny and magnetic controlled chaos & fascinating yarns moral posturing. Image: by Paul Rasche that don't kick down. Image: by Ashley Tardy performer..." - Lucia Aniello, Broad City

Comedy Musical Variety Theatre Faguette Flat-Earthers: The Jinxed! Joel Creasey in Do you get more discriminated Musical Blending circus and burlesque The Boy, George against for being gay, a A staged reading with a live band, to create the "Creasey is the crown prince of foreigner, or a vegetarian? best kind of chaos! Aussie comedy." Bringing together the world's French comedian Julien Furnace most iconic conspiracy theories in Roll up one and all, and take a - Daily Telegraph presents a one-hour stand-up in peek behind the curtain of Cabaret a brand new electropop musical Superstar comedian Joel Creasey which everyone will recognise Abnormal... if you dare! Jinxed! Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas), Fitzroy Arts Centre Melbourne - The Channel, comedy about just how far Gasworks Arts Park - Gasworks Theatre, Chapel off Chapel, Prahran plays Prince George of Wales in themselves: we've all had cringey will unleash the glam clowns, 4-5 Feb 1hr Melbourne we're willing to go in search of Albert Park 29-31 Jan 1hr 10m this biting, hilarious new one-man one-night-stands, inappropriate vaudevillians and circus trash to 31 Jan 1hr the #truth. This staged reading 21-25 Jan 1hr show. Queen Elizabeth II is dead, Tue, Wed 7pm thoughts on euthanasia or bring you a delectable creepshow. Wed-Fri 7:30pm is brought to you by the artists and the government is refusing to $15 full | $12 conc unexpected revelations involving Fri 6pm Tue-Sat 9:30pm | Sat 2:30pm After its success at The Melba $39 full | $35 conc behind ROMEO IS NOT THE ONLY swear allegiance to the new King Coarse language | References to drug Sailor Moon... right? At the heart of FREE booking required $34 full | $28.50 conc Spiegeltent, this high-energy Coarse language | Smoke/Haze | FRUIT (Green Room Award Best Charles. Can Prince George save the use | Suicide references it, Julien talks about homophobia Adult themes Nudity cabaret is back. See what bad luck References to drug use Writing Nominee) and LOU WALL'S monarchy and the country while during his childhood, and shares a lurks when everybody gets jinxed at Image: by Phil Soliman Presented by Arts Centre Melbourne DRAG RACE (Melbourne Fringe Presented by Cabaret Abnormal Image: by Cam Cooke also fulfilling his ambition to be hilarious coming-out story. Come the same time! Best Performance Nominee, Best Image: by Alexis Desaulniers-Lea the biggest, most fantastic, most check it out - or just come out. Emerging Artist Winner). Photography adored celebrity in royal history?

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Cabaret Cabaret Theatre Variety Judy Garland: A Star Lashes Man Up! Midsumma is Born "Fierce, erotic and imaginative, Will real voices challenge Extravaganza and guaranteed to surprise." - society to Man Up? The festival's night of nights! The Sydney Morning Herald Man Up! explores current societal The songs set the standard; the Celebrating some of Australia's views and norms around the way performances brought us to our Lulu Venom and Suckabelle create finest talent with a kaleidoscope of men behave and questions where feet; the woman inspired generation a high-femme-queer-dream world glittering LGBTQIA+ artists. There men and masculinity are headed. Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas), Fitzroy after generation. Was it the voice? Evies Disco Diner, Fitzroy on the stage, blurring the lines Meat Market - Stables, North Melbourne Arts Centre Melbourne - Hamer Hall, is something for everyone - laughs, Based on countless interviews The look? Or the never-before-seen between passive-and-power; Melbourne music, cabaret, and of course, drag! 23-24 Jan 1hr 9 Feb 22-25 Jan 1hr with real people, the script is vulnerability? Saskia Penn captures beauty-and terror; and embodying Taking to the stage are the likes of Thu 9pm | Fri 7pm Sun 9-10pm Wed-Sat 8pm | Sat 3pm woven to reflect the way people 1 Feb 2hrs plus post show DJ Judy Garland's magic in glorious the duality of high-femme existence. Bob Downe, Kirsty Webeck, Nath have perceived men in their life. A Sat 8pm $25 full | $20 conc technicolor with a soft lens in this $10 full These fiercely intersectional feminist $28 full | $23 conc | $23 preview Valvo, Dolly Diamond, Tom Ballard touching performance exploring Tickets from $49 - $79 Presented by Faff and Sass Productions stunning, breathtaking tribute to the Nudity | Sex scenes | Coarse language hunnies are here to push beauty to Violence | Coarse language | and Drag Race Thailand's Pangina social issues of domestic violence, ultimate legend. Image: by Evan Fowler Photography its limits (if there is such a thing) References to suicide, domestic violence Presented by Arts Centre Melbourne and Heals (to name just a few). To make aggression, homophobia and and reclaim, reflect, reconnect and and sexual violence Midsumma Festival with Trevor Ashley the evening even more extra, there's dominance, balanced by nurturing Enterprises and Thomas Jaspers angrily rejoice. Presented by Purely Pensive Productions a red carpet arrival and post-show and vulnerability. Image: Emily Cerra DJ to keep the party going late!

Cabaret Theatre Theatre Dance Leather Lungs: Son Leopard Print New Balance NOW this body of a Preacher Loincloth Who do you hold accountable WHAT for all the things you were Performative interventions never told? and installations in a subdued A master of falsetto and stiletto This play is about what happens with a phenomenal vocal range when you leave a bunch of guys in From the winners of the inaugural nightclub environment Midsumma & Melbourne Fringe spanning over four octaves, this a room together. It's about stubble Choreography, light and spatial Queer Development Award Melbourne Recital Centre - Primrose daring deviant marries savage wit, Theatre Works, St Kilda and kindness and that hot guy you Theatre Works, St Kilda Temperance Hall, South Melbourne evolutions meet an atmosphere of (Intoxication). Woven together from Potter Salon, Southbank outrageous innuendo, and a voice 4-8 Feb 2hrs 20m saw on the train and the way that 4-8 Feb 1hr 1 Feb 2hrs experimental, ambient techno. Luigi intersecting stories of the queer 31 Jan 1hr to die for, to drag you screaming his chest smells. It's about boys Vescio and local artists will animate Tue-Sat 9pm Tue-Sat 7pm experience, playwright Christopher Sat 8pm with laughter into an explosion of and it's about hating yourself. It's this durational consideration of Fri 7pm $32 full | $27 conc Preview, Relaxed: 4 Feb 7pm Bryant tells a story that emerges $29 full | $22 conc powerhouse party anthems by The about plays about men being the performance, spectatorship and $31 full | $25 conc Nudity | Coarse language | Sexual $32 full | $27 conc | $25 preview from the intimacy and surprising Nudity | Strobe lights | Smoke/Haze | Weather Girls, Aretha Franklin, and worst thing ever. It's about falling in togetherness. 'NOW this body Latecomer lockout | Drug references References Adult themes universality of the queer experience Long periods of standing Tina Turner. love too quickly and too loudly and WHAT' is both defining and Presented by Ben Anderson and Presented by Kissing Booth Productions how a man and his cheekbones can Presented by Before Shot & Theatre growing up. Presented by Luigi Vescio and "The voice of our generation." dissolving - at once a ritual site of Melbourne Recital Centre and Theatre Works upend your entire life. This play is Works Temperance Hall - WeekendNotes "A genuine, moving performance." - The queer play and a celebration of the Image: by Sanjeev Singh about men. Image: by Sarah Walker Advertiser (Intoxication) wwww Image: Andi, Pippa Samaya & Luigi Vescio radical happening.

Theatre Cabaret Comedy Cabaret Love By The Hour Mama Alto: Torch One Pan Cooking Over The Rainbow Lines of desire and friendship Songs Sally Goldner has had a mixed Cabaret are blurred in this new play by The acclaimed jazz singer, life if nothing else. A cabaret for all ages Caleb Darwent cabaret artiste & gender Bi/pan, trans, Jewish, advocate, Celebrate our collective differences educator, community radio and TV Eve, a sex worker, and Ashish, a transcendent diva returns to in the twinkling lights of the presenter, introvert, HSP (that's a nurse, have been friends for over a Melbourne Recital Centre glorious Melba Spiegeltent! form of neurodiversity, not a meal), The Butterfly Club, Melbourne CBD decade. When Ashish unexpectedly Melbourne Recital Centre - Primrose Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas), Fitzroy The Melba - Spiegeltent, Collingwood approaches Eve to purchase their Let Mama Alto beguile you with survivor of 13 years at an (assumed) A circus cabaret featuring the best 20 Jan, 22-23 Jan, 25 Jan 1hr Potter Salon, Southbank 21-22 Jan 1hr 25 Jan 1hr services, it sparks a conversation sumptuous and exquisite torch all-boys school... of Melbourne's queer performers 24 Jan 1hr Mon, Wed, Thu, Sat 7pm that forces the pair to confront songs. Her velvet voice and Tue, Wed 7pm | Auslan: 21 Jan 7pm Sat 5pm specifically designed for families of That's surely enough ingredients to $35 full | $31 conc the boundaries of friendship, the Fri 6pm & 8pm captivating storytelling never $15 full | $5 conc $20 full all makes and models. One hour of look at the fun highs, the serious limits of intimacy, and the cost of $31 full | $25 conc fail to enchant and captivate. fun and laughs and people flying Coarse language Mention of lateral hostility lows and yes, all the non-binary Strobe lights | Smoke/Haze transgression. Mama Alto & Melbourne Accompanied by multi-instrumental through the air. Presented by Darwent & Gray Presented by Presented by Sally Goldner points in between. Presented by The Melba Spiegeltent Recital Centre wonder William Elm on piano. Image: by Teddy Darling Image: by Margot Fink Image: by Alexis Desaulniers-Lea "Divine" - Havana Tribune Join Sally as she debuts her first Photography "Near flawless" - The Age ever full-length solo show.

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Comedy Theatre Spoken Word Theatre PO PO MO CO Poorly Drawn Shark Rapid Fire Rust presents Summer of 12 writers, 6 minutes each An immersive theatre experience of love and betrayal the 17th Doll A queer clapback to Eat, Pray, Love Rapid Fire's recipe for success is and its kin, Poorly Drawn Shark simple: give 12 writers 6 minutes Iconic Aussie theatre lovingly In a grand, French building at the is a brutal attack on conventional each, draw the order from a hat climax of a World War, long time butchered! storytelling: drenched in salt water and ensure that nobody goes over grudges come to a head, spies are and biting hungrily at Australia's time. This award-winning formula uncovered, and two star-crossed Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas), Fitzroy PO PO MO CO takes a meat cleaver Theatre Works, St Kilda Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas), Fitzroy Alliance Française Melbourne, St Kilda to Australia's seminal theatrical fetishisation of Asia. Nauseating, provides the perfect platform for lovers plot their escape. Roam 31 Jan-1 Feb 1hr 19 Jan, 22-26 Jan 1hr 3 Feb 2hrs 15m 21-26 Jan, 28 Jan-2 Feb, 4-9 Feb masterpiece. grotesquely funny and brutally writers to refine, condense and edit freely through a world of danger Fri, Sat 7:30pm Wed-Sun 9pm aware, prepare to Eat, Prey, Hate in Mon 7:30pm a story, while providing ample time 1hr 30m and espionage and discover the $40 full | $25 conc Each tasty cut of the script will be $32 full | $27 conc this autobiographical takedown of $18 full | $12 conc | $14 group (min 6) to display their literary brilliance - a Tue-Sun 7:30pm | Sat 5pm secrets of a family divided by gifted to one of Melbourne's most western travel narratives. win for writers and audiences alike. Nudity | Sex scenes | Coarse language | Nudity | Coarse language | Sexual Coarse language | Adult themes | Open $40 full | $35 conc war and entangled by love in this exciting queer theatre companies Hare Hole's longest running spoken Strobe lights | Smoke/Haze | Smoking on References | Loud Noises "A masterclass in subversion ... hilarious content event (expect anything) Violence | Use of replica weapons | uniquely explosive drama. stage | References to drug use to bake, broil or barbecue as word event and also its most Latecomer lockout | Long Periods of Presented by Squid Vicious and Theatre and hideous ... a truly magnificent piece Presented by Hares & Hyenas "Innovative in concept and slick in they please. Guaranteed to be a wwww popular. Line-up announced soon. standing Presented by PO PO MO CO Works of theatre." - Fourth Wall Media execution. An experience unlike any decadent meat tray of theatrical Presented by TBC Theatre other." - Australian Stage delights.

Theatre Interactive Performance Cabaret Comedy Queen Bette Queer Playwriting Sugarbabies: A SWEETie Melbourne premiere of Award Showcase Boylesque Musical "Delightfully engaging" - the acclaimed one-woman Witness the first staged Diamonds really are a BOY's Sydney Arts Guide show based on the life of readings of brand new queer best friend! A wickedly funny, playful woman Hollywood's greatest icon focused theatre works overshares her cheeky tales of The Ziegfeld Boys tell the story "The Queen has no hour for love." being a single woman and the Join us for a unique night featuring of two sugarbabies on a quest to Movie icon Bette Davis fought hard consequential stomach ache of Gasworks Arts Park - Studio Theatre, Gasworks Arts Park - Studio Theatre, fresh 15 minute excerpts from Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran find their sugardaddies and the The Butterfly Club, Melbourne CBD all her life, had four husbands, two overindulging in an all you can eat Albert Park Albert Park finalists: Butterfly Kicks by Jamila 23-25 Jan 1hr lavish lifestyle that comes with 27 Jan, 29 Jan-1 Feb 1hr Oscars and a reputation as the buffet of boys. 21-25 Jan 1hr 15m 28 Jan 1hr 30m Main, Gravity by Bradford Elmore, Thu-Sat 9pm | Sat 5:30pm them. A brilliant blend of old world Mon, Wed-Sat 7pm biggest bitch in Hollywood. Queen Tue-Sat 7pm | Sat 2pm Tue 7pm Home Fires Burning by Maeve burlesque, musical theatre and SWEETie takes her audience Bette tells the whole story. $39 full | $36 conc | $60 both shows $35 full | $31 conc Marsden and New Wave by Margot clever comedy, dusted with plenty through stomach squirming first $35 full | $25 conc $22 full | $18 conc | Includes a free drink (Unmasking Prince Charming & Sex scenes | References to drug use "Cronin's in complete control of the Morales Tanjutco. Experience of glitz and sparkle, and featuring dates, steamy elevator kisses and Smoking on stage Adult themes Sugarbabies) material, the space and the audience. gender swaps of some of the Presented by Chloe Perrett beach car park breakups with heart new work, hear queer issues and Presented by Smoke and Mirrors Presented by G.bod Theatre. Directed by It's a masterclass. A 'wow' moment on Presented by Midsumma Festival and voices on stage, engage with new sexiest songs of the 20th century. Image: by Patricia Sofra and style. This show is for anyone Peter Mountford. Gasworks Arts Park Productions Sydney's stage." - Jason Blake playwriting talent and have your say Don't miss this if you're a fan of worried that swipe related arthritis Image: by Fred Lemarche @theboyproject Image: by Richard Hedger Image: By Suzanne Balding in the 2020 Award selection. gorgeous boys showing lots of skin! may be on the horizon.

