Landing at Malthouse is A Nightime Travesty (19 – 22 February 2025), an epic First Nations vaudevillian musical nightmare that’s equal elements sardonic, cheeky and heartbreaking. A Nightime Travesty is a non-stop riot of music, parody and political punch by A DAYLIGHT CONNECTION. SAUNIGA (6 – 8 March 2025) is a new work in development from critically acclaimed Queer Indigenous arts collective FAFSWAG at Arts Centre Melbourne’s The Show Room. Recalling the sacred connections between spirits (Aitu) or the old world and the lives of their Samoan descendants, SAUNIGA poses curious reflections on our relationship with animals and the surroundings, informed by way of a Samoan world view. The full efficiency program for Asia TOPA (Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts) has been unveiled.
When we have been youngsters it was somewhere you went to stare at Baroque oil work, contact nothing and be very, very quiet. If it wasn’t for a giant glass wall of cascading water, it will have been hard to get youngsters to go at all. In 1945 the Trust, which had carried out the affairs of the Library, the Science Museum and the Gallery, was break up into three separate bodies. In 1956 Lindsay was succeeded by Eric Westbrook, whose enthusiastic help of recent artwork is mirrored within the number of British and European works of the Nineteen Fifties and early Sixties that entered the collection.
Blanco and celebrated performance maker Dr. Priya Srinivasan be a part of forces with the celebrated visible artist Vernon Ah Kee to unite Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, Tamil and Indonesian artists at Bunjil Place in a joyous rebuke of colonial amnesia. We Are Family surveys the latest work of central Victorian artist Rob McHaffie. From super cool hipsters to commuters and lackadaisical youth, McHaffie’s keen observations of his everyday surroundings reveal the idiosyncrasies and absurdities of latest Australian city life with colour, whimsy and humour in equal measure.