What's On

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

Thu 14 Nov, Brunswick Mechanics Institute

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.

Get tickets to Web Working Bee

Fri 15 Nov, Brunswick Mechanics Institute

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.

Get tickets to Homing Instinct

Nov/Dec, Brunswick Mechanics Institute

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.

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Wed 20 Nov, Brunswick Mechanics Institute

Join us for a drink, explore our venue, hear about what we have planned and help shape our priorities for 2025 and beyond.

RSVP to Next Wave Neighbours

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Fri 1 Nov, Brunswick Mechanics Institute

‘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.

Tickets via Eventbrite

Sat 26 Oct, Brunswick Mechanics Institute

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.

Get tickets to DAMP video anthology

Thu 17 + Sat 19 Oct, Brunswick Mechanics Institute

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.

Tickets via Humanitx

Sat 5 Oct + Sun 6 Oct, Brunswick Mechanics Institute

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

Get Tickets
Saturday | Studio Day: Workshop 1 (Charlie Taylor) + Lunch & Panel
Saturday | Studio Day: Workshop 2 (Adele D’Souza) + Lunch & Panel
Sunday | Exhibition

Thu 19 Sept, Brunswick Mechanics Institute

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.

Get tickets to MEga Yoga

Sun 8 Sept, Brunswick Mechanics

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

Get tickets to New North Concert 17

August/September, Brunswick Mechanics

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

Sat 10 Aug, Brunswick Mechanics

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
Get tickets to New North Concert 15

Saturday 29 June, Brunswick Mechanics

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.

Get tickets to New North Concert 15

Tuesday 4 June, Brunswick Mechanics

Sonic Travellers seeks to discover shared connections between sonic pasts and presents, exploring regional affinities between Australia and Southeast Asia.

RSVP via Eventbrite

24–25 May, Melbourne and Brunswick

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.

Browse the program on the All School website

Fri 10 May, Brunswick Mechanics

The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network is thrilled to host an evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation with Nam Le.

Get tickets to Across the Ocean

Fri 19 Apr, High Note (Melbourne)

Next Wave x (nexus) is a multi-sensory Radical hospitality event of experimental dance battles, cuisines and a party.

Get tickets to (nexus)

Friday 8 March, Counihan Gallery and Brunswick Mechanics
Sat 3 Feb, Testing Grounds (Narrm)
Thurs 5 and Fri 6 October, WXYZ Studios
Sat 26 Aug, Rapid Creek NT
Wed 23 - Mon 28 Aug, Rapid Creek NT
Tue 1 - Thurs 31 Aug, Online
Thurs 3 Aug, Footscray Community Arts
Tue 18 - Sat 29 Jul, Brunswick Mechanics
Sat 6 Jun, Brunswick Mechanics
Sat 6 May, Brunswick Mechanics
Wed 1 – Fri 31 Mar, Brunswick Mechanics
Fri 17 — Sun 19 Mar, Perth Cultural Centre Amphitheatre (PICA)
Fri Mar 24, Tue 28 Mar, Tue 4 Apr, Tue 11 Apr & Tue 18 Apr, Yagan Square (Perth)
Sat 25 Mar, Brunswick Mechanics
Sat 11 Mar, Brunswick Mechanics
Wed 15 Feb, Brunswick Mechanics
Sat 5 Nov, Brunswick Mechanics
Fri 18 Nov, Migrant Coffee
Fri 28 — Sat 29 Oct, Trades Hall, Carlton
Fri 21 Oct, Platform Arts
Fri 15 & Sat 16 Jul, Brunswick Mechanics
Sat 11 ⏤ Sun 26 Jun, Queen Victoria Women's Centre
Wed 11 May — Sat 25 June, Brunswick Mechanics
Thu 28 Apr, Brunswick Mechanics
Sun 27 & Tues 29 Mar, Federation Wharf, Princes Walk
Thu 17 Mar, Brunswick Mechanics
Sat 26 Feb, Brunswick Mechanics
Thu 17, Fri 18 & Sat 19 Feb, Brunswick Mechanics

Radical Hospitality: MarketMarket Feed

6pm - 9pm
Sat 26 Aug
📍 Rapid Creek Shops
$55
Tickets
Ticket includes the creative program entry and three course meal.

