“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

Celestial bodies move the earth’s waters – and we feel those tides deep within us. For as long as humans have walked the earth, the push and pull of the seas have shaped how we interact with the world. Tides explores how the moon and other cosmic entities exert a force that is at once epic and intimate, geological and personal.

Featuring new choreography by Jesse Matthews and design by Jane Noonan, Forest Collective will perform a rich program of music by Evan J Lawson, Claudio Monteverdi, Bjork, Joseph Haydn, and more. Tides will move and reshape you through powerful sound and movement into a new and immersive world.

Presented by Forest Collective & Abbotsford Convent, as part of Convent Live

Forest Collective is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria

Book now!

www.eventfinda.com.au/2022/folding/melbourne/abbotsford

“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

Celestial bodies move the earth’s waters – and we feel those tides deep within us. For as long as humans have walked the earth, the push and pull of the seas have shaped how we interact with the world. Tides explores how the moon and other cosmic entities exert a force that is at once epic and intimate, geological and personal.

Featuring new choreography by Jesse Matthews and design by Jane Noonan, Forest Collective will perform a rich program of music by Evan J Lawson, Claudio Monteverdi, Bjork, Joseph Haydn, and more. Tides will move and reshape you through powerful sound and movement into a new and immersive world.

Presented by Forest Collective & Abbotsford Convent, as part of Convent Live

Forest Collective is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria

Book now!

www.eventfinda.com.au/2022/folding/melbourne/abbotsford

“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

Celestial bodies move the earth’s waters – and we feel those tides deep within us. For as long as humans have walked the earth, the push and pull of the seas have shaped how we interact with the world. Tides explores how the moon and other cosmic entities exert a force that is at once epic and intimate, geological and personal.

Featuring new choreography by Jesse Matthews and design by Jane Noonan, Forest Collective will perform a rich program of music by Evan J Lawson, Claudio Monteverdi, Bjork, Joseph Haydn, and more. Tides will move and reshape you through powerful sound and movement into a new and immersive world.

Presented by Forest Collective & Abbotsford Convent, as part of Convent Live

Forest Collective is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria

Book now!

www.eventfinda.com.au/2022/folding/melbourne/abbotsford

“Even to see oneself in the mirror, one must recognise oneself.
For unless one does that, one does not see oneself, only a human being. ”

— Soren Kierkegaard, The Sickness unto Death

A transgender composer bids a musical farewell to her troubled past state of existence through a heartfelt artistic expression of the abstract mental journey it took to get her out of it.

The expressive and multifaceted baritone of Stephen Marsh gives voice to the restless thoughts and reflections of a 'self' stuck in a mental labyrinth, via settings of text fragments from the Danish existential philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. Moving through a cycle of continual self-construction/deconstruction, darkly comic/tragic musings and elusive despair, Portrait of a Self depicts someone struggling to dig underneath their consciousness, make sense of their condition and become a real person, all amongst music which is itself in a state of fluctuating stylistic identity. 

This piece from Melbourne composer Kym Dillon is born from a very specific experience, but more broadly it is a story of mental health, selfhood, and the unearthing of identity in the most foundational sense. 

THE PROGRAM.

Kym Dillon Sonata for flute & piano 

Kym Dillon Diapsalmata: Portrait of a Self for baritone voice, piano solo and ensemble World premiere

Book now!

https://www.eventfinda.com.au/2022/diapsalmata-o-t-a-t-f-s-l-f/melbourne/richmond

The premiere of my new work After the long night / Gowidja djirrunga dhala will take place as part of Melbourne Pride 2022.

English and Yorta Yorat text by Deborah Cheetham AO

Music by Evan J Lawson

To be performed by Deborah Cheetham AO

Melbourne Pride is a multi-generational and intersectional celebration; a State Government initiative designed to celebrate and commemorate Victorian LQBTQIA+ history and the 40th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality with events and activities all over the state of Victoria. Midsumma has been commissioned by the Victorian State Government to deliver the one-day event on Sunday 13 February 2022. The celebrations will be held in the Fitzroy and Collingwood precinct. Melbourne Pride will be filled with live entertainment highlighting Victorian based talent, and activations of local businesses in the area. Regional activations are also happening across other areas of Victoria in the lead up to the event.