Theatre Interactive Performance Theatre Theatre Queer Quickies Queer-aoke That Time Everything The Boy I Paid For Group karaoke at its queerest Went Well and We Two men. One night. Take over Theatre Works and bring Led by the incomparable Bae Marie, Were Totally Fine Socially awkward Keith hires your creative queer ideas to life. Queer-aoke is a celebration of pop escort Beau for an evening of Queer Quickies is an inclusive music's biggest queer names. companionship one Christmas Eve. and open event for all LGBTIQA+ Gerry and Frankie are going out. While Keith has no idea what to Throw on a lewk, warm up that artists, writers, wordsmiths, They're going to have a great night. expect, Beau is treating this like Theatre Works, St Kilda Common Rooms, Carlton voice and join us at Common The Bowery Theatre, St Albans The Butterfly Club, Melbourne CBD choreographers, and theatre- Everything will go well, because just another job, but he's never had Rooms to sing your heart out with 1 Feb makers. Queer Quickies invites you 6 Feb 3hrs 7 Feb 1hr they're both totally fine. No, really. 20 Jan, 22-25 Jan 55m a client quite like Keith before. As an evening of music by divas of any Sat 4-6pm to read through an excerpt from a Thu 7pm Fri 8pm They're fine. Just have to remember Mon, Wed-Sat 7pm the night goes on, both men realise variety. Sequins are essential. FREE script or a play that you are writing, $25 full | $20 conc $28 full | $22 conc the tickets, get on the train, make it $35 full | $31 conc | $28 group (min 6) they have to confront their own or to show something from work in truths... and need one another to Apply at theatreworks.org.au Presented by Common Rooms Coarse language | Smoking on stage to the show on time, obey the law, Sex scenes | Coarse language | development. Read alone and let do it. make conversation, keep smiling Latecomer lockout | Reference to sexual Presented by Theatre Works Image: by Simone Ruggiero Presented by The Bowery Theatre's your words do the talking, or enlist and remember to breathe. A brand- Be Bold Residency Program and Wit violence | Adult themes the help of actors to embody your Produced by Writers' Block Theatre. Incorporated. new sketch comedy for anyone Presented by The Butterfly Club characters. Whatever you decide, who's ever had one of those days. the Theatre Works stage is yours. Image: by Ben Hudson Image: by Paul Williams

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Theatre Theatre The Campaign The Circle The award-winning play by Elder Gods, murder and true Campion Decent love. A feel-good romance.

In 1988 more than one hundred As two young cultists, Hugo arrests were made when the and Lance, race to summon the Tasmanian Gay Law Reform Group Elder God Shaguaraka and seal defied a ban and petitioned to humanity's doom, Hugo finds Gasworks Arts Park - Studio Theatre, La Mama Courthouse, Carlton decriminalise sexual activity himself in a dilemma. The circle Albert Park between consenting adult males. 21-26 Jan 1hr has been drawn, the ritual has 22-25 Jan, 29 Jan-1 Feb 1hr 30m The arrests lit the spark for a Tue, Thu, Sat 6:30pm | Wed, Fri 8:30pm begun... yet he needs to tell Lance Wed-Sat 9pm | Sat 4pm campaign to change a draconian | Sun 6pm something. Something he's kept to $25 full | $20 conc law in Tasmania, the last of its kind $30 full | $20 conc himself, and with only an hour left, Violence | Coarse language | in Australia. Violence | Coarse language | Smoke/ seems more important than ever. Creating more families References to drug use Haze | Latecomer lockout The clock is ticking, the end draws "A brilliant piece of intimate, near. It's a good night for regrets. than anyone else Presented by Gavin Roach simultaneously joyful and gut wrenching Presented by La Mama Theatre Image: by Nathan Smith theatre." - ArtsHub Image: by Jack O'Brien #allfamiliesvalued

Theatre Music The Feather in the The Rise and Fall of Web Saint George Most doctors. Most clinics. By Nick Coyle You gotta have faith... Most dreams brought to life. Kimberly lives a modest life. When George was a pioneer. A trailblazer. mivf. com.au | 1800 111 483 she's not steering into oncoming He was a saint. Yet a day after the traffic, she enjoys the quieter divisive Marriage Equality campaign Red Stitch Actors' Theatre, St Kilda East things - like public masturbation Arts Centre Melbourne - Hamer Hall, was won, a mural and much-loved 28-31 Jan, 5-9 Feb 1hr 30m and emotional terrorism. Adrift in Melbourne shrine to George Michael was a bland world of after-work drinks, destroyed. Pop icon Paul Mac, Previews 28-31 Jan | Tue-Fri 8pm 23-24 Jan | Thu-Fri 8pm 1hr team-building exercises, and never- playwright Lachlan Philpott and 5-9 Feb | Wed-Sun 8pm Auslan & Audio Described: Fri 24 Jan ending Netflix recommendations, director Kate Champion team up $57 full | $44 conc | $25 preview $47 full | $35 conc she wants nothing more than to with special guests and a giant Sex scenes | Violence | Coarse watch it all burn. Until disaster Coarse language | Adult themes community choir, to celebrate language | Strobe lights | Latecomer strikes. She falls in love. And finally Presented by Arts Centre Melbourne and LGBTQIA+ achievement and issue lockout | Suicide references encounters a force as terrible and produced by Performing Lines an urgent call to arms to never let Presented by Red Stitch Actors' Theatre destructive as herself. Image: by Scott Marsh these hard-won rights go.

Theatre Theatre The Top Secret Violin This Bitter Earth Case "I'm just saying, a little lube Absurdist dark comedy set goes a long way." in the Romanian communist Being a twenty-something is hard. regime featuring Vardos live Being a twenty-something queer (drag) onstage. is... something else, I guess. Dating apps, dick pics and a semi-constant La Mama Courthouse, Carlton Theatre Works, St Kilda Brad arrives on the scene, hoping to state of existential terror. Look, 21-26 Jan 1hr escape his American closet to roam 19 Jan, 22-26 Jan, 29 Jan-2 Feb 1hr 10 min we've only got 12 years until climate Tue, Thu, Sat 8:30pm | Wed, Fri 6:30pm free in Romania. When he decides Wed-Sun 7pm catastrophe, might as well flail | Sun 4pm to learn Romanian folk music he $32 full | $27 conc around in a spin class and buy a must negotiate band politics and $30 full | $20 conc Coarse language | Strobe lights | reusable straw, right? musicians' egos as well as the Presented by La Mama Theatre Smoke/Haze | References to drug use | "Razor sharp and scabrously funny... the Secret Police who may interrogate Image: by Murray Symes Sexual References | Loud Noises tone shifts from serious to superficial, him on other issues if they catch Presented by bub and Theatre Works heartfelt to ironic in a blink." wwww - him... Audrey Journal

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Join us for a unique night in the theatre to witness the first staged readings of brand new queer focussed theatre works. See pg 38 for details.

2020 FINALISTS:

- Home Fires Burning by Maeve Marsden PARTY + PARADE Saturday 29 February ON SALE NOW - Butterfly Kicks by Jamila Main VIP PARADE KAFTAN PARTY POOL PARTY LANEWAY ON SALE NOW ON SALE NOW ON SALE NOW ON SALE NOW - Gravity Exclusive viewing areas Wednesday 19 February Monday 24 February Sunday 1 March by Bradford Elmore

- New Wave Full festival ON SALE from November 11 by Margot Morales Tanjutco mardigras.org.au

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Comedy Cabaret Circus Thomas Jaspers is Unmasking Prince You & I Revolting Charming "A stunning depiction of Thomas Jaspers is ingrained in Does 'happily ever after' really life, love, trust and balance." wwwww the fabric of Melbourne's gay exist? - Ed Fest Magazine scene... like a stain on a towel International award-winning Unmasking Prince Charming dares company and festival favourites at Wet On Wellington to ask the real questions of our Casus Circus come to Melbourne Evies Disco Diner, Fitzroy Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran Disney heroes. Featuring a myriad Gasworks Arts Park - Gasworks Theatre, One third of Granny Bingo, DT's for a Midsumma exclusive season of 9 Feb 1hr 23-25 Jan 50m of beloved Disney melodies, this Albert Park trivia master and host of hit podcast their most daring and intimate work oh so charming cabaret explores 22-25 Jan 1hr Sun 6pm The Gays Are Revolting, Thomas Thu-Sat 7:30pm | Sat 4pm You & I. An empowering hour of skill one man's struggle to overcome $25 full | $22 conc is thrilled to be back with his first $39 full | $36 conc | $60 both shows Wed-Sat 7:30pm celebrating identity and the loving stand up show in three years. a disorder that even Walt Disney Coarse language | References to drug (Unmasking Prince Charming & $40 full | $32 conc relationship between two men Sugarbabies) himself would find a little intense. use Expect trash. Hilarious, sticky-in- Presented by Casus Circus using high level acrobatics, magical a-good-way, packed-full-of-heart, Seth Drury "Exceptional!" - Aussie Theatre Presented by Silly Old Queen Productions Presented by Image: by Katie Bennett © trapeze and dance. locally-sourced, organic trash. Image: by Jeff van de Zandt and Meg "..more than a mere comedy routine" - "The audience have spoken: You & I is a Drury Theatre People "He'll be a national treasure" - Herald Sun must-see." wwwww - Voice Mag UK

Theatre Theatre Untouchables What a Drag! 2020 - New Australian theatre by Back to the 80's Hayley Ricketson Melbourne's biggest night of Nadine loves food. Nadine also drag! loves Kylie. The ultimate drag extravaganza That's why she returns, night after 80's style with Melbourne's most The MC Showroom, Prahran night, to the strip club where Kylie Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran amazing drag queens. Dig out those 7-8 Feb 1hr dances; devouring her silently with 8 Feb 3hrs sweat bands, lacy gloves, shoulder pads and join the fun! Hosted by Fri, Sat 8pm her gaze. Sat 8:30pm sex Rhubarb Rouge with DJ David Safer sex supplies $25 full $10 full ► worker Morsel by morsel Nadine feeds us Virgona to get you into the groove! .org.au Coarse language | Smoke/Haze | her story, serving up her secret self. Presented by Large Carpark Productions A fundraiser for Thorne Harbour ► Sexual health information Reference to sexual violence "A keen eye and ear for the power Health and JOY 94.9. You'll also ► Information on laws and legislation Presented by Black Apple Theatre of storytelling... enthralling." - receive a special goodie bag from Image: Graphic design by Deb Ferris thespyinthestalls.com our friends at Hampstead Dental. ► Referrals to sex worker friendly professionals "captivating" - broadwaybaby.com ► Advocacy and support ► Career development Theatre Cabaret ► Case management When the Light Whoop Dee Doo: ► Justice support Leaves Another Late Night ► Workshops for sex workers The critically acclaimed Revue ► Outreach to sex industry workplaces production by Citizen Theatre Burlesque, Cabaret, Comedy ► Training to other services When The Light Leaves is a new and Drag Australian play by Rory Godbold Oh, here we go again! Another Gasworks Arts Park - Gasworks Theatre, that explores how people navigate The Butterfly Club, Melbourne CBD ► For access to any of these services, variety show raving about its Albert Park the complex reality of facing an 24-25 Jan, 31 Jan-1 Feb, 7-8 Feb 1hr diverse lineup of excellent please contact us. 29 Jan-1 Feb 1hr 10m uncontrollable, wild death. Terminal Fri, Sat 10pm burlesque, cabaret, comedy and brain cancer has forced Dan to Wed, Thu 7:30pm | Fri, Sat 9:30pm | VAD $35 full | $31 conc drag artists. We're not going to 1800 458 752 Forum after performance: Thu 30 Jan decide how he wants the end of his try to convince you that our show life to look. Despite his supportive Nudity | Sex scenes | Coarse language | sexworker.org.au $35 full | $30 conc | $25 group (min 6) References to drug use is better than others. We just partner, well-intentioned sister and Coarse language | Suicide references know we're putting on a damn [email protected] nurse who comforts by-the-book - Presented by Miss Maple Rose entertaining, highly arousing Presented by Gasworks Arts Park & no one can give him what he needs. Image: Dark Prince of Burlesque, featuring Packed House Productions celebration of performance art. It's time Dan chooses how he goes. Raven by Alexis Desaulniers-Lea

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Habits and Friends, Midsumma Festival 2019. Image by Suzanne Balding

Popular Music Popular Music Bowie Ball Chlorophyll A One-Night-Only Celebration By Max Lawrence of David Bowie Forest Collective and emerging Bowie Ball hits Melbourne for the alternative pop artist Max Lawrence first time ever! Glam it up and join forces to premiere an orchestral get ready for an anything-goes re-imagining of Lawrence's debut extravaganza bringing together EP, 'Chlorophyll'. Evies Disco Diner, Fitzroy Abbotsford Convent - Oratory, Sacred the best in music, art, fashion, and Heart building, Abbotsford A conceptual song cycle exploring 31 Jan entertainment. Douse yourself in the process of spiritual and Fri 7pm-1am glitter at our makeover stand, take 7-9 Feb 1hr emotional healing, 'Chlorophyll' is in the creation of Bowie-inspired art Fri, Sat 7:30pm | Sun 3pm $40 full | $30 conc a sonic journey encapsulating both pieces, stop by the other-worldly $40 full | $30 conc | $35 seniors | $30 Strobe lights | Smoke/Haze | Long darkness and light performed for photo booth, win a prize for best group (min 6) | $25 student Periods of standing | Limited seating the very first time with a 10-piece dressed, and dance along to the full available Latecomer lockout chamber ensemble conducted by Bowie catalogue performed live. Let Presented by Brooklyn Runaways Presented by Forest Collective Evan J. Lawson. your inner lightning bolt fly! Image: by Jeff Andersen Jr

