Critnic
4 May, at Festival Club - Shebeen
Part of Next Wave's free talks program, covering sexism, arts criticism, belonging, rebellion and tomorrow.
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Various Artists
30 April – 11 May
11am til late
The Next Wave Festival Club at Shebeen is your home base.
By day, it’s your one-stop-café-artist-lounge-info-centre-shop. Charge your phone, refuel with coffee or a quick bite and stop by our Info Booth for Festival tickets, deals and recommendations. We’ll also be hosting talks, indoor picnics and other fun stuff to make you think.
By night, the Club heats up with live music, DJs, performances and screenings until the wee hours. Grab a drink and banh mi upstairs at the main bar, head downstairs to get your groove on or slink into a cozy booth for a quiet drink and cheeky Festival pash.
Info Booth
Date: 1 May - 11 May
Location: Shebeen, 36 Manchester Lane Melbourne
Time: Daily 12pm – 6pm
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible
Notes: Your one-stop-shop for all things Next Wave! Get program information and hot tips, book tickets, pick up a pocket guide or purchase a copy of the Next Wave Magazine or Blak Wave publication.
Ticket Prices: Free
The Midday Session #4: Art and Revolution with Seunghyo Lee (KOR)
Date: 9 May
Location: Shebeen, 36 Manchester Lane Melbourne
Time: 12pm – 1pm
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible
Notes: Shows discussed may include Gardens Speak, The Club 3.0, HEX, Wael Zuaiter: Unknown, Article 14.1, Madonna Arms and others.
Ticket Prices: Free
Blak Wave: Arts Worker Roundtable
Date: 9 May
Location: Shebeen, 36 Manchester Lane Melbourne
Time: 1pm – 2pm
Accessibility: Not accessible
Notes: This lunchtime event brings together Indigenous arts workers from across the country as they explore current and new approaches to expanding the circle of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander work. Hosted by Erica McCalman, with Kimberley Moulton, Alison Murphy-Oates and Clotilde Bullen.
Ticket Prices: Free, booking suggested
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Prophets, Total Giovanni & DJ LA Pocock
Date: 9 May
Location: Shebeen, 36 Manchester Lane Melbourne, VIC 3022
Time: 9pm – late
Accessibility: Limited wheelchair accessibility
Notes: DANCE. PARTY. Join polyphonic sax band the Prophets for a set of raw grooves and costumed spectacle, then open your hearts, minds and chastity belts to the shamanic disco boogie of pan-European collective Total Giovanni before shaking your ass to DJ LA Pocock, whose sets can go just about anywhere and are always fun as shit. This will be very, very excellent.
Ticket Prices: Free
Hypnothèque
Date: 10 May
Location: Shebeen, 36 Manchester Lane Melbourne, VIC 3022
Time: 2pm – 5pm
Accessibility: Not accessible
Notes: Hypnothèque is a multi-sensory, multi-channel sound installation which invites audiences to lose themselves within its hallucinatory orbit. Treading blind through a controlled walking circuit, participants are immersed in mass waves of sensory stimuli, designed to summon dreamworlds. Sensory Engineering by Vincenzi Vandella.
Ticket Prices: Free
Cumbia Cosmonauts with Phaic VJ & Congo Tardis #1
Date: 10 May
Location: Shebeen, 36 Manchester Lane Melbourne, VIC 3022
Time: 9pm – late
Accessibility: Not accessible
Notes: Get down for one final ass shake for NWF2014. Producers Moises and Soup of Cumbia Cosmonauts are joined by special guest Phaic VJ to deliver a unique visual and sonic adventure. Expect lasers, synthesizers, space-surf guitar, silver jumpsuits and Afro-Colombian rhythms. Then Congo Tardis #1 – Australia’s premier tropical carnival soundsystem – present a wild and ready set of hyped up, through the roof global bass-heavy carnival madness. Don’t. Miss. This.
Ticket Prices: Free
Fat Wave Cupcake Bake-off!
Date: 11 May
Location: Shebeen, 36 Manchester Lane Melbourne, VIC 3022
Time: 3pm – 4pm
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible
Notes: Wanna piece of #fatwave? Charge your artistic side with a cupcake canvas challenge! Judged by the queens of cream the Hotham Street Ladies, prizes will be awarded for best dressed and most original concept. Contestants may enter up to three cupcakes.
Ticket Prices: Free
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