What's On
See what’s on from our base in Brunswick and beyond ↓
Reading: 'Inheritance'
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.
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Activating Truth
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.
Screening: 'Anak'
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.
Deaf Culture and Auslan workshop
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).
Triangle by Flow Festival
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.
Next Wave Neighbours
Join us for a drink, explore our venue, hear about what we have planned and help shape our priorities for 2025 and beyond.
Homing Instinct
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.
'Web Working Bee'
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 with live score
‘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.
DAMP video anthology
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.
Snap! (You Have Nothing to Reconnect But Your Chains)
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: Studio Day + Exhibition'
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
MEga Yoga: A counternarrative experience
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.
New North Concert 17
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
THINKING GROUND
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
New North Concert 16
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
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New North Concert 15
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: Opening Performance
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.
Across the Ocean: Viet Thanh Nguyen in Conversation with Nam Le
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)
Next Wave x (nexus) is a multi-sensory Radical hospitality event of experimental dance battles, cuisines and a party.
International Women's Day Performance
Our Young Artistic Directorate are co-curating a party in partnership with Brunswick Music Festival
Radical Hospitality: 剉冰 + equatorial fruit-opening party
Dead Ends and Detours - Bruno Booth
Leisuretime I — Aaron Claringbold & Rebecca Mccauley
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.
MarketMarket by Migoyphoto
Britt Guy
Carlo Ansaldo
Jocelyn Tribe
Kelly Beneforti
Kristi Monfires
James Mangohig aka Kuya James
Matthew van Roden
Mikaela Lee
Naina Sen
Nathan Stoneham
Rhanjell Villanueva