See what’s on from our base in Brunswick and beyond ↓
Next Wave is supporting the development of ‘Inheritance’, a new production by Ryan Enniss and Robert Lewis.
Inheritance stems from a project investigating neurodiversity in Australian performing arts. It explores themes of toxic masculinity, relationships and anxiety through a kaleidoscopic journey of interconnected monologues.
Contact Persona Collective for more information.
Convened by CAST leader Dr Amy Spiers, ‘Activating Truth’ brings together artists and researchers from across Naarm/Melbourne, other parts of so-called ‘Australia’, as well as Turtle Island/Canada, to share and deepen knowledge on ways that the truth about settler colonial violence can be activated responsibly and impactfully in community and localised contexts through creative practice.
Next up from Composite:
Masculinity, race and boyhood simmer in this stylish slow-cinema debut about a Filipino-Australian father and his six-year-old son, who are navigating a family divorce.
Presented in partnership with Sunburnt.
Join us for a free workshop celebrating the richness of Deaf culture and language, led by Deaf artist Luke D King.
Luke will share an introduction to Deaf histories and give participants the opportunity to learn and use some basic Australian Sign Language (Auslan).
Flow Festival presents ‘Triangle’—a unique series of lighting design workshops led by Bronwyn Pringle (Deaf Kitchen, SPIN, and Flow Festival). Bronwyn is diving into how lighting design can be more inclusive for the Deaf community.
‘Triangle’ is for the Deaf community, including Deaf, hard of hearing, CODAs, and interpreters.
Join us for a drink, explore our venue, hear about what we have planned and help shape our priorities for 2025 and beyond.
See a special screening of commissioned works from Homing Instinct—a collaborative moving image project featuring artist commissions related to housing, home and belonging.
This screening includes an artist talk by Ari Angkasa.
Join our working bee with WORLDWIDEWORMS.NET, an online space for peer-led publishing. In this event, collaborators and contributors to WORLDWIDEWORMS.NET share work in progress, including video screenings, readings, and a garden tour of the back-end of the website.
Contributing artists are Alrey Batol, Eric Jong, Jacina Leong, Ella Peck and Emily Simek.
‘Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror’ is widely regarded to be the first and best vampire film ever made. Join us for a Halloween screening of this silent cinematic masterpiece with an original score performed live by Edwin Montgomery.
This selection of short video works made between 1997 and 2008, range from quickly captured playful scenarios to elaborately constructed narratives. Established in Naarm Melbourne in 1995, DAMP’s multidisciplinary practice over three decades has consistently addressed the relationship between artist and audience and examined individual and collective notions of value and desire.
Join us for the premiere of a new experimental performance lecture by Catherine Ryan. This ambitious, research-based work tells the tragicomic story of one of the neoclassical statues adorning the interior of Victoria’s Legislative Council in Parliament House. The work draws on the comedic travails of this political decor to critically examine the idea of connection to tradition and the telling of origin stories about the settler-colonial society of Victoria.
ShareHouse invites you into Next Wave’s home, Brunswick Mechanics Institute, for community-led workshops, performances, and conversations.
Curated by our Young Artistic Directorate - Banda
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↳ Saturday | Studio Day: Workshop 1 (Charlie Taylor) + Lunch & Panel
↳ Saturday | Studio Day: Workshop 2 (Adele D’Souza) + Lunch & Panel
↳ Sunday | Exhibition
Bus Projects, Engages, MEga Yoga is a participatory embodied performance that uses the structure of a yoga class inviting participants to move their bodies slowly and their minds critically.
Guest curator Rachael Archibald (Meanjin/Brisbane) has gathered lineup of artists pushing boundaries in their music-making for the next New North concert.
Alexandra Spence ~ Ode2Joy ~ ANNIHA
Next Wave is supporting the THINKING GROUND workshop series, a pilot artist-development program by theatre-makers The Voice in My Hands. Workshops are free but places are limited.
Learn more about THINKING GROUND and register for the next workshop
Guest curator Dale Gorfinkel brings lineup of Narrm/Melbourne-based musicians pushing boundaries in their areas of practice to Brunswick Mechanics:
Sounds Like Movement [Peter Fraser/Dale Gorfinkel] ~ Shh! [Anja Füsti/Rosalind Crisp] ~ Peter Blamey
Get tickets to New North Concert 16
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Xiaole Zhan ~ Jassy Robertson ~ Tilman Robinson
Xiaole will present a ‘live anthology’ for narrator, percussion, violin, electronics and narrator—a musical setting of a collection of poems exploring the collision between music and language.
Sonic Travellers seeks to discover shared connections between sonic pasts and presents, exploring regional affinities between Australia and Southeast Asia.
The 2024 LAB program considers Next Wave’s past, present and future – with a focus on intergenerational knowledge sharing and creative responses to notions of collectivism, preservation and care – culminating in a future-focused 40th birthday party.
The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network is thrilled to host an evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation with Nam Le.
Next Wave x (nexus) is a multi-sensory Radical hospitality event of experimental dance battles, cuisines and a party.
Our Young Artistic Directorate are co-curating a party in partnership with Brunswick Music Festival
Thurs 5 October, 6-7pm
Fri 6 October, 6-7pm followed by Radical Hospitality 7.30-8.30pm
Fiddle, Twiddle & Tune is a new experimental work by Naarm-based artist Prue Stevenson as part of Next Wave’s Kickstart program.
Through extensive creative development, Prue has worked closely with a creative team and ensemble to conceptualise this work over the past 18 months. Fiddle, Twiddle + Tune explores the notion that repetitive sensory seeking behaviours linked with autism, can have regulatory benefit to all neurotypes (autistic and non-autistic people).
Prue chooses any material that matches their sensory profile and puts them through a repetitive and regulatory process. They find each material and process gives them a richer understanding of the content they’re working with which is often about celebration of self, sensory joy and collective regulation.
On Friday 6 October, Fiddle, Twiddle + Tune will be accompanied by a Radical Hospitality event, co-devised by Prue and Machehi Komba (Popular By Default | Say Less Music Group). We invite you to stay and join us to connect with others through the joy of food and conversation.
Journey through ancestral storylines of the Swahili coast to the forgotten Islands of Comoros. Islands Of The Moon translated to “Juzur al-Qomor" tells an imperative story encompassing the reign of forty sultans across the islands through its rich cuisine translating traditional and intersectional use of spices that speak to the culinary influence of African, Malagasy, Shirazi, Indian, and French degustation.
Prue Stevenson – Lead Artist and Artistic Director
Andrea Meacham – Ensemble member
Carla Ori – Ensemble member
Chanelle Rogers – Ensemble member
Kuda Mapeza – Ensemble member
Becky Silveira – Costume and Set Designer with a gold star review from Prue
Emily Barrie – Becky’s Mentor and provider of hot tips on the go!
Ceri Hann – Props and ideas master
Rachel Edward – Prue’s Support Worker and all-round good person
Kate Sulan – Mentor and full of love and support for Prue and is gluten free
Jessica Tanto – Project Coordinator – Good hair and a good laugh
Machehi Komba – Radical Hospitality Lead Artist and cooks really yummy food!! Popular By default | Say Less Music Group
Joshua Lynzaat - Prue’s support with a gold star review
Chas Maher - Lights, camera, action!
What to Expect
Fiddle, Twiddle & Tune has been commissioned through Next Wave’s Kickstart which is supported by Creative Australia and Creative Victoria. This iteration of Fiddle, Twiddle and Tune has also been generously supported by City of Melbourne.
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