A festival that you do

2023 Program Guide

Tue 14 March

RISING is a festival you 'do', in the city that does it best. Join in and share the joy.

Rinky Dink, RISING 2022. Photo: Eugene Hyland

10,000 Kazoos — SAT 10 JUNE

It’s 10,000 people, playing 10,000 kazoos and everyone’s invited. Simple. Powerful. Kazoo-tiful.

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CONSORT OF THE MOON — SAT 10 — WED 14 JUNE

A major new sound-work that transforms a haunting, ancient melody into an elemental experience of communal listening, both to each other and the wild earth.

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THE RINK AT RISING — THU 1 JUNE — FRI 8 JULY

A magic new skate spot on the banks of Birrarung Marr. Slice up the ice under a deep constellation of lights.

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SPARK — WED 7 — SUN 10 JUNE

Thousands of luminous, biodegradable lights catch the wind and dance in the night sky.

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EUPHORIA — FRI 2—SUN 18 JUNE

A surround-sound world hooked to the pulse of jazz, the conscience of a children’s choir and big ideas that test capitalism’s mantra of endless, euphoric consumption.

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GHETTO BIENNALE — THU 8—SUN 18 JUNE

Atis Rezistans (Resistance Artists) occupy Alpha 60 Chapter House with an ambitious, metamorphic celebration of Haitian street culture, spirit guardians and revolution.

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WARIPA — SUN 11 JUNE

Waripa means Ceremony in Mutti Mutti. Join the chorus with senior songman Uncle Kutcha Edwards in a huge, ceremonial celebration of Blak music.

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ELECTRIC : SPIRITS OF THE LAND — WED 7 JUNE — SUN 10 JULY

Hamer Hall’s iconic façade plays host to Ancestor spirits and celestial worlds in a large-scale projection work from Aunty Zeta Thomson (Wurundjeri/Yorta Yorta).

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NIGHT TRADE — WED 7 — 18 JUNE

The St Paul’s Cathedral grounds become a fluid space of curated chaos. A free meeting place for song, dance, deliciousness and the uncanny.

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WALLABIES — WED 7 JUNE — SUN 18 JUNE

Twenty big wallabies, bursting with impressionistic colour and personality, peek out from banks of the Birrarung (Yarra River). See if you can find them all!

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MELBOURNE ART TRAMS 2023 — TUE JUN 13 2023 – JUN 2024

Melbourne Art Trams travel into a new season with six newly commissioned First Peoples artists rolling out vivid visions of a Blak tomorrow.

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THIS — FRI 9—SUN 18 JUNE

Devolving, shaming and space invading. Fear, conspiracy, collapse, terror, frustration, solidarity and hope. Mud wrestling. THIS is a brutally funny, raw and unflinching response to the theme of infuriation.

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