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Aboriginal Art Collection

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Aboriginal Cultural Observance: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following content may contain images of artwork by deceased persons. Bundoora Homestead Art Centre and Darebin Council are proud to present this catalogue featuring a selection from the many powerful Aboriginal artworks held in the Darebin Art Collection. These catalogues were designed to inspire...

Aboriginal Comedy Allstars

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Presented by Darebin Arts. From the oldest culture on earth comes the freshest and funniest standup comedy around. It’s the all-original Aboriginal Comedy Allstars showcase - featuring four of the brightest comedy stars under the Milky Way. It doesn’t get more Aussie than this! Presented by Darebin Arts, The Aboriginal Comedy Allstars and Dirty Work Comedy, The Aboriginal Comedy...

Public Art

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The City of Darebin is home to an extensive public art collection enhancing the urban landscape. If you would like to find out more, download the DAREBIN PUBLIC ART DISCOVERY MAP. Scroll over the numbers to find out more! Click here to read Darebin's Public Art Framework 2019. PUBLIC ART COLLECTION "Three Follies" by Bush Projects, 2014 “Three Follies” reconnects residents to the...

Magic Waters by Sam Elkin

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This personal essay discusses the visibility of trans bodies in public swimming pools and the performance of gender in Australian culture. I’ve found that the best way to deal with the considerable anxiety of taking my clothes off in public is to act just like the entitled white man I am perceived to be.  Anything less attracts unwanted attention. My local pool had just...

Event Producer Applications Now Open

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Background On 21 August 2017 Darebin Council passed a resolution that from 2018 onwards, Darebin Council will host an inclusive and culturally-appropriate event on an agreed date in partnership with the Darebin Aboriginal Advisory Committee that recognises and celebrates First Nations peoples. This was just one of 12 resolutions...

Deadly Funny 2018 - Melbourne International Comedy Festival

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Melbourne International Comedy Festival presents DEADLY FUNNY 2018 Cheeky and loud, black and proud, Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s national comedy competition unearths the freshest and funniest Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander talent from across the country. Local heats of Deadly Funny land in November 2017 and will also feature a star-studded comedy line-up of...

DEADLY FUNNY 2019 - presented by the Melbourne International Comedy Festival

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Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Darebin Arts Speakeasy presents DEADLY FUNNY 2019 Cheeky and loud, black and proud, Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s national comedy competition unearths the freshest and funniest Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander talent from across the country. National workshops/heats kick off in September 2018 hosted by some of the country’s...

Coranderrk

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"SOLD OUT" Darebin Arts' Speakeasy presents Coranderrk By ILBIJERRI Theatre Company and Belvoir Direct from a critically-acclaimed season at Belvoir Theatre in Sydney, Coranderrk will play at Northcote Town Hall from Friday 15 – Saturday 23 August, 2014, in a Melbourne premiere season. At a Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry in 1881, the men and women of Coranderrk Aboriginal...

dirtsong by Black Arm Band

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dirtsong Featuring text by Alexis Wright by Black Arm Band music of the Australian Indigenous experience An unforgettable performance to move the heart and lift the spirit, dirtsong is inspired by the words of Miles Franklin Award winner Alexis Wright. A powerful musical journey through Australia’s cultural heartland, dirtsong is set against a backdrop of stunning moving...

AMPLIFY 2018 – Applications Now Open

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Applications are now open for Darebin Music Feast’s Event Producer Mentorship, AMPLIFY. A targeted professional development opportunity, AMPLIFY seeks to address inequality in the music industry by supporting and amplifying lesser heard voices. In 2018, AMPLIFY is open to early-career Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music event producers who live, work, study or play in the City of...

DEADLY FUNNY - Melbourne Heat - Melbourne International Comedy Festival

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Cheeky and loud, black and proud, Deadly Funny is Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s national comedy competition unearthing the freshest and funniest Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander talent from across the country. Returning again to the Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre for the Melbourne Heat, Deadly Funny enters its 15th year having discovered the likes of Steph Tisdell, Kevin...

Koorie Pride Youth Festival

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Presented in partnership with Songlines Aboriginal Music, Koorie Pride Festival showcases the work of young Indigenous performers. Koorie Pride Festival will feature performances by Deadly Award winning act Yung Warriors, MC Phily and Maylene Slater-Burns. The event will also feature workshops facilitated by Circus Oz, an AFL Kinder Carnival, traditional dance and drumming...

Deadly Funny

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Speakeasy and Melbourne International Comedy Festival Presents...Deadly Funny Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Comedy Competition. Cheeky and loud, black and proud, this national comedy competition seeks to unearth the freshest, fiercest and funniest new Indigenous talent from around the country. Come along, watch, and laugh out loud to the Victorian State Finalists at Northcote Town...

BlaaQ Catt

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Maurial Spearim (Gamilaraay NSW/VIC) Presented in association with Next Wave Festival 2016 and Darebin Arts   Spearim is achingly good—The Herald Sun A stand-out performer—The Koori Mail They say a cat has nine lives—and for Ruby, a First Nations woman navigating the 21st century, ‘nine lives’ are but one way to explain her idiosyncrasies. Join this captivating...

[MIS]CONCEIVE

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Thomas E.S. Kelly (Bundjalung/Wiradjuri/NSW) Presented in association with Next Wave Festival 2016 and Darebin Arts In his debut full-length dance-theatre work, rising performer and choreographer Thomas E.S. Kelly explodes the misconceptions and prescriptions of what it is to be a young urban Aboriginal person in Australia. Combining Indigenous knowledge with contemporary gestural...

Hayley Millar - My Mirring

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In My Mirring Hayley Millar explores her deep connection to land and highlights the contemporary Indigenous experience of Country. For Hayley, it’s from within the Australian bush that answers to personal issues are provided: for growth, for clarity, for satisfaction and for cleansing. In this photographic series, Hayley explores narratives of Australian history through a postcolonial lens....

Darebin Arts Speakeasy Applications 2017

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Applications for Darebin Arts Speakeasy performance presentation program are now open. Darebin Art’s Speakeasy program partners with leading artists and companies to provide the highest quality experiences to audiences at the Northcote Town Hall. We program high quality work from artistic leaders and companies in the small to medium sector to be an integral part of the cultural ecology of...

Darebin Community and Kite Festival

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Let’s go fly a kite! Perennial favourite, the Darebin Community and Kite Festival, is back. Held throughout the picturesque Edwardes Lake Park in Reservoir, the Festival is an outdoor cultural and community celebration. Fun, free and immersive, it offers a broad range of performances, kids’ art and craft activities, storytelling, community and food stalls, a pet expo, and of course, kite...

Deadly Funny - Melbourne International Comedy Festival

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Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Darebin Arts Speakeasy presents DEADLY FUNNY 2017 Cheeky and loud, black and proud, this national comedy competition unearths the freshest, fiercest and funniest new Indigenous talent from around the country. A spot at the national final as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and $2000 is up for grabs! Deadly Funny is heading...

Jan 2019 - June 2020 Darebin Arts Speakeasy Presentations

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APPLICATIONS OPEN!   Darebin Art’s Speakeasy program partners with leading artists and companies to provide the highest quality experiences to audiences at the Northcote Town Hall and Darebin Arts Centre for adult and family audiences. As detailed in the Creative Darebin Arts Strategy 2014 – 2021- we program high quality work from artistic leaders and companies in the small to...
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