[JUST ABOUT NOW IS A COLLECTION OF THINGS HAPPENING IN OUR SPACES & PLACES, PHYSICAL & DIGITAL, intersecting PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE, CULTURE, COMMUNITY & CREATIVITY into the NOW. STITCHED TOGETHER BY GEROME FOR WSKRA.COM]
RISING: 4–15 June 2025:
LIVE MUSIC. live people. PERFORMANCE. ART. COMMUNITY. ETC.
RISING: 1–16 June 2024:
LIVE MUSIC. live people. PERFORMANCE. ART. COMMUNITY. ETC.
THE RISING 2024 PARTICIPATION GUIDE
BETTY GRUMBLE’S BOLD BODY OF WORK AND WORDS IGNITE RISING’S OPENING NIGHT HONOURING SHANNON MICHAEL CANE
AT MAX WATT’S
SATURDAY 1 JUNE 2024
NO NAME, NO BLANKETS: FROM THE DESERT PAPUNYA THE HILLS TALLARAMBOOROO & THE SEA GALIWIN’KU WARUMPI BAND LIVES ON IN MY ISLAND HOME
AT MELBOURNE TOWN HALL
SUNDAY 2 JUNE 2024
ECLIPSE: HIGH-ACT DRAG YASS
AT MELBOURNE TOWN HALL
FRIDAY 31 MAY 2024
ANITO: AN HOUR-LONG ACID-FREE HOLE OF SPECTACULAR NATURE SPIRIT HALLUCINATIONS
AT ARTS HOUSE NORTH MELBOURNE
THURSDAY 6 JUNE 2024
TINARIWEN: REBEL TUAREG DESERT BEATS DRIVE A MAX CAPACITY PUMPED UP FORUM TO DELIRIUM
AT FORUM MELBOURNE
FRIDAY 7 JUNE 2024
6HR GRUMBLE BOOGIE: A VERY HEADY EXTRA-STRENGTH COCKTAIL OF QUEER FEMME FATALES & GENDER FLUIDS IN FULL FORCE TO MAKE CIRCLES OUT OF LOVE
AT MAX WATT’S
FRIDAY 7 JUNE 2024
8/8/8: REST: AN EXQUISITE ALL-NIGHT SMORGASBORD-BUFFET OF FULL-ON & DELICATE PARODIES & SATIRES ON THE MODERN-POSTMODERN WORKPLACE WITH DEEP QUESTS INTO THE SELF-CONSCIOUS SUBCONSCIOUS FOR ENTREMETS EACH SERVED AT THE ACM’S MOST PUBLIC AS WELL AS MOST PRIVATE SPACES. EPIC
AT THEATRES BUILDING ACM
SATURDAY 8 JUNE 2024
FEVER RAY+MOJU: HAMER HALL PLAYS HOST TO BIG BOLD SOUND WITH BIG QUESTIONS ON GENDERQUEERDOM
AT HAMER HALL ACM
MONDAY 8 JUNE 2024
ONE SONG HISTOIRE(S) DU THEATRE IV : TOONKUNST AS XS UN TOUR DE FORCE AF [ART MUSIC SHOW AS EXTREME SPORT A FEAT AS FUCK]
AT MELBOURNE TOWN HALL
THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2024
THE BLAK INFINITE: META-METAPHORS BU’STING WITH FLASHING LIGHTS AND BRIGHT COLOURS AND VERY BLAK HUMOUR TO INVADE THAT SQUARE CALLED FEDERATION
AT FED SQUARE
FRIDAY 14 & SUNDAY 16 JUNE 2024
NIGHT TRADE STAGE DOOR: VIA THE TOILETS TO MAX WATT’S FOR GROOVY MILD TO WILD NIGHTS WITH SPINNING DJS ON DECKS
AT MAX WATT’S
THURSDAY 13 & FRIDAY 14 JUNE 2024
ONE SONG HISTOIRE(S) DU THEATRE IV : MUZIEKJES FOR SPORT TOUR DE FORCE AF X2
AT MELBOURNE TOWN HALL
FRIDAY 14 JUNE 2024
GURR ERA OP: THAT SINKING FEELING WHEN NO ONE ELSE IS SCREAMING AS ISLAND HOMES DISAPPEAR WITH OCEAN WATERS RISING
AT ARTS HOUSE NORTH MELBOURNE
SUNDAY 16 JUNE 2024
DIRTY THREE: MELBOURNE MUSIC LEGEND DIRTY THREE WITH THEIR SIGNATURE GYPSY-JAZZ-ROCK SOUND ENSNARES THE HOMETOWN CROWD INTO EXPLOSIONS OF JOYFUL IRREVERENCE AND NOSTALGIA
AT FORUM MELBOURNE
SUNDAY 16 JUNE 2024
[Media Gerome Villarete]
RISING: 1–16 June 2024
LIVE MUSIC. live people. PERFORMANCE. ART. COMMUNITY. ETC.