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Music Electronic Popular Music Popular Music FAMILI Fem Fantasy POWER ft POWER ft EP Launch - Neo Pasifika Come as YOU and feel free HANDSOME: imbi the girl: Sounds to beam out your truest Women & Non-Binary Artists Women & Non-Binary Artists expression! FAMILI is a visual EP launch in Music in Music highlighting contemporary Fem energy is rising and we're HANDSOME is an artist making A force to be reckoned with, imbi electronic music from Pasifika curiously exploring what that means tomboy pop and brooding the girl has been slowly writing their communities. Fresh hip hop, new to us as electronic music artists Abbotsford Convent - Magdalen North Common Rooms, Carlton Chapel Off Chapel, Prahan electronica, representative of the Chapel Off Chapel, Prahan own story, to the beat of their own wave R&B, Oceanic musicality, all uniquely expressing differing Laundry, Abbotsford 24 Jan 4hrs 25 Jan 2hrs bold new sound of Australian queer 24 Jan 2hrs drum. With their unique & inspiring words, and movement. Focusing on shades of fem through fantastical 6 Feb music - playing one night only brand of poetic hip-hop, R&B & Oceanic, LGBTQIA+ and diaspora Fri 8pm performance art, projections, live Sat 8pm Fri 8pm at POWER, which runs over two soul, imbi the girl kicks off night one Thu 8 - 11pm experiences, portraits and videos $25 full | $20 conc music and DJs. Our intention is to $27 full | $24 conc $27 full | $24 conc nights, and recognises the powerful of POWER - a program recognising $25 full | $20 conc will be unveiled alongside a live embrace collaboration, inclusivity Strobe lights Presented by Midsumma Festival. The contribution queer female and non- Presented by Midsumma Festival. The the unsung heroines & non-binary performance of the collected works. and diversity to explore all things Presented by Midsumma Festival and Image: by Briannagh O'Loughlin City of Stonnington proudly supports binary musicians make to music. City of Stonnington proudly supports marvels of Australian music. Abbotsford Convent POWER: Women and Non-Binary Artists POWER: Women and Non-Binary Artists Artists: Wahe, Lay the Mystic, Luscious, fem fantasy in a safe space filled in Music. in Music. Image: Snehargho Ghosh Kalala, Lonelyspeck, Iki, Bella Waru and with love and warmth. "Elegant, uplifting & jaw dropping." "...it's one wave of emotion, powerful Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi Image: by Anna Hay - Pilerats Image: by Seamus Platt songwriting and relatability." - Triple J

Blues & Roots Classical Popular Music Popular Music Goddess Grooves @ Homophonic! Queer-A-Go-Go Rainbow Effect the Wesley Anne New music by queer Rainbow Chan's glitchy composers! pop beats and sweet synth Midsumma's premier music PBS 106.7FM presents Queer-A- melodies event Homophonic!, new classical music Go-Go! An all inclusive dance and by queer composers. Celebrating disco night for everyone who likes Bring your nearest and queerest Goddess Grooves is back for Sapphic symphonists, homosexual to get down and party! Join us on to dance it out as Rainbow Chan 2020. This year, join us for another harmonies, and the long and proud the dance floor with PBS DJs and takes you on a journey through Wesley Anne, Northcote eclectic musical evening as local La Mama Courthouse, Carlton Common Rooms, Carlton Immigration Museum, Melbourne CBD tradition of composers being as gay friends heating up the decks and pop-infused electronica and dance 30 Jan 2hrs 30m singer songwriters Emma Wall, 30 Jan-1 Feb 3hrs 1 Feb 31 Jan as the day is long. dropping the boogie beats. PBS floor beats. With a reputation Michelle Parsons, Aimee Francis and Thu 7:30pm Thu-Sat 7:30pm | Sat 1:30pm | Audio Sat 9pm-3am members receive a $5 discount on Fri 6 - 10pm for idiosyncratic pop paired with Anna Tirotta join forces to present a We're bringing the disco ball to the $28 full | $22 conc Described: 31 Jan 7:30pm | Relaxed: 1 Feb $15 full | $10 PBS members | Door sales tickets by presenting their member $28 full | $25 conc | $21 Rainbow Effect vibrant aesthetics, drawing on night of original tunes. Expect some 1:30pm-2.30pm (all tickets $20) concert hall! Come and experience only card. Early Bird (until 14 Jan) nostalgia, diaspora and her Chinese Image: featuring Emma Wall spectacular music, lots of laughter, Melbourne's most in demand $30 full | $20 conc PBS 106.7FM Midsumma Festival and heritage, surrender to Rainbow's and a spontaneous harmony or two. classical musicians playing some Presented by Presented by Presented by La Mama Theatre. Immigration Museum dance floor oblivion in the Another amazing night. Don't miss outlandishly fabulous music, while Image: by Annie Walter Supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Immigration Museum's hidden city Melbourne's premier music event! listening to the sounds of today's Image: by Hyun Lee Grants and assisted by the Australian courtyard. Government through the Australia Council LGBTQ composers.

Popular Music Popular Music Kira Puru at Heide MGLC 30th One of Australia's biggest Anniversary Launch voices A free community concert A force to be reckoned with, Kira to launch Melbourne Gay Puru is recognised for her dynamic & Lesbian Chorus' 30th live performances and genre- anniversary celebrations defying writing style. Witness Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen Abbotsford Convent - Rosina Auditorium, this vocal powerhouse in the Australia's first LGBTQIA+ choir is Abbotsford 9 Feb 2hrs 30m stunning gardens of Heide Museum having a birthday! We'll be blowing Sun 6pm of Modern Art for a one-night 1 Feb 1hr 15m out the candles for 30 years of $38 full | $25 conc dynamite event. Sat 3pm inclusion, community and music and FREE booking required 15 years of shOUT Youth Chorus. Presented by Midsumma Festival and "She's the party queen we don't deserve, Heide Museum of Modern Art but most certainly need." - The Music Presented by Melbourne Gay & Lesbian Join us as we kick off a year of Chorus and shOUT Youth Chorus festivities with a free community "..stadium-ready swagger." concert. - Music Junkee

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Inner Threads at Chapel off Chapel. Image by Steve Edwards

Exhibition Exhibition A Sight for Sore Eyes Awakening A site for queer First Nations Photographic Exhibition mob: to see ourselves, to see Awakening are the moments each other between temptation and fear. What do you see? Is it a place, a These moments are fragile, painful, person, a story? Is it coming, has it terrifying, euphorically joyous and most of all rewarding. They are Blak Dot Gallery, Brunswick been? Tell us what you're longing Chapel off Chapel, Prahran for, sib. Share your sight as we share necessary emotional steps in search 24 Jan - 9 Feb 21 Jan-9 Feb this sanctuary. of a self identity and temptation is Thu-Sat 12-5pm | Sun 12-4pm | Mon-Sun 12-5pm the core ingredient and the driving Opening: Thu 23 Jan 6.30 - 8.30pm | Co-curated by Kulin country-based FREE force that is unstoppable by any Talk: Sat 1 Feb 1.30 - 2.30pm artists, Pibbulman visual artist Pierra fear. Image: By Zina Sofer. Featuring Grace Van Sparkes, and Wiradjuri writer FREE Robin and Faramir Jouir Presented by Midsumma Festival and and visual Artist Indiah Money. Blak Dot Gallery Image: Pierra Van Sparkes, Wardandi Boodja, 2019

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Exhibition Exhibition Exhibition Exhibition Company of Men Creating Community Future Histories Inner Threads Exhibition 2020 in Melbourne's West Featuring artists Mig Dann, Anj A visual exploration of human A ballsy exhibition where men Odessa, J. Rosenbaum, and connection and complexity others explore men Emerging Melbourne artist Steve Since the 1970s the LGBTIQA+ An exhibition exploring current Edwards explores the complex Company of Men Exhibition returns community have been searching themes and issues facing the nature of humanity through his for 2020 at the iconic Club 80 for and eventually creating a LGBTIQ+ community with a focus unique generative art style. Club 80 - The Dungeon, Collingwood 'Dungeon'. Williamstown Library, Williamstown home in Melbourne's inner-west. Hatch Contemporary Arts Space, Ivanhoe Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran on gender diversity. Each artist 29 Jan-6 Feb 19 Jan-9 Feb From Gay-Skate in Footscray to 30 Jan-1 Feb, 3-8 Feb 20-25 Jan, 28 Jan-9 Feb Combining his foundation in fine CoM20, once again will tantalise the infamous Sunshine 'Gay' Girl will explore these complex ideas, Mon-Sun 1-7pm | Sun 2-5pm | Mon-Thu 9:30am-8pm | Fri Mon-Sat 10am-5pm | Opening: Wed 29 Mon-Sun 12-5pm | Opening: Mon 20 Jan art with his skills in programming, and arouse, shock and delight, article, this exhibition tells the story drawing from personal histories Opening: Wed 29 Jan 6.30-9.30pm | 9:30am-6pm | Sat 10am-1pm Jan 6 - 8pm 6-8pm Edwards has created a collection of challenge and entertain. Featuring to shape a new future. This of the communities' journey for colourful limited edition prints along Closing drinks: Thu 6 Feb 6.30pm-9.30pm FREE FREE FREE queer male artists from around the recognition and understanding from exhibition will be complemented FREE with an interactive "Thread Mirror" globe. Presented by Hobsons Bay Libraries Nudity | Parental supervision by performances, talks, and other Image: by Steve Edwards the 1970s until today. enabling guests to face themselves Presented by Thorne Harbour Health and recommended resources for further understanding. Dark Room Projects Powered by: Eagle Leather & as a live thread artwork. Presented by Banyule City Council addictedaustralia.com A safe space for all... Image: by Damien Hinds Image: Doppelgangster by Mig Dann

Exhibition Exhibition Exhibition Exhibition D.R.A.G. Dark Sepia Let's Eat Cake Love, Hugs + Kisses Drag celebrated through art by Tama Sharman Community making history for Anything goes for those in the Marriage Equality know D.R.A.G. features works by Dave An exhibition of drawing, recycling Behrens, Jimmy Twin, Jake Cruz and printmaking by Aotearoa born, "It's personal. I have always A compendium to the upcoming and Brett Willis (Toonarama) and Melbourne-based visual artist, Tama marched and felt it important to documentary, this portrait explores drag through art, featuring Sharman. Dark Sepia gives trust to document our journey, our fight exhibition is a love letter to some of the finest drag talents to listening in between worlds. Drawn for equality. I am thrilled it has Melbourne's underground club Pride of our Footscray Community Bar, Incinerator Gallery, Aberfeldie Melton Library and Learning Hub, Melton No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne CBD have performed at Pride of our from respecting undocumented happened in my (our) lifetime..." - & queer favourite, Hugs + Kisses. Footscray Footscray. Artists will donate a 21 Jan - 22 Mar | closed 26 Jan knowing, oral culture and 14 Dec-21 Feb, 23 Feb Maylei Hunt 22 - 26 Jan Captured by Nik Epifanidis on the 22-25 Jan, 29 Jan-1 Feb, 5-8 Feb drag-inspired art piece for a cent Tue-Sun 11am-4pm | Opening: Fri 24 Jan uncertainty, Sharman's work gives Sat 10am-4pm | Sun 1-4pm | Mon-Thu Wed-Fri 12-6pm | Sat, Sun 12-5pm | final night before 'Hugs' closed, the Wed-Sat 6-10pm | Opening: Sat 18 Jan auction - with all proceeds going 6 - 8pm | Artist Talk: Sat 1 Feb 2pm physical form to a life experienced 8:30am-8pm | Fri 8:30am-4:30pm | A photography exhibition that Opening: Thu 23 Jan 6 - 10pm portraits capture the essence of the celebrates & commemorates the 6pm | Closing: Sat 8 Feb 6pm to support LGBTIQ mental health FREE between celebrating imagination Opening: Thu 23 Jan 6-8pm | Artist talk FREE Hugs tribe. Oozing energy, defiance services (winners announced on as a universal treasure and a tool of and street photography workshops Wed community who were part of FREE Midsumma Festival and Nik Epifanidis + Curated and confidence they crystallise and Presented by 5 & 12 Feb 9.30am, Sat 8 & 15 Feb 2.30pm the marriage equality campaign Presented by Presented by the Fabulous Art Group Closing Night). Opening Night will Incinerator Gallery survival. Content celebrate the messy, the different, through the marches in Melbourne Society blur the lines between performance Sharman's education began FREE the imperfect - and the beauty to Image: 'Yello'(detail), Paint on plastic and Sydney. Image: by Nik Epifanidis and exhibition as drag performers container, 2018 Tama Sharman between skool, Maori Access, the Presented by Melton City Council be found in that. become living art pieces. boys' home and the street.

Exhibition Exhibition Exhibition Exhibition Dis-Morphia Frontier Out Out Is Out The preoccupation of Matto Lucas A Queer take-over of Elders, olders and young perceived physical defects or Brunswick Street Gallery queer mob in dialogue about In August 2019, (Europe's Summer) flaws in one's appearance... freedom, self and expression Matto Lucas travelled through 13 Celebrate the launch of our Textile artist Andrew Delaney (Anno different countries, in the back of Midsumma Festival exhibition Out Is Out examines the generation Domini Home) delves deep into the an Audi convertible. Part retro road program, featuring some of gap in queer politics, exhibiting trip, part travel log, Frontier is an Australia's most exciting emerging Lord Coconut, Melbourne CBD human psyche with his exhibition Louis Joel Arts and Community Centre - Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee work by people who paved the of strange and unsettling Victorian experimental video artwork about and mid-career LGBTQIA+ artists. way for LGBTIQ self-expression 20 - 25 Jan & 28 Jan - 8 Feb Joel Gallery, Altona 29 Jan-2 Feb, 4-9 Feb, 11 Feb 6 Feb-8 Mar human specimens. Body image a queer body existing in various Showcasing multiple exhibitions - and freedom and a new generation 31 Jan-13 Feb Mon-Fri 11am-6pm | Sat 12-4pm aberrations and psychological new geographies, documenting Tue-Sun 10am-6pm | Opening: Fri 31 Jan each with a unique curatorial voice - Mon-Fri 9am-5pm | Sat, Sun 11am-4pm | of activists; young queer mob FREE twists go beyond the norm and all Mon-Fri 10am-4pm | Sat, Sun 11am-3pm | an organic experience; a journey, 6 - 9pm representing diverse experiences of Opening: Thu 6 Feb 6:30 - 8:30pm who challenge gender identifying Opening: Fri 31 Jan 7pm and discovering the multitude of Simulated medical anatomy the labels, to question what it really FREE our community for an all-welcoming FREE language and norms. FREE landscapes while telling multiple is to be human.... Presented by Brunswick Street Gallery affair. Presented by Wyndham City Presented by Lord Coconut intersecting narratives and Presented by Joel Gallery Image: Peter Waples Crowe - Self Portrait- Image: by Andrew Delaney Fragility and beauty in the exploring the transient spaces one Image: by Matto Lucas ngurran - Mixed media on canvas. 2019 grostesque. occupies in transit.

