See what’s on from our base in Brunswick and beyond ↓

In 2021 Next Wave made Brunswick Mechanics our home, and then the lockdowns kept us away.

We invite you to join us in warming our space with an evening of performances, art and music from our friends and community.

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Sat 26 Feb from 4pm
Welcome to Country from 5pm
Speeches 5.30pm
Performances 5.45pm
Brunswick Mechanics Institute

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Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions, including accessibility requirements. Reach us via nextwave@nextwave.org.au

We understand attending public events might not be for everyone right now and look forward to seeing you sometime soon.

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Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony with Uncle Ringo Terrik.

Here We Have It, Excerpt choreographed by Amrita Hepi and performed by Sarah Kosoof, Ruby English, Caitlin Mewett, Molly McKenzie and Gemma Sattler.

Duet performances with Marco Cher-Gibard and Raina Peterson.

Operatic Performance by Shauntai Batzke.

‘Kirrip’ performance by Djirri Djirri.

Sound by Next Wave Kickstart 2021 artist Delali Zevon-Aniakwah.

Retreat by Next Wave Festival 2016 artist Ben Landau.

Curated by Amaara Raheem, Next Wave Victorian Artistic Directorate.

Here We Have It. Excerpt
Performed by Ruby English, Sarah Kosoof, Caitlin Mewett, Molly McKenzie and Gemma Sattler. Choreographed by Amrita Hepi. Costume design by Jessica Johnston.

*This work massages through the absurdity of being in the arts, the kind of love and multitudes of approach, code switching and humour it infuses in you, the dedication and highly specialized skill set that is needed, the required “training” for professionalism and the hope to come out of an institution on the other side prepared for a work force that is haptic.

Using the voice, ferociously specific monologue and an acute sense of humour and pacing within dance, this work hopes that it can culminate a deserving “hurrah” of skill and dance before an audience.*
-Amrita Hepi

Amrita Hepi (b. 1989, Townsville of Bundjulung/Ngapuhi territories) is an award-winning artist. Her practice is concerned with dance as a social function performed within galleries, performance spaces, video art and digital technologies. She engages in forms of historical fiction and hybridity—especially those that arise under empire—to investigate the bodies’ relationship to personal histories and archive. She was on the Forbes Asia list of 30 under 30, has won the People’s Choice Award twice as part of the prestigious Keir Choreographic Award, and won FBi radio’s Best Artist of the year in 2019. Amrita is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery, is a current artist in residence at Gertrude Contemporary and lecturer in Dance and Visual Arts at VCA. She studied dance at NAISDA and Alvin Ailey New York.

This work is supported by VCA Dance, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne.

Wiradjuri soprano, composer and writer; Shauntai Batzke is a principal artist with Short Black Opera and an Alumna of the Melba Opera Trust. Shauntai holds a BMus at the Melbourne Conservatorium UniMelb. Has spent two summers in New York in vocal and performance training at Belle Arti Center of the Arts and in 2019 gave a world premier of her original chamber and orchestral compositions at the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival ‘19. Shauntai made her debut as a solo artist with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in 2020 singing ‘Long Time Living Here’, A musical Acknowledgement of Country composed by Deborah Cheetham AO and sang this same piece for the opening of each performance of MSO’s 2021 season of Peter and the Wolf at Hamer Hall. In June 2021, Shauntai made her debut performance with Victorian Opera in Deborah Cheetham AO’s new opera ‘Parrwang Lifts the Sky’. Noted productions include; Pecan Summer (Short Black Opera), Ragtime, Showboat (The Production Company), Beginning of Nature (Australian Dance Theatre), RICERCAR (Present Tense Ensemble), Fidelio (Melbourne Opera) and Corrugation Road (Black Swan Theatre)

Improvised performance with Raina Peterson (body) and Marco Cher-Gibard (guitar)