What's happening
TELLER OF TRUTHS
Pop into the old Commonwealth Bank around close-of-business and have an encounter with a 'teller of truth'. Queueing has never been so worth it! Poets, novelists and other writers will be ready to enrich your day with a story, poem or tall tale. Perhaps you have a pearler for the teller! Enjoy this rare opportunity to be inspired (and to inspire) within the walls of a Darwin icon.
When: 4-6 pm, 12-14 and 19-21 August - FREE
INVESTMENT
Love in a time of loss, loss in a time of greed, your baby or a shard of glass in the body of the woman you love.
Ten new Territory Plays, by some of the NTs leading playwrights, in unexpected and suggestive spaces.
When: 2-4 pm, 15, 16 August - FREE
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FEEDING THE ARTISTIC SPIRIT
Bubu Loganovsky, Bhakti Mainaly, Kushila, Menuka Rasaili, Padma Kami, Sandar
My Sisters' Kitchen, a Darwin Community Arts project, brings together women and men from diverse cultural backgrounds (Nepal, Bhutan, The Congo, Somalia, Australia) to experience the sharing of the culinary art of their respective country and to learn about the feasts and flavours of another. My Sister’s Kitchen meets weekly in Malak where they cook up a storm, exchange recipes, tell stories, play games, sing and dance. At Fringe @ The Bank, they intend to not only stimulate the digestive juices of their fellow artists but also help feed the creative spirit!
This project is supported by the Australian Government's Diverse Australia Program. For more information, visit www.harmony.gov.au
Please note there will be no food for sale at F@B.
LASER (GRAFFITI) TAGGING AND LED THROWIES
Christian Ramilo, Adam Perfrement, Sam Wilson, Dick Whittington, Krystin Dix, Barry Robinson.
Laser Tag and LED Throwies are projects of the Graffiti Research Lab who are “dedicated to outfitting graffiti artists with open source technologies for urban communication”. Here at Darwin Community Arts, we too wish to develop open source technologies for artists and we will set up Laser Tagging and LED Throwies to introduce them to Darwin (as far as we know, this is a first in Darwin).
Check out more about tagging and throwies at these links.
Laser Tag: http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=76#video
LED Throwies: http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=1
Darwin Community Arts thanks the following organisations for their help, support and sponsorship:
The Mesh: http://www.the-mesh.org/tiki-index.php.
Darwin Gamers Association http://www.darwingamers.org.
DARWORD PLAYBOX
Alan Whykes
What can be said about Darwin using the words that already exist in the public spaces of the city? 300 words from billboards, shop fronts, street signage and so on have been photographed, individually pasted onto cards, and will be installed in the bank chamber. It's then up to you to arrange them on the walls at will, and tell the public and resident artists what you really think or feel about Darwin! Nice or nasty - that's your choice!
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INSTRUMENT MAKING
Arts Access Darwin (AAD) is a member of Arts Access Australia, the national peak body for arts, disability and disadvantage, and provides advice and support for inclusive arts activities. At Fringe at the Bank, AAD will work with clients from Carpentaria Disability Services Lifestyle Options and other peak art organizations to create musical and art instruments, as well as painting performances.
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THE DREAM BOOTH
Maria Sirpis
In collaboration with participating artists and audience members, our resident 'Dream Scientist' at the Bank will invite you to share your dreams as a source of material for installation. Text from dreams will be stitched and drawn, corridors of string hung, and a collage produced to create an ephemeral dreamscape.
UNPACKING A WAVE
Sarah Pirrie
For five years, this 8 x 8 metre hand-made piece of paper, folded tightly into a cube, has been closed away in a box. Originally used as a projection screen for 2003 Revelations in Victoria, over two weeks at the Bank, it will be unfolded to eventually fill the space, and a rhythmic performance piece created to unpack the tactile, sensual nature of the piece.
RAW DESIGN
Sarah Pirrie, Bobbie Ruben, Tim Growcott
This project, a collaboration between visual art students from Charles Darwin University, DVAA and Ausdance, will explore notions of pattern and texture taken from two and three dimensional realms. 'Raw Cloth' fabrics will be studied, documented and projected onto dancers who will devise an improvised set based on dance interpretation.
SCULPTALLATION
Emma Stocker, Zephyr L'Green, Mim D'abbs
A dialogue between visual, multimedia and sound artists, audience and participants, which will explore the possibilities of interpreting sound and internal/external environments into improvised creations. Music, soundscapes, live art and projections will combine to produce hybrid installations.
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INDIAN DIVAS
Venaska Cheliah, Ruttiya Suvansri, Ram Kumar
Indian and Western dancers collaborating with the Liberian Women's Choir will move to body and drum percussion and western song in a vault at the Bank. The vault offers the most extraordinary acoustic sound imaginable and we doubt there has ever been an opportunity for a 'safe' at a former bank to sound and look so stunning!
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