Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival 2012
Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival 2012
Troy Cassar-Daley, Deline Briscoe, Yung Warriors, Dan Sultan, Casey Donovan, Skin, Bart Willoughby, Leah Flanagan, King Kadu & The Sunshine Sisters, Meriki Hood and Radical Son @ Federation Square
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Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival 2012
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Troy Cassar-Daley, Deline Briscoe, Yung Warriors, Dan Sultan, Casey Donovan, Skin, Bart Willoughby, Leah Flanagan, King Kadu & The Sunshine Sisters, Meriki Hood and Radical Son
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Fri, 10 Feb 2012 to Sun, 12 Feb 2012
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Venue:
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Federation Square
Federation Square
Melbourne,
VIC,
3000
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The inaugural Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival is set to open on 10 February with Troy Cassar-Daley taking to the Federation Square stage to kick off the three day event. The Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival will celebrate the breadth of contemporary and traditional artistic expression amongst Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders with theatre, music, writing, film, cabaret, dance and more. Lord Mayor Robert Doyle said the festival will be the first of its kind in Melbourne. “Our city has a rich history, yet the custodians of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture have not always been heard.” “The Festival will celebrate this history with a diverse program of everything from contemporary and traditional dance, to music as well as some of our existing programs including Blak Nite Cinema and the Laneway Commissions. Best of all, it’s completely free.” the Lord Mayor said. MUSIC With a line-up like no other, get down to the Federation Square main stage for three days of sensational music from some of Australia’s finest performers: On Friday see Troy Cassar-Daley, Deline Briscoe and Yung Warriors live on stage from 6.30pm. Block out the whole day on Saturday so you can see Dan Sultan, Casey Donovan, Skin, Bart Willoughby, Leah Flanagan, King Kadu & The Sunshine Sisters, Meriki Hood and Radical Son heat up the stage from 2pm – 9.45pm. On Sunday Archie Roach, Illana Atkinson, Kutcha Edwards, the Maza Sisters, Lee Morgan, Liz Cavanagh, Dave Arden, Lady Lash and Patrick Mau (aka Maupower) will captivate audiences from 12pm – 7pm. THEATRE & PERFORMANCE One of the coups of the Festival program is without doubt getting to stage a special encore performance of CORANDERRK – We will show the country by the Ilbijerri Theatre Company. Uniting the power of oral history and the authority of the written-word to forge a personal connection with the voices of the past, Coranderrk - We will show the country sees key figures such as William Barak and several of the men and women of Coranderrk speak directly to a contemporary audience. There will be two free Festival performances at BMW Edge, Federation Square – Saturday 11 February and Sunday 12 February at 4pm. At ACMI’s event space The Cube, don’t miss other performance highlights including; Blak Cabaret, a cocktail of comedy, music, poetry and dancing, featuring Kutcha Edwards, Dave Arden, Bart Willoughby, Peter Rotumah, Robbie Bundle, Uncle Herb, Bear, Black Elvis, Lisa Maza, Illana Atkinson, Johnny Harding, Jida Gulpilil Murray, Kevin Kropinyeri, Shiralee Hood, Mia Stanford, Denise McGuinness, Rieo Ellis, Josh Bond, Jimmy Peters and DJ Crystal McKinnon; and in two special shows you can witness the one and only Constantina Bush & the Bushettes – join Constantina Bush, aka Kamahi Djordan King, a talented Gurindji man, and those naughty Bushettes as they take us on a sneak peek into their lives. Saturday 11 February and Sunday 12 February at 6pm.
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Event Type:
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Arts and Exhibition
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Genres:
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Film, Art Exhibition and Theatrical
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