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2 nextwave.org.au 0 Next Wave Festival 2016 Festival Printed Program Cover Draft 2—Event Pages Only 2016 05.02.2016 The new generation 1 in Australian art 6 5–22 May It's been said the best way to predict Acknowledgement of Country the future is to create it—or in the case Welcome of Next Wave, to curate it. Next Wave showcases emerging creative talent from across the nation and is the first opportunity for audiences to discover the future of Australian art. Expect 18 days of new experiences, Begin here Acknowledgement incredible art and ideas—see you there. We are grateful to the Traditional Custodians of Country of the lands this Festival is held upon, the Acknowledgement of Country P.3 Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung peoples, and pay Bookings P.4 Access P.5 A note from our greatest respect to Elders past and present. the Artistic Director P.6 Indigenous Martin Foley MP From time immemorial, to European arrival language workshops P.7 Discursive Minister for Creative Industries and through to the present, Aboriginal P.7–9 P.10 Victorian Government projects Writers in Residence culture has always played a major part in RealTime DanceWrite P.10 Worm Hole Australian culture, but has not always been P.11 Festival Club P.12 seen by all. There is a resurgence occurring as we speak, with legacies being left for Navigate Next Wave future generations from within the local As the home to Australia's most Melbourne Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung nextwave.org.au vibrant and diverse arts scene, the City communities. Through mirram ngang-gak of Melbourne is pleased to support the Central Business District P.13–18 Next Wave Festival in 2016. (deep listening) to the ngulu-al Gulinj Narrm-u North Melbourne and Brunswick Taking place in galleries, theatres, (voice of Indigenous Melbourne) and wurrung P.19–25 Fitzroy, Collingwood and nextwave.org.au streets and gardens across Melbourne, (language) we hope to learn about onemda Next Wave Festival is renowned Abbotsford P.26–28 Northcote P.29–34 for challenging artistic norms and (love), biik (land) and balit (strength). unearthing the next generation of #nextwave16 Australian talent. I invite you to explore this world of Other important information creative discovery. It's truly a festival like no other. #nextwave16 I hope you enjoy the Next Wave About P.4 2 – 4 3 Calendar P.4 4 – 45 Festival and all that our great city P.4 6 P.47 has to offer! Index Partners Hon Robert Doyle Lord Mayor 2 City of Melbourne 3 Access Green Tickets Next Wave is committed to making our activities and our How to book Access Festival as inclusive as possible. Bookings We use a range of different venues and spaces to present Online at nextwave.org.au Dust off your bike, top our Festival. We encourage you to call or email us if you up your myki or pull on a have any questions about accessibility or would like to By telephone on pair of kicks—we've got discuss your requirements with us. (03) 9329 9422 during Green Tickets! business hours. Green Tickets provide a 25% discount Access symbols i Festival information At the venue one hour off the advertised ticket prices for prior to the event starting, select performances if you travel to the Look out for these symbols show in an environmentally friendly Festival information can be found in alternative unless sold out. throughout this program way. Check out the sessions listed in formats at nextwave.org.au, including: Shows can and do sell out, so avoid green in this guide and remember to and on our website to the stress—book early! show proof of transit at the venue indicate the accessibility upon arrival. • Large print PDF, RTF and Word files of this of each event. More Unless otherwise specified, online program ticket sales will end two hours prior information about symbols • An audio version of this program to a performance start time. and events can be found at Entry to free events is subject to nextwave.org.au • Auslan interpreted videos venue capacity and at the discretion Pricing and Refunds • A Next Wave Festival 2016 Access Guide of venue staff. Wheelchair access In an effort to reduce waste, Next Wave If you would like to request information in asks that patrons do not print their Assistive listening another format please call us on (03) 9329 9422. tickets at home. Save yourself the nextwave.org.au Prices in this guide are listed as Full/ time, effort, paper and ink and simply Concession, except in cases where Audio description turn up! Just remember to bring some all tickets are one price. All events in photo ID to verify your identity. the Next Wave program are general Tactile tour admission. Booking tickets nextwave.org.au The advertised ticket price includes Auslan interpreting To book your