You’re invited to Radical Hospitality: MarketMarket Feed instigated by ACCOMPLICE and Next Wave as part of Darwin Festival.

Radical Hospitality invites you to converge, connect and spark new encounters with artists, thinkers, innovators, friends and neighbours through the radical power of sharing.

Founder of local experimental group the Sweat Collective and producing company ACCOMPLICE, Britt Guy collaborates with the visible and sometimes less visible tangles of place and people at the Rapid Creek Shops on Larrakia Country.

Heighten your senses as you move through a transitory program of discussion, new media and audio works while feasting on a three course meal prepared by locals whose businesses call Rapid Creek Shops home.

This is an opportunity to take some time to generously connect and listen to our everyday entangled collaborators.

This work is part of the MarketMarket program celebrating and exploring the home of the Rapid Creek Markets through the eyes of local creatives. Alongside this, is a national artist-led lab with a curated program of discussions, meals and workshops to learn, interrogate and foster new collaborations between local, and visiting artists.

Artist Bios

Rhanjell Villianueva is an emerging Meanjin (Brisbane) based Filipino artist whose practice critically analyses the traditional Filipino culture against the language and values of western societies. @rhanjellv

Matthew van Roden is an artist, PhD candidate, and lecturer in visual arts at Charles Darwin University whose work explores spaces between apparent binaries as locations for queer creative praxis. @matthewvanroden

James Mangohig aka Kuya James is both an ARIA nominated producer and artist who, in the past five years, has been committed to projects and new performance work which centres around Asian-Australian stories and are collaborations with Asian-Australian artists. @kuyajamesmusic

Kelly Beneforti is an independent dance artist and long-term dance animateur at Tracks Dance Company who is privileged to be living and working on Larrakia country and passionate about collaborative making, cultural and social exchange, and empowering participatory processes. @goodstrongz

Mikaela Lee is a multi-disciplinary artist, working predominantly in painting, digital drawing and large-scale mural work, viewing her practice as a means of building connections, community, self-realisation and play. @mikaelamaree

Britt Guy is a trans disciplinary maker and curator working across the creative, government and community sectors, and is committed to working in collaboration to create and deliver high quality best practice projects, initiatives and community building distinctive to the Northern Territory. @creativeaccomplice

Carlo Ansaldo is an artist, project manager and community facilitator working across the visual arts and music industries in Gulumerrgin (Darwin), who collaborates with artists to support and showcase Northern Territorian creatives of all persuasions. @matrix0pal

Nathan Stoneham is a community and cultural development artist who creates contemporary, socially engaged arts processes and performances, and is interested in queer and transcultural collaborations. @nathanstoneham

Kristi Monfires is a Javanese-Australian creative producer and curator, who specialises in collaborative and experimental arts projects between Asia and Australia, and is particularly interested in risk and experimentation; with a passion for working with emerging to mid-career artists. @kristi_monfries

Jocelyn Tribe is an emerging artist interested in learning about the parts of her identity that were never directly integrated as a person with Indonesian diaspora brought up in “Australia” through her artistic practice. @jiwa8899

Born and raised in New Delhi, India, Naina Sen is a Walkley and AACTA nominated filmmaker and video artist, whose practice is built on long-term cross-cultural and inter-cultural collaboration. Naina works across documentary, installation and live projection, using image making to explore gender, cultural identity and equity, place and memory, privileging First Nations, South Asian and South-East Asian diasporic narratives. @nainsen

Instigated by ACCOMPLICE and Next Wave as part of Darwin Festival.

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Above:
  1. MarketMarket by Migoyphoto

  2. Britt Guy

  3. Carlo Ansaldo

  4. Jocelyn Tribe

  5. Kelly Beneforti

  6. Kristi Monfires

  7. James Mangohig aka Kuya James

  8. Matthew van Roden

  9. Mikaela Lee

  10. Naina Sen

  11. Nathan Stoneham

  12. Rhanjell Villanueva