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Accessible Events Auslan Interpreted Over The Rainbow Cabaret Auslan interpreter services provide equal access to arts and Access Relaxed Performances entertainment for people who are Deaf, their friends and families. Relaxed Performances, or Sensory Friendly performances, are designed to create a safe and welcoming environment for people with Midsumma Festival Auslan Interpreted Events Midsumma learning difficulties and/or sensory and communication challenges. 3D: Deaf, Draws, Drinks Midsumma Carnival (Main Stage) Pg 78 Pg 74 At Midsumma, we recognise our responsibility to Midsumma Festival provide genuine access to our events and services 6 Feb, 7.30pm 19 Jan, 11am–10pm Doing Gender: Old-school Relaxed Performances Storytelling, New School Stories. wherever possible. For this reason, we have several A Place at the Table: Midsumma Pride March Image by Brendan Bonsack #Hypocrisy – Imogen Stirling ways for everyone to access information about our New Stories of the Familiar (Summa Pride Stage) Pg 28 events, to view these sources visit midsumma.org.au/ Pg 29 Pg 75 28 Jan, 7pm access. If you have any questions, feedback or 23 Jan, 6pm 2 Feb, 12pm would like any information in another format, Homophonic! Archer Magazine’s First Nations Nocturnal x Midsumma: please don’t hesitate to contact us. Midsumma Pg 48 Issue Launch Lunar New Year Disco 1 Feb, 1.30pm is National Relay Service Ready. Please check Pg 31 Pg 82 midsumma.org.au/access for the most up 1 Feb, 3pm 7 Feb, 7pm New Balance to date access information. Pg 37 Boobs One Pan Cooking 4 Feb, 7pm Pg 32 Pg 37 31 Jan, 7.30pm 21 Jan, 7pm Trans and Gender Diverse: Questions and Answers Doing Gender: Old-school Over The Rainbow Cabaret Pg 65 Storytelling, New School Stories Pg 38 Access 23 Jan, 6pm Pg 33 25 Jan, 5pm 29 Jan, 7.30pm Wheelchair Access Endings/Beginnings Park Lounge Wheelchair access varies from venue to venue. To Pg 34 Drop Deadly Gorgeous: The Pageant Pg 75 check a venue’s wheelchair accessibility, look for the 30 Jan, 7pm Pg 79 8 Feb, 5pm wheelchair access symbol alongside an event listing. 9 Feb, 7pm Midsumma relies on accurate information provided by Punking Dramatics the venues; we recommend contacting the venue to Glam Slam at the Australian Open Pg 65 confirm their accessibility. Pg 84 5 Feb, 6pm 2 Feb, 7pm A Place at the Table: New Stories of the National Relay Service Queer Playwriting Award Showcase Half Baked: Two Quirkshops for the Pg 38 Familiar. Image by If you are Deaf, hard of hearing or have difficulty Queerspawn Fabulously Bent 28 Jan, 7pm Brendan Bonsack speaking, contact the National Relay Service on 133 677 Pg 64 or via relayservice.com.au, then ask for 03 9296 6600 25 Jan, 2 Feb, 2pm Queerspawn during business hours. There is no additional charge for Pg 69 Audio Described Captioning: Open Caption this service. How Gay Am I? 24 Jan, 5.30pm Pg 35 Through the use of a headset, Captions are displayed on a screen, Companion Card Holders 6 Feb, 7pm Teach-in: Assemble, Advocate audience members can listen to a enabling the audience/viewer to Companion Card holders qualify for a complimentary ticket & Activate description of the visual aspects read what is being said. for their companion. Please contact Midsumma Ticketing on In Conversation: ACT UP Pg 65 of the event during appropriate Pg 64 21 Jan, 9pm 03 9296 6600 or [email protected] to book. breaks in the dialogue. 24 Jan, 9pm Midsumma Festival Open The Rise and Fall of Saint George Captioned Events Accessible Events Mama Alto: Torch Songs Pg 41 Please see individual event listings for Midsumma Midsumma Festival Audio Pg 37 24 Jan, 8pm New Balance Festival 2020 across this page or visit midsumma.org.au/ Described Events 24 Jan, 6pm & 8pm Pg 37 access for further information about services such as Homophonic! 4 – 8 Feb, 7pm Auslan interpretation, audio description and tactile tours. Midsumma and Australia Post Art Award Pg 48 31 Jan, 7.30pm The Sky After Rain Alternative Format Guides Pg 59 Pg 58 28 Jan, 6pm Large print, plain text and screen reader versions Nocturnal x Midsumma: 9 Jan – 2 Feb (Manningham) Lunar New Year Disco of the Midsumma Festival 2020 program can Midsumma Extravaganza Frontier be downloaded on the Midsumma website Pg 35 Pg 82 7 Feb, 7pm Pg 52 midsumma.org.au/access. Alternatively, call 1 Feb, 8pm 31 Jan – 13 Feb Midsumma on 03 9296 6600 and we can email The Rise and Fall of Saint George or post them to you. Pg 41 24 Jan, 8pm 54 55 Visual Arts midsumma.org.au

Exhibition Exhibition PINK Postcards from the A visual cornucopia of gay & Edge SUPPORT FOR queer art Tacit once again turns PINK for Postcards from the Edge is our Midsumma with gay and queer story, two small town boys surviving artists, from high camp to erotic CARERS against the odds. Being a homo in sexuality, featuring sexy bodies, Tacit Galleries, Collingwood The Bowery Theatre, St Albans homogeneity was a hard task but Do you provide unpaid care and support dazzling objects and carnal we learned if you can't assimilate, 22 Jan-2 Feb urges for what is the most lavish 20-25 Jan, 27 Jan-1 Feb, 3-8 Feb for a partner, friend or family member its time to exaggerate. As Oscar Mon-Sun 11am-5pm | Opening: Wed 22 Midsumma visual arts event. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm | Sat 9am-12pm | Wilde said "Be yourself. Everyone with a disability, mental illness, chronic Jan 6:30 - 8pm Exhibition celebration & performance: With its 11 exhibition spaces, Tacit else is already taken". We took that FREE Fri 31 Jan 6pm-7:30pm health issue or age-related condition? Galleries is a new and inspiring and embellished it. The images Nudity | Sex scenes FREE curated venue empowering artists tell the tale of two lost boys from Nudity Presented by Tacit Galleries in the heart of Collingwood's opposite sides of a sunburnt land Image: courtesy of Tacit Galleries & TJ thriving art precinct. Presented by The Huxleys looking for that rare kindred bird of Bateson Image: The Huxleys a feather to fly together.

Carers Victoria can help with information, Exhibition Exhibition support, counselling and practical advice. Queer in Kingston Sensitive Sweethearts carersvictoria.org.au Curated by established projection A group art exhibition for artist, Yandell Walton, and those who wear their hearts on 1800 514 845 supported by emerging digital their sleeves media artist, Willow Franklin. This immersive multimedia exhibition Sensitive Sweethearts showcases Kingston Arts Centre, Moorabbin explores queer identity from the fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne CBD work by Australian based emerging 7-8 Feb perspectives of Queer in Kingston, a 4-8 Feb and established queer, female- Fri 5-11pm | Sat 12-5pm | social support group for LGBTQIA+ Tue-Sat 11am-5pm | Opening: Tue 4 Feb identifying and non-binary artists. Opening: Fri 7 Feb 5-11pm young people aged 14 to 25 and 5 - 7pm 1747 Carers VIC MidSumma Quarter Page Ad_FA.indd 1 14/10/19 10:45 am Have a cry: happy tears, sad living in the City of Kingston. FREE FREE tears, tears for no reason, for Presented by Kingston Arts Presented by fortyfivedownstairs and sentimentality, nostalgia, longing, Image: 'Weldon 2', 2019. Manipulated Tegan Iversen and unrequited love. Feel all archival image with digital glitch. By the "feels" with the Sensitive Willow Franklin. Sweetheart artists.

Exhibition Exhibition STATEMENT and (an) Sweat Archive of Yearning Sweat is the new show from New works by Susan Long and the creator of Her... The Lex Middleton Photographic Series Sweat is a series of photographic Long's (an) Archive of Yearning moments of pride in sport. Where reveals how a single snapshot equality is celebrated and respect Melbourne's Living Museum of the West, (found object), can become an Meat Market - Meeting Room, North is shown. The photographer has Maribyrnong imagined archive of desire and Melbourne been granted access to photograph 8-9 Feb longing. Middleton's STATEMENT 24-30 Jan Victorian sporting clubs and teams uses the text from a police report Sat, Sun 12-5pm | Opening: Sat 8 Feb Mon-Sun 12-6pm during 2019 that include LGBTQIA+ 2 - 4 pm documenting a violent homophobic FREE players, students, coaches and crime. This work re-presents the FREE participants. The exhibition will official facts deemed relative in Presented by Martha Ackroyd Curtis Violence include an outdoor 'street gallery'. describing the proceedings of an Image: The Sweat Series by Martha Presented by Melbourne's Living Museum act of violence. Moving image and Ackroyd Curtis. of the West voice by Belinda McClory.

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Exhibition Exhibition Exhibition The Campaign in The Naked Midsumma and Process Ambassadors Australia Post Dance on film by Christos Art Award Linou Accompanying the Victorian Australia's leading queer visual premiere of Campion Decent's play, This video work examines the arts award The Campaign, this exhibition of duality of the naked and the nude. In its fifth year, this selection of Gasworks Arts Park - Foyer Gallery, works by Nathan Smith depicts Temperance Hall, South Melbourne Perceptions of masculinity are No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne CBD queer artists from across the Albert Park the artistic process of rehearsing 5 - 9 Feb Every 25 mins questioned & the work explores the 29 Jan-9 Feb country showcase their personal 20 Jan-8 Feb the theatrical work as well as imperfections of body image behind Wed-Sun 6.30-10pm Mon-Fri 12-6pm | Sat, Sun 12-5pm | and political perspectives of the Smith's own responses to the story, its garmented veil, suggesting Mon- Sun 9am-5pm plus during FREE Opening: Tue 28 Jan 6 - 8pm (Auslan world. Open to early career and showtimes themes and people that pioneered the struggle to embody identity interpreted) established artists working in any the Tasmanian gay law reform Nudity | Walking up a flight of stairs beneath one's appearance. A dance FREE required FREE medium, the finalists' artwork are campaigns. duet resolves the bodies, through Gavin Roach Adult themes Presented by Presented by Temperance Hall available to the public for viewing "I love nothing more than picking up a a doppelganger cross-dressing, Image: featuring Nathan Smith, by David Presented by Midsumma Festival and and voting during Midsumma for pen, pencil or brush." - Nathan Smith Image: by Christos Linou as a way to understand the other, Thai Australia Post the People's Choice award. creating abstractions of identity.

Exhibition Exhibition The Sky After Rain Under the Dome of VOTE FOR YOUR To be queer is still taboo in Heaven FAVOURITE FINALIST IN Iranian culture Works by Eureka (Michael The stories of three queer Iranian James O'Hanlon) from his THE MIDSUMMA AND diasporas, Payam, Shyla and travels in Central and Eastern Shaya are brought to life through Europe a formalistic synthesis of recorded AUSTRALIA POST ART Manningham Art Gallery, Doncaster Tacit Galleries, Collingwood interviews, spoken word poetry, Eureka is back to share his queer Centre for Contemporary Photography - moving images, sound design and 22 Jan-2 Feb exploration of the male portrait and AWARD 2020 Night Projection Window, Fitzroy dance. Mon-Sun 11am-5pm | Opening: Wed 22 of the spiritual traditions of eastern Manningham: 9 Jan-2 Feb January 6.30-8pm and central Europe. He developed The multi-disciplinary, three- Tue-Sat 11am-5pm | Sun 2 Feb 1-4pm FREE the works through drawing The finalists’ artworks will be made available Opening: Thu 23 Jan, 6pm-8pm piece video installation explores Nudity churches and mosques, life drawing to the public for viewing and voting from CCP: 17 Jan-15 Mar, viewable from exterior overarching themes about and photography of building, 7 nights a week after dark identity, queerness, gender, family, Presented by Eureka (Michael James 29 Jan to 9 Feb 2020 at No Vacancy Gallery. O'Hanlon) Presented by Midsumma Festival and forgiveness, resilience, hope, love See the event listing above for details. Manningham Art Gallery and loss. Image: Sean Age 19 by Eureka

Midsumma and Australia Post Art Award Exhibition Exhibition finalists are:

Venus in Thorns What Remains - Chelle Destefano (VIC) 'Venus in Thorns' is a project 'What Remains' invites the viewer to - Daley King (VIC) exploring queer bodies as arcadia. reflect on how we relate to a space, While querying binary concepts the built environment, a normally - Dan Molloy (QLD) of heaven and hell, and queering busy space removed of people and - Darcy Williams (QLD) notions of paradise, this project activity. Feeling like an outsider, we - EO Gill (NSW) Trocadero Art Space, Footscray | draws upon queer ecologies. Sunshine Art Spaces Gallery, Sunshine move through spaces at a distance, Bluestone Church Arts Space, Footscray It investigates spirituality and 19 Jan-9 Feb as a photographer, we are behind a - Mark du Potiers (QLD) 22-25 Jan, 29 Jan-1 Feb sexuality, as well as esotericism and Mon-Sun 9am-5pm | tool that lets us capture an image - - Paul Piccione (VIC) Exhibition @ Trocadero midday-5pm | eroticism, as a means of radicalising Celebration Thu 6 Feb 6pm-7:30pm a moment in time, reality as we are Opening: Wed 22 Jan 6-8pm | - Samuele Tomasulo (VIC) TomboyBill / Matthew the present and empowering queer FREE experiencing it, that keeps us at a Schiavello (collab) X 2019 Performance: Bluestone Church Art people in the future. It maps new distance. In creating these images, - TomboyBill / Matthew Schiavello (VIC) Space, 1 Feb 2-5pm Presented by Laura Rouhan An experimental pairing of painting and existing amorous architectures I illustrate my connection to space, and photography. 30 x 40cm, Image: By Lauren Rouhan - Wesley Dowling (VIC) abstract form carved out of enamel FREE pertaining to queer arcadia, both as it relates to my depression, coated glass w/ photographic print revealed beneath Nudity | Coarse language physical and psychical. anxiety, queerness, identity and - Wet and Free Collective (VIC) intersections of belonging.

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film Documentary Uniting AgeWell Film Screening: Free to be you Becoming Colleen welcomes older Finding the shoe that fits Becoming Colleen is the story of transitioning at 82, two people Preston Library, Preston people from the whose love transcends gender and 23 Jan 1hr 30m the joy of finding the perfect pair Thu 7pm of shoes. Join director and writer LGBTI community FREE booking required Ian W Thomson and guests for an Presented by Darebin Libraries exploration of the experience of transitioning, ageing and having your wishes respected.

Winner of Best Documentary, Mardi Gras Film Festival 2019

film MQFF @ The Drive-In The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Join us for a night you'll never forget as we bring MQFF to the Drive-In.