tickets, please call (03) 9329 9422 during all booking fees. Credit card or business hours or email [email protected] and transaction fees may apply if booking Relaxed performance through partner providers. let us know about your access requirements. #nextwave16 Open captioning Join us online Concession discounts apply to children Companion Cards 14 and under, full-time students, seniors, pensioners, Healthcare Card Audio notes #nextwave16 Companion Card holders qualify for concession price holders and MEAA members. #nextwave16 tickets and receive a complimentary ticket for their Next Wave honours Companion Cards— Partly surtitled or Share your Festival by using: companion. To book, please call (03) 9329 9422 during see opposite page for details. includes dialogue, @next_wave business hours or email [email protected] All ticket sales are final; Next Wave background music @next_wave regrets that it is unable to facilitate and/or sounds The companion ticket must be booked at the same time exchanges or refunds. Next Wave as the purchased ticket. Fully surtitled or The information contained in this Sign up to our Pegboard e-news guide is correct at time of printing minimal dialogue; National Relay Service at nextwave.org.au for all the (February 2016). For the most latest Next Wave and art world some background 4 up-to-date information, please visit We're Relay Service friendly! Contact the National Relay 5 news and opportunities, music and/or sounds nextwave.org.au delivered directly to your inbox Service on 133 677 or via relayservice.com.au, then ask year-round! No music or dialogue for (03) 9329 9422 during business hours. A note from the Indigenous Discursive Discursive projects Artistic Director language workshops projects Artistic Director Artistic Director Next Wave is underpinned by learning. notice frictions and affinities between Language and culture are one and the Or, if a festival could And by Next Wave, I don't just mean experiences. Focus on the questions this Festival, but this organisation in that surface, and as more bubble up, same, culture is the tree and language talk, what would it say? the other 23 months of our biennium. seek out the ones that keep repeating. is its roots, one cannot exist without the Discursive projects celebrate Since we last saw you, we have There are more connections than I can other. This is why it is so important to knowledge as something that deliberately shifted the way we frame tell you about. include traditional languages in as many is unstable and subjective, and what we do, to focus on learning as something that can be both found What can we learn from being next opposed to development. We did this aspects of life as possible, especially in and made. This Festival we're taking to one another? The point isn't because development seems to cast an experimental approach to public to find an answer, nor to make a the modern era where our sense of place too clear a path between start and programming through a series of coherent argument—we happily finish to properly reflect the process- can be blurred at times—Mandy Nicholson, digital interventions, new archives and foster disagreement—it's to bring driven approach that is central to Next intimate conversations that use fiction the results of coexistence into focus. Wurundjeri language expert Wave's ethos. as a critical tool and time as a material This is inherently political, because it Next Wave acknowledges the traditional custodians of the to dismiss authoritative perspectives. Learning does not tend to have a fixed prioritises the personal and it comes lands and waters the Festival takes place on and around, nextwave.org.au Anchored by an exploration of local beginning or end point: it's propelled from diverse voices and perspectives. the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung lands, two language Indigenous languages, these projects first by curiosity, then by conversation, By drawing attention to the glow groups that form part of the Eastern Kulin Nation of are intrinsic to this Festival—making research, trial and error. It is a around things, this Festival aims southcentral Victoria. space for poetry, enquiry and dialogue process, but it does not necessarily to disempower centres in favour of across cultures and artforms. progress us. If development is black peripheries, to make space for both Through translations and a series of workshops in and white, learning is every colour anger and imagination. partnership with the Victorian Aboriginal Corporation nextwave.org.au in between. And while development for Languages, we aim to raise awareness of Victoria's The way Le Guin describes her science implies charging ahead at great speed, first languages, and specifically (in the words of Mandy fiction is the way I dream of this learning can be slow and meandering.