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Epic Nights at RISING

2023 Program Guide

Tue 14 March

Orbiting around Flinders Street Station, RISING 2023 spills out into the streets, car parks, churches, theatres, town square and Birrarung. A break from business as usual and a chance to rave and revel in the grand and the granular. The epic and absurd.

TANZ — THU 8 — SAT 10 JUNE

The Tarantino of dance, Florentina Holzinger’s abject two-act romp plunges meat hooks through the idea of self-optimisation in the name of art and beauty.

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GHETTO BIENNALE — THU 8—SUN 18 JUNE

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

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OIL PRESSURE VIBRATOR — FRI 16 — SAT 17 JUNE

An intrepid performance-lecture that plunges a big bucket cylinder into preconceptions about sexuality, technology and the body, then digs past them, towards a place of earth-moving self-pleasure.

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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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ANTHEM — WED 7 JUNE — SUN 18 JUNE

Billowing visuals and lush acoustics transmit an ethereal ode to New Age pioneer Beverly Glenn-Copeland, and the search for the wavelengths that bind us.

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BUŊGUL — WED 14 — THU 15 JUNE

The Inspiration behind Dr Gurrumul Yunupiŋu’s seminal album Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow), brought to the stage in a hypnotic live performance by Yolgnu dancers and songmen with the MSO.

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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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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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ESA'S AFRO-SYNTH BAND FT. KAMAZU AND MIM SULEIMAN — SAT 10 JUNE

A South African music powerhouse enlists two disco stars and plenty of party-starters for a night of afro-synth perfection.

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NTS Closing Party — Sat 17 June

The Hackney tastemakers who reinvented radio are hosting the RISING closing party. Limber up. It’s an all-night affair.

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ELECTRIC : MOOKIES AROUND THE WATERHOLE — 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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THE DAMNED AND WITCH — FRI 9 JUNE

The first of the London punks. The Damned are a fun-loving fearless band, who never stopped shedding their lizard skin. Joined by utter riff lords, Witch. Light your inner cauldron and flame on.

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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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HEAR MY EYES : GOOD TIME — FRI 9 JUNE

The Safdie Brothers’ white-knuckled heist movie re-scored live by preeminent Melbourne rhythm and rap experimentalists.

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PAUL KELLY — TUE 6 — WED 7 JUNE

The songwriting legend cracks a fresh one after a long day and takes us on a journey—one vivid vignette at a time.

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TANZ by Florentina Holzinger. Photo: Nada Žgank

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