There's no better way to enjoy Village Cinemas Coburg Drive-In, Coburg Midsumma than with a night of film, North fun and flair! 31 Jan 3hrs This special presentation will Fri 6pm support the 30th Melbourne Queer Dedicated to empowering consumers to achieve $35 full | $100 car (4 or more people) Film Festival in March 2020. Presented by Melbourne Queer Film their recovery towards good health, confidence and Festival Support to live well with wellbeing in a collaborative, patient centred approach. Our specialist programs include: choice and peace of mind. • Anxiety and Depression  • Day Programs film Home care • Drug, Alcohol and Addictions  Social support • Eating Disorders Underground Queer  Respite & carer support • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Cinema Presents:  Independent living • Outreach Service Weekend • Post-Traumatic Stress Injury. "Perfectly realised...a bracing,  Residential care present-tense exploration of sex, intimacy and love." Proud winner of the LASA Community Loop Project Space & Bar, Melbourne - The New York Times Inclusiveness Award, and Dorothies Award CBD 8 Feb 2hrs 10m Melbourne's monthly queer film for inclusive practice for LGBTI elders Sat 6pm event Underground Queer Cinema and host Christopher Hill invite you

5 4 0 $18 full | $16 conc 130 Church Street, for a special night of drinks, queer 1300 783 435 Nudity | Sex scenes | Coarse language | cinema trivia and a screening of Richmond VIC 3121 References to drug use www.themelbourneclinic.com.au Andrew Haigh's acclaimed 2011 film Presented by Underground Queer Cinema Weekend. unitingagewell.org Photo by Nathan Engel

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Workshops Workshops Ama-Zine Bearing Witness Talks, Tours & Adventures in Through Creative Remaking History Writing Make Zines to remake with Lachlan Philpott Melbourne's LGBTQI+ history. Workshops These workshops will focus on tapping into your voice through Prahran Mechanics' Institute Victorian Learn about queer history in Theatre Works, St Kilda Melbourne. Bring your ephemera exploring memory and your History Library, Prahran 27-31 Jan 3hrs and/or photos and make zines. perspective. We will also explore 30 Jan 1hr 30m Stories, inspiration, and assistance Mon-Fri 10am ways to record what you are Thu 7pm from staff, volunteers and the $25 full | pay what you can witness to right now. Lachlan FREE booking required ALGA/PMI collections. Donate Presented by Midsumma Festival, Theatre Philpott is an experienced teacher Presented by Australian Lesbian and copies of your zine to the ALGA Works and wreckedAllprods who aims to make writing processes simple, cathartic, political and Gay Archives (ALGA) at the Prahran and PMI collections to be part of Image: by Shananeira featuring Lachlan Mechanics' Institute Victorian History remaking history in Melbourne. No Philpott truthful. Library (PMI) zine making experience necessary.

Talks Tours Culture x Gender Fabulous Fitzroy on A conversation between trans Foot people of colour Queer history revealed How do you decolonise gender? Once Australia's smallest suburb, Five advocates, artists, and activists, Fitzroy has packed in a lot of queer all trans, all people of colour, all history: a gay mayor; notorious Bargoonga Nganjin, North Fitzroy young leaders in their communities, Kangaroo Statue, Fitzroy, Fitzroy man-woman, Marion-Bill Edwards; Library, North Fitzroy explore similarities and differences 25 Jan 1hr 30m John Wilson fleeing in a frock; Gordon Lawrence and his 'articles 4 Feb 2hrs across cultural lines of queerness, Sat 11am of a suspicious nature'; home of Tue 6:30pm gender expression, and identity. $25 full | $15 conc the Women's Culture Palace, gay FREE booking required Margot Fink | Kira Djnalie | Dr Standing and walking required liberation's headquarters ('entry Teddy Darling in partnership Presented by Muhammed Taha | Raina Peterson | Presented by Australian Lesbian and Gay from the rear') and St Mark's with Yarra Libraries and Minus18 Milo Milton-Moon. Archives gay-welcoming church. All will The Gays Are Revolting Live at The Melba. Image: 'Fey' by Teddy Darling Image: by Graham Willett ft. William be revealed by the gang from the Image by Alexander Legaree Eicholtz's Courage Archives.

Talks Tours Workshops Talks A Conversation with AIDS Memorial Feral Queer Camp Feral Queer Camp: Friends Garden Walking Let's go feral! Picnic in the Park Queer authors talk life and Tour Dive deep into talking and writing writing about queer performance practice. A picnic conversation open to Remember Fairfield - from Join a feral cohort who will view everyone interested in queer What shapes a writing life? Some hospital to horticulture performances across Midsumma performance (whether or not of our leading queer authors with Festival and unpack queer themes A walking tour of the former site of you've seen any this Midsumma). Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas), Fitzroy close links to Hares & Hyenas Melbourne Polytechnic College Fairfield Various Midsumma Venues in a suite of workshops with leaders Abbotsford Convent - Heritage Gardens, Campus, Fairfield Farfield Hospital. Abbotsford Bring food for sharing, a rug if you 20 Jan 2hrs talk about life, writing and the 20 Jan - 8 Feb in writing, criticism and queer have one, and we'll do 'picnic rug Mon 7:30pm influences that shape their work. 9 Feb 2hrs Explore over a hundred years of Various dates and times pedagogies. By Alyson Campbell, 8 Feb This conversational panel focuses hopping': a bit like bar hopping, $18 full | $12 conc Sun 1pm hospital history. Listen to stories see midsumma.org.au for details Stephen Farrier, Jen Audsley, Sat 1 - 3pm on the authors' latest works, new we'll mingle in groups on picnic rugs FREE booking required from the height of the AIDS crisis in $20 full | pay what you can | registrations Brenton Geyer, Hannah McCann, FREE booking required Open content event and chat about queer performance writing in development and the Australia and the unique community close 23 Dec JulieMc McNamara, Monica Pearl, shifting landscape of queer writing. Long Periods of standing Presented by Midsumma Festival and - the good, the bad and the don't response. Presented by Midsumma Festival and Lachlan Philpott and Richard Watts. wreckedAllprods Authors include Andrea Goldsmith, Presented by Thorne Harbour Health and get out of bed. We want to know: wreckedAllprods Quinn Eades, Dennis Altman and Melbourne Polytechnic Fairfield Campus Light afternoon tea provided. (Feral: 'in a wild state, especially after Image: by wreckedAllprods what queer performance has left its Neal Drinnan, with another TBA. Image: by John Hall escape from captivity or domestication') mark on you and why?

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Workshops Talks Workshops Talks Half Baked: Two In Conversation: Punking Dramatics Teach-in: Assemble, Quirkshops for the ACT UP Masterclasses for Lunar New Advocate & Activate Fabulously Bent with Monica Pearl Year Disco x Nocturnal with Monica Pearl & Brenton Geyer Hone in your queer expression with with JulieMc McNamara How to turn your anger, fear, and the Punking Dramatics workshop A conversation between Dr Monica grief into Action. A look to history Where do we get sustenance? with Pangina Heals (host of Drag Pearl (University of Manchester and queer theory to help unleash Who fuels our feral hearts? These Race Thailand). The Punking VCA - Performing Arts Building, Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas), Fitzroy and activist in ACT UP New York) Chunky Move, Southbank Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas), Fitzroy our inner (or not so inner!) activists. quirkshops with theatre director, workshop is a two-part masterclass Southbank and Brenton Geyer (Living Positive Teach-ins were a key ACT UP playwright and disability arts 24 Jan 1hr 30m 1 Feb, 5 Feb 2hrs on lip-syncing, posing and queer 21 Jan 1hr 30m 25 Jan, 2 Feb 4hrs Victoria and activist in ACT UP strategy, enabling people without advocate, JulieMc McNamara, are Fri 9pm Sat 3pm | Wed 6pm | Auslan: 5 Feb 6pm performance. Punking brings us the Tue 9pm Melbourne) about the parallel formal education or previous Sat, Sun 2pm about looking back at our idols in FREE booking required One session: $45, Both sessions: $75 roots of waacking - moves of this FREE booking required histories, experiences and legacies knowledge of HIV and AIDS to FREE booking required the dust of the Crip Queer dynasty style resemble the dramatic acting Presented by Midsumma Festival, Living of ACT UP in New York City and Presented by Midsumma Festival Presented by Midsumma Festival, Living become knowledgeable, and share and brewing trouble. in Hollywood's silent films. Presented by Midsumma Festival and Positive Victoria, wreckedAllprods and Melbourne. This will be a lively and Image: by Chaiharn Ratavan. Courtesy of Positive Victoria, wreckedAllprods and that knowledge with others in order wreckedAllprods Hares and Hyenas Hares and Hyenas Attend one or both workshops. All entertaining tribute to the brave Drag Race Thailand Recommended for performers of all to speak back to power. Image: by Angel Leggas, 3FaresMedia Image: courtesy of Living Positive Victoria levels 18+ Image: by Ellen B Neipris, New York, 1990 Crips and Queers welcome. and daring acts of defiance that left Monica Pearl is a former member of ACT their mark on these two cities. UP/New York

Talks Talks Talks Talks Living Out Loud Nevo Zisin: Desert The Gays Are Trans and Gender A personal account of Island Reads Revolting Live Diverse: Questions LGBTIQA+ history What books have made the and Answers Join Dr Graham Willett, active in greatest impression on Nevo Hosted by Thomas, Mykiii, Kyle and A discussion of all things trans gay politics in Melbourne since Zisin, and which ones would Luke, Australia's premier queer 1979, as he shares his account Hear stories and insights from they take to a desert island? podcast The Gays Are Revolting of the remarkable journey of the a panel with a unique range Williamstown Library, Williamstown Doncaster Library, Doncaster The Melba - Spiegeltent, Collingwood will record live for the third time Library at The Dock, Docklands Australian LGBTIQA+ community. Nevo Zisin is a non-binary of lived experiences, including in Melbourne. Helping you be 5 Feb 1hr Recognition, understanding, lively, 30 Jan 1hr Australian writer and transgender 7 Feb 1hr 30m 23 Jan 1hr transitioning in high school, coming the best 'G' you can be, the boys Wed 6:30pm thoughtful and often surprising, this Thu 7pm rights activist. They are the author Fri 7:30pm Thu 6pm out as transgender later in life, and serve a candid, informative and is a story of events and the people of the award-winning memoir raising gender diverse children. FREE booking required FREE booking required $30 full hilarious take on modern life as gay FREE booking required who changed society. 'Finding Nevo' and a contributor The audience is invited to ask Presented by Hobsons Bay Libraries Presented by Whitehorse Manningham Coarse language men. The Gays Are Revolting has Presented by Library at the Dock Libraries to 'Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA respectful questions and can join Presented by Lipp Media been featured by Apple Podcasts Stories'. us afterwards for refreshments and Image: by Theresa Harrison Photography and nominated at the Australian Image: by Alexander Legaree social chat. Podcast Awards.

Workshops Talks Talks Workshops Over 60 / Under 10 Pleasure & Updating Our Waacking Intensive Sub Cultures - Stories, Healing Our A dance intensive for Lunar New Year Disco x Nocturnal Are you under 10 or over 60? Do Documenting Lives you have a story to tell? A song that "Carol-Ann's talks are life Develop your waacking style wants to be sung? You are invited Melbourne's Leather with this dance intensive. Led changing... Brave... Inspiring." to be a part of a personal one on Scene by champion Chrissy Chou, one song-writing experience with Our lives are shaped by stories we accompanied by Pangina Heals, this The Melba - Studio, Collingwood RMIT Gallery, Melbourne CBD An insider's view - an artist's St Kilda Life Saving Club, St Kilda Chunky Move, Southbank cabaret artist and songwriter Sarah tell about our lives. But stories are class is just in time to compete in 21-22 Jan 1hr 6 Feb 1hr 5 Feb 1hr 30m 1 Feb, 4 Feb 4hrs Ward. Bring your own thoughts, perspective not facts, and our life stories are not Lunar New Year Disco x Nocturnal Tue 11am, midday, 1:30pm, 2:30pm | feelings and perspectives and with Thu 5:30pm | Part of RMIT Gallery's Wed 6:30pm | You are welcome to join Sat 10am | Tue 5pm | Want more? Check at Melbourne Museum. For the Join artist John Pastoriza-Piñol finished. Melbourne psychotherapist Wed 9am, 10am, 11am, midday Sarah, you will write your very own Pleasure exhibition Carol-Ann in conversation following her out our Punking workshops (pg 65) professional mover, the Waacking as he talks about documenting a Carol-Ann Allen shares how we can $40 full song. The songs will be simply FREE booking required talk One session: $85, Both sessions: $140 Intensive examines waacking's use particular sub culture of pleasure - find deeper, healing guidance within charted and performed by Sarah FREE booking required of musicality, isolation, character Presented by Sarah Ward Adult themes Melbourne's leather scene. painful stories when we revisit them Presented by Midsumma Festival and her band. Melbourne Psychotherapy and expression. Image: by Peter Leslie Presented by RMIT Gallery Presented by with an open mind and courageous Image: featuring Chrissy Chou, provided Services heart. Our familiar stories are full of Image: By John Pastoriza-Piñol by artist Recommended for intermediate to transforming surprises. advanced dancers 16+.

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Kids and Families Kids and Families Kids and Families Kids and Families Children Are Stinky How To Be A Queerspawn QWere Street 2020 Rockstar QWere St Summer Vibes! Come and join in our A 5 star total sell-out sensation, Kids raised in queer families get you'd better book your tickets very used to telling their story. Midsumma Street Party in Little legends of Melbourne come in advance! High calibre circus, a Join us for a special edition of Montmorency! release your inner rock legend rocking soundtrack and genuine Queerstories, where a line up of with air guitar, power poses and We're bringing a Midsumma street belly laughs have propelled the 'gaybies' share the stories they signature dance moves! A hilarious, party to Montmorency! Enjoy a fun- The Melba - Spiegeltent, Collingwood Australian acrobatic duo to a non- The Melba - Spiegeltent, Collingwood The Melba - Spiegeltent, Collingwood want to tell, without expectation or Were St, Montmorency high energy show about body filled late evening event with live 21-22 Jan 1hr stop multi award winning world 24-25 Jan 50m 24 Jan 1hr agenda. 1 Feb positivity and feeling like a rock star performances, a kid's zone, creative Tue 10am | Wed 1pm tour. Expect daredevil stunts, Fri, Sat 10am Fri 5:30pm Sat 6-10:30pm by multi award-winning Australian activities, roving entertainment, incredible acrobatics, lightning $25 full | $15 conc $25 full | $15 conc Comedian Tessa Waters. $20 full FREE alfresco dining, waterslide and fast hula hoops, loads of laughs & Presented by Circus Trick Tease Presented by Tessa Waters Coarse language Presented by Banyule City Council and much, much more! Everyone is mischievous fun, leaving adults and "Undisputed Queen of Stupidity!" - Montmorency Traders Association welcome! This is a FREE event, no children with their jaws on the floor. Broadway Baby (UK) Presented by Queerstories Image: by Mark Willmore from Pixelmore BYO. wwwww The Hook (NZ) wwwww The Advertiser (AUS) wwwww Families UK

Kids and Families Kids and Families Kids and Families Kids and Families Kid-aoke Midsumma Carnival Rainbow Families Rainbow Family Group karaoke for kids Families Precinct Storytelling Dance Club Kid-aoke is a safe, inclusive, and Fun for the whole family Workshop No dance experience needed. wacky space for kids to celebrate All welcome. Let the kids run wild at the the fun of dressing up and singing Midsumma Carnival Families All The Queens Men (the team with their friends and family. Kids raised in LGBTQI+ families (age Precinct, with hosts Po Po Mo Co. behind The Coming Back Out Ball 12 - 18) are invited to share their The Melba - Spiegeltent, Collingwood Join Melbourne queer performance Alexandra Gardens, Melbourne Using your face as their canvas, The Melba - Studio, Collingwood The Melba - Spiegeltent, Collingwood and LGBTI+ Elders Dance Club) experiences and flex their creative artist Bae Marie and pianist children can become the art are proud to present the very first 21 Jan, 23 Jan 1hr Location: near the Skate Park on 24 Jan 5hrs 30m muscles in a writing workshop with 25 Jan 2hrs extraordinaire Cameron Thomas Boathouse Drive director in "I See You Like This" with Rainbow Family Dance Club. Tue, Thu 2pm Fri 9:30am host of Queerstories and notorious Sat 2pm in a group singalong designed ArtPlay. Then, sit and relax in the 19 Jan 6hrs gayby Maeve Marsden. Guest $25 full | $15 conc especially for little ones aged 5-10. reading corner by Hares & Hyenas. $40 full FREE Rainbow Families bring your Sun 11am presenters to be announced. Presented by Bae Marie Or, try the socially engaged art Children from queer, trans, gay or non Long periods of standing children and friends along as we An interactive dress up party, FREE binary parents only Image: by Simone Ruggiero experience where the children are Presented by All The Queens Men dance up a storm to kids classics karaoke extravaganza, and music Presented by Midsumma Festival facilitators of the stall, painting the from Baby Shark to the Hokey lesson in disguise; get dressed up, Pokey. Image: by Suzanne Balding faces of adults, other children and warmed up and raise the roof! themselves.

