AINSLEE PALMER: READY OR NOT REGIONAL QLD TOUR
Ainslee Palmer will premiere her solo theatre work ‘Ready or Not’ at Bulmba-ja, Cairns before touring it to Bundaberg, Townsville and Gympie, as part of Jute Theatre’s DARTS program.
A theatrical retelling of the legacy that remains when innocence is taken away, ‘Ready or Not’ was developed and piloted at HOTA Home of the Arts on the Gold Coast as part of the Generate GC program.
Secure your spot at the party! Tickets via JUTE THEATRE
14-15 NOVEMBER, BULMBA-JA ARTS CENTRE, CAIRNS
19 NOVEMBER, LUX NOIR, TOWNSVILLE
22-23 NOVEMBER, ST LUKE'S, BUNDABERG
25-26 NOVEMBER, PERSEVERANCE STREET, GYMPIE
MERINDA DAVIES: LETTERS TO THE FOREST
Free, ticketed event, bookings via Humanitix.
An experimental writing and thinking workshop, where you will write, think, and share ideas from more-than-human perspectives.
You are invited to write a letter to the forest, the letter will be written on paper made from plants and will become part of the larger Conversations with the Forest artwork. In the future it will be planted with the forest and eventually grow into the trees.
MERINDA DAVIES: MAKING PAPER WITH PLANTS
Free, ticketed event, bookings via Humanitix
Using weeds, plant matter, seeds and fern spores join artist Merinda Davies to learn how to make paper from plants. After the workshop you can take the paper home, or contribute it to the forest where you will be invited to use some of the paper to write a letter to the Surfers Paradise forest that will be delivered to the trees on a future date via the ferns, fungi and microbes.
This workshop is part of a larger project Conversations with the Forest, a living, breathing and growing artwork unfurling over time in Surfers Paradise.
TESSA BERGAN: PARADISE HERO AT UNDERGROUND FESTIVAL, HOTA
Free, non-ticketed event as part of Underground Festival at HOTA
Thursday 6 - Saturday 8 June 2024, 6 - 9pm.
Strap yourself in for an absurd adventure of leisure, pleasure, and second-hand hedonism; this is sure to be the most exhilarating ride you’ll have in a sun lounge!
Paradise Hero is a shiny new participatory video installation by Tessa Bergan, exploring the presentation of paradise on the Gold Coast. A multimedia work comprising text, sculpture and video, the piece explores how the manifold leisure and entertainment offerings on the coast result in a sense of absurdity and meaninglessness to the idea of paradise.
Viewers are invited to strap themselves into a sun lounge for a dizzying visual buffet of leisure experiences, promising instantaneous and overwhelming gratification!
AINSLEE PALMER: READY OR NOT AT HOTA
Are you ready? Tickets for READY OR NOT by Ainslee Palmer at HOTA Home of the Arts are ON SALE now!
READY OR NOT is a debut solo work of Gold Coast theatre maker Ainslee Palmer. This pilot season of Ainslee’s Generate GC work is a highly physical, deeply personal fever dream of birthday parties, horse races and Stepfordwives, and an honest and often moving interrogation of what is left behind once ‘closed doors’ are opened.
Secure your spot at the party! Tickets via HOTA
Wednesday 10, Thursday 11 & Friday 12 April 2024, 7:30pm.
READY OR NOT asks its audience to consider the secrets we keep, the stories we survive, and the light that can still shine through into the darkest of places.
DANIELE CONSTANCE & LOWANA DAVIES: SENSING WATER IN PLACE
Sensing Water in Place: Connecting with the sounds, smells, and stories of water
FREE EVENT! Bookings via Eventbrite (Sessions listed below. Choose your own adventure!)
Tickets are limited. Register to ensure your spot.
Dive into an afternoon of contemporary art experiences at HOTA Parklands in celebration of National Water Week. Connect with local artists Daniele Constance and Lowana Davies, and with sounds, smells, and stories ‘united by water’.
Experience our local waterways and tune into the local ecologies with like-minded communities. Get your toes wet, participate in some citizen science, and sip on a drop of native botanical infused water!
DARCIE RAE: A HOUSE, A HOME AT THE KINGFISHER HOUSE CO-PRESENTED BY GOLD COAST OPEN HOUSE
You’re invited into the Kingfisher House for a one-of-a-kind circus and architecture experience in A House, A Home by artist Darcie Rae.
Book your inspection during our ‘open house’ on the 9 & 10 of September and Glitter Martini’s real estate agent will show you what this stunning Currumbin property on Queensland’s Gold Coast has to offer. The current tenants may be present during the viewing, but pay them no mind. Register your interest today and be sure to be quick, we’ve already had a couple of offers!
Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 September 2023, 2pm + 4pm. Booking essential - Get tickets!
A House, A Home is an intimate, surprising and delightful contemporary circus work. See this unique, sustainable home animated with acrobatics, contortion, dance and more, as highly skilled artists interact with the home in extraordinary ways.
KATHY MACKEY: LET’S ORGANISE YOUR LEISURE at HORIZON FESTIVAL
Let’s Organise your Leisure (LOYL) is a participatory art project aimed at an intergenerational audience with a focus on seniors and their friends.
Join artist Kathy Mackey on a guided walk along the water’s edge at Maroochydore River to discover natural and pre-planted man-made materials commonly associated with leisure activities, such as pool noodles and yoga mats.
You will then work with Kathy to construct large sculptural artworks in a series of site-specific workshops for the Float-Off Finale, where you will launch into the water of the Maroochydore River alongside your sculptural creation.
Floatilla Workshops: Saturday 2 September 2023, 10am + 2pm. Booking essential - Get tickets!
Float-Off Finale Sunday 3 September 2023, 11:30am. FREE EVENT!
Kathy Mackey: Artist in Residence at Southport Bathing Pavilion
Kathy Mackey will be Artist in Residence at the heritage listed Southport Bathing Pavilion over Summer where she will further develop her Generate GC work Let’s Organise Your Leisure. With direct access to the Broadwater and surrounding parklands, Kathy will continue explorations into notions of organised leisure and the body as form.
Ellamay Fitzgerald ‘Mixed Emotions Part II (Portrait of Lisa and Ruby)’ at Big City Lights
‘Mixed Emotions (Portrait of Lisa and Ruby)’ captures moving image portraits of people within the Asian diaspora. Constructed using cultural artefacts belonging to the subjects, the work reveals individual stories defined by growing up mixed race in South East Queensland, and unites connections and crossovers of culture for second generation Asian Australians. Slow-moving video and still photography capture Lisa Tran Kelly in her mother’s Ao Dai dress dancing with a lotus flower symbolic of Vietnamese culture. Incense smoke drifts out of earthy pots and jade coloured jewellery pays homage to Ruby Yu-Lu Yeh’s Taiwanese heritage.