the program
RISING: MUSIC. LIVE. Fever Ray at Hamer Hall, Sunday 9 June and Monday 10 June, 2024
“For the first time in Australia, Fever Ray opens the iron gates and ushers us into their gothic synth-pop odyssey.”–RISING:
“Fed Square becomes a constellation of art and stories that share First [Nations] Peoples futures, connections to the cosmos, and political discourse.”–RISING:
ART. Tony Albert discusses ‘Sorry’ created for the National Apology in 2008. “In Tony Albert’s conceptually driven practice, he often re-appropriates and recycles items of vintage kitsch that feature Aboriginal images or imagery: objects the artist calls ‘Aboriginalia’.”:–QAGOMA
ART. APT7 / Michael Cook discusses his art practice and ‘Civilised’ | “Michael Cook’s works depict an ethereal dreamworld, a timeless place that traverses both the colonial and contemporary worlds and is sustained on ‘what ifs’ and hypotheticals. It is a place of Cook’s own modern Dreaming. His central question is quite simple: what if the British, instead of dismissing Aboriginal society, had taken a more open approach to their culture and knowledge systems? This all-Aboriginal world is a sort of utopia where questions can be posed and answered without the complication of race — there is no black and white, no right or wrong. The figures within them are both conquerors and conquered. Through the use of images of Aboriginal people, often in roles opposite to the stereotypical, Cook ensures that an Aboriginal voice is ever-present.”:–QAGOMA
“New expanses to create. New music to share. The legendary trio Dirty Three are finally home.”–RISING:
“Every member of Dirty Three has a highly respectable career outside of the band: Violinist Warren Ellis works closely with Nick Cave, drummer Jim White is a sought-after collaborator with an instantly recognizable sound, and guitarist Mick Turner has released a string of gorgeous instrumental solo albums when he’s not working as a visual artist. But when the three musicians share a stage as Dirty Three — as they’ve done on and off for 20 years now — the result can be both beautiful and bonkers, as the opening moments of this Tiny Desk Concert amply demonstrate.”–NPR Music
MUSIC. 2019. Dirty Three | Everything’s Fucked live, Sydney Opera House
MUSIC. 2012. Dirty Three: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
RISING: PERFORMANCE | DANCE. THEATRE. ETC. Anito by Justin Talplacido Shoulder
“A queered Filipino ghost story.”–RISING:
“Justin Talplacido Shoulder works in performance, sculpture, video & nightlife/community events production. Justin has performed and exhibited internationally and across Australia, performing and creating under the pseudonym PHASMAHAMMER.”:–insitearts.com.au
Anito by Justin Shoulder | Mona Foma, Royal Theatre Hobart (15-17 February 2024)
RISING: PHOTOGRAPHY. DOCUMENTARY. Searching For Sanctuary: A Journey Of Survival by Barat Ali Batoor
“Three continents. Two years. One life-affirming photo essay that documents an Afghan asylum-seeker’s journey of escape.”–RISING:
COMMUNITY. Afghan asylum seekers unfaitly targeted | ASRC Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (November 2010)
COMMUNITY. Australia’s treatment of Afghan refugees | Refugee Council of Australia (May 2023)
RISING: MUSIC. LIVE. Tinariwen at The Forum (Sold out)
“Tuareg rock pioneers bring guitar-driven grooves of hope, struggle and exile from the mountains of Azawad to the desert plains and beyond.”–RISING:
MUSIC. 2017. Tinariwen (+IO:I) – Sastanàqqàm
RISING: PERFORMANCE | DRAG. Eclipse by Cerulean and Stone Motherless Cold
“A future-forward drag show that spans the ages—from the Big Bang(er) to the Paleocene, through the Beyoncé epoch and into the Blak queer future that awaits us all.”–RISING:
COMMUNITY. 2024. LGBTQ+ Drag on social media: profile photos of Eclipse performers Cerulean and Stone Motherless Cold.
Uganda’s new anti-gay legislation includes death sentence in some cases | PBS News Hour (May 2023)
“Fasten your pyjamas and desyncopate your circadian polyrhythms. It’s time to unsettle in for eight hours of experimental performance about the commodification of rest.”–RISING:
“In 2022 we clocked on for 8/8/8:WORK—the first in Marcus McKenzie and Harriett Gilllies’ triptych about work, rest and play. It was eight straight hours of life-coach gurus, micro-dosing tech bros, office politics and piss bottles. We laughed, we shared, we shaved Jeff Bezos until he was smooth and ready for atmospheric re-entry. Now the band’s back together, beckoning us to wade through the wasteland of REST. From 9pm until 5am, the plush backrooms of Arts Centre Melbourne will cushion our collective unconscious.”–RISING:
RISING: PHOTOGRAPHY. DOCUMENTARY. Melbourne Out Loud: Life Through The Lens Of Rennie Ellis
“Iconic encounters of the everyday, from the man who took Melbourne’s portrait.”–RISING:
PLACE. 1854. State Library Victoria, Swanston St, Melbourne
PHOTOGRAPHY. SOCIAL DOCUMENTARY. Rennie Ellis at the State Library until 28 January 2025, open daily 10am to 6pm.
SPORT. Surf Life Saving National Championships 2024 (SBS)
RISING: ART INSTALLATION. Pay The Rent by Richard Bell, at the State Library
“A running total of what’s owed to First Nations’ people of this land.”–RISING:
2024. Why it’s time to start paying the rent | Crikey | Benjamin Abbatangelo (January 2024)
2018. Friday essay: the ‘great Australian silence’ 50 years on | The Conversation | Anna Clark (August 2018)
2023. The Great Australian Silence | NITV The Point | John Paul Janke & Narelda Jacobs (August 2023). “To walk to a future that is just and equitable to all, we must examine the past; the good, the bad and [even] the [very] ugly.”:–John Maynard