Kids and Families Kids and Families Kids and Families Kids and Families Once Upon A Drag Over 60 / Under 10 Rainbow Family Rainbow Family Storytime the Show Free Workshops Storytime Not your average storytime Get Your Craft On

Hosted by PO PO MO CO's resident After one on one song writing Encouraging the celebration of Join drag performers Walter Melon Drag Kings and lords of daggy dad workshops with 8 people that are what makes Rainbow Families and and Rex Spandex for a special dance - Mark, Gavin and Keith - this under 10 or over 60 years old, individuals special. Make your own Storytime celebrating diverse Gasworks Arts Park - Gasworks Theatre, is a theatrical ride for the whole The Melba - Spiegeltent, Collingwood Sarah Ward and her band simply The Melba - Sawtooth Studio, Family Flag, wearable art and more! Newport Community Hub, Newport families, identity, and embracing Albert Park family. Expect dancing, lip syncs, 22 Jan 1hr chart and perform the songs. Join Collingwood All are welcome to join in with 24 Jan 2hrs who you are. giant puppets and Melbourne's us in the Melba Spiegeltent to hear our younger generation to make 24 Jan 1hr Wed 5pm 21-25 Jan Fri 2pm cheekiest drag queen. these songs performed for the first individualised items to reflect their Bring your picnic rug and a snack; Fri 10am & midday Tue-Sat 10am-2pm $20 full | $15 conc time. An intimate sharing of stories own stories. FREE there'll be giant games, rocking $23 full | $20 family 4+ (min 1 adult) "10 out of 10 for fun" - Weekend Notes FREE Image: by Peter Leslie through song at the one off event Non-traditional sitting tunes, face painting and a fabulous PO PO MO CO and The Melba Spiegeltent www.themelbaspiegeltent.com.au time in the park! Presented by is bound to be one that is talked Presented by Presented by Hobsons Bay Libraries Gasworks Arts Park for session dates and times about for years to come. Image: Rex Spandex and Jesse Dean by Image: Nayt Housman Damjan Janevski

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Kids and Families Midsumma Pride March participants 2019. Image by Dean Arcuri Sing-A-Long Improving Dragtime Youth smiles Who doesn't love to sing along to your favourite songs from cartoons, movies and musicals? The Melba - Spiegeltent, Collingwood for our Join the fabulous Frock Hudson 22 Jan, 24 Jan 1hr & Miss Jay, as they show you a Wed 2:30pm | Fri 1:30pm whole new world of family fun, in a $25 full | $15 conc colourful dragtastic sing-a-long for community Presented by The Melba Spiegeltent all ages to enjoy. There's no need to wish upon a Respectful & Caring Dental Care star, just come along to the Melba Payment Plans No Credit Check Spiegeltent! Health Funds Welcome

Kids and Families Youth Youth The Robot Escape Velocity: We Mad Hatter Tea An interactive craft adventure Are Who We Are Party for kids Join Escape Velocity! Don't be late for this very Oh no! What's happened to our important date celebrating In 2019, Escape Velocity created Robot? Everything's gone grey and films with trans and gender non- sexual and gender diversity! our pair of caretakers need your conforming young people that help to fix it. Are you 12-25 living in Victoria? The Melba - Sawtooth Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne - The Channel, have since been viewed hundreds The Substation, Newport Want to meet other LGBTIQA+ Collingwood Come on a crafty adventure fuelled Melbourne of thousands of times. Now, we 22 Jan young people? Join us for a mad welcome Melbourne's young people 23 Jan, 25 Jan 1hr 30m by imagination, creativity and 8 Feb Wed 10am-2:40pm hatter tea party no cost event! teamwork, where every kid gets a to watch the Escape Velocity films, Thu 1pm | Sat 10:15am Sat 12-5pm FREE booking required Friends and allies welcome! Food chance to save the world in their enter a video booth to make your $25 full FREE provided. There will be live music Presented by Queer Youth Alliance own special way. own film, be exhibited online, and and give aways! Prizes for best Latecomer lockout | Long Periods of Neuro-diverse friendly | 15-25 year olds tell the world who you are! Network standing | Non-traditional sitting costume. Alcohol and drug free Presented by Midsumma Festival and "I'm young. I'm trans. I exist. I can be event. It is an indoor and all-weather Presented by The Melba Spiegeltent Arts Centre Melbourne | By St Martins in myself. I can define and redefine myself." event. collaboration with Minus18 Image: by Spencer Jeanfield - Escape Velocity participant Curiouser and curiouser...

Kids and Families Youth Youth Tumbles and Tricks Midsumma Carnival Teens Flying & Fun Introduction to circus Youth Precinct with A teens only class Ever wanted to run away with the Minus18 Once you've learnt how to fly circus? Come for a day or join in through the air on our indoor for the week. These introductory trapeze or little rig, you won't want workshops help to develop a wide Sparkly queer youth claim their to come down! From basic swings range of circus skills throughout, own space at Midsumma Carnival. to impressive twists and safe Circus Oz, Collingwood Alexandra Gardens, Melbourne CBD Circus Oz, Collingwood ranging from tumbling to juggling, With all of the fun and games dismounts, this is high flying fun 21-24 Jan 1hr 30m human pyramids and trapeze. This Location: near the main stage, along provided by Minus18, in an inclusive 23 Jan 2hrs like you have never experienced. No Alexandra Avenue Tue-Fri 10am class is perfect for those who want Dr Adam & Dr Ed environment only accessible by the Thu 2pm previous experience necessary. hygienists Mark, Kate, Mathew, Lucia, Emily, Jess, Ingrid $30 full to have fun, make new friends while 19 Jan 6hrs youth. This safe, fun and supportive $35 full learning new skills and working Latecomer lockout | Medium fitness Sun 11am environment can only get better Latecomer lockout | Medium fitness on fundamentals such as balance, level required FREE with live music, DJs, activities and level required coordination, strength and team Suite 2 / 44 Hampstead Rd, Maidstone 3012 www.HampsteadDental.com.au lots of glitter. The Melba & Circus Oz Midsumma Festival Circus Oz Presented by work. Suitable for ages 6-8. Presented by Presented by Image: by Aaron Walker Call 03 9318 5599 Image: by Dean Arcuri Image: by Rob Blackburn

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Switchboard’s Out & About program is a peer service connecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or intersex (LGBTI) people across Victoria. It is a free community visitors program run specifically for older members of the LGBTI community and aims to reduce social isolation and loneliness by creating community connections and facilitating peer friendships. For further information, visit switchboard.org.au

RACV Community Foundation It takes more than a rainbow sticker to make us feel safe.

LGBTIQ people need services that promise we see you, we hear you, and we always seek to provide you with the best possible care. Organisations with the Rainbow Tick have worked hard to be safe and inclusive for our communities. rainbowhealthvic.org.au

Rainbow Health Victoria offers a range of resources to support organisations to become LGBTIQ-inclusive.

All of our training incorporates research and the lived experiences of LGBTIQ people. Community and Culture #midsumma Community and Culture midsumma.org.au

Day Out Arts Midsumma Pride Pacific Essence: Community March Tales of a Migrant Celebrating 25 Years Plantation Parade, pride and party come Journey with Samoan together once a year in Melbourne's fa'afafine/trans advocate & Culture iconic march celebrating solidarity Amao Leota Lu and friends Fitzroy St and Catani Gardens, St Kilda in gender and sexuality diversity. Immigration Museum, Melbourne CBD 2 Feb 5hrs A chance to tie up your bootlaces 23 Jan Experience a tapestry of narratives or throw on your heels, and join from the LGBTQIA+ Pacific diaspora Sun 11am | Auslan: from 12pm Thu 6-8:30pm the spectacular act of unity that is expressed through performance, FREE Midsumma Pride March. Whether $15 full | $10 conc a talanoa panel discussion, and a Presented by Midsumma Festival you join the fanfare by foot or by Presented by Midsumma Festival and backdrop of photographs from this Image: by Suzanne Balding wheel, with friends or with lovers, Immigration Museum year's Stonewall 50th Anniversary as ally or as queer, Midsumma Pride Image: by Bo Pousima Afeaki World Pride New York March. March is for you. See pg 14-15 for Inukihaangana Photo by Rosemary Ketchum more details.

Faith Market Mini-festival Day Out A Summer Mass Gay Stuff Markets Park Lounge Picnic at Forest A church that turns no one Returning to Midsumma A celebration of the senses Glade away Festival for its third year! Indulge your adventurous spirit Enjoy a picnic with other Come join us as we celebrate God's Gay Stuff Markets are a collection and head to Werribee for a fun day members of Melbourne's gift of our LGBTIQA+ identity with of the finest creators, artisans of music, performance, and a jam- GLBTI community, in the packed program to entertain you as beautiful liturgy, vibrant music, and style makers from the queer beautiful gardens at Forest thoughtful prayer, and stimulating community. Convening at Hares the great Western sunset descends St Mark's Anglican Church Fitzroy, Fitzroy Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas), Fitzroy Kelly Park, Werribee Forest Glade Gardens, Mount Macedon Glade, Mt Macedon words. St Mark's - a safe place to be and Hyenas, Melbourne's proud revealing a rainbow like no other! 7 Feb 2hrs for nearly 50 years. Refreshments in 9 Feb queer bookshop and venue, come 8 Feb 4hrs 26 Jan Featuring Yana Alana and Tha Pack a hamper and join the Fri 7pm the garden afterwards. Sun 1-5pm experience this fun community Sat 5pm Sun 10am-3pm Paranas, DJ Hip Hop Hoe, Kilia Tipa, Melbourne Rainbow Band and spirited event. Offering everything FREE FREE FREE Jex Lopez, Tristan Meecham, and $10 full Door sales only Melbourne Gay and Lesbian Chorus from fashion, art, plants, Presented by St Marks Anglican Church Presented by Steven Trosti Presented by Wyndham City PO PO MO CO. Dogs must be on a leash. No BBQs or among the fourteen acres of homewares, accessories, pleasure magnificently landscaped gardens Fitzroy Image: by Imran Abul Kashem on-site parking, street parking only. products, vintage and recycled Presented by The Melbourne Rainbow that make Forest Glade one of pieces, books, bar, cafe, tunes & Band and The Melbourne Gay & Lesbian Australia's finest private gardens. more! Who doesn't love Gay Stuff! Chorus

Social Day Out Market Social Hits and Giggles Midsumma Carnival Queer Zine & Art Fair Rainbow Pride in Laze on the lawn or come and Biggest event of Melbourne's Keep the spirit of queer DIY Altona try tennis! queer calendar publishing alive

Come on your own or with a Fun in the sun for an all-day and Hares & Hyenas bookstore will be Bring your rainbow picnic rug and group, a fun day out for everyone all-night party to celebrate the buzzing with local and interstate your rainbow picnic lunch to show - rainbow community, friends and beginning of another fabulous artists and publishers for a one day your support for rainbow families family! Bring your racquet and have Midsumma Festival. Peek at zine and art fair. With stalls from Belvedere Park Tennis Club, Seaford Alexandra Gardens, Melbourne Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas), Fitzroy Logan Reserve, Altona by picnicking with pride in Logan a hit on the court or shake out your our program with bite-sized the Australian Gay and Lesbian Reserve, Altona. At 1pm there will 9 Feb 3hrs picnic rug under the trees, relax 19 Jan 11hrs performances, meet friends in the 1 Feb Archives, representing local DIY 8 Feb be rainbow art activities for the Sun 11:30am and meet new friends. Free tennis Sun 11am | Auslan: Main Stage family domain (pg 68) tackle the Sat 1-5pm queer history, to contemporary Sat 1-3pm | 1pm - Art activities kids. At 2pm, the Louis Joel Arts coaching and summery snacks, live sports precinct (pg 84) and stay independent makers and small 2pm - Rainbow afternoon tea FREE booking required FREE FREE & Community Centre will provide acoustic music to entertain. Pack cool in the under 18s area (pg 71). press publishers, come browse and FREE Presented by Belvedere Park Tennis Club, Presented by Midsumma Festival Mobility access may be limited rainbow treats with rainbow your own lunch or buy freshly made With stalls, food, and entertainment purchase a diverse range of print Out on the Peninsula, Frankston City Image: by Suzanne Balding depending on crowds Presented by Louis Joel Arts & cupcakes, rainbow jellies and Council and Peninsula Health treats from the club canteen. The galore leading us into a warm works - from the personal to the Community Centre Presented by Ed Griffiths and Hares & rainbow fruit. There will be rainbow bar will also be open to buy a drink summer evening of T Dance (see pg political, posters to patches. Hyenas bubbles to finish an afternoon of or two. 13 for more details). rainbow pride family fun in Altona.

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Party Party ADAM & EVEryone ADAM's Pool Party Parties Our 2nd annual naked dance "Simply the most fun I've ever party is back! had by the pool!" - BP Taylor

Celebrating body positivity ADAM's pool party for guys is one and diversity, we're kicking off of your three 'must do' events of Midsumma with a massive all- Midsumma. gender inclusive queer party. Inflation, Melbourne CBD Wet on Wellington, Collingwood Hosted by the stunning Uff and 17 Jan ADAM & EVEryone features 1 Feb accompanied by a selection of the Fri 10pm-6am an entire techno dance floor, Sat midday - 10pm most exciting DJs and gorgeous plus a second pop, disco and guest performers, the Pride 1st release $20 | 2nd release $30 | $40 full | $50 door price funk floor with chill-out areas weekend pool party is one of the Door sale $40 and performance spaces. Our Nudity | Sex scenes | Strobe lights | reasons you'll be making sure Nudity | Sex scenes | Strobe lights | Smoke/Haze | Long Periods of standing line-up will include locally and today that you've arranged to take Smoke/Haze | Men only internationally recognised DJ Monday February 3rd off work! Presented by ADAM heavyweights as well as cheeky Presented by ADAM Image: by Evan Fowler Photography performance artists! Image: Mr Leonard of Collins Street

Social Social ALL SORTS All The Queens Men A sweet party for all sorts of Trivia Night people!

From the creators of 'Miss First It's time to test your queer Nation', ALL SORTS returns to knowledge and history at the Melbourne! Drag, cabaret and inaugural All The Queens Men dancing featuring some of the most Evies Disco Diner, Fitzroy The Melba - Spiegeltent, Collingwood Queer Trivia Night, with your glam sickeningly sweet Aboriginal and host Tristan Meecham. 8 Feb Torres Strait Islander performers 31 Jan 2hrs Sat 7pm-1am this side of the lolly jar. Hosted Fri 7pm Book your own team (up to 10) $15 full | $13 conc | $20 door sale (after by the delicious Miss Zodiac, ALL $20 full | $15 conc | $15 group (min 8) or be paired with a group of new 10pm) | $10 door sale (before 10pm) SORTS cherishes Rainbow Mob and Coarse language | Smoke/Haze friends. All welcome. Coarse language | Strobe lights | their fans. Presented by All The Queens Men Huge prizes to be won! Special Smoke/Haze | Images/recordings of "The best event in the Mardi Gras Aboriginal people who have passed away guest performances to be calendar" - samesame.com.au announced. Photo by Wendy Wei Presented by Party Passport

Social Party Social Pageant 3D: Deaf, Draws, ADAM Blanke Pop Drop Deadly Drinks A truly iconic Melbourne pub! The rebël rave for misfits and Gorgeous: queers Fun! Auslan and Deaf friendly Every Monday and Tuesday evening, The Pageant and for our fifth Midsumma, a space; enjoy a drink and Step inside our neon playground This comedic take at pageant drawing life models fascinating assortment of guys where we transform The 86 into meet to play pool, enjoy some an all night love-in providing culture has a queer twist Join a specially themed life drawing drinks, and listen to great music - all release through music, dance and Weird Alice, self-appointed Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas), Fitzroy session for Deaf and Hard of Sircuit, Fitzroy The 86 Cabaret Bar, Fitzroy Abbotsford Convent - Magdalen North in the buff! performance art. It's disco, house Canadian trash drag royalty, has 6 Feb 2hrs Hearing community to partake 20-21 Jan, 27-28 Jan, 3-4 Feb 8 Feb Laundry, Abbotsford and techno peppered with wild AF chosen eight of Australia's prime in Midsumma festivities. Enjoy a ADAM is recognised by nudists 9 Feb Thu 7:30pm Mon, Tue 6:30-11:30pm Sat 9pm-3am performers who glow under the QTIBPOC & LGBTQIA+ artists to drink while drawing life models in internationally and is synonymous $25 full | $20 conc $10 full Door sales only $20 full other-worldly UV lights. Blanke Pop Sun 7pm-11pm | Doors open 6.30pm show their talent & compete in this Auslan and English friendly with queer Melbourne nightlife. If Nudity | Latecomer lockout Nudity | Smoke/Haze | Men only Strobe lights | Smoke/Haze has been a home for the last two $30 full | $25 conc The Pageant to win title of Queer place of expression. No experience you haven't visited our bar before, years to the bisexual and gender Adult content Image: by Selwyn Hoffmann Presented by ADAM then it's time to spend an evening Image: Telepathic - photo by Video Supreme. This is a gala & you are with drawing necessary in order to diverse communities and has with us and discover for yourself Design Presented by Midsumma Festival, invited to dress up and strut your participate. Art supplies provided existed as the solution between the what all the talk and fun is about! Abbotsford Convent and Weird Alice stuff on the pink carpet, you may or BYO. divide of straight and gay clubbing. Image: by Acacia Christensen + Kyla Parry even win Belle of the Ball.

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Party Weekend Social Party Girls at Sea GIVE ME LIFE NUDIES Nude Popchops Presents: Ahoy! Join us as we celebrate Are drag performers fine Masquerade Ball Cool 4 the Summa 7 years of boat parties this artists? Doing nudity different Let's escape into the music, DJ Midsumma Festival With ornate costumes, elaborate let it play NUDIES Revolution presents our Be welcomed on board by an makeup and all that self-expression, 2nd Midsumma Nude Masquerade Popchops is Melbourne's monthly acoustic band followed by our DJs all fingers point to YAS! This Ball. Join us for our non-sexual nude queer pop music party & this playing late into the night. Finger Midsumma GIVE ME LIFE is Victoria Star Cruises, Docklands SoHigh Gallery, Windsor Chasers, South Yarra event. Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick summer we're levelling up with food, goodies and entertainment set to fuse underground drag 7 Feb 4hrs 30m 8 Feb 25 Jan 1 Feb Midsumma for our first warehouse will be provided. Join the meet-up performance with a world of queer With a mask on your face, shoes on extravaganza. It's a night for queers, Fri 6:30pm group prior to the party and then Sat 9pm-1am fine art and dancefloor bangers at Sat 7-11:45pm your feet, grab a drink from the bar Sat 9pm - 3am kweens, lesbians, gays, beards, $44 full come along to our exclusive Girls $22.50 full SoHigh Gallery. Half art exhibition $30 full | $28.50 conc and dance the night away. Nudists $15 pre-sale | $20 door sale trans-icons, non-binary-babes and at Sea after party. See you on the and half party, come along and are a friendly bunch of people so Strobe lights | Smoke/Haze | Women, Image: by Ari New, featuring Dettol, Luma Nudity | Strobe lights | Smoke/Haze | Strobe lights | Smoke/Haze even the odd straight ally to douse trans men and women boat! & Sophie Garland indulge your senses, because the Nudity is required by all attendees come for a chat and find out if Presented by Popchops themselves in glitter and get dirrty art we're used to seeing at 2am in a social nudity is for you. Presented by AH Entertainment Presented by NUDIES Revolution Inc on the d-floor. With pop-centric "This party was on my bucket list and it dark club is definitely still art. Image: by Seb Reivers definitely lives up to its reputation. I will performances, projections & more - be going every year now." the party don't start till you walk in.

Party Pageant Social Social Homo Erotica Miss Gay & Miss Queer Pool Party Sunday at the Baths: We are all Homos // humans Trans Australia Queer Soirée Own your pride at Midsumma's International 2020 Get wet and wild and celebrate the An inclusive evening of music most audacious Pride afterparty. queerest time of year with sunshine, by the pool "Spectacular pageant show eye candy, and a recovery sesh, Tear that closet down and expose promoting diversity & before you slide into a local happy Everyone's invited to join us at your most defining or provocative inclusion" - Daily Mail hour. Everyone's invited! Bring Midsumma Festival's very best Chasers, South Yarra look - club kid, fetish, drag, glam, Williamstown Town Hall, Williamstown Prahran Aquatic Centre, Prahran your besties, lovers, and significant Carlton Baths Community Centre, Carlton pool party. There'll be live music Who will be crowned in 2020? Find 2 Feb high fashion, laid-back, au naturel; 1 Feb 5hrs 26 Jan 4hrs others - all genders and sexualities 9 Feb performances headlined by artists whatever it may be, embrace it. out and be fully entertained by this Sun 8pm-3am Sat 6pm Sun 1pm welcome. Enjoy the mildly Sun 5-8pm from the LGBTQIA+ community exciting, fabulous and sensational along with plenty of other activities 1st release $20 | 2nd release $30 | Multiple rooms featuring bubbly VIP $70 | Premium $60 | General FREE booking required competitive water sports with $10 full none-of-its-kind pageant with a including: inclusive sports, gym Door sale $40 Admission $50 | Concession $45 Melbourne Surge and Water Polo pop through dirty filthy techno - go mission this year to help 'Save the This is an alcohol free event Presented by YMCA Victoria & City of Victoria, tap your feet to poolside access, group fitness classes, Nudity | Sex scenes | Coarse language | as hard or as chill as you desire. Smoke/Haze Planet Earth'. Book early! Melbourne Presented by Thorne Harbour Health entertainment, or simply sunbathe support services and more. Close Strobe lights | Smoke/Haze Trans Angels Victoria Inc & Featuring daring queer artists Presented by away. Free sausage sizzle (veggie out your Midsumma the right way Presented by BUFF Events Trans Pageant Australia International exploring Homo Erotica through options available) and soft drinks. with tunes by the pool. Image: by Uff performance and other media. Image: TAPAI PHOTOGRAPHY Kids and family friendly!

Day Out Social Mini-festival Party Motafrenz Magical NudeManFest The Cat Eats Westgay Mystery Tour A celebration of the male body Dickalicious Come early, stay late! in a nude environment Comedy, performance art and Between them, team Closet and We are a group of males who have dance floor experience Fanny's have 15 years of chucking A great Midsumma annual event the common bond of fraternal some pretty epic queer parties! and always with a great community Experience a night of cutting edge hospitality and nudity. We are We head West again for a special turnout. Come along for this performances featuring Radha, here to share and appreciate Midsumma edition at the always Como Park North, South Yarra mystery drive with your friends Charnwood Camp, Lima East Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas), Fitzroy Frankie McNair, HipHopHoe, Littlefoot, Footscray the diversity and uniqueness of lively, always lovely Littlefoot. and pet to test your navigation Dickalicious, DJ BOOM BOOM 27 Jan 5hrs 24-27 Jan each other. Nudity is a centering 7 Feb 18 Jan Complete with a pumping dance skills with the specially prepared BEAN SELECTA, The Architects of Mon 9:45am | Door sales only Fri 9am - Mon midday experience linking each person to Fri 8pm-1am Sat 8pm-3am floor and beer garden for chilling and cooked up clues. You use Sound + MORE nature and to each other. out with your new Westie Besties, $20 car | $5 additional passenger your problem solving skills and wit $50 1 day pass | $200 4 day pass $30 full | $25 conc $10 door sale we guarantee a good time! Presented by Motafrenz Car Club before ending up at a wonderful Nudity | Coarse language | Male or Nudity | Sex scenes | Coarse language | "My favourite DJ. They'll cater a mix that's Zero tolerance towards jerk-like challenging, funny and intelligent, with Image: Motafrenz Car Club Inc. picnic spot where prizes for highest male identifying only References to drug use behaviour, harassment, homophobia, Littlefoot also boasts cocktails and precision that utterly destroys the floor." NudeManFest DJ Boom Boom Bean transphobia or racism. Bring photo I.D. scores, wooden spooners, best Presented by Presented by - MJ O'Neil craft beers. WESTGAY is a night for bribes, best dressed and best Image: by J Harding Selecta Presented by Closet and Fannys the whole rainbow community and dressed vehicle are awarded. Image: SomeFX 'Dickalicious' Image: by Luka Wild @ Proud Minority their friends.

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Party Nocturnal x Midsumma: Lunar New Year Disco

Lunar New Year Disco is a queer street dance battle, judged and Melbourne Museum, Carlton hosted by Thailand's Pangina Heals 7 Feb (Drag Race Thailand) and Taiwan's Fri 7pm-11pm Chrissy Chou. $37 full | $32 conc | $27 Nocturnal Early Contestants battle it out with Bird (until 31 Jan) Although the primary three-week festival is waacking and punking inspired by Presented by Midsumma Festival and the 1970s disco LGBT clubs of Los held in summer each year, Midsumma works Melbourne Museum Angeles. Celebrate Lunar New Year year-round to provide artists, social-changers, Image: by Chaiharn Ratavan. Courtesy of with good fortune and experience and culture-makers with support and tools to Drag Race Thailand the Museum after dark. create, present and promote their work.

Over 33 years we have evolved with our NOCTURNAL communities and repositioned ourselves as a relevant cultural influencer and thought leader, while keeping learning and diversity at our X heart. We have experienced rapid growth in audiences, breadth and scope of artist and community engagement, and depth of artistic MIDSUMMA partnerships.

While we stay committed to our roots, we have matured to become one of Australiaʼs most LUNAR NEW significant queer arts organisations, supporting generations of LGBTQIA+ cultural voices, YEAR DISCO discovering artists and starting conversations that shape queer art and culture forever. Punk and waack under the disco ball inside Nocturnal and experience Melbourne Museum Discover our story at midsumma.org.au after dark. Celebrate Lunar New Year in queer style by attending the event or entering the competition.

HOW TO ENTER THE COMPETITION:

Think you have what it takes to battle it out for prosperity on the dance floor? Enter the on-stage competition by selecting to compete when you purchase your ticket for entry at midsumma.org.au.

Explore the Punking and Waacking intensive workshops on pg 65 for competition training.

Presented by Midsumma Festival and Melbourne Museum

Image by Chaiharn Ratavan ft Pangina Image: Midsumma Extravaganza at Arts Centre Heals.Courtesy of Drag Race Thailand Melbourne by Suzanne Balding ft Sheldon Riley

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Sport Sport Sport Glam Slam at the Nomads Scenic Serve It, Smash It, Sports Australian Open Urban Cycling Love It #YouBelong "At times it will feel like you're Free introduction session to in the bush!" social badminton The Glam Slam is the only LGBTIQ+ diversity tennis event at a Grand Starting in the heart of Melbourne, Have you ever wanted to meet new Slam. Enjoy one of the biggest cycle with The Nomads beside people in a fun, social sporting Albert Reserve Tennis Centre, Melbourne sporting events in the world in a Beer Deluxe (Federation Square), rivers and creeks, through parkland Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre, environment? Thought about | Melbourne Park, Melbourne safe and inclusive environment. Melbourne CBD and along a scenic rail trail for lunch Albert Park playing badminton, or have not 31 Jan-2 Feb With tennis on court for LGBTIQ+ 9 Feb 4hrs 30m in leafy Fairfield. The route is almost 1 Feb played for a long time? players, and lots of events during Fri midday-10pm | Sat - Sun 9am-7pm | Sun 10am entirely on cycling paths with Sat 11am-2pm Join the Melbourne Smashers Awards Ceremony: Sun 2 Feb 7pm-8pm the Australian open for the no hills of note, but is graded as FREE booking required FREE Session where they are encouraging (Auslan Interpreted) LGBTIQ+ community; join us for a medium because it's about 30 km great day OUT at the Tennis. Medium fitness level and some cycling to lunch. There are many train exit Presented by Melbourne Smashers people to give it a go, for free, in a FREE | Please note: participation requires experience required Badminton Club & Melbourne Sports & options if needed. After lunch there fun and friendly environment. an Australian Open ticket For all event details go to Aquatic Centre Presented by The Nomads Outdoors are various cycling paths or train Presented by VicTennis and the Gay and glamslammelbourne.com Group Come along and... Serve It! Smash Lesbian Tennis Alliance (GLTA) options for returning home. It! Love It!

Sport Midsumma Carnival Sports Precinct Thank you for your

The Midsumma Carnival Sports Precinct grows in size every year with all of the exciting associated Alexandra Gardens, Melbourne CBD sporting and outdoor community Location: next to the main stage, close to groups for you to experience. The Boathouse Drive Sports Precinct boasts the likes of SUPPORT your favourite Melbourne rugby 19 Jan 6hrs clubs, AFL teams, Motorfrenzies, Sun 11am smashers, runners, rovers and even Midsumma Festival relies on your generous FREE circus. If you're looking to join a Image: by Dean Arcuri team or just meet theirs, make sure donations to produce the 22 day festival you visit the Sports Precinct at Midsumma Carnival. each year and the year round initiatives supporting the development of queer artists Sport and culture makers. Nomads Parklands and Heritage Tour We appreciate all of your support Walking to Good Health!

Marvellous Melbourne is a garden city plus an architectural treasure. To get involved, become a patron or make Walk via parks from Royal Park Royal Park Station, Parkville Station to the Botanical Gardens, a one-off donation visit us at 27 Jan 6hrs viewing heritage and modern sites plus memorials in Parkville, Mon 10:30am the Melbourne General Cemetery, midsumma.org.au/support FREE booking required Carlton and East Melbourne. Access Latecomer lockout | Long Periods of to water refills and toilets along the standing | Non-traditional sitting route. BYO snacks and lunch plus Presented by The Nomads Outdoors sunscreen. Wear sensible footwear Group and a hat. Photo by Wendy Wei

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Our People Midsumma Our Valuable Life Members Chief Executive 2019–20 Board Patrons Ray Arthur Karen Bryant Angela Bailey Gold Patron of Management Tim Bateson Program Manager Jamal Hakim Co-Chair Claire Beckwith (to 20 Nov 2019) Judy Small Silver Patrons Dean Bryant Daniel Santangeli Brad Danaher John Caldwell Co-Chair Acting Program Manager David Sellin & Scott Campbell Aaron O’Shannessy (Nov 2019 – Feb 2020) Brett Condron Glyn Cryer Patrick Hayes Deputy Chair Judy Small John Cummins Jo Whyte Leigh Johns OAM Sasha Cunningham Finance & Office Manager Sue Jackson & Michael Dalton Angus Li Treasurer Nadia Poliszczuk Kris Darmody Michael Fuller-Smith Alan Drummond Marketing & Rainbow Patrons Jeff Dycer Communications Manager Secretary Aaron O’Shannessy Peter Edmonds Felicity McIntosh Stephen Hanlon Adam Trumble Sue Fletcher IT & Applications Andrea Pearman Luke Gallagher Alan Drummond Ordinary David Owen & Brenton Geyer Become a Henry Ruge-Rojas Ian Gould Administration & Board Members Dennis Altman Jeffrey Grad Stalls Coordinator Tori Berquist Gail Veal Nigel Higgins Matt Hirst Rhys Cranney Ian Gould Crusader Hillis Midsumma Jack Freemantle and family Production & Michael Daly Leigh Johns Operations Manager Sebastian Norman Jason Forde Geraldine Kirby Mack Ebelt Andrea Pearman Jo Whyte Matto Lucas Patron Mark Meierjohann Lee Matthews Ticketing & Presenter Michael Daly David Micallef Services Manager Volunteer to Midsumma Festival relies on your generous Michael Fuller-Smith Letizia Mondello Jason Marsiglia donations to produce our three-week festival the Board Peter Moran David Owen Robert Morrison and year-round community development Volunteers Coordinator Kaye Sera Amanda Edwards Rhys Cranney work, celebrating the vibrant and diverse Tom Noble Ron Thiele Sebastian L Norman Rowland Thomson LGBTQIA+ arts, culture and community Program Coordinator Stephen Hanlon contribution to Victoria. Danny Vadasz Brigit Ryan Stuart Kollmorgen & Tracey Wall Rodrigo Reis Summer Work Placements Will Walton Tori Berquist Your private and company contributions are Olly Lawrence – Programming Lisa Watts vital to us, so we can continue to bring you Lily Jane – Production Roxy B. Wild this vivacious world-class festival. Rhys Pope – Marketing Jacqueline Essing – Marketing Midsumma Festival has deductible gift recipient Brand & Program Guide Design (DGR) status, which means all donations above Sweet Creative $2 are tax deductible. 100% of funds raised go directly to artist and community development and Website Design & Development access initiatives so you can be assured every Bravo! dollar you give makes a difference. Risk Consultant Public Safety Australia Become a Midsumma Patron at midsumma.org.au

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JOLIMONT The 86 Cabaret Bar RIPPONLEA North Fitzroy Library Train: Parliament 21 162 Wellington St 182/186 St George’s Rd, 8 Club 80 Tram: 86, 96 to stop 11 185 Smith St, Fitzroy Collingwood North Fitzroy 10 Peel St, Collingwood Tram: 86 to stop 17 Train: Hurstbridge/Mernda line 1 Albert Reserve 6 Chunky Move 10 Kingston Arts Centre 14 Prahran Mechanics’ 18 Temperance Hall Tram: 11 to stop 21 Tram: 86 to stop 16 Preston Library to Collingwood 15 Tennis Centre 111 Sturt St, Southbank 979 Nepean Hwy, Institute Victorian 199 Napier St, 22 The Burrow Tram: 86 to stop 16 266 Gower St, Preston Train: Flinders Street 3 Blak Dot Gallery 9 Evie’s Disco Diner 83 Brunswick St, Fitzroy Bus: 246, 302–5, 309, 318, 350, 46 Queens Rd, Melbourne Moorabbin History Library South Melbourne Train: Mernda line to Preston Tram: 1 to stop 18 | any St Kilda Tram: 86 to stop 13 905–8 to Gipps/Hoddle St Tram: 3/3a, 5, 6, 16, 64, 67, 72 Train: Frankston line to 39 St Edmonds Rd, Prahran Tram: 1 to stop 24 | tram 12 33 Saxon St, Brunswick 230–232 Gertrude St, Tram: 86 to stop 48 Rd tram to stop 17 to stop 25 Moorabbin Train: Sandringham line to stop 129 Train: Upfield line to Brunswick Fitzroy 23 The Courthouse Hotel Bus: 627, 811–812, 823–825 to Prahran Tram: 19 to stop 21 Tram: 86 to stop 15 16 Royal Park Station 7 Como Park North 2 Alliance Française to Moorabbin Station Tram: 6, 72 to stop 30 | tram 78 19 The MC Showroom Poplar Rd, Parkville 86 – 90 Errol St, Melbourne 150 Alexandra Ave, to stop 46 L1/48 Clifton St, Prahran 4 Brunswick Street Gallery 10 Hare Hole Train: Upfield line to Royal Park North Melbourne 11 Melbourne Park 51 Grey St, St Kilda South Yarra Bus: 216, 219, 220 to Prahran Train: Sandringham line Level 1, 322 Brunswick St, (Hares & Hyenas) Tram: 58 to stop 27 Tram: 57 to stop 12 11 Tram: 3/3a, 16, 96 to stop 133 Tram: 78 to stop 52 | tram 58 Olympic Blvd, Melbourne Market/Commercial Rd to Prahran Fitzroy 63 Johnston St, Fitzroy to stop 34 Train: Any eastern line Tram: 6 to stop 31 | Tram: 11 to stop 16 | tram 96 to 17 Rubix Warehouse 24 The Melba Spiegeltent Tram: 11 to stop 16 | 3 Belvedere Park Tennis Club Bus: 605 to Como Park/ to Richmond 15 Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre tram 78 to stop 45 stop 15 36 Phoenix St, Brunswick 35 Johnston St tram 96 to stop 15 108 East Rd, Seaford Alexandra Ave Tram: 70 to stop 7B Rear 2 Chapel St, Bus: 200–207 to Brunswick/ Bus: 200–207 to Brunswick/ Train: Upfield line to Brunswick Collingwood Bus: 901 to Frankston Gardens St Kilda East 20 The Space Dance Johnston St Johnston St Tram: 19 to stop 21 Train: Hurstbridge/Mernda line 8 Fitzroy St and 12 Melbourne Sports Dr/Frankston–Dandenong Rd Train: Sandringham line & Arts Centre to Victoria Park Catani Gardens & Aquatic Centre 5 Carlton Baths 11 Kangaroo Statue, Fitzroy 18 Sircuit Tram: 86 to stop 19 to Windsor 1 Carlton St, Prahran 4 Chapel Off Chapel Fitzroy St, St Kilda 30 Aughtie Drive, Tram: 5, 64 to stop 32 | tram 78 Community Centre Cnr Nicholson & Gertrude 103–105 Smith St, Fitzroy Bus: 200–207 to Wellington/ Train: Sandringham line 12 Little Chapel St, Prahran Tram: 12 to stop 143 | tram 96 to Albert Park to stop 42 248 Rathdowne St, Carlton Tram: 86 to stop 15 Johnston St | bus 246 to to Prahran St, Fitzroy Train: Sandringham line stop 132 | any St Kilda Rd tram Tram: 12 to stop 131 | Tram: 96 to stop 17 | tram 1, 6 to Johnston/Hoddle St Tram: 72 to stop 31 | tram 78 Train: Parliament to Prahran to stop 30 tram 96 to stop 129 16 SoHigh Gallery stop 114 19 St Mark’s Anglican to stop 47 Tram: 86, 96 to stop 11 Tram: 72 to stop 31 | tram 78 143A Chapel St, Windsor Church Fitzroy 25 Village Cinemas 9 Gasworks Arts Park to stop 47 13 Prahran Aquatic Centre Train: Sandringham line 21 Theatre Works 6 CCP (Centre for 12 La Mama Courthouse 250 George St, Fitzroy Coburg Drive-In 21 Graham St, Albert Park 41 Essex St, Prahran to Prahran Contemporary Photography) Tram: 86 to stop 18 155 Newlands Rd, 14 Acland St, St Kilda 349 Drummond St, Carlton 5 Chasers Tram: 1 to stop 31 Train: Sandringham line Tram: 6 to stop 31 | tram 78 to Tram: 3a, 16, 96 to stop 136 | 404 George St, Tram: 1, 6 to stop 112 | any Coburg North Bus: 236 to Graham/Pickles to Prahran stop 45 386 Chapel St, South Yarra tram 12 to stop 143 Fitzroy Swanston St tram to stop 1 Train: Upfield line to Coburg Train: Sandringham line St | bus 606 to Bridport/ Tram: 72 to stop 32 | Tram: 86 to stop 20 | + bus 561 to Prahran Richardson St tram 78 to stop 47 17 St Kilda Life Saving Club tram 11 to stop 16 Bus: 561 to 105 Newlands Rd Tram: 72 to stop 31 | tram 78 34 Jacka Blvd, St Kilda to stop 47 Tram: 3a, 16, 96 to stop 136

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Werribee1 Bluestone Church 7 Melbourne’s Living 12 The Bowery Theatre Arts Space Museum of the West St Albans Community 8A Hyde St, Footscray Visitor Centre, Pipemakers Centre, Princess St, St Albans East Train: Any western line Train: Watergardens/Sunbury Park, Van Ness Avenue, 1 Doncaster Library to Footscray Maribyrnong line to St Albans Tram: 82 to stop 64 687 Doncaster Rd, Doncaster Tram: 82 to stop 54 | tram 57 Bus: 907 to Manningham Civic Centre to stop 42 13 The Substation 2 Incinerator Gallery 1 Market St, Newport Bus: 409 to Highpoint SC/ 2 Hatch Contemporary Arts Space PRINCES FREEWAY180 Holmes Rd, Aberfeldie Aquatic Dr | bus 223 to Train: Werribee/Williamstown Tram: 57 or 82 to stop 41 plus Williamson/Rosamond Rd line to Newport 14 Ivanhoe Pde, Ivanhoe 10 minute walk along Train: Hurstbridge line to Ivanhoe Maribyrnong River 8 Melton Library and 14 Trocadero Artspace Bus: 510, 548 to Ivanhoe Civic Centre Level 1, 119 Hopkins St, Learning Hub 3 Hawthorn Arts Centre 3 Kelly Park Footscray 31 McKenzie St, Melton 360 Burwood Rd, Hawthorn Cnr Synott St & Cherry St, Train: any western line Bus: 455, 458 to Alexandra/ Train: Belgrave/Lilydale line to Glenferrie Werribee to Footscray High St Tram: 16 to stop 73 Train: Werribee line to Werribee Tram: 82 to stop 63 9 Newport Community Hub “there 4 Heide Museum of Modern Art 4 Littlefoot 1 Market St, Newport 15 Williamstown Library 223 Barkly St, Footscray 104 Ferguson St, 7 Templestowe Rd, Bulleen Train: Werribee or Williamstown Train: Hurstbridge line to Heidelberg + 30 min walk or bus Train: any western line line to Newport Williamstown Bus: 903 to Bridge St/Manningham Rd to Footscray Train: Williamstown line to Tram: 82 to stop 62 10 Pride of our Footscray North Williamstown 5 Manningham Art Gallery Community Bar Bus: 415, 472 to Melbourne Rd/ for us.” 5 Logan Reserve 687 Doncaster Rd, Doncaster 1/86 – 88 Hopkins St, Ferguson St Pier St, Altona Bus: 907 to Manningham Civic Centre Train: Werribee line to Altona Footscray 16 Williamstown Town Hall Train: any western line to 6 Melbourne Polytechnic College Fairfield Campus 104 Ferguson St, 6 Louis Joel Arts & Footscray Yarra Bend Rd, Fairfield Tram: 82 to stop 63 Williamstown Community Centre Train: Hurstbridge line to Dennis + 25 min walk Train: Williamstown line to Bus: 546 to Melbourne Polytechnic/Heidelberg Rd | 5 Sargood St, Altona 11 Sunshine Art Spaces Gallery North Williamstown bus 250, 251 to Victoria Rd/Westgarth St Train: Werribee line to Altona 2 City Pl, Sunshine Bus: 415, 472 to Melbourne Rd/ Bus: 411, 412 to Altona Station/ Ferguson St Train: Watergardens/Sunbury 7 Were St Blyth St | bus 903 to Altona line to Sunshine Were St, Montmorency Station/Railway St Sth 17 Wyndham Art Gallery thorneharbour.org Train: Hurstbridge line to Montmorency 177 Watton St, Werribee Bus: 293 to Montmorency Railway Station/Rattray Rd Train: Werribee line to Werribee 